Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Tuesday night vintage music show, here are Ben Pollack and his Californians performing Waitin’ For Katie (1927, 3:00).
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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 courtesy of mail from listener Exetaz is Mr. Frank Sinatra performing Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim‘s Wave (4:26).
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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 courtesy of mail from listener David are Pinchas Zukerman (currently of Ottawa) and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra performing Max Christian Friedrich Bruch‘s Violin Concerto #1 in G Minor, Op. 26 (8:18), Part 2 (9:15), and Part 3 (7:49), in Tel Aviv in 2007.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to the last chance we’ll have here in the SDA LNR studios to post a two-hour video under the guise of the free time some of us have been fortunate enough to enjoy during this holiday season, here is geneticist and anthropologist Spencer Wells presenting his Journey of Man documentary (1:53:21).
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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 show, here is Mr. Benny Goodman with his Instrumental Trio & Guests hosting the Camel Caravan Swing School (1937, 5.6 MB, MP3, 24:30), including one of the earliest available complete recordings of Mr. Goodman’s Sing, Sing, Sing, with Mr. Gene Krupa on drums (starting at 18:30).
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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 Peruvian soprano Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chavarri del Castillo, better known as Yma Sumac, performing Tumpa (Earthquake), from her Voice of the Xtaby album (1955, 3:16). Why yes, we do have an original copy of this album here in the SDA LNR studios; why do you ask? Oh yeah? Well I’d like to see you sing five octaves !-)
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our 2009 New Year Show, here are Andre Rieu, The Johann Strauss Orchestra, and The European Pipe Band performing Auld Lang Syne (3:40).
And here are the SDA Commenter Statistics for 2008.
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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 vintage music show, here are Irving Aaronson and his Commanders, featuring Irene Bordoni, performing Cole Porter‘s Let’s Misbehave (1928, 2:46), which contains the famous line: I always squeeze my Pekingese when he’s good.
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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 the John Pizzarelli Trio performing After You’ve Gone (4:26). That tune reminds me of Samuel (Doc) Johnson’s admonition to the effect that we must always strive to keep our friendships in good repair.
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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 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, in their 2007 Silvesterkonzert (New Year’s Eve concert), performing Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky‘s Pictures at an Exhibition (26:33) and Part 2 (12:30), Sir Simon Rattle conducting.
It is interesting, perhaps, to compare Part 2 of this production to the Baba Yaga’s Hut and The Great Gate of Kiev pieces by the University of Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and the Gdansk Music Academy Strings, which we previously featured here at SDA LNR.
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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 contemporary music show, here is Eartha Kitt (who passed away nudius quartus) performing C’est Si Bon in 1962 (3:03).
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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 Miss Candy Matson performing the San Juan Batista episode of her YUkon 2-8209 show (1950, 30:26).
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our final Twelve Days of Christmas show for 2008 (our Boxing Day 2008 show), here is the St. Paul’s Cathedral choir performing Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (3:32). And for tonight’s flip-side, here is Mr. Mario Lanza performing We Three Kings of Orient Are (1951, 3:05).
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Twelve Days of Christmas shows and our Christmas Day 2008 show, here is our number one Interwebothique Christmas Carol selection for 2008: the King’s College, Cambridge Chapel Choir performing God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (1998, 3:35).
| God rest ye merry, gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay. Remember Christ our saviour Was born on Christmas Day To save us all from satan’s power when we have gone astray. Oh good tidings of comfort and joy, Comfort and joy. Oh good tidings of comfort and joy. |
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And for tonight’s flip-side, here is The News Magazine of the Screen‘s
1950 version of Peace on Earth ~ Good Will Toward Men (5:17).
While we’re here, a quick reminder that a set of Christmas Carol Song Sheets, including both the sacred and the secular, and formatted for printing, is available (should you find it useful) at The Sagacious Iconoclast.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Twelve Days of Christmas shows and our Christmas Eve 2008 show, here are the Vienna Boys Choir performing Silent Night (1998, 3:14). For tonight’s flip side, here is Linus explaining The Meaning of Christmas to Charlie Brown (1:18).
And for tonight’s Reading the Classics tip, here is Mr. Benjamin Franklin‘s Autobiography (1771, 1784–5, & 1788), which is I find a much easier read than wading through Descartes was.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Twelve Days of Christmas shows, here are the York Minster choir performing Good King Wenceslas (1995, 2:51). And for tonight’s flip-side, here is Ella Fitzgerald performing It Came Upon A Midnight Clear (3:14).
Also, for those of you interested in reading classic works on the Interwebothique, I can report that I have finished reading Ulysses S. Grant‘s Personal Memoirs (1885), and I am now half-way through reading an English translation of René Descartes‘ Discours de la Méthode Pour Bien Conduire sa Raison, et Chercher la Verité Dans les Sciences, commonly known in English as Discourse on the Method (1637). I can say with some confidence that I find both those works to be excellent reading.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Twelve Days of Christmas shows, here is John Eliot Gardiner leading the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists in the opening chorus of the first cantata in Johann Sebastian Bach‘s Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 (7:39). And for tonight’s flip-side, here are Musica Amphion performing the sixth and seventh movements of Arcangelo Corelli‘s Christmas Concerto in G Minor, Op. 6, No. 8 (5:56).
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, pursuant to our Twelve Days of Christmas shows, and pursuant to one of our original design goals for this year’s extravaganza ~ that of starting off on the secular foot and ending up on the sacred foot ~ we now change feet. Here for your delectation are two of The Three Tenors (Luciano Pavarotti and José Carreras; Plácido Domingo is on a break) performing Adeste Fideles (“Oh Come, All Ye Faithful”, 3:02). And for tonight’s flip-side, here are a collection of popular Ukrainian artists performing the Christmas classic Dobry Vechir Tobi (Добрий вечір тобі ~ “Good Evening to You”, 5:03).
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Twelve Days of Christmas shows and our regular Friday night old-time radio show, here are Mr. Bob Hope et al perforing his Christmas 1948 Bob Hope Show from Berlin, Germany, during the Air Lift (26:41). And for tonight’s flip-side, here are Mr. Milton Berle et al performing the Christmas 1947 Milton Berle Show (27:16).
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Twelve Days of Christmas shows, here are the Bill Susman Trio performing Oh Christmas Tree (2005, 3:35). And for tonight’s flip-side, here is Mr. Mel Tormé performing Christmas Time is Here (3:49).
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