Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Louis Katzman and Whittall’s Anglo-Persians performing the original Charleston in 1923 (2:57), Vocalion pressing #14686. As far as I know, this recording antedates any other available versions of this song by two years. The introduction song on this pressing is Old Fashioned Love.

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our ongoing exploration of their works (previously: Vicious Games, Desire, The Rhythm Divine, Of Course I’m Lying, & Lost Again), here are Dieter Meier and Boris Blank, as the Swiss band Yello, with guest Billy Mackenzie, performing Capri Calling ¤ from their Baby album, in 1991 (audio, 2:52).

It’s the time, Of April snows. And how it shows, In Hannah’s eyes. Calling she’s calling, Calling each midnight. Take me to new heights, Falling I’m falling. A secret power, Sweet with surprises. Leaves no disguises, When you feel pure.

It’s the time, Of April snows. And how it shows, In Hannah’s eyes. Time and she’s calling, A pool of thought. I sometimes call, In Hannah’s eyes. I hear her calling, Calling she’s calling. I hear her calling, In Hannah’s eyes.

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Roy Buchanan (a pioneer of the Telecaster sound, with his pinch harmonics technique) and Albert Collins (with his additions thereto of minor tunings and sustained attacks), and the band (of whom which I lack further information, my apologies), performing Further On Down The Road ¤ (8:31) in some unknown space & time. It is neat, I think, to be able to hear these guys workin’ together, in light of their rôles in the now classical evolution of music through the era of its introduction to the electronic dimension.

“Gospel, that’s how I first got into black music.” — Roy Buchanan

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Every note of music, every voice that ever stirred the air prior to advent of the earliest sound-recording technology is gone forever. No one will ever hear Chopin playing his nocturnes, or an ancient Greek bard singing of the exploits of the gods as he strums his lyre, or hear the ringing voice of an 18th century Scottish balladeer. Because of a unique confluence of particular circumstances, though, tonight’s featured performer moves the line back – just a bit – and provides a tantalizing window into the pre-recording era sounds of mid-19th century American music.
David Harrison Macon was born in 1870 in Tennessee, the son of a distiller and former Confederate civil war captain. When he was 12 his father purchased Nashville’s Broadway Hotel, a famous hub for an assortment traveling minstrels and vaudevillians, where Macon would soak up hundreds of songs and lyrics and styles from older performers, some of whom had been playing their songs continuously since well before the civil war. After his father was stabbed to death the hotel was sold, and Macon began his 30-some year career as a muleskinner. Hauling goods between the towns of Woodbury and Murfreesboro, he always had his banjo with him as he sung to his mules and entertained passersby. By the time the voluble, musically deft and wisecracking Macon entered an early studio for the first time when he was in his mid-fifties, he was a real-life character, first and foremost; his recordings weren’t carefully-scripted studio creations but rather a documentation, replete with foot stomps and shouts and hollers, of a lifelong entertainer whose sensibility and music had been forged in an earlier era.
This wisecracking, entertaining, human-jukebox known professionally as Uncle Dave Macon takes us as close as we will ever get to hearing the sounds, styles and mannerisms of the US civil war-era music. In this 1926 recording mash up of “A-Monday Was My Courtin’ Day” and the 1844 song “Old Grey Goose”, he avows with a wink that he won’t get drunk no more Way Down The Old Plank Road.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Mr. Evgeny Kissin performing Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff‘s Prelude, Op. 23, N° 5 ¤, in G minor (3:45). Fans of Rachmaninoff or this Prelude may wish to visit our September 15, 2008 SDA Late Nite Radio show, where we featured Sviatoslav Richter’s version thereto, and some interesting quotes from Rachmaninoff and Richter.

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Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) Late Nite Radio.
The success of so-called progressives in the last few decades in positioning themselves as the adjudicators of respect, tolerance, and freedom is surely the great irony of our age. Those who most typically call their opponents fascists, or some variant of the word, are the same people who feel perfectly justified in using mob rule to silence opposing views. This sort of cultural success in flipping the truth on its head even manifests in the most powerful office in the world: the current President has had a long association with a man who participated in the bombing of the Capitol buildings and the Pentagon, and yet high-ranking Democrats serving under him feel perfectly entitled to deign to characterize, with a straight face, regular mom and pop folks who disagree with the Democrats’ policies as being a radical fringe of extremists, while much of the legacy media happily parrots this bald-faced inversion of the truth.
This sorry state of affairs is at least partially the fault of conservatives who have played into the hands of unreasonable opponents by constantly asserting the need to maintain a spirit of cooperation, even as their opponents make volubly clear through their words and actions that they have absolutely no interest in doing the same. This assumption that compromise and bipartisanship is always the reasonable approach is badly mistaken because it not only presupposes, in the face of evidence to the contrary, that one’s opponents are equally well-intentioned and willing to meet halfway, but it also ignores the unpleasant reality that certain freedoms, once bargained away, may never be regained without bloodshed.
Tonight’s jaunty song selection is dedicated here to conservatives who think that cooperating and plea-bargaining with intransigent opponents is a win-win, that there is no such thing as us versus them, and that supineness will invite respect and facilitate compromise on the part of one’s opponent. Here’s Tom Lehrer’s fiercely satirical paean to fair play at any cost, Fight Fiercely Harvard.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Arthur Fields and the band performing How Ya Gonna Keep ’em Down On The Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree?) (3:17). This 1919 recording, a dialogue between Ruben and his wife, about some of the secondary effects of the First World War, with bandleader Ford Dabney, may be one of the first recordings of a white singer backed by a black band.

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” — Evelyn Beatrice Hall

Update: Last night I erroneously attributed the above quote to
Voltaire. Thanks to EBD in the comments for the correct author.

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. It has been over five months now since we last visited our friend John Scott Whiteley and his videos of pipe organs and their interiors while being played, and so without further ado, tonight, for your delectation, here he is performing Johann Sebastian Bach‘s Sonata N° 6 ¤, Lente ¤, & Allegro ¤, BWV 530 (12:03), on the Zacharias Hildebrandt organ in the Wenzelskirche in Naumburg, Germany. If you’re short of time right now, the Allegro has the best video (including some of the wind chests, the stops crossbars, and the many thousands of pipes in this organ).

The Wenzelskirche organ was Hildebrandt’s largest, featuring three manuals and pedal, fifty-three stops, and a thirty-two foot Posaunenbass pipe with a principal harmonic frequency of sixteen hertz. It was played by Bach when it was completed, in 1746, and it was restored from 1993 to 2000. For those who are interested, our previous SDA Late Nite Radio shows featuring Mr. Whiteley and his videos were on 2008-07-28, 2008-10-13, 2009-07-14, and 2009-10-19.

Nota Bene: Reader Tips is not a place for chatting about the legislative results in the United States of America on Sunday. If Kate wants to, then she will create an entry thereto here at SDA. If not, not. Regardless: Reader Tips isn’t that place.

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Jack Webb as Sergeant Friday, et al, in The Big Sucker episode of the Dragnet radio show, from 1957 (MP3, 6MB, 26:00). It’s an interesting story about how some fraud artists actually live off of their marks’ greed.
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.” — Augustine

 
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Buddy Moss performing Tricks Ain’t Walking No More (1935, 2:53).   By the way, I have completed the Late Nite Radio transmitter maintenance I was working on last Wednesday night, so we’re ready for the months ahead here in the LNR studio.

“Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice.” — Thomas Paine

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“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.” — George Bernard Shaw

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