Tonight, the Ballet of the Staatsoper Berlin, under the conductorship of Daniel Barenboim and featuring dance soloists Thorsten Handler and Bettina Thiel, perform the Danse Russe from the Pyotr Tchaikovsky ballet Swan Lake.
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In tonight’s Tips music the Prairie Chiefs (I could find no info about them, except that they sang the Gunsmoke theme) sing the praises of Fury, the smartest darned stallion anywhere.
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How quickly the weather can turn. Holy smokes.
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We kick off tonight’s Tips with a short documentary film by a 25-year-old Polish-born, now Galway-based filmmaker named Kamil Krolak. Inspired by a project called Fifty People One Question, Krolak approached passersby on a pedestrian street in Galway, Ireland and asked them one not-so-simple question. Modest, wakeful, human, and oddly affecting, here’s Fifty People One Question – Ireland.
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Yes, they got a nice shot, but is this really a good idea?
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In tonight’s tippity amusement, from 1936, comedic quartet Yacht Club Boys (Billy Mann, George Kelly, Jimmy Kern, and Charles Adler) sing The Government Takes Away.
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As a tribute to birthday boy Bob Dylan, who, at 70 years old, is preparing for yet another grueling tour, here’s a selection of a few of the songs from his remarkable 50-year musical career: From the 1965 album “Bringing It All Back Home”, here’s the wake-up call It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue. From the 1975 album “Blood On The Tracks”, Simple Twist Of Fate, Tangled Up In Blue, and one of my all-time favourites, Buckets Of Rain. From the 1989 Daniel Lanois-produced album “Oh Mercy”, here’s the elegiac and touching Shooting Star. Finally, h/t Mick Hartley, here’s Irish singer Sinéad_Lohan’s lovely cover version of Dylan’s 1964 song To Ramona.
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Italian pop star Mina was a tall, vivacious performer whose brash confidence and forceful delivery earned her the nickname “Tiger of Cremona”. In tonight’s clip, from a 1960 appearance on the long-running Italian variety show Canzonissima, she performs Folle banderuola.
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SDA commenter ‘BB’ posted a link to the following video. There’s not much to see but a whole lot can be visualized from the audio. Makes one appreciate how relatively unimportant the every day foibles in our lives really are!

Update: Several commenters speculated on what was happening over at CBC News on this story. Many of the “progressive” commenters have wasted no time ignoring the plight of their American neighbours and instead gone into long rants about how this was caused by Climate Change. It also appears the CBC Comment Moderator has had to shift into high gear to remove the even uglier comments. Lovely 🙁

In tonight’s Tips music Polish-born mezzo-soprano Bogna Bartosz, backed by the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra under the conductorship of Ton Koopman, performs the aria Et exultavit spiritus meus from J.S. Bach’s Magnificat.
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Red Shadow: The Economics Rock & Roll Band were a musical group founded in the 1970s by three western communists with PhDs in Economics (one of whom, Ev Ehrlich, served as Under Secretary of Commerce in the Clinton administration, and later as an economics commentator on NPR) who used hip-and-groovy-sounding music in an attempt to educate young people about the merits of Marxism and Leninism. Here they are performing a tune called Understanding Marx.
What is that funky smell?
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In tonight’s heartwarming adjunct to the Tips, brought to our attention last night by SDA commenter Rich, legendary radio broadcaster Paul Harvey reads God Made A Farmer.
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Here’s a look at a rather creative and surprising marriage proposal.
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Allan Sherman sincerely doubts that the world could do without his Good Advice.
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The late Charlie Rich is perhaps most famous for a couple of MOR hits (“Behind Closed Doors” and “The Most Beautiful Girl”) he recorded late in his career during the 1970’s, but these schmaltzy ballads belied the talent and versatility of a man who, in the early days of his career as a singer, songwriter, and session pianist for a subsidiary of Sam Phillips’s Sun Records, was equally adept at rock ‘n’ roll, gospel, soul, and rhythm and blues. From the 1960 album “Lonely Weekends”, here’s Who Will The Next Fool Be.
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Go forth and multiply your fitness level with Cathi Stout’s workout tape.
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In tonight’s Tips music, Sister Rosetta Tharpe teams up with sanctified shouter Marie Knight for an up-tempo call-and-response performance of You Got To Move.
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Hey bud, where do you think you’re goin’?
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In tonight’s Tips music legendary macrocephalic baritone Tennessee Ernie Ford reaches out to a new generation by performing a go-go version of Merle Travis’s Sixteen Tons.
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Tickle your brain with Symmetry.
(h/t David Thompson)
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