Back in 1958 Mighty Sparrow wanted those Soviet politicians and scientists to be sent to prison for sending up that poor little puppy in the Russian Satellite.
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In tonight’s video amusement en route to the Tips we watch the trailer for Savage Guns, the groundbreaking 1961 film that simultaneously heralded, and ended, a new film genre: the vaguely, ever-so-slightly, almost imperceptibly gay western.
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In tonight’s Tips music longtime Edmonton Folk Music Festival favourites Capercaillie, all the way from Argyll, Scotland, play a tune from their 2000 album Nàdurra called Michael’s Matches.
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Tonight we watch cinematographer Gregory Wilson’s remarkable slow-motion footage of the fastest animal on four legs: here’s Cheetahs on the Edge.
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In tonight’s video amusement, replete with vintage photos of some purdy ladies, bandleader/vocalist Ed Kirkeby and his California Ramblers, along with trumpeter Jack Purvis, are Concentratin’ on you-know-what.
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Tonight, as we cross December’s threshold, we nudge you ever so gently toward the Christmas season with accordionist Will Glahé’s happy-go-lucky rendition of the Petersburger Schlittenfahrt.
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Are your friends “cat-friends” or “dog-friends”? It’s not hard to tell…
h/t Kate
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Tonight, Fred Goldstein tells the one about the brown bag lunch.
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Tonight, straight from the Unionized Bureaucrat Lounge in the bowels of progressive hell, we inflict upon you a perfect storm of polyester-and-patchouli-scented gynergy.
Because the results of the recent US election didn’t visit quite enough suffering upon you.
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African famine victims aren’t the only ones who can benefit from the proceeds of a star-studded charity single. Take the Norwegians, for example…
Keep hope alive.
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Her fetching physique is hardly unique, and she’s mentally not so hot. She’ll never win laurels because of her morals, but, as Maurice can attest, she’s Got That Thing.
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The Beards are an Australian group whose repertoire consists entirely of songs – e.g., “Got Me A Beard”, “No Beard, No Good”, “Beard Revolution”, “Shaved Off His Beard”, “Who Told You To Shave Off Your Beard?” and “Beards Don’t Kill People, People With Beards Kill People” – about beards.
Tonight they condemn the beardless in the strongest possible terms with the musical advisory If Your Dad Doesn’t Have a Beard, You’ve Got Two Mums.
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Tonight we present you a 1952 episode of an NBC radio drama called “Whitehall 1212”. The name of the series stems from the original phone number to Scotland Yard, introduced in 1934.
This episode has a strong Canadian connection, focusing in on nuclear secrets stolen by a visiting British scientist in Ottawa and sold to the Soviets. The names in the show have been changed but it appears to be the dramatized account of Alan Nunn May and Igor Gouzenko. One highlight you’ll hear early on is a hard nosed RCMP officer telling off a useless bureaucrat in Canada’s Ministry of Justice.
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Tonight, in an out-of-context performance given years ago at the very heart of Canada’s future, Québécois vocal sensations Les Baronets (Céline Dion’s husband René Angelil is le gonze sur la gauche) control our musical agenda with a medley of Ces Monde Plein d’Histoire & Je Suis Seul.
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It’s never even remotely funny when someone puts words in your mouth, but when the situation is reversed…
h/t Damian
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Clippity-cloppin’ through the wind and rain, they’ll keep on ’til they drop, Mule Train!
That there was “Old Leather Lungs“, Mr. Frankie Lane.
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Sometimes televised sports are even more exciting with just the commentary…
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Tonight’s musical entertainment en route to the tips features 176 keys, 20 fingers, and two hefty men, as Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson rip into Boogie Woogie Dream.
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“Ingeborg! Ingeborg! Lars has lost his mind!…”
h/t Allan S.
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Tonight, Nora Lou and the boys head way out west for a good long rest way up on Yodel Mountain.
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