Strap yourself in and hold onto your wigs: from the Dutch village of Opende, here’s the Showband en Wielrijderskorps Crescendo uit Opende.
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Tonight’s tips music features London-born songwriter Richard Thompson, who was one of the founding members of influential 60’s folk-rock group Fairport Convention, in a live televised performance of Sights and Sounds of London Town. Lyrics here.
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In the early 1960s, when the French airwaves were all but overrun by the lighter than air, la-la-la bubblegum-type pop sounds of the so-called yé-yé girls, a young singer named Stella, the daughter of Polish-Jewish immigrants, came along and bucked the trend by mocking the triteness of other French pop stars and by aiming her musical barbs at targets as varied as long haired young men and parents who tried to be as hip as their children. In tonight’s musical selection, from 1967, she lampoons the mindless protest culture of the era. Lyrical excerpt (translated):

I protest against those who don’t protest
Every day, I protest prolifically
I protest, year round, except for paid leave
I am the priestess of the Protest song!

Without further ado, here’s a video of Stella’s Cauchemar Auto-protestateur — roughly, “Nightmarish Knee-jerk Protester”.
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Harry “The Hipster” Gibson might have looked like a cross between Harpo Marx and an axe murderer, or like a manically delinquent character in one of those 1930’s cautionary tale films about the perils of mari-ju-wanna, but he could sure play a mean piano: here’s a vintage clip of him assaulting the ivories in a performance of Opus 12 Eee. Go, daddy-o!
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Tonight’s Tips music features three sisters from Fort Worth, Texas who not only fiddle up a storm, but sing real good too: Here are the Quebe Sisters Band playing a little Texas Swing number called Every Which-A-Way. Take it away, girls…
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Look, we all get a little impatient at times, and yes, lineups are boring, but at the end of the day what did this guy really accomplish by trying to gain a couple of extra seconds?
Sheesh. Wait your turn, buddy.
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If you’ve been searching fruitlessly for some quality gospel trumpet music, you’re in luck: here are Trumpets of Jericho (I could find no information on them, other than that the track was released in 1969) playing the quietly inspirational Steal Away.
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The late great tenor saxophonist Ben Webster was for years the lead tenor soloist in Duke Ellington’s orchestra. In tonight’s tips music, filmed in 1964, he and his backing trio play the mellow Chelsea Bridge.
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Ever wondered how big the moon, the earth, and the sun are compared to other celestial bodies? Well, they’re this big.
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In tonight’s Tips adjunct we take a look at a behemoth of a vintage race car. Powered by a 12 cylinder, 48 liter aircraft engine, this chain-driven, two-tonne, flame-spitting flying coffin could reach a top speed of over 150 mph, so strap on your leather helmet, make sure you’re testate, and take a spin on the 1908 BMW Brutus.
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In tonight’s video, from 1966, a young Waylon Jennings, one of the, erm, manlier voices in popular music (he was also the narrator of the TV series The Dukes of Hazard) sings about getting his Mental Revenge.
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If you have a spare moment, The Turbans have just Six Questions to ask of you.
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Tonight, in the interests of bringing you the sort of thing you would otherwise never see, or ever miss if you didn’t see it, German actor and singer Fred Bertelmann reprises one of his hit songs in the opening credits of a 1958 movie named after, and loosely based on, that very hit song: Der lachende Vagabund (The Laughing Vagabond).
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Recently a Swedish hotelier named Salka Börjeson Eynon was to live for one week in Rosengard, a district in the city of Malmö, and have her experiences filmed for a popular television show. Alas, her stay had to be cut short for safety reasons.
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In our Saturday night Tips music Corb Lund and the Hurtin’ Albertans – “Demon” Siemens on guitar, Kurt Ciesla on bass and Brady Valgardson on drums – perform the title track from their 2005 album Hair In My Eyes Like A Highland Steer.
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In tonight’s Tips music, suitable for chasing raccoons around the yard with a wooden spoon in one hand and a cocktail in the other, New Orleans jazz legend Sidney Bechet and his band play Muskrat Ramble.
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Kinda interesting:

A Sequence of Lines Consecutively Traced by Five Hundred Individuals is an online drawing tool that lets users do just one thing – trace a line. Each new user only sees the latest line drawn, and can therefore only trace this latest imperfect copy. As the line is reproduced over and over, it changes and evolves – kinks, trembling motions and errors are exaggerated through the process.

Watch it here.
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In tonight’s amusement, a straightforward love song about two lovers and their legendary love, Billy Love & the Lovers sing Legend of Love.
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In tonight’s fluffy Tips music, from the 1941 motion picture “You’re the One”, Texas native Bonnie Baker, backed by Orrin Tucker & his Orchestra, turns right at the cinnamon tree and takes a trip Down Strawberry Lane.
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In tonight’s Tips music, Austin musician Junior Brown – who, as you’ll notice, is a mighty fine guitar player – tries to avoid a heap of trouble as he sings
My Wife Thinks You’re Dead.
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