Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is my favourite episode of that most insightful Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister series: A Victory for Democracy, II, & III. Usually, Sir Humphrey snookers Mr. Hacker, but in this episode the reverse is true. And, the Israeli ambassador just cracks me up 😉
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Good evening, EBD here filling in tonight for Vitruvius for the Thurday installment of Late Nite Radio.
Musician and innovator Les Paul passed away today at the age of 94. His influence as a guitarist is often overstated, but he deserves credit for essentially inventing the multi-tracking technique used today on virtually every studio recording, and his popular, eponymous solid-body guitar made by Gibson remains one of the most popular guitars in the world. The Les Paul wasn’t the first solid-body electric — Fender’s Telecaster, (originally called Broadcaster) predated it — but where the slight play of the Telecaster’s bolted-on neck somewhat deadened the strings after the moment of attack, making it a suitable rhythm instrument, the Les Paul’s weight and glued-on neck gave it a hitherto unprecedented amount of sustain, making it the quintessential soloist’s guitar.
How High The Moon featuring vocalist and musical partner Mary Ford is probably Les Paul’s signature song, but in light of his passing it’s probably appropriate here to feature his 1953 recording of Vaya Con Dios
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight’s song is about food — specifically, about how darned tasty it is. Here it is, then: The Ink Spots sing themselves into a lather at the prospect of Pork Chops And Gravy with some cornbread and blackberry jam. And candied yams, and fried chicken…
Note the falsetto interjections (“In the bag!”) provided by the hungry happy-foot fella who is – clearly — so whipped up by his anticipation of the listed fare that he can’t help but burst into food-induced vocalized delirium. That’s one hungry man.
The comments are open for your tasty and filling Reader Tips.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite
Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Soave sia il vento
from Mozart‘s Cosi fan tutte opera buffa, in 1996 (2:40).
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 Stan Getz,
Antonio Carlos Jobim, João Gilberto, and Astrud Gilberto
performing Corcovado in 1964 (4:18).
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 the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performing the first movement, Allegro con Brio, of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‘s Symphony #25 in G Minor ¤, KV 183, with our old friend Mr. Leonard Bernstein conducting (8:34).
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 the George Shearing
Quintet performing Swedish Pastry (2:49).
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 Eric Clapton, Jack
Bruce, and Ginger Baker, as Cream, performing Strange Brew
on The Beat Club, in 1967 (2:21).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
 Two Reasons |
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is the Lion Tracks ¤ episode of Snagglepuss, brought to you for two reasons tonight, because, firstly, from a philosophical perspective: A Man’s Home is His Castle; and, secondly, from an engineering perspective: Heavens to Murgatroyd … (7:16).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments, even.
Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of SDA Late Nite Radio.
In the present western world, considerations of human suffering and hardship are political, to the largest extent. A public proclamation of empathy is frequently a weapon in mindful disguise, and the difficulties of others are often pruriently appropriated and then channeled into rage at government and at those with different political views. It wasn’t so very long ago, though, that there wasn’t a safety net except for that provided by family and friends and local community. While it was understood, then as now, that any individual’s life trajectory was determined in part by effort and diligence as well as by station of birth, back then there was more of a realistic understanding that the relentless corporeal fates — war, illness, economic collapse, drought, death, abandonment of the slow by the swift — that will take us out of this world are out of our hands, and that these fates, often unkind, are part of a shared condition that no one can rise above or escape.
Tonight’s song, recorded in 1929, is a lullaby of sorts, a flickering far-away light through the darkness of time that makes tangible a condition wherein elemental, matter-of-fact human empathy is natural, casual, and normal — small and familiar and human — as opposed to, say, just a force for political agitation. At the time, of course, it was just a good song. Here it is then, without further ado: the great Jimmie Rogers sings Hobo Bill’s Last Ride.
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 Stéphane Grappelli, Martin Taylor,
and Jon Burr performing Blue Moon ¤ in 1990 (3:04).
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 Artie Shaw
and his orchestra performing Alone Together ¤, in 1939 (3:29).
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 Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg performing the roles of Major John Steed and Mrs. Emma Peel in The Town of No Return, II, III, IV, & V episode of The Avengers.
This was the first episode in the first full year that featured Dame Rigg: 1965. As a student of this type of genre, I must say, it really is a treat to have this kind of history available via YouTube, transient though the availability may be.
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 is the inimitable Mr. Darren McGavin, with Robert Vaughn, in The Living Dead, II, & III episode of Mickey Spillane‘s classic Mike Hammer series, in 1958 (25 minutes).
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 The Ink Spots, with
Georgie Auld & his Auld Stars, performing If I Didn’t Care ¤ (3:11).
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 Procol Harum
performing A Whiter Shade of Pale ¤ in 1967 (3:58).
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 tune from Richard Berry. He is perhaps most famous for writing the song Louie Louie, which became a controversial hit for frat rock band The Kingsmen. The controversy pertained to the lyrics: although the words were in fact entirely innocuous — banal, even — the recording was so poor as to render them unintelligible, which effectively turned the song into a blank slate upon which prurient teenagers — and concerned parents, as it turns out — could lyrically etch their wildest thoughts. When the FBI decided to investigate whether or not the song violated federal obscenity laws it was in large part due to outraged parents like this one, who wrote to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy in 1964:
“My daughter brought home a record of ‘Louie Louie’ and I, after reading that the record had been banned from being played on the air because it was obscene, proceeded to try to decipher the jumble of words. The lyrics are so filthy that I can-not enclose them in this letter…I would like to see these people, the ‘artists’, the Record company and the promoters prosecuted to the full extent of the law…”
Alas, the FBI ran the radio-friendly single through their lab and found the evidence to be wafer thin: “The lyrics…could not be definitely determined…(so) it was not possible to determine whether this recording is obscene.”
Berry, for his part, went on writing, recording and performing until 1996. Tonight then, for your dancing pleasure, here is Richard Berry singing the persistently yet indeterminately suggestive Have Love Will Travel.
Feel free to drive by and deposit your Reader Tips in the comments.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio.
Tonight, for your delectation, here are Mr. Jerry Lee Lewis and the boys
performing Boogie Woogie Country Man ¤, in Paris, in 1981 (2:36).
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 is Mr. Tony Bennett
performing Love Story (3:08).
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 is the Allegro from George Frideric Handel‘s Concerto Grosso #5 in D Minor, HWV 316, performed by the Vokalensemble NovoCanto Tiroler Barockinstrumentalisten at the Jesuitenkirche in Austria in 2004 (3:02).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.