It’s not quite time for our main course of Christmas music, but tonight we’ll give you a seasonal appetizer in the form of SDA reader, commenter, and occasional blogger Sean McCormick’s delightfully festive entry in Consort, Alberta’s scheduled 2013 Light Parade.
The event had to be cancelled due to extreme cold, unfortunately, but what a beauty!
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Tonight Czech singer, bandleader, composer, and movie star Rudolf Antonín Dvorský, backed by The Melody Boys, croons Věřím vám (“I Believe You”).
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Tonight we watch Anti-Capitalist Aerobics, “a new performance by Ellie Harrison commissioned by Invisible Dust for the ‘Ways of Seeing Climate Change’ conference in Manchester on 30 October 2013 as part of the ‘Invisible Heat’ programme supported by the Wellcome Trust.”
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Tonight, Grammy Award-winning artist Jody Miller covers The Crystals’ 1962 Phil Spector-produced single He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss).
Co-written by Carole King, who later expressed her regrets.
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Tonight, CBC’s topical comedy show 22 Minutes takes a two-minute break from their usual orgy of Conservative-bashing to mockingly announce – in song – the celestial coronation of Pierre’s Boy Child.
h/t foobert
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In tonight’s musical entertainment en route to the tips Kris Kristofferson sings the biggest hit of his career, the 1973 country-gospel tune Why Me.
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Tonight’s amusement en route to the tips is a Movietone Divertissement from 1928 in which vaudevillian and Ukulele Hall of Fame member Johnny Marvin showcases his ukulele and crooning skills before whipping out a different instrument – it’s more of a tool, really – to make sweet music, and eye contact, in a performance of I Still Love You.
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Tonight we do our level best to ramp up the level of pointless, monkey-brain name-calling in the comments by listening to Astrud Gilberto’s provocative and inflammatory Gentle Rain.
Godspeed.
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Tonight we watch a 1945 production from Australia’s National Film Board which briefly explains the history of the formation of six states of the Commonwealth of Australia en route to showcasing the planned city of Canberra, the National Capital.
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Tonight we try to ward off frostbite by watching a 1969 TV clip of Sérgio Mendes & Brasil ’66 performing Ye Me Lê.
(Trivia note: Lani Hall, the brunette singer whose repeatedly overdubbed vocals gave the group it’s distinct sound, was from Chicago; since she didn’t speak Portuguese, she learned the songs phonetically.)
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the Tips Frazey Ford, formerly of the Be Good Tanyas, sings One More Cup of Coffee.
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Tonight, a lone German woman Shows Up To Riot.
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Tonight, we watch a group of determined Russians pull a submerged vehicle out of an icy Lake Baikal using just manpower and ingenuity.
h/t Kate
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Tonight we drag you kicking and screaming back to the 70s, strap you to a chair, and force you to stare at Gertrude Wirschinger’s (aka “Penny McLean’s”) Lady Bump.
I know. And I’m sorry.
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Tonight, we limber up for the rigors of the tips thread with the old toe-tapper You’re Bound To Look Like A Monkey When You Grow Old.
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Tonight, some agonizing hilarious footage from the annual northern struggle: here’s The People vs Winter.
If that hits a little too close to home, or brings back bad memories, Austria’s Hansi Hinterseer will make it right.
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Tonight we watch the controversial, and some say alarming, viral video in which Gavin McInnes demonstrates — on his own son, no less — How To Fight A Baby.
h/t JoeFrmEdm
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What happens when you sprinkle a bit of ordinary table salt on a black metal plate, vibrate the plate with a tone generator, and then adjust the frequency of the vibration? Let’s find out!
h/t exetaz
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Tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips contains the five magic ingredients considered essential for top-quality entertainment: Singing, hats, dancing girls, giant clams that look like dancing girls in giant hats, and Maurice Chevalier. From the 1935 film Folies Bergère de Paris, here’s the grand finale number Singing A Happy Song.
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Your reader tips offering tonight comes courtesy of Crazy Russian Hacker: How To Open A Can Without Any Tools. Because, the children are our future.
Your own handy tips are welcome in the comments.