Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our distinguished lecture, documentary & interview series, here is Dan Ariely, professor of behavioural economics, head of the eRationality research group at the MIT Media Lab, and author of Predictably Irrational (an excellent book, I think), presenting his talk, Are we in control of our decisions? ¤ (17:26).
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 (with excellent Canadian content in part IV, especially at 07:28 et seq.) is the Metal Monsters ¤, II ¤, III ¤, IV ¤, & V ¤ episode of the Extreme Machines documentary.
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 early
Max Fleischer cartoon Barnacle Bill ¤, from 1930, starring
Bimbo & the character who would soon become Betty Boop.
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Good evening, welcome to the Wednesday edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your listening and healing pleasure, we bring you Barbara Hendrick’s achingly beautiful performance of Franz Peter Schubert’s enduring classic Ave Maria
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are The Middlecreek Swingers, from Mt. Pleasant Mills, Pennsylvania, performing some excellent Square Dancing ¤ at the Pennsylvania Farm Show (5:00). Mable and Alice are hilarious, and the split and swing at 04:20 just cracks me up: “ooh my goodness” 😉
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 great Cynthia Gregory and Fernando Bujones performing Don Quixote ¤, from Donald Saddler ‘s ballet The Rehearsal (1988, 03:24), said ballet which Saddler created for Gregory and Bujones, and in which the two dancers reminisce about their careers and perform scenes from some of their greatest triumphs. There are two things I’ve never understood about ballet: why are the dames always standing on their toes? Couldn’t they find any taller girls, or shorter guys? And why are the mens pants always too tight? What, he put on weight and his tailor was out of town just before the show? Oy vey, what kind of tailor is that? But anyway, Fernando’s move at 02:00 just cracks me up! What? From you I should see that, already 😉
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 Eddie Quillan as Mr. Ellery Queen, Wade Boteler as Inspector Queen, et al., in the 1936 moving picture: The Mandarin Mystery, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, & VIII, which was based on The Chinese Orange Mystery novel by Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay, and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee.
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 Mr. Stan Getz, with Albert Dailey, George Mraz, et al, performing Antonio Carlos Jobim‘s famous bossa nova, Wave ¤, in Copenhagen, ca. thirty years ago (4:29). Tonight’s SDA LNR cheese selection is Ticklemore, a lovely young spring version of which I acquired earlier today. Thanks, Debbie & Mark, this really is a delightful cheese! Give your goats a pat on the head for me, won’t you?
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 Mr. Buddy Guy, with Mr. B.B. King and his band, performing I Can’t Quit You Baby ¤, at B.B’s Blues Club (2:59).
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 a short documentary on the Ekranoplan KM ¤, also known as the Caspian Sea Monster (which was about 1/3 longer than a Boeing 747), ca. 1965, and on related ground- effect vehicles such as the A-90 Orlyonok (10:59). And, for the record, the magic moment in this video is at 08:47 et seq., featuring a Lun-class Ekranoplan ca. 1987.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Good evening, welcome to the Wednesday edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your musical enjoyment, we present a stirring song about courage, duty and love in the face of grave danger. Here then, without further ado, Liam Clancy performs the inspirational and heart-stirring Home From the Sea. Courtesy hankies available at the ticket counter.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, and building on last night‘s Leroy Van Dyke show, here are Mr. Van Dyke and the boys performing Walk on By in 1961 (2:05), which some have called the biggest country single of all time, or at least based on various charts and sales numbers, anyway. Unfortunately, I don’t have handy access to Leroy’s unforgettable If a Woman Answers (Hang Up the Phone), or his You May Be Too Much for Memphis, Baby, or even his Who’s Gonna Run the Truck Stop in Tuba City When I’m Gone?, so I guess this will have to do. What’s that you say, the audio and the video are out of sync? Well, yes, of course, that’s part of what makes it so charming. And, besides, check out Leroy’s tie, man. Absolutely brilliant.
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 the famous agricultural journalist Mr. Leroy van Dyke performing Auctioneer, in 1956 (2:48). Interestingly, perhaps, Auctioneer sold over 2.5 million records. How much would you bid for that? But wait, there’s more. Here, veritably straining your delectation, is footage from the Top Livestock Auctioneers Competition, in 2008 (5:14). Personally, I like Mr. Ty Thompson, from Billings, Montana, best. By the way, that’s called the Auction Chant. What a species 😉
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Now that we’re starting our second year of SDA LNR officially hosting Reader Tips, I’m going to try changing the format of SDA LNR slightly, in that rather than have a seven-day cycling “topic” schedule, for now we are going to experiment for a while with (a) a few days in a row on the same topic, and (b) random jumps to different topics. In part this is because variety is the spice of life, and in part it’s because our wholesale resources here in the studio have become better aligned to this new approach, whereas a year ago they were better aligned to the cyclical schedule. Needless to say, DJ EBD’s Wednesday night SDA LNR show is independent of this DJ Vitruvius plan for the other days of the week.
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Anyway, building on last night’s show and rule [a] supra, tonight, for your delectation, and in honour of SDA LNR listener Hello Birdy‘s appreciation of Jewish humour in last night’s comments, here are two shows by C. Israel Lutsky, who performed as the Yiddisha Philosopher from 1931 to the mid-’60s. Lutsky took to the air daily with letters from listeners seeking advice. He replied with spoonfuls of folk wisdom and dollops of abuse. Firstly, from station WEBR, Miami, Florida, we have his essay, in English, On Jewish Humor, and secondly, from his classic series of A Letter To the Yiddisha Philosopher “advice columns”, on station WEBD in New York, this one in Yiddish with English subtitles, The Boy Should Be Told. That last one is really the best (the antecedents are to provide context), so if you only have time to listen to Israel once, listen to that last one.
Update: A number of listeners are reporting that they are unable to tune in to the streaming audio formats used in tonight’s broadcast. I do apologize, and I’m a little sad too, because this means I won’t be able to use the Yiddish Radio Project, with its excellent Yid-O-Matic Yiddish to English translator, in future shows. Oh well, for those of you with radios that have been able to receive tonight’s transmissions, you may want to explore the other fine offerings that are available at the Yiddish Radio Project outside of the scope of SDA LNR.
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 and pursuant to our Saturday night distinguished lecture, documentary & interview series, here are excerpts from the inimitable Mr. Jackie Mason‘s Lecture & II from the occasion of his being awarded a fellowship in the Oxford Union Society in 1992.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, tonight’s a year now, already, since SDA Late Nite Radio first officially hosted Reader Tips, in what was soon to become a regular affair. Who would have thought? On the other hand, tonight’s SDA LNR cheese selection is Colston Bassett Stilton, surely one of the finest cheeses ever.
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 and pursuant to our Friday night old-time television show, here are the great Mr. Walter Brennan, as Grandpa Amos McCoy, and the Real McCoys, performing Go Fight City Hall, II, & III in 1959 (about 22 minutes).
There’s something very good in that performance.
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 and pursuant to our Thursday night wild-card show, here are Pingu performing their 7-11¤ classic (4:17). |  |
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Good evening, welcome to Wednesday Late Nite Radio. Tonight’s song selection, from Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers’ eponymous 1975 album, concerns a phone call made on the vexing matter of Hippy Johnny. Here then, without further ado, for your musical pleasure, Jonathan Richman sings I’m Straight.
The thread is open for your Reader Tips.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Tuesday night open music show, here are The Clovers performing Your Cash Ain’t Nothin’ But Trash (3:19).
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Monday night jazz show, here are Louis Armstrong and his All Stars, featuring Trummy Young, Peanuts Hucko, Billy Kyle, Mort Herbert, and Danny Barcelona, performing When The Saints Go Marchin’ In, in La Bussola-Focette, Italy, in 1959 (4:53).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.