Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Toots Thielemans and Stevie Wonder, with Gösta Rundqvist, Markus Wickström, and Johan Löfcrantz, performing Bluesette ¤ at the Polar Music Awards (6:51). Mmm, mmm, good.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. It’s not every day that the fourth of July is a Saturday (actually, it averages out to be about 14.287 days out of every 100 years, when the fourth of July is a Saturday), so tonight, for your delectation and without further ado, here are Chicago performing Saturday in the Park, live at the Arie Crown Theater, in Chicago, in 1972 (3:51).
Meanwhile, tonight’s SDA LNR cheese selection is Appleby’s Cheshire, and I must say, it really is quite good. I mean, I like pulling on the cheese snobs’ chains as much as you do, yet this Appleby’s product really does stand above the other Cheshires I’ve measured. Ask for it by name at your local cheese monger’s shop, I say; you won’t be disappointed.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are three of the funniest minutes of slap-stick comedy ever preformed: the inimitable Mr. Tim Conway‘s Dentist Sketch ¤, on the Carol Burnett Show (which we previously visited here ¤ at SDA LNR).
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Good evening, welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of Late Nite Radio.
What would happen if a group of all-time gospel greats casually assembled in one room and then broke into song? Tonight we find out, as the late Rev. Donald Vails, on piano, is joined by a who’s who of inspirational singers spanning several generations including Jessy Dixon, Walter Hawkins, the Barrett Sisters, Bishop Richard White (aka Mr. Clean), former Chicago Duncanaire Delores Sykes, and surviving members of The Caravans, including Albertina Walker. Fans of the Beatles and Rolling Stones may also recognize the organ player in the red sweater as Billy Preston.
Here then, without further ado, the aforementioned join in an emotionally cathartic performance of Thomas Whitfield’s Only A Look.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
| Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, in honour of Canada Day, and the flag our Canadian Forces salute, and for those of us who celebrate it, Dominion Day, and the history of Her Majesty’s Canadian Navy, here, for your delectation, is The Maple Leaf Forever ¤ §. |
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here, courtesy of a related recommendation from SDA LNR listener batb, are Erroll Garner, Eddie Calhoun, and Kelly Martin performing My Silent Love ¤, in Amsterdam, in 1962 (4:42). Baby, it’s good to be alive. By the way, we have a new SDA LNR Public Complaints line available now, so if you’re not happy about this thing or that, or if you’re just not quite rum tum, ‘te puckety, you can now Officially Complain to our Help-Desk manager, Mr. Fry 😉
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra performing the first movement, Allegro Non Molto, of Summer ¤ (5:53), concerto #2 in G minor from Antonio Vivaldi‘s The Four Seasons, with our old friend Herbert von Karajan conducting and playing harpsichord. And hold on to your hats, folks, because in a few weeks we’ll be getting into the second movement of summer.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our regular Saturday night show, here, courtesy of a related reference from the always gracious and delightful Mr. David Thompson, is Wolff performing Eurythmics‘ Sweet Dreams ¤ (5:05), episode eight of his A Boy and His Tuba series. Nota bene: there is no pre-recorded audio in this video, and the entire sequence is live without edit. Oh yeah? Well I’d like to see you do that by yourself with a tuba and a bank of envelope filters and sequencers, honey.
Like I always say, what a species! You make it, we’ll break it: Guaranteed.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Mr. Buddy Greco performing that old Rogers and Hart standard, The Lady Is A Tramp ¤ (2:55).
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Mr. Chuck Mangione (on flugelhorn), Chris Vadala, Grant Geissman, Charles Meeks, and James Bradley, Jr., performing Feels So Good ¤ in 1978 (5:14), on The Midnight Special (which followed The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson).
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass in some A&M Records footage ¤ from 1966 (8:22).
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Gary Numan performing Engineers ¤ (4:01), from his 1979 album The Pleasure Principle.
| All that we are, Is all that we need to be. All that we know, Is you and machinery. We’re engineers. We are your heartbeat, We’re engineers. |
We are your voice, We are your blood flow, We are your eyes, We’re all you need to know. We’re engineers. All that we are, We’re engineers. |
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to it being that time of year again, here are Miss Ella Fitzgerald and the Tee Carson Trio performing George Gershwin‘s Summertime ¤, in Germany, in 1968 (3:32).
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Harry “The Hipster” Gibson performing Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs Murphy’s Ovaltine? ¤, in 1944, this version set to the video of Betty Boop &c in Sally Swing, in 1938 (3:20). Tonight’s SDA LNR cheese selection is Glenphilly, from Ilchester, Somerset.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, it is back! It comes, it goes, and it’s now available again at YouTube, the very best (in my opinion, of course) version of Mr. Tom Waits performing Step Right Up ¤, at the Theatre le Palace, in Paris, in 1979 (8:22). That, by the way, was part IV of the gig, here are Part I ¤, II ¤, and III ¤.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our occasional wild-card show, here is some delightful footage from the destructive testing ¤ of the Boeing 777‘s wing-load performance, in 1995 (3:35).
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Good evening, welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of SDA Late Nite Radio.
A faded photo, taken in New Orleans in 1914, shows a short, unathletic, chubby 12-year old black boy standing displeased in the uniform of the reform school he’s been sent to for firing a gun into the air on New Years Eve. His arms are crossed defiantly, but he wears a sad facial expression that suggests a stubborn, so-far fruitless search for respect and sympathy. By the time of his death some fifty-three years later, Louis Armstrong was a beloved figure who’d left an enduring, worldwide legacy of goodwill and superb music. Duke Ellington summed up his life this way: “Born poor, died rich, never harmed anyone along the way.”
The performance selected for tonight’s LNR is from the last few years of his life. Privately beset by health difficulties, he soldiers on, and enjoins us to enjoy life, and to
Start by admitting
from cradle to tomb
isn’t that long a stay…
Here then, without further ado, is the great Louis Armstrong, filmed in France in 1967, performing the title song from the musical Cabaret.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Woody Herman & his Swingin’ Herd performing Days of Wine and Roses (1964, 3:20). |
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Itzhak Perlman and Israel Zohar, with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, performing in the Gala Concert ¤ at the Klezmer Festival (4:33).
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, and for listener Exetaz, here is the legendary João Gilberto, with Caetano Veloso, performing Girl from Ipanema ¤ (3:42); and tonight’s cheese selection is Annette Lee’s Woolsery from Up Sydling, near Dorchester, Dorset. |
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