In tonight’s swinging weekend Tips music Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra, along with vocalist Edythe Wright, do some Jammin’.
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Tonight’s masterful piece of songwriting, originally released on Leonard Cohen’s 1984 album Various Positions, is a modest prayer, an acknowledgment of our ultimate powerlessness in the hands of the fates, and a humble plea for providence and grace. Here’s a recent, bare-bones live performance of the haunting and beautiful If It Be Your Will.
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Tonight we watch 100-year-old newsreel footage of a horse race marred by the actions of a suffragette who stepped in front of the thundering pack in an attempt to stop Anmer, a horse owned by King George V, who was a man.
Spectators “claimed that they heard a woman shout ‘Votes for women!’ before leaping out in front of the king’s horse. [Footage] shows clearly that (Emily) Davison stopped in front of Anmer…and it appears that she tried to make a grab for the reins of the horse but the speed of Anmer and the impact on her were so great that she took a terrible blow.”
To some people “the iconic image of the suffragette being trampled by George V’s horse has come to symbolize the bitter struggle that women fought to win the right to vote in Britain”; to others, perhaps, it’s reminiscent of a panel from an Edward Gorey tale. The only thing everyone can agree on is that when women in the UK were enfranchised five years later there was one less female voter.
Putting politics aside for a moment, here, at last, for all you fans of horse racing, is some grainy footage of the exciting 1913 Epsom Derby, won by 100-1 long-shot Abboyeur.
The King’s horse was fine, btw, and finished the race sans jockey.
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Tonight, ein Lied für unsere alten SDA Kameraden Hans Rupprecht: Here’s violinist/conductor André Rieu leading a brassy outdoor-spectacular performance of Alte Kameraden in front of a vigorous, happy crowd.
h/t gunney99
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Do you know where the finger of suspicion is pointing tonight? Do you? Do you know who is the “guilty who”?
Yes, that’s right. I’m sorry.
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Through the twilight I can hear the humming of a melancholy coon, and Tubas in the Moonlight.  ♫
h/t Missy T
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips, Pakistan’s Sachal Studios Orchestra plays an instrumental version of R.E.M.‘s 1992 hit Everybody Hurts.
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Sad news from the music world today: George Jones, one of the all-time great voices in country music, has passed away at the age of 81.
Whether he was delivering a heartfelt, romantic love song perfect for a bride and groom’s first dance, or an all-time classic tearjerker, you always knew that you were listening to “The Possum”, and that he was born to sing.
RIP
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Tonight, we witness one of those breathtaking, mesmerizing, awe-inspiring natural phenomena that reconnects us, for a moment, with our god-given sense of wonder, and sends an electric chill up our spines: here’s A bird ballet.
h/t Missy T
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Hark, what cowbell through yonder computer speaker honks? Why, it’s that of Charlie Watts, announcing to the world that Mick’s about to launch into Honky Tonk Woman.
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“We…celebrate her death to send a clear message out to everyone like her: if you behave in this manner we will not only celebrate your death, but maybe we might even hasten it.”
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In tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips, a scene from the 1964 Austrian film “Unsere tollen Tanten in der Südsee”, German actress/singer Trude Herr, in character as the zestful Aglaia Schultz, goes to energetic lengths to ensure that no one feels completely excluded from her Hula Twist.
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Tonight, some 75-year-old footage of the 1938 Boston Marathon.
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The sons of the Prophets were hardy young men, and quite unaccustomed to fear. But the bravest by far in the ranks of the tsar was Abdul Abulbul Ameer. ‪♪‬
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‪♪‬ Where The Blue Of The Night  meets the gold of the day.. ♫
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Tonight, Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy sing a paean to sailing ships and sailing men who sail the open waters: here’s Day of the Clipper.
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Tonight, some catchy pop music ear candy, as the late Kirsty MacColl (the memorable woman’s voice in The Pogues’ “Fairytale of New York“) sings a minor hit of hers from 1979 called They Don’t Know.
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the Tips we do some sightseeing while Moving Through St. Petersburg.
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What happens when you remove auto-tune, reverb, and all other studio gimmickry from this modern-day bunco that some call music? Well, let’s just say the results aren’t pretty: here, for example, are the legendary Beach Boys as they actually sounded.
Absolutely shocking.
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This evening we bring you a double-feature of delightful videos, designed to bring deliriously appealing eye-candy to widely discriminating tastes. So grab a hot beverage of your choice, slow down your mind, and watch both full-screen.
Those who love nature will enjoy this glorious view of people in New Zealand watching the moon. Those who more prefer technology will enjoy this longer video of a Lufthansa aircraft flying over San Francisco and eventually landing at SFO.
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