Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our occasional flights of fantasy show, here is episode seventeen from the second year of the classic Hogan’s Heroes series: The General Swap ¤, II ¤, & III ¤, from 1967 (½ hour).

1. Just so you know that tonight’s show isn’t ill-considered, folks, I watched over a dozen episodes of Hogan’s Heroes just in order to select one most appropriate to present to you, dear SDA listeners. Well, and maybe a little bit because I like to watch Hogan’s Heroes; I don’t know about that.
2. Once you agree to suspend your disbelief for the sake of the exercise, there are a few really brilliant comedic effects in tonight’s show. Of course, I can’t give them away, because that would spoil it for you, so, I guess, you’ll just have to watch the whole thing.
3. Notice the production values, in particular in terms of line, colour, contrast, texture, layout, and shadow. It’s quite well done, don’t you think, looking at it as a popular surrealist television show from that era? I mean, consider the still shown by the link in the upper-right, for example.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies, and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, well, you know, we have to, at some point, or other, in the history of SDA LNR, do this, so, tonight, here, for your delectation, and without further ado, are Mr. Lester Flatt, and Mr. Earl Scruggs, and the Foggy Mountain Boys, performing Foggy Mountain Breakdown ¤, at the Grand Ole Opry, in 1965 (1:47). By the way, shouldn’t I get some kind of award, or other, for run-on comma-phrases, yet, already?

I mean seriously: there were 25 commas in that paragraph!

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome, in the comments, eh, what?

Good evening, welcome to EBD’s Wednesday edition of Late Nite Radio. Several weeks ago at SDA, Paul linked to his Cjunk post, “ Gaze In Wonder at Your Frigidaire.” The title is a line from the song “Auschwitz to Ipswich” by Jarvis Cocker, who is perhaps best known as the frontman for the British band Pulp.
One might expect any song about the West’s passivity and unwillingness to defend itself culturally at home to take an anthemic, “we must fight this” tack, but Cocker takes the opposite approach: his first-person narrator is a faithless, dissipated, sadly self-pleasuring Western everyman who has given up the ghost on the matter of his culture. He recognizes a cultural sunset, but since he uses his own life as a reference point, he sees nothing of real value being lost; since society is just himself writ large, it is no more worthy of being saved than he is. Cocker’s apt use in this case of the small, first-person ironic voice serves to limn the inexorable connectedness between citizens’ seemingly inconsequential personal attributes and civilizational changes of historic consequence.
It’s just a song we’re talking about, of course, one mostly notable for its subject matter. Before we get to it, I have a quick question for SDA readers: are there any other popular songs extant that either mention, refer to, defend, or acknowledge the value of western culture — even if only metaphorically — vis a vis others? I can’t think of any; if you can, please elaborate in the comments.
Anyway, here it is, without further ado: Jarvis Cocker sings From Auschwitz to Ipswich.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is the Royal Hawaiian Band, the oldest municipal band in the United States of America (they’re out of Honolulu, and have been together since their inception, in 1836, by decree of King Kamehameha III), performing Aloha ‘Oe ¤, in 1928 (3:21).

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Mr. Chet Atkins and Mr. George Benson performing Help Me Make it Through The Night ¤ (4:10). Very nicely done, gentlemen. For those of you who like tonight’s artists: our previous Chet Atkins shows were 2008-08-08, 2008-10-10, and 2008-11-14, and, of course, we covered George Benson’s Breezin’ on 2008-03-07.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is The Pink Panther performing Dial ‘P’ for Pink ¤, in 1965 (6:06). The characters. The plot. The animation. The music. Outstanding. Tour de force. And the sound effect right at 5:00 is brilliant.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Toots Thielemans and Stevie Wonder, with Gösta Rundqvist, Markus Wickström, and Johan Löfcrantz, performing Bluesette ¤ at the Polar Music Awards (6:51). Mmm, mmm, good.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. It’s not every day that the fourth of July is a Saturday (actually, it averages out to be about 14.287 days out of every 100 years, when the fourth of July is a Saturday), so tonight, for your delectation and without further ado, here are Chicago performing Saturday in the Park, live at the Arie Crown Theater, in Chicago, in 1972 (3:51).

Meanwhile, tonight’s SDA LNR cheese selection is Appleby’s Cheshire, and I must say, it really is quite good. I mean, I like pulling on the cheese snobs’ chains as much as you do, yet this Appleby’s product really does stand above the other Cheshires I’ve measured. Ask for it by name at your local cheese monger’s shop, I say; you won’t be disappointed.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are three of the funniest minutes of slap-stick comedy ever preformed: the inimitable Mr. Tim Conway‘s Dentist Sketch ¤, on the Carol Burnett Show (which we previously visited here ¤ at SDA LNR).

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening, welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of Late Nite Radio.
What would happen if a group of all-time gospel greats casually assembled in one room and then broke into song? Tonight we find out, as the late Rev. Donald Vails, on piano, is joined by a who’s who of inspirational singers spanning several generations including Jessy Dixon, Walter Hawkins, the Barrett Sisters, Bishop Richard White (aka Mr. Clean), former Chicago Duncanaire Delores Sykes, and surviving members of The Caravans, including Albertina Walker. Fans of the Beatles and Rolling Stones may also recognize the organ player in the red sweater as Billy Preston.
Here then, without further ado, the aforementioned join in an emotionally cathartic performance of Thomas Whitfield’s Only A Look.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, in honour of Canada Day, and the flag our Canadian Forces salute, and for those of us who celebrate it, Dominion Day, and the history of Her Majesty’s Canadian Navy, here, for your delectation, is The Maple Leaf Forever ¤ §.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here, courtesy of a related recommendation from SDA LNR listener batb, are Erroll Garner, Eddie Calhoun, and Kelly Martin performing My Silent Love ¤, in Amsterdam, in 1962 (4:42). Baby, it’s good to be alive. By the way, we have a new SDA LNR Public Complaints line available now, so if you’re not happy about this thing or that, or if you’re just not quite rum tum, ‘te puckety, you can now Officially Complain to our Help-Desk manager, Mr. Fry 😉

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra performing the first movement, Allegro Non Molto, of Summer ¤ (5:53), concerto #2 in G minor from Antonio Vivaldi‘s The Four Seasons, with our old friend Herbert von Karajan conducting and playing harpsichord. And hold on to your hats, folks, because in a few weeks we’ll be getting into the second movement of summer.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our regular Saturday night show, here, courtesy of a related reference from the always gracious and delightful Mr. David Thompson, is Wolff performing Eurythmics‘ Sweet Dreams ¤ (5:05), episode eight of his A Boy and His Tuba series. Nota bene: there is no pre-recorded audio in this video, and the entire sequence is live without edit. Oh yeah? Well I’d like to see you do that by yourself with a tuba and a bank of envelope filters and sequencers, honey.
Like I always say, what a species! You make it, we’ll break it: Guaranteed.