In tonight’s adjunct to the Tips we take a gentle and relaxing stroll along the well-maintained hiking trails in Shaanxi Province in north-central China.
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In tonight’s Tips music Gram Parsons and the angel-voiced Emmylou Harris duet on the oft-covered Boudleaux Bryant classic Love Hurts.
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If anyone out there is looking for a wedding singer, you might want to consider booking New Jersey’s own Harry Sands.
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In what is surely the theme song – and the happy-foot dance – of the week, a young Sammy Davis Jr. sings I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead, You Rascal You.
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If dogs could talk, it would probably sound a lot like this.
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Broadcast live in 1939 from the ol’ Renfro Valley Country Store in Renfro Valley, Kentucky – it’s north of Knoxville, and south of Lexington — on radio station WHAS, here’s Claude Sweet playing Cherokee Boogie.
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Here’s a merry little song to commemorate the recent “social media” election.
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In tonight’s tips music, from a Japanese cellphone commercial, J.S. Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring is performed by….gravity. And a wooden ball.
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In tonight’s Tippity amusement we take a quick retrospective look at the trajectory of Michael Ignatieff’s political career.
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In tonight’s Tips music Mother Maybelle Carter, one of the three original members of the legendary Carter Family, is joined by her daughters Anita and Helen for a live performance of Keep On The Sunny Side.
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In tonight’s Tips music, from the 1920’s, popular tenor Franklyn Baur sings Just Around the Corner.
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From the wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine Middleton, here are the lovely pink faces inside and outside Westminster Abby singing the stirring and anthemic Jerusalem. (Words here.)
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To ease you ever so gently into tonight’s Tips, here’s dulcet-voiced Whispering Jack Smith singing If I Had You.
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If recent poll numbers are accurate, and if they translate into votes on Monday, there’s a reasonable chance that we may soon have a coalition government led by Prime Minister Jack Layton. In the interest of helping to provide long-term contingency planning for you and your family, here’s a helpful three-part video on how to clean and cook a squirrel.
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How hard can it be to derail a train? This hard.
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Via the British Film Institute, here’s a short 1931 silent film showing the workaday bustle at the Tower Bridge Road Market, in what is now the Borough of Southwark in the middle of Greater London.
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In tonight’s Tips music Musica Fiata performs Michael Praetorius’s Christ ist erstanden.
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Jerry Woods, the lead singer and songwriter of Canadian band Jerry Jerry and the Songs of Rhythm Orchestra (previously featured here) is one of those rare Canadians musicians whose music and lyrics are – to the (minimal) extent they’re political at all – unabashedly and refreshingly non-leftist. From the band’s debut album “Road Gore: The Band That Drank Too Much”, here’s Radical Look. For an audio-only bonus track, scroll down here and click on the snappy and funny “Smart (I’m Smart)”.
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