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 is a video of Unicat‘s MXXL 24 AH, a MAN TGA-41.480 based 8 x 8 vehicle, negotiating some difficult terrain (5:06). Now, it occurs to me that you may well ask, what’s with the dune buggy, Vitruvius? Ah, well, pace the nine air conditioners and the links supra, then, perhaps some images from the inside might be of assistance:

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Good evening, welcome to the Wednesday edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight we present a song from troubled musical genius Jerry Lee Lewis, whose early music, at least, demonstrated his natural abilities in the essential skill which underlies (real) rock ‘n’ roll’s primal power: the seamless combining of swung and straight rhythms.
Lewis’ parents, members of the Assembly of God church, were devout Pentecosts who believed that “music to dance to from came from the devil,” and that “drinking and carousing with women would send him to hell.” This schism between his upbringing and his music might partially explain why Lewis — who was Jimmy Swaggart’s first cousin — seemed to be his own worst enemy; he often came across in interviews as being defensive and pointlessly arrogant at the same time. In performance, he seemed to be almost crawling out of his skin as he hammered out brilliantly off-timed, jacked beats on the piano and created a primal, prurient din of forward energy invigorated with a sense of can’t-stop-it-now straight-to-hell wrongdoing.
Without further ado, then, here’s Jerry Lee Lewis, a true iconoclast and one of the brilliant few who helped create and nail down rock ‘n’ roll’s distinct and unmistakable fusion of different idioms, in a 1965 performance of Breathless.
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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 Flamingos performing Rock & Roll (3:07). According to the Wikipedia link supra: The foundation for the Flamingos was laid when cousins Jacob Carey and Ezekial Carey, bass and 2nd tenor, formed the group in Chicago, after meeting cousins baritone Paul Wilson and first tenor John Carter, at a black Messianic Jewish synagogue.

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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 Tubby Hayes, his big band, and his quintet, featuring Jimmy Deuchar, Ronnie Scott, and Allan Ganley, performing Jimmy’s Suddenly Last Tuesday on Jazz 625 in 1965 (3:50).

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, here is the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, in Rome, performing Richard Strauss‘s Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30: Part I, Part II, Part III, & Part IV, Antonio Pappano conducting (about ½ hour). Note that the four trumpets in C that are scored for Also Sprach Zarathustra are, in this case, rotary valve trumpets with conical bores, of the German style that one might expect Strauss to have used, and like the Weril ER4011 shown to the right. Now there’s something you don’t see every day.

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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 is Nobel laureate Dr. Kary Mullis, chemistry professor and co-discoverer of the Polymerase Chain Reaction, presenting his talk: Celebrating the Scientific Experiment (31:33).

There are, in terms of available historic data, a large number of readers here at SDA who understand and appreciate natural curiosity and skepticism; science, experimentation, and empiricism; and the dangers presented by scientific bureausclerosis, and worse, ideological charlatanism, such as that proselytized by enviro-wieners like the climate change apocalyptists (for example). Fortunately, Dr. Mullis covers all that, and the matter of frogs’ natural desire for space flight, thus it is that I think that it may be the case that a non-trivial fraction of SDA LNR listeners might appreciate Kary’s talk.

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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 radio crime-detective show, here is Brian Donlevey in the role of Steve Mitchell in the Lefty & Sam episode of the Dangerous Assignment radio show (1950, 28:26).

While I don’t intend to add a daily cheese function to SDA LNR, in the comments on last night’s cheese selections (which is an occasional feature here at SDA LNR, where we once learned that Charles MacDonald actually likes Tomme de Savoie), ET mentioned her favourite cheese, and due to what my browser history list now shows in retrospect was an erroneous search query, I mistakenly suggested or at least could have been interpreted to have suggested that said cheese couldn’t be found via the normal Interwebothique search facilities. To correct that we have here tonight the second of two nights in a row of tonight’s cheese selections: Delice de Bourgogne, courtesy of ET, and Explorateur, a recommendation thereto that I have for her. De gustibus non disputandum est!

Delice de Bourgogne

Explorateur

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1. 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 is Mrs. Elva Ruby Connes Miller performing Anthony Peter Hatch‘s Downtown (1966, 2:49). She whistles, too! You heard it here first, folks.
2. In the comments pursuant to last night’s LNR, there was some confusion about the fact that EBD, not Vitruvius, is the DJ for our Wednesday night shows. These things happen. During that discussion, EBD graciously noted that said confusion could erroneously cause me to be attributed as one who would spin disks like that in EBD’s Florence Foster Jenkins show. Tonight’s show should blow the danger of that misinterpretation out of the water: there’s no error there at all 😉
3. (a) A few people have mentioned that they cannot view the kind of YouTube links to videos that I have recently been providing here at SDA LNR. Some earlier testing today indicated that YouTube is (at least possibly) in the process of enhancing, upgrading, modifying, or otherwise adjusting their user interface. I plan to try to continue testing that interface over time; for now I have switched back to the basic YouTube URL interface (which should work for everyone).
   If tonight’s Downtown link doesn’t work
   on your box, please let me know.    

   (b) The full-window interface, which I was previously using, and which in general (but not always) I think does the video better justice, is (as always) available from the icon in the lower-right of the smaller in-page YouTube video window, and that seems to work on all the machines I have access to, even while the l.swf interface is, apparently, in transition.

   (c) I’ll update the SDA LNR Archives when I get a chance. In the interim, if necessary, you can always copy and paste any YouTube video identifier from a URL into the search box at YouTube to get said video directly.

4. Tonight’s SDA LNR cheese selection is: Morbier. If you are fortunate enough to live in Edmonton, Alberta, Morbier and 250 other fine cheeses are available at Paddy’s International Cheese Market. That’s where I got my Morbier this morning, along with some fine Cotswold.

   (a) Morbier

   (b) Cotswold

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Good evening, welcome to Wednesday’s Late Nite Radio. Tonight, we present an old folk music standard called She Moved Through The Fair. Commonly believed to be a traditional song, it is in fact a hybrid of sorts: in 1905 Composer and musicologist Herbert Hughes transcribed an old Irish air he’d heard on his travels, and later collaborated with Irish Poet Padraic Colum in writing/arranging the song in its current form.
Here then, without further ado, Anne Briggs performs a lovely, haunting version of She Moved Through The Fair.
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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 is Mr. Sammy Davis Jr. performing a set of impressions of Fred Astaire, Nat King Cole, Billy Eckstine, Vaughn Monroe, Tony Bennett, Mel Tormé, Louis Armstrong, Dean Martin, and Jerry Lewis singing One for my Baby (One More for the Road) (6:48).

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, here is Luciano Pavarotti performing Celeste Aida, from Giuseppe Verdi‘s opera Aida, with the Vienna State Opera, in 1984 (3:06).

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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 is my favourite episode from the Engineering an Empire documentary series: Britain: Blood & Steel, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, & Part 5.

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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 radio crime-detective show, here is Thomas Hyland presenting the story of Jesse James in the Death Of A Picture Hanger episode of Crime Classics (1953, 29:41). This one’s a bit different from our usual SDA LNR OTR CDS, you may like it 😉

According to the Free Old-Time Radio Shows web site: “Crime Classics was a U. S. radio docu-drama which aired over CBS from June 15, 1953 to June 30, 1954. Created, produced, and directed by radio actor/director Elliott Lewis, the program was basically a historical true crime series, examining crimes, and especially murders, from the past. It grew out of Lewis’s personal interest in famous murder cases, and took a documentary-like approach to the subject, carefully recreating the facts, personages, and feel of the time period. Comparatively little dramatic license was taken with the facts and events, but the tragedy was leavened with humor, expressed largely through the narration.”

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our weekly open music show, here are Mr. Paul Simon et alia performing 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (2000, 2:47).

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Good evening, welcome to the Wednesday edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight we feature a fine American Alt-Country band from Austin, Texas, The Gourds, performing Shamrock Bound over top of a fine home-made video assembled by one of their fans.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our weekly wild-card show, here is-a Don Novello as-a Father Guido Sarducci performing his singular Vita est Lavorum (Life is a Job) (5:24).

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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 & blues show, here are Mr. Muddy Waters et alia performing Champagne & Reefer (4:37).

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, here is the great Jascha Heifetz performing what is almost certainly not Tomaso Antonio Vitali‘s Chaconne in G Minor for violin and continuo (9:44), which as it turns out is the piece that Heifetz opened his Carnegie Hall performance with in 1917, brought to you tonight with organ continuo. From what? That’s not something you hear every day, already!

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our old-time radio crime-detective show, here is Ellery Queen in the One Diamond episode of the Adventures Of Ellery Queen (1948, 26:05).

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