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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Do you you enjoy the sound of quality yodeling? Well, you’re going to get it in both ears tonight, as the harmonizing DeZurik Sisters have a go at the Arizona Yodeler.
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If you’re sitting in front of your computer on a Saturday night you might as well put your time to good use by sharpening up your dance skills with Finnish instructor Åke Blomqvist. Yes, that’s it. Just like that.
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In tonight’s tips music American band Little Feat, led by the late Lowell George and backed by the vocals of Emmylou Harris and Bonnie Raitt, serve up a little Dixie Chicken.
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New York-born Eddie Cantor was one of those hardworking, all-around performers, once common but now mostly parodied, who sang, danced, and told jokes all in the space of five minutes. Here’s an interesting 1923 DeForest Phonofilms clip showing a lively and voluble Cantor — who would have been 30 or 31 years old at the time — performing a bit of his vaudeville routine.
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in tonight’s Tips accompaniment we take a look at what is almost certainly the most famous sound effect in film history: the Wilhelm Scream. Named after a character in the 1953 film “Charge at Feather River” who screams this panic-stricken, almost girly scream after being struck by an arrow, the audio sample was actually first used in the 1951 film “Distant Drums” by a character who is being killed by an alligator. Over the last sixty years, the scream has been reprised literally hundreds of times, in a host of movies and TV shows; according to some in the industry, it’s a kind of an in-joke and a way to say hello to other technical production crews on other shoots. For your amusement, here’s a compilation of movie scenes in which the Wilhelm Scream is used, and, as a special bonus, here’s a handy button that generates the Wilhelm Scream with a simple mouse-click. Just in case you ever need it.
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A lot of First World tourists who holiday in tropical paradises think they have a license to drink excessively and behave like out of control toddlers. In tonight’s video, a legless tourist behaves highly inappropriately in a bar in Las Palmas. It’s funnier than it sounds…
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Tonight’s tips music features the protean Ella Fitzgerald in a dazzling live performance of One Note Samba.
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In tonight’s amusement, ever-ambitious and notoriously insecure television personality Alan Partridge, just one of the stable of characters in chameleon-like British comedian and actor Steve Coogan’s repertoire, provides a year-end roundup of sports highlights. As he sees them.
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In tonight’s musical selection, from 1929, Jimmie Rodgers, aka “The Singing Brakeman” and “The Father of Country Music”, sings Any Old Time.
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By special request, here’s a couple of lighthearted performances from American comedian Tim Hawkins.
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Scopitones and Cineboxes were video jukeboxes of a sort (based loosely on WWII military technology, apparently) that were popular in the early 60s, mostly in European cafes. Tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips is a Scopitone – that’s what the short films were called – of wholesome and cheery French vocal ensemble Les Barclays performing Pour Ton Amour.
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If you think the 1950s were a time of innocence and wholesome good fun, tonight’s video might just change your worldview forever. Yikes.
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For the benefit those who find it hard to stay up-to-date with all the results from the sporting world, here’s some – admittedly late – coverage of the derby rugby match contested by local teams Hunslet and Leeds in 1910.
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Tonight’s tips music is a snappy little tune from the WWII era: here are The Four Vagabonds singing Rosie The Riveter.
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In 1961 a series of five-minute, one-song shows starring gospel legend Mahalia Jackson aired on American network TV. In tonight’s selection, from that series, she sings God Will Take Care Of You.
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In our Saturday night tips music, filmed during a 1970 cross-Canada tour, The Band charges their way through a slop-happy version of Slippin’ and a Slidin’.
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In tonight’s tips music English pop singer Helen Shapiro sings Look Who It Is to the three of the four members of a famous supergroup.
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In May 2003 Paul McCartney and his band – including ace drummer Abe Laboriel Jr. – performed a concert in Moscow’s Red Square before a delighted throng. One of the highlights was this cracking performance of Back In the USSR.
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