In tonight’s Tips music real fine American songwriter John Hiatt performs a song from his 1990 album Stolen Moments called Real Fine Love.
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In tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips the late Nancy Walker, a seasoned Broadway performer who is perhaps best known for her later role as Mrs. Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, sings a song from the 1941 Cole Porter musical Let’s Face It! called You Irritate Me So.
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Clench your brittle fists, enlarge your already bulbous nose with more overproof rum, and stagger incoherently towards your perceived enemies onshore as you listen to The Clancy Brothers’s rousing performance of the 19th century short-drag sea shanty Haul Away Joe.
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Enoch Powell was a Cambridge professor, a poet, and a classical scholar fluent in Greek, but he will go down in history as the British Conservative MP who in 1968 delivered the historic and highly controversial “Rivers Of Blood” speech in which he warned that British immigration policy was “a great betrayal” that was creating a “transformation to which there is no parallel in a thousand years of English history.”
In “Rivers of Blood”, independent British film producer Denys Blakeway intersperses archival footage with contemporary interviews to create a surprisingly un-PC and commendably balanced — or, as some on the left would call it, “cowardly, manipulative and politically irresponsible” –– look at Powell’s speech and the issues it addressed. Here are three substantial excerpts from Rivers Of Blood, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
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In our Saturday night Tips music, gap-toothed rascal Dan Baird of southern rockers The Georgia Satellites sings a song about, how you say, energetic frustration called Keep Your Hands To Yourself.
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In tonight’s musical amusement en route to the Tips, vaudevillian Edward Israel Iskowitz, aka Eddie Cantor, says Cheer Up, Smile, Nertz!”.
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Hark, hearest thou a team of tiny flying robots playing the James Bond Theme?
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In tonight’s musical amusement en route to the Tips, Miss Kitty Wells and an unidentified male singer — might be Culley Holt – take us back to a gentler, more traditional time when people didn’t break all their wedding vows in one fell swoop during a wild weekend in Vegas, they broke them slowly, measuredly, One By One.
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In the BBC documentary A Tudor Feast, historian Ruth Goodman and three archaeologists undertake the difficult work of preparing an elaborate meal using authentic recipes from the Tudor Period, and using only the original techniques, ingredients, and kitchen implements that were available in 1590. Broken into four fifteen minute(ish) segments, here’s A Tudor Feast, parts I, II, III, and IV.
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Tonight’s Tips music comes in the form of one of the best farming songs extant: here’s the late Stan Rogers singing The Field Behind the Plow.
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In tonight’s Tips music, shamelessly filched from Word Around The Net, Philadelphia punk rockers The Obama Supporters The Dead Milkmen sing Everybody’s Got Nice Stuff But Me.
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Hank the nonpareil, still wafting across the ether 61 years later, says Hey, Good Lookin’.
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Dead men can’t speak, but they sure can sing: From the 2004 album Real Gone, here’s Tom Waits’ poignant trans-corporeal dispatch Green Grass. Think “Danny Boy” a couple of octaves drunker.
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In tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips, from the 1933 Samuel Goldwyn musical comedy Roman Sandals, vaudeville legend Eddie Cantor sings Put A Tax On Love.
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Television personality Dick Clark is famous for being unflaggingly, conscientiously anodyne, and for always knowing what side his bread is buttered on. In tonight’s tippity amusement he fully hits the mark on both counts, as he comes to the defence of ‘the kids’ in his Open Letter To The Older Generation.
Hey, gotta clear the bookmarks once in a while.
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In tonight’s Tips music, relatively unknown Irish songbird Sinéad Lohan brings her lovely voice to a treatment of Bob Dylan’s To Ramona.
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In tonight’s Tips music the late June Carter Cash, wife of Johnny, and daughter of Country Music legend Mother Maybelle Carter, gets her giddy-up going as she gets ready for those Big Balls In Nashville.
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In tonight’s Tips video we watch a couple of Okanagan-based veterinarians dealing with a variety of challenges on a daily basis, in Saskatchewan-born filmmaker Eugene “Jeep” Boyko’s 1977 NFB documentary Canaries to Clydesdales.
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I think Lucinda Williams has Lost It. Let her know if you come across it.
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Tonight’s Tips music selection is one of those magic songs that almost makes you fall in love, or at least brings back the feeling, just for a moment, of what it was like. From 1946, here’s Jo Stafford’s exquisitely beautiful rendition of Moonlight in Vermont.
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