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. Frank Sinatra performing Fly Me to the Moon in St. Louis, in 1965 (2:31).

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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 Manny Oquendo and his Conjunto Libre performing some delightful salsa, featuring Andy Gonzales, Herman Olivera, Papo Vasquez, and Jimmy Bosch, with Steve Turre on conch (5:30). Question: is there any reason, in principle, why a human and a conch shell couldn’t have done that or equivalent together, tens of thousands of years ago?

Obviously, the sax would be right out, since it hadn’t been invented yet, but the conch and humans had. So? Could it be that proto-Romeo wooed proto-Juliette by blowing a conch shell? Hey baby, wanna’ come upstairs and see my resonant cavities? Ah. Well, what about my Archimedes’ screw? What’s that, you’re busy being obsessed with the current U.S. administration? Well, I can’t compete with that kind of distraction. I might as well pretend there’s some sort of great collapse going on, or not believe in the Beer-Lambert law.

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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 are the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra performing Vitava from Bedřich Smetana‘s Má Vlast ~ Part 1 & Part 2 ~ Rafael Kubelik conducting (1990).

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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 molecular biologist Dr. Bonnie Bassler presenting her talk on The Secret, Social Lives of Bacteria (2009, 18:59). What, you didn’t know how much of humans are actually bacteria that talk to each other, already?

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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 Inspector Hearthstone of the Deathsquad in The Terrifying Letter Murder Case (1952, 26:36, 6.1MB, MP3), with supporting roles from Ottawa and Montreal.

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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 is the inimitable Mr. Pat Paulsen‘s stand-up performance on the Merv Griffin Show in 1974 (4:57).

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Good evening, welcome to the Wednesday Edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight’s musical selection, from the “corny-but-hard-not-to-laugh” category, sees Jim Stafford on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour performing his song Cow Patti.
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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 Buck Owens and his Buckaroos, including Don Rich, Tom Brumley, Doyle Holly, and Willie Cantu, performing My Heart Skips a Beat (1966, 4:18).

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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 Lester Young, Harry Edison, Flip Phillips, Bill Harris, Hank Jones, Ray Brown, Buddy Rich, and the lovely Miss Ella Fitzgerald performing Blues for Greasy (1950, 4:13)

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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 are the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performing the fourth movement and finale, Allegro con Spirito, of Franz Joseph Haydn‘s Symphony No. 8, delightfully conducted (note the second half) by Mr. Leonard Bernstein (7:33).

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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 biophysicist Luca Turin presenting his talk on The Science of Scent (2005, 15:53).

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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 the Death in the Pines episode of Nick Carter, Master Detective (1944, 29:27).

“You still trust too much to what you hear and see. Before you can be a really first- class detective, you have to learn to distrust everything, until you’ve analyzed it in light of all the evidence.”

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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 is an early recording of Mr. Johnny Cash and The Tennessee Two performing Get Rhythm on Tex Ritter‘s Ranch Party show (ca.1959, 2:14).

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Good evening, welcome to the Wednesday Edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, in keeping with the political season, we present for your enjoyment and consideration a song, from Bob Dylan’s 1983 album Infidels, which warns of the guy with the “harmonious tongue” who emerges from nowhere to “catch you when your troubles feel like they weigh a ton.”
Here it is, then: Bob Dylan’s Man Of Peace.
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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 and to that time of year again, here are Mr. Mel Tormé and the Page Cavanaugh Trio performing April Showers (2:49).

Here are the SDA Commenter Statistics for the first quarter of 2009.
Last year’s four-quarters SDA Commenter Statistics can be found here.

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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 Charlie Rouse and his quintet, featuring Blue Mitchell, Art Taylor, Walter Bishop, and Earl May performing Pretty Strange (5:21). I didn’t know that Charlie and Blue had played together before! Cool, man. Mmm, mmm, this is yummy good.

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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 are the noted basso profundo Vladimir Miller and the choir of the Valaam Monastery (a stauropegic Orthodox monastery in Karelia, located on the largest island in Lake Ladoga, the largest lake in Europe), performing Do Not Reject Me In Old Age (6:38).

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(Note from Kate – I’m currently on the road, so posting frequency will be slow over the next few hours. Things should be back to normal by tomorrow evening.)

It’s so hard to believe in anyone anymore.
Alternate Headline: “Slap Chop demo goes horribly wrong”.

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, and to our Earth Hour 2009 radio show, here are David Gallo and Bill Lange presenting their talk on The Deep Oceans: A Ribbon of Life (1998, 13:21). TED sez that in tonight’s talk, which “features vibrant video clips captured by submarines, David takes us to some of Earth’s darkest, violent, toxic & beautiful habitats: the valleys and volcanic ridges of the oceans’ depths, where life is bizarre, resilient and shockingly abundant.”

As David mentions in tonight’s show: “Proust said that the true voyage of discovery is not so much in seeking new landscapes as it is in having new eyes. […] The first thing we see coming out of the sea floor, after a volcanic eruption, is bacteria [and then worms, shrimp, crabs, fish, &c…] You’ve got these little chimneys, sitting here, smoking away ~ this stuff is toxic as hell, by the way, you could never get a permit to dump this in the ocean ~ and it’s coming out all around [the earth]. It’s basically sulfuric acid […] and animals are thriving in it […] and we probably came from there. […] As an ecosystem, they’ve been stable for billions of years […] Is it sensitive? Yes. Is it fragile? No. […] Everything on this planet works by cycles and rhythms […] It’s not a disaster, it’s rhythmic. What we’re learning now […] you can’t listen to a five billion year long symphony, get to today, and say stop, I want tomorrow’s note to be the same as today. [That’s] absurd.”

So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen, whether you’re a photosynthesist or a chemosynthesist, or dare I even say, a thermosynthesist or an infosynthesist; or an optimist or a pessimist; whether you prefer flanged or threaded fittings, already: what is your net result but axiological? Some people turned their lights off, some people turned their lights on, and Earth dumped thousands of tons of sulfuric acid into her oceans, and life goes on. And this is why I can never get over de gustibus non disputandum est, or Professor Irwin Corey singing Today, It’s a Dream Away by Talk Talk (1982, 3:30).

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. One of the things we do, here in the SDA LNR studios, is continuously research, and, as we say in the jargon, watch out for, particularly fine versions of various classic works, the quality of which the available versions in the Interwebothique tend to wax and wane upon, as they come and go. And thus, so, tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Friday night show, and probably for a limited time only, or at least maybe for a limited time only, already, here is in our judgment a particularly fine combination of both the audio and the video components of the classic Ride On Time, as performed by Black Box (one of the few piano-house groups to reach success) in 1989 (4:00).

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