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 Mr. Nat King Cole and associates performing Route 66 (3:06).

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 are Arthur Rubinstein and some symphony orchestra performing Ludwig van Beethoven‘s Piano Concerto #4 (1967, 19:13).

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 Saturday night contemporary music show, here are Imagination performing Just an Illusion (1982, 6:26).

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Update: Prompted by a comment from Exetaz, hereunder, and in light of what SDA LNR has become, here for your delectation is our new official: SDA Late Nite Radio Theme Song 😉

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 Ellery Queen in The Message In Red episode of the Adventures Of Ellery Queen (1945, 29:26), brought to you by Anacin.

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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 from the musical Fiddler on the Roof is Lechaim, which means To Life (5:41).

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Wednesday night comedy show, here is Yakov Naumovich Pokhis, better known as Yakov Smirnoff, performing his Stand Up Comedy routine on the 9th Annual Young Comedians Special in 1984, hosted by Rodney Dangerfield (6:31).

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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 Charlie Skeete & his Orchestra, including Clifford Glover, Gene Johnson, Bill Brown, Joe Jones, Tommy Benford, Jimmy Harrison, and Leonard Davis, performing Tampekoe (1926, 4:17).

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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 listener Porter are The Clifford Brown Ensemble, featuring Clifford Brown, Stu Williamson, Zoot Sims, Bob Gordon, Russ Freeman, Joe Mondragon, and Shelly Manne peforming Dahoud, and Joy Spring from the album Ensemble featuring Zoot Sims (1954, 7:35).

Update: Here’s a special bonus feature for tonight’s show, in honour of the anticipated launch, later today, of the 10,000,000th visit to Small Dead Animals.

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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 Il Duca di Mantova‘s (the cynical Duke of Mantua’s) canzone, La Donna È Mobile (the Woman is Fickle), in the 1983 movie version of Giuseppe Verdi‘s 1851 opera Rigoletto (2:50).

Today’s ΔVe: Decima 9.15 » 9.92, Nanos 6.03 » 3.35.

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, pursuant to our Saturday night contemporary music show, we have been fortunate enough to find in the interwebothique archives a live performance of a great contemporary piece, so we don’t have to put up with one of those idiotic “music videos” that deface so much contemporary music.

Here then, for your delectation and without further ado, are Talking Heads performing Once in a Lifetime, from their concert movie Stop Making Sense, which was shot over three nights in December 1983, as the group was touring to promote their new album Speaking in Tongues; although Once in a Lifetime was originally recorded on their Remain in Light album (5:25).

Your Reader Tips are, same as it ever was, welcome in the comments.

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 Dana Andrews starring as Matt Sevetik in the American Kremlin episode of I Was A Communist For The FBI (1952, 26:25).

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 Thursday night wild-card show, here is Mr. Jimmie Rogers (1897-1933), often known as “the Father of Country Music”, performing his famous Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas) (1927, 2:57), which sold a half-million copies by 1929.

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Wednesday night comedy show, here are Monty Python performing their classic Cheese Shop sketch (5:29). The SDA LNR Cheese Plate archives are, of course, available here.

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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 Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra performing Marie (the Dawn is Breaking) (1947, 3:12).

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 Monday night jazz show, here are Lionel Hampton, Benny Goodman, et al performing the Stealin Apples scene from the 1948 musical A Song is Born (3:43).

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. I attended a symposium a couple of weeks ago and someone there suggested that it would be neat if SDA LNR could find some classical music where the video showed, scrolling by (for some value of “scrolling”), the actual score being played. And we all agreed that would be cool.

So tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, here is Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter performing Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff‘s Prelude, Op. 23 No. 5 (1971, 3:48), accompanied by such video.

I only got to trying for grade one in the Royal Conservatory piano shtick (it’s not my gig, for as you can see to this day I play the DJ instrument, albeit with a little percussion on the side). Still, I did learn to read music (for some value of “read”), and much to my delight I found that I could (though just barely) keep up with the score in that video (in the sense that at least four times out of five the page changed when I expected it to). Heh, that’s fun; I think we’ll do it again some day.

One of our favourite (here in the SDA LNR studios) Rachmaninoff quotes is: “The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt ~ they meditate, protest, analyze, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt.” And here’s one of our favourite Richter quotes: “Put a small piano in a truck and drive out on country roads; take time to discover new scenery; stop in a pretty place where there is a good church; upload the piano and tell the residents; give a concert; offer flowers to the people who have been so kind as to attend; leave again.”

Some Flowers For You

 
That’s notable, I think, considering that Artur Rubinstein described his first exposure to Sviatoslav Richter as follows; “It really wasn’t anything out of the ordinary. Then at some point I noticed my eyes growing moist: tears began rolling down my cheeks.”

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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 are Blood, Sweat & Tears performing the original album version of their Spinning Wheel (1969, 4:07).

David Clayton-Thomas was quoted as describing Spinning Wheel as being “written in an age when psychedelic imagery was all over lyrics [… it] was my way of saying, ‘Don’t get too caught up, because everything comes full circle'”.

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I’ve been following the more technical blogs on Hurricane Ike for the last few days. While Ike is only a category 2, maybe low 3, in wind strength, its huge diameter and slow progress through the gulf gives it a higher total Integrated Kinetic Energy (last reported to be over 120 terajoules) than Katrina. The storm surge in the north-east (most dangerous) quadrant is predicted, worst case, to be over 30 feet, also in part because Ike is arriving on a rising tide, and it’s a full-moon tide too.

It is my understanding, at the time I write this, that Galveston island is under water. Worst case, it may be stripped bare. Unfortunately, it appears that tens of thousands of people did not evacuate. There may be thousands dead. Houston is starting to be inundated, parts of the Louisiana coastal areas are already inundated, and it will get worse over the next few hours.

The maximum storm surge is plowing smack into the highest density petrochemical refinery area in North America, from the central Texas coast to the central Louisiana coast. Texas City and Port Arthur will likely be severely inundated. The refineries are all shut down, at best they will take a week to restart. Prices will rise across North America.

Needless to say, the idiots in the main-stream media were standing out in the approaching storm, in Houston, late Friday, pontificating on the low winds, completely oblivious to proper reporting on the scientifically incontrovertible evidence about the storm surge. They should be charged with criminal negligence, possibly fraud.

Anyway, as much as I eschew predictions, that’s how I see at this point, roughly 02:30 Central Time. The worst will be happening over the next six hours. I sincerely hope I’m wrong about this, yet I suspect you will find this thread to be a useful place for discussion of this probably major natural disaster later today.

To my many colleagues and customers in Ike’s path: my sincere best wishes to you for your safety. For SDA’s further reading, my best recommendation for a starting point for status reports, logical (not main-stream media) information, and numerous important links to other sites on this matter is Brendan Loy.

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 Steve Mitchell in The Lost City episode of Dangerous Assignment (1950, 29:09).

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 Thursday night wild-card show, here is Max Zbiral-Teller, 2005 Hammered Dulcimer champion, performing his original composition Apple Juice (4:25).

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