In tonight’s Tips music the Oklahoma Wranglers (who would later gain fame as The Willis Brothers) sing If You Want the Rainbow You’ve Gotta Have the Rain.
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the Tips, ol’ Bob fondly remembers unsettled, glorious days of soul-bonding In The Summertime.
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Bandleader Ben Selvin is listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as having recorded more songs than anyone else in history — up to 20,000 sides, according to some accounts — under a variety of different names. In tonight’s Tips music, from 1931, “Ed Loyd and his Orchestra”, along with Elmer Feldkamp on vocal, go Whistling In The Dark.
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Tonight, we expand our horizons with a little traditional Swedish folk music.
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He’s lived a life that’s full, he’s traveled each and every highway. But more, much more — waaay more — than this, he continues to do it his way. And this is a good thing.
h/t Robert
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Tonight, lively and passionate Master Blender Richard Paterson (“If he sees you holding a whisky tasting glass the wrong way, he’ll kill you”) of Glasgow distillers Whyte & Mackay shows us the correct way to drink whiskey.
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Tonight, we listen to Casey Alberta Flugadi perform the romantic classic “Volare” (“Fly“) in Esperanto.
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Tonight, a oft-covered country classic sung by the man who wrote it: here’s Pee Wee King’s original 1947 recording of Tennessee Waltz.
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Tonight Scotsman Sir Harry Lauder (b. 1870) stands up ramrod-straight and gently flaps his elbows as he encourages us all to Keep Right On To The End Of The Road.
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All they do is digga-digga dum-dum, morning, noon, and night. It’s the Jingle of the Jungle, eh?
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In tonight’s long weekend Saturday night Tips entertainment, Louisianan Cajun music legend Jo-El Sonnier and his band get the dance floor hopping with a live performance Evangeline Special.
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“Honey, could you keep it down, please? It’s three in the morning and the kids are trying to sleep…”
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They love their milk and honey, but they preach about some other way of living. And when they’re putting down the country that way, they’re walkin’ on the fightin’ side of Merle.
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the Tips the late June Christy treats us to her confident, relaxed, swinging vocal stylings in a 1945 studio performance of Mean To Me.
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In tonight’s Tips music Loudon Wainwright III delivers the – vaguely portentous – musical warning Be Careful, There’s a Baby in the House.
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If you pour a Scotsman a wee stiff dram or two he’ll bend your ear at length, and if you keep pouring he will probably break into song at some point. Tonight, Scottish music hall performer Harry Lauder tells the tale of how he and polar explorer Ernest Shackleton came this close to discovering the South Pole: from 1910, here’s The Bounding Bounder.
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Tonight we watch some amateur film-footage, shot 75 years ago in the summer of 1937, showing summer vacationers on the beaches and dunes on the sometimes stormy German island of Sylt in the North Sea.
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Tonight, we watch an assortment of strangers as they learn about their country and its history on a coast-to-coast Greyhound bus trip across America: here’s the highly patriotic 1956 film Freedom Highway.
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In tonight’s typically high-quality weekend entertainment en route to the Tips, Die Kessler-Zwillinge wear a variety of different dresses and wigs as they prance their way, all continental-like, through a performance of Quando Quando Quando (“When? When? When?”).
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Beer: Sparkling. Golden. Pure. Refreshing. As we like it.
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