Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite
Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is John Digweed with
his Salt City Orchestra mix of Cups (8:16, audio only) from his
Global Underground: Hong Kong album in 1999 (originally by
Underworld from their Beaucoup Fish album in 1998).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Steely Dan performing Reelin’ In The Years ¤ on The Old Grey Whistle Test show in 1978 (3:54). And for those listeners who might find that just a little bit too classic, here from their live Two Against Nature DVD, in 2000, and with a great horn section, is Babylon Sister ¤ (6:12), and for tonight’s best lyrics award, here is Kid Charlemagne ¤ (4:50).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and in particular for those listeners who may have a chance to tune in on Friday but not have a chance to visit SDA Late Nite Radio again over the Thanksgiving weekend, here are Baz Luhrmann and a female vocalist whose name I would like to know performing Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen) ¤ in 1999 (7:10). This single is the most well-known form of an essay titled “Advice, like youth, is probably just wasted on the young”, written by Mary Schmich and published in the Chicago Tribune as a column in 1997.
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For our friends in more equatorial climes who are wondering why we in Canada are celebrating Thanksgiving this weekend, well, you see, Thanksgiving is a harvest festival, and given that it has been snowing all day in Edmonton today, about a half an inch so far, I’m sure you can now see how it is more than time for us to get on with it 😉
Also, for those who may have missed yesterday’s reference, or
who are otherwise interested, I have added a brief introductory
essay to my web page on The Pathology of the Blogosphere™.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight we take you back to 1962-era France, where having bad teeth was quite clearly no obstacle to being a national sex symbol. Here’s the nonetheless fetching Sylvie Vartan, dancing up a storm and tormenting non-French-speaking men with the pop-musical question Est-ce que tu le sais?
Say “cheese.”
Feel free to dance your Reader Tips into the comments.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Henry Hall and his orchestra performing Teddy Bears’ Picnic in 1932 (3:15), with Val Rosing singing. Paraphrasing from the links: this ’32 Hall recording was apparently used for more than 30 years by BBC audio engineers to test and calibrate audio equipment. Its especially good recording quality and the large tonal range of the music made it ideal for checking the frequency response of the equipment.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite
Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Jimmy Cleveland
et al performing Posterity ¤ on The Subject is Jazz in 1958 (4:41).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is our old friend, the great Luciano Pavarotti, performing Nessun Dorma ¤, from Giacomo Puccini‘s Turandot, accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Kurt Herbert Adler conducting, in 1982 (4:19).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
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Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Joey Negro and
Taka Boom performing Must Be The Music (1999, 7:00).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this week’s SDA distinguished lecture, documentary & interview symposium. This week, for your delectation, here is Michael Shermer, director of the Skeptics Society, presenting his TED Talk on Why People Believe Strange Things ¤ (14:11), in which he argues that in the absence of sound science, incomplete information can combine with the power of suggestion to produce false results.
In fact, Michael says, we humans tend to convince ourselves to believe: we overvalue the “hits” that support our beliefs, and discount the more numerous “misses”. And please note, before anyone flies off the handle, Michael does not believe that science can invalidate religion. He says so. Rather, his central issue in today’s lecture, and the central topic in our symposium here today, is: confirmation bias. Lastly, before anyone thinks that I am claiming that I don’t suffer from confirmation bias, to be clear: it’s one of the things I’m most worried about doing (to the degree that I worry about anything at all).
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite
Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Bob Hope and
James Cagney performing an excellent Dance Routine ¤
from the movie The Seven Little Foys in 1955 (3:34).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
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Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is an apparently rare
version of Chilliwack performing Crazy Talk in 1974 (2:51).
Paraphrasing from the associated blurb…
This track was issued in Canada in November of 1974 on Goldfish 110, and was produced by Terry Jacks. Compared to the LP version and the mix available on CD, this version is overdubbed with extra drums, guitars and effects, parts of Bill Henderson’s vocal are redone, and editing was done to rearrange the order of the verses. It has never been included on an album or reissued on CD.
Note that the she in this song is a dangling pronoun reference,
which is always good for a bit of philosophy, or at least fun.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, we feature a musical tribute to the northeastern states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, which together comprise the region known as New England.
Please don’t feel embarrassed on the performer’s behalf about his evident insecurity; he will surely, over time, lose his stage fright and gain more self-confidence.
Here then, without further ado, painfully-introverted Massachusetts native Jonathan Richman forces himself on stage to sing his self-penned tune I Love New England.
He’ll be fine. Follow his lead and force your Reader Tips onstage in the comments.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Billy Murray and the Great White Way Orchestra performing Yes! We Have No Bananas §, from the famous Make It Snappy show, by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn, in 1923 (2:54). |
There’s a fruit store on our street,
It’s run by a Greek.
And he keeps good things to eat,
But you should hear him speak!When you ask him anything,
He never answers no. He tells you:
Yes, we have no bananas,
We have-a no bananas today.We’ve string beans, and onions,
Cabbages, and scallions,
And all kinds of fruit and say…
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are B. B. King, James Toney (love the Hammond, James), Mose Thomas, Lee Gatling, and Sonny Freeman performing Part I ¤ and II ¤ on Ralph Gleason‘s Jazz Casual show, in 1968. I particularly like their version of The Jungle, which begins at 05:55 into part one…
I work hard everyday,
From Monday through Friday night.
And the wages that they pay me,
I swear they’re very light.They take out a little for the State,
And a little more for Uncle Sam.
How can I ever catch up,
And get myself out of this jam?I’m gonna move to the jungle,
Way out in the woods.
Because the way things are here now,
I tell ya’ I ain’t doin’ myself no good.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are the London Symphony Orchestra, featuring the great pianist Mr. Claudio Arrau (in his last great show at the age of ca. 85), performing Ludwig van Beethoven‘s Piano Concerto #5, II, III, IV, V, in E♭ major, Op. 73, Sir Colin Davis conducting. (And then he leaves the stage, for the last time.) |
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Jurgen Fritz, Hans Bathelt, and Helmut Kollen, as Triumvirat, performing Spartacus, including (1) The Superior Force of Rome, (2) A Broken Dream, and (3) The Finale, in 1975 (7:45); the ninth track from their eponymous Spartacus album.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
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Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this week’s SDA distinguished lecture, documentary & interview symposium. This week, for your delectation, here is Dr. Michael Merzenich, neuroscientist and professor emeritus at UCSF, presenting his lecture On Rewiring the Brain (23:07).
For today’s symposium, Dr. Merzenich explains how your brain is always actively going on rewiring itself, how that rewiring is subject to your attention, and thus how your allocation of your attention resources is relevant to the future of your brain, to how you nurture your brain, and to your happiness, your wellbeing, your abilities, and your capacities; and how you are responsible for that.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite
Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here starring Theodore Bikel
is the Four O’Clock, II, III episode of The Twilight Zone (1962).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite
Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Herman’s Hermits
performing Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter ¤
in 1965 (2:44).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
All of us long for home at some point in our lives. Home may be a far-away place peopled by loved ones now gone, full of familiar voices and kitchen smells, or it may be a place we’ve never even been to that improbably asserts itself in our persistent dreams as a completion of our love and all that we wish for.
Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of Late Nite Radio. Tonight, Irish band Planxty, led by singer Christy Moore, evokes this universal longing with a stirring and deceptively simple ballad. While the melodic line of each verse doesn’t resolve in the usual sense, this astute, hanging, circular structure imparts a sense of inevitable return.
It’s a song about a specific place that most of us have never seen, but through the alchemy of music and the words we end up longing for it as the singer does. Here it is, then, without further ado: Christy Moore sings his beautiful paean to his cherished and magical Cliffs of Dooneen.
Your Reader Tips will be greeted at the door with a warm smile and a serving of æblekage.
