In tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips, from the 1945 short film called “Randle and All That”, the fictitious, couldn’t-possibly-try-harder acrobatic duo of Donovan & Byl perform one of the flat-out funniest pieces of physical comedy you’ll ever see. I have no idea who the smaller fellow on the left is, but the performer on the right (at the start) is almost certainly Frank Randle, the Lancashire-born music hall comedian of the film’s title, who first performed on stage 29 years earlier as an acrobat.
Swallow whatever you’re drinking so you don’t spray your screen, and watch Donovan & Byl’s Tumbling Tomfoolery.
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Tonight we pin our chins to our chests in a darkened, bamboo-curtained room to watch the Shoot Out In Chinatown. And then we pedal away on our bikes.
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Tonight we feature some calm, sublimely blithe music, perfectly suited for taking a long relaxing stroll with your bull mastiff on a nice sunny day: here’s the Chet Baker Trio’s 1979 recording of Blue Room.
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In tonight’s Tips music the late Etta James puts her backbone into a punchy cover version of the gospel-rocker Gotta Serve Somebody.
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Noël Coward didn’t much care for China, and he deplored Bombay, but he liked America okay.
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Tonight we mop up some spilled juice as we sift for fragments of meaning amongst the Odds And Ends.
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Remember last election, when everybody was in action, tryin’ to find themselves a president? Well, Blind Blake’s brother was a voter, and also a great promoter, going around giving advice; he’d go round to the polling booths, but instead of voting once, he voted twice.
He’s In The Jailhouse Now.
h/t Commander In Chief Hans Rupprecht.
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In tonight’s musical diversion en route to the Tips, from 1930, Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra perform Cheer Up, Good Times Are Coming.
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In tonight’s video amusement en route to the Tips, D.C.-based performer Joey B the VeePee, free for the moment from his chains, shows off his mad skilz during an impromptu solo musical performance in Florida.
Now, someone call the cops.
h/t Robert
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Whenever anyone tried to tread on him, Johnny Yuma got fightin’ mad. I think he might have been an American.
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As our American friends & neighbours now embark in earnest on a very historic election campaign, it seems appropriate to hear The Battle Hymn of the Republic, published 150 years ago.
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Jimmy Stewart on “The Tonight Show” – A Dog Named Beau.
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On August 11, 1929 the Sultan of Swat became the first member of the 500 Home Run Club.
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Tonight, a little hockey-related Canadiana: here’s the NFB animated short film The Sweater.
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The world is much a happier place, says British singer, actor, comic, game show host and all-around showbiz legend Max Bygraves, when you have Friends and Neighbours. And cheese – you can never have too much cheese.
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A lot of overtly conservative/right-wing country songs sound a bit like the über-patriotic joke-songs from Team America: World Police, and tonight’s Tips music selection arguably fits that bill too. It is kinda catchy, though, even if the anti-banker verse sounds like it was written in a well-armed cabin in the backcountry of Montana. Without further ado, here’s The New Patriots’ anthemic and unapologetically patriotic power-country thumper Pride, Faith, and Courage. (h/t)
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You know what happens when you eat bread and jam twenty times a day? Bob Wills calls you Roly Poly.
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Uh-oh, it looks like Jo Stafford is plumb out of boyfriends because of all that darned Feudin’ and a Fightin’ — and if they don’t stop shootin’, she’ll be plumb out of neighbours next week.
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“One of the benefits of living in the British countryside is the large variety of birds you can see in the wild….”
h/t Neek
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Gracie Fields may be in the shadows on a grey and weary day, but she’s sticking out her chest, hoping for the best, and Looking On The Bright Side.
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