Tonight, Texas-born songwriter and performer Mac Davis sings a song that sounds smug, but is really a good-natured, self-deprecating wink – as evidenced by the audience singalong: From 1980, here’s the “countrypolitan” hit It’s Hard To Be Humble.
h/t Ed Minchau
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Fire! There’s a fire! Quick, somebody call the…
Never mind. That oughta take care of it.
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In tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips we listen to a tune from Noël Coward’s 1961 musical comedy Sail Away, as original Broadway cast member Elaine Stritch, in character as cruise director Mimi Paragon, kvetches about those foreign language translation phrasebooks’ Useless, Useful Phrases.
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Tonight, guitar-playing gospel music innovator Sister Rosetta Tharpe brings her unique style to the 1905 hymn His Eye is On the Sparrow.
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Tonight, from their breakthrough 1982 appearance at Switzerland’s Montreaux Jazz Festival, Texan blues rock guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan and his band Double Trouble perform the then-unrecorded/unreleased Pride And Joy.
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Tonight, unfortunately, we all have Cramps at Napa Mental Hospital. Because I’m going through severe nicotine withdrawal, and need to see a live band without leaving the room.
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It’s tough to set up tonight’s video without giving too much of the story away, so without any ado here’s A Letter From Fred.
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If you don’t like folks who say “how-de-do” Stay Out of the South..♫
That’s Van & Schenck.
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How happy are dairy cows when they finally get to taste the new grass in the spring? This happy.
h/t Judith
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Tonight we listen to a traditional Scottish/Irish folk song that dates back to the 1700s, if not earlier: From the 1980 album A Cut Above, here are June Tabor and guitarist Martin Simpson performing a lively version of Heather Down the Moor.
The lyrics, and a bit of info about the song’s uncertain provenance, can be found here.
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Tonight, Our Story in 2 Minutes.
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Tonight, Iowa native Susan Werner sings a song from her just-released album “Hayseed” called City Kids.
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Tonight we get a few larfs en route to the Tips, as English comedian Peter Kay does his routine (ribald language warning) about Misheard Lyrics.
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Tonight, Jim Backus tells the world in no uncertain terms that he really, really needs a vacation. Even if it means leaving the planet.
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Tonight, Calgary native Danny Nielsen hits the dance floor at a wedding for an impromptu tap-dance performance.
h/t Missy T
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the Tips sisters Mildred and Dolly Good, who performed and recorded under the name Girls of the Golden West, harmonize on the haunting old cowboy folk song Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie.
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‪♪‬ I’m not going to wait until we land in the brook / and have all the little fishies stop by and take a look / Now they’re laughing at us with the little brook trout / Stop This Car, I’m getting out.. ♫
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Tonight, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Bryan Dawe interviews eminent Australian economist John Clark, who brings A Fresh Perspective on a variety of economic issues including the surfeit of prognosticating economists such as himself and the cultural roots of Northern and Southern Europe’s differing views of austerity.
h/t Adrian
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Tonight, a suspicious-minded Elvis escorts his muttonchops home only to find his darlin’ Wearin’ That Loved-On Look.
Shoop-shoop.
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In tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips Jonathan and Darlene Edwards, the excruciatingly non-musical alter-egos of the mellifluous – and always on-key – vocalist Jo Stafford and her bandleader husband Paul Weston ask the eye-watering musical question Who?
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