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 Real Life performing the 12″ EP version of their 1993 classic, Send me an Angel (6:12).

Friday morning update: I double-checked that date last night after MJ’s comment, and would have sworn it said 1983, which I know first-hand was the correct date. This is where Perry Mason reminds us of the trouble with eye-witness testimony. Anyway, thanks to MJ and EBD for the corrections, it was indeed 1983.

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Good evening, welcome to the Wednesday edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight’s musical selection examines one of the more difficult questions for any civilized society, namely, what is an appropriate punishment for a flap-mouthed, mammering, rump-fed ratsbane? What manner of recompense should we extract from such a hedge-born, bat-fouling puttock? Should he be keelhauled by his uncles, or scarped on his boil? Should we put him in the scupper with the hose-pipe on him, or flack him on the grummies with a wrought-iron lunger?
There are no easy answers. Perhaps it’s best to defer here to legendary nautical hardbody-turned songwriter Rambling Syd Rumpo, aka Kenneth Williams, as he asks the enduring musical question “What Should We Do With A Drunken Nurker?” in part one of his rollicking Sea Shanty Medley.
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(My apologies for the double Reader Tips entry – when it didn’t come up as it usually does, I thought our regular hosts were unavailable, so threw one in.)

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. Leon Redbone performing Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone at the 2007 Appel Farm Folk Festival in Elmer, New Jersey (4:31).

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

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 and pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, here is Wilhelm Kempff performing the First, Second, and Third movements of Ludwig van Beethoven‘s piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, “Quasi Una Fantasia”, Op. 27, No. 2, popularly known as the Moonlight Sonata (15:39). Oh yeah? Well let me ask you this: when, exactly, was the last time you celebrated all three movements thereof? See what I mean! And Kempff’s facial expressions are delightful, they’re magnificent, they’re uplifting, even, already 😉

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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 Jerry Seinfeld and Steve Martin in their interviews with Charlie Rose (2007, 56:02).

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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 show, here are Talk Talk performing It’s My Life, a classic synth-pop tune, if I do say so myself (1984, 3:53). Why, yes of course we have the original vinyl here in the SDA Late Nite radio studio, why do you ask ?-)

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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 a delightful animation of the assembly and operation of a Ford Duratech HE four-cylinder engine (2000, 5:43), out of their Cologne operation. As Ronnie Shakes once said: I like life, it’s something to do. And then it occurred to me: that might not apply if one’s not doing anything. Not you, of course, dear reader, yet as a general principle, would not it be a good idea to regularly and periodically ask oneself whether or not one was building for the future, or pining for failure? If one spends one’s life only looking for trouble, will one not always find it, even if it’s not there?

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Good evening, welcome to the Wednesday night edition of Late Nite Radio.
The Great Bailout Gravy Train is a long one — you can’t even see all the way to the end of it — and as it disappears into endless congressional tunnels, no one knows exactly where that freight of goods will end up; the only thing you can be sure of is that it’s all going somewhere.
In tonight’s musical selection Bob Dylan assures various and sundry that they’re all going to meet at that Million Dollar Bash.
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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 Temptations performing George Gershwin‘s Swannee, a song originally made famous by Al Jolson in the ’20s; this version from the Smothers Brothers Show (4:16).

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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 is the great Bud Freeman, with Oscar Klein and Lino Patruno, performing Sugar (1975, 3:02).

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

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, I’ve been hunting around in the dusty sub- sub- basement archives (cough, cough) of the SDA Studios, as a result of which here is The Earliest Known Footage of Comments at Small Dead Animals, from an entry entitled It Pays to be Ignorant, featuring (starting audience right) Kate, as played by Jackie Gleason, followed by Tenebris, played by Frank Fontaine, ET, played by Jayne Mansfield, and (stage right) yours truly, Vitruvius, played by the world’s foremost authority, Prof. Irwin Corey, with a cameo appearance by EBD, delivering the question.

And so it’s over to you, ET, as EBD last asked: could you please provide a link or two to a primer-level essay on semiotics? I mean, I think that, just barely, I sort of understand it, yet you’re a pedagogist: why not provide us with such a link, or create one? I know I’m interested, and clearly EBD is, and I dare say Tenebris too. Now to be clear, I’m not trying to put you on the spot here and now, yet perhaps you could get together with some of your colleagues and work to come up with an explanation of this stuff that is at least partially accessible to the rest of us. Or perhaps make a YouTube video ~ I could perhaps help, perhaps with the software, perhaps even with editorial feedback.

Your Reader Tips are, folks, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, pursuant to our distinguished lecture, documentary & interview symposia, on Friday night this week because I feel like it, here for your delectation is Steven Henry Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University, presenting his talk on How Things in Nature Tend to Sync Up (23:13). Steven is known for his contributions to the study of synchronization in dynamical systems, and for his work in mathematical biology, engineering, and complex network theory, including his Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos textbook.

In tonight’s show, Steven asks, demonstrates, and answers the question: “Does existence need life to achieve synchronization?”. And of course the answer is no, yet the mechanism you may find to be more fascinating than you would have thought it to be had you not watched this SDA LNR DLDIS show, not having realized that when the metronomes are placed on the coupled rollers, they then have and do utilize that mechanism for the exchange of information. Without life. Like stars and leptons. Which reminds me of the first two shows in this series (what, you didn’t expect me to link it back up?).

One of my favourite quotes from Steven in this video starts at 5:49:

Keep in mind that although it looks as if each individual is acting to cooperate, what’s really going on is a kind of selfish Darwinian behaviour; each is scattering away at random, to try to save its [self]. That is, out of the desire to save itself, each creature is following these [four simple] rules, and that leads to something that’s safe for all of them.

Even though it looks like they’re thinking as a group: they’re not.

That’s so cool. Has it ever occurred to you that it may be the case that the only thing that fundamentally exists, metaphysically, is information, and that things like matter, energy, and force are just taxonomical categorizations that we apply to manifestations of certain classes of metaphysical information, in order that we may use them as epistemological tools? It may be all well and good that a planet has to orbit a star according to Kepler’s laws, but how does that planet know that star is there? The answer, of course, may be that gravity is nothing more than a kind of information.

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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 famous story of Lake Peigneur (9:53): a good reminder to everyone to always be careful where you dig, obviously in the concrete, but also, I would postulate, in the abstract.

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Good evening, welcome to the Wednesday night edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight we sail east through the Strait of Gibraltar, almost run aground on Tunis — apparently the captain values retsina more than the lives of his passengers — and land on the Greek island of Kalymnos, where we look back to Florida to pay tribute to the tsabouna, a shepherd’s instrument that has been played on the Greek Islands for over 2,000 years.
To play the tsabouna one must blow hard into a carefully selected part of a dead goat until the entire goat is inflated, squeeze with all your might until the goat begins to sing, and then use your fingers to serially choose, in rapid succession, from the six available note-holes drilled conveniently in one of it’s hooves.
Difficult to play but easy to listen to, the sound of a well-played tsabouna is irresistible, as you’ll see around the 1 minute 30 second mark of the video. So here then, without further ado, Nikitas Tsimouris plays the old chestnut the tsabouna.
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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 the great Welsh basso-cantante, Bryn Terfel, performing Some Enchanted Evening, from Rodgers and Hammerstein‘s famous South Pacific musical, on the Deutsche Grammophon label, in 1996 (3:37).

I’m going to ask you to just trust me, folks, on this one, for there are bonus points in this video, but if I explain them here, then that will spoil the fun of the surprise. I do wonder though whether or not Bryn has a lump of Caerphilly, which as you will recall was developed to provide the coal miners of the area with a convenient way of replenishing the salt lost through hard work over ten hour shifts underground, in his pocket 😉

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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 Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson, Gene Krupa, and George Duvivier performing Moonglow (6:19). This performance is undated, but Mr. Krupa passed away in ’73, so I figure this must be one of the last cases where the original members of the Benny Goodman Quartet performed together.

Mr. Goodman’s quartet was originally formed in ’36, when it was one of the first racially integrated jazz groups to record and play before wide audiences. Goodman’s popularity was such that he could remain financially viable without touring the South, where he would have been subject to arrest for violating Jim Crow laws. According to “Jazz”, by Ken Burns, when someone asked Benny why he “played with that nigger” (referring to Teddy Wilson), Goodman replied, “I’ll knock you out if you use that word around me again”.

That, and plus, of course, I love Mr. Hampton’s work.

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Update: Thanks to E. J. Hill, in the comments, we now know that tonight’s show was from The All Star Swing Festival, videotaped at Lincoln Center in the fall of 1972, and sponsored by Timex for broadcast on NBC (and later aired by public television). Hill suggests that a DVD version is available, but I can’t find one; please let me know if you do (as I would like to purchase a copy thereof).

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 Overture from Johann Baptist Strauss‘s operetta Die Fledermaus, with one of our favourites here in the studio: Herbert Von Karajan conducting (1987, 8:57).

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