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 Dick Powell performing The Missing Negative episode of Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1950, 29:25).
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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 hurdy gurdy virtuoso Mr. Nigel Eaton performing an excellent solo work of unknown provenance (4:15) during a live performance with Jimmy Page and Robert Plant in California in the mid-90s.
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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 the Monty Python troupe performing their classic Mrs. Premise & Mrs. Conclusion sketch (8:39), which we will admit is one of our favourites here in the studios.
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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 & his Commanders performing Outside, with vocals by Phil Saxe and chorus (1929, 3:23). If you’re interested, pick Continue Reading for more information on Irving Aaronson.
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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 Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong performing Summertime (4:59).
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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 John Scott Whiteley performing Johann Sebastian Bach‘s Prelude & ‘Wedge’ Fugue in E minor, BWV 548 (7:08), on the Zacharias Hildebrandt organ in the Wenzelskirche in Naumburg, Germany (which Bach played and probably helped design). The Wenzelskirche organ was Hildebrandt’s largest, featuring three manuals and pedal, fifty-three stops, and a thirty-two foot Posaunenbass pipe with a principal harmonic frequency of sixteen hertz. It was built in 1746 and restored from 1993 to 2000.
How much would you pay for that? But wait, there’s more! As a special bonus for the engineers, mechanics, and metallurgists in the audience, this video includes lots of footage from many cameras installed inside the organ. It’s very rare that one gets to see in action some of the many tens of thousands of linkages in a baroque pipe organ, including some of the cross-rank coupler stops. Also all too rare to see, this video has some great footage of some of the many thousands of pipes (behind the façade) inside such an organ, especially from 5:20 to 5:40 in the video. I strongly recommend full-screen viewing for this one, if your terminal supports it without flickering.
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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 The Guess Who performing These Eyes from their Running Back Thru Canada live album (2000, 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 Friday night old-time radio crime-detective show, here is the Blond Lipstick episode of Casey, Crime Photographer (1947, 28:17), brought to you by the Anchor Hocking Glass Company.
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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 (in our opinion in the studios) the best performance of Tuvan Throat Singing (a kind of overtone singing) currently available in the Interwebothèque (1:19).
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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 Mr. Jimmy Carr performing part of his 2002 stand-up comedy routine (5:45).
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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 Luis Russell & his Orchestra, featuring Louis Armstrong, performing Song of the Islands (1930, 3:31).
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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 is Mr. B. B. King performing the Blues Boys Tune (3:13).
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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, we have the pleasure of guest DJ Shaken spinning Evgeny Kissin performing Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin‘s Patetico Etude in D# minor, op. 8 no. 12 (2:30).
Shaken writes: “An incredible piece of music. Those who know the [piano] love this for its funky G# minor tones, low B, low D#, sweet F# and A# intervals. Scriabin had this very unorthodox idea about colors and sounds. This piece does indeed expose something of that notion. The young fellow [Evgeny Kissin] playing this is, in my opinion, possibly the best living pianist today. Together, it is one breathtaking performance of an intense, dramatic, hideously difficult piece of music.”
I’d have to agree with Shaken there. But wait, there’s more. Here, ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in the history of man, SDA Late Nite Radio studios brings together for you, at this single venue, performances of Scriabin’s Patetico Etude not only by Evgeny Kissin as recommended by Shaken, but also by Alexander Scriabin himself (the original), by Vladimir Horowitz ¶ (always a favourite of ours here in the studio), by Sergei Rachmaninoff ¶, and by Alfred Cortot ¶. You must admit, studying Scriabin’s Patetico Etude this way would be much more difficult without this technology 😉
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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 Dieter Meier and Boris Blank as Yello, featuring Dame Shirley Bassey, performing The Rhythm Divine (1987, 3:31), a contemporary version of her 1964 James Bond Goldfinger classic. Dame Shirley is the only singer to have performed more than one, and indeed three, Bond themes.
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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 Jack Webb (before his Dragnet years) as Jeff Regan, performing The Lawyer and the Lady episode of International Detective Bureau Investigator (1948, 29:26, streaming MP3).
It is interesting, perhaps, to compare Mr. Webb’s performance in that early work to, say, this 1950 Big Girl episode of Dragnet we previously featured on SDA LNR (29:10, streaming MP3), and then later to, say, this 1954 television version of The Big Pair, part 2, part 3 (26:55), and then to Jack’s performance in this 1968 Carson’s Clanging Copper Clappers Caper Comedy (2:49).
One thing you can for sure say about Jack, he
nailed that Sergeant Joe Friday shtick, already.
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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, we are featuring the song Malagueña. Actually, there are four songs commonly known by that name.
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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 the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band performing The Intro and the Outro (1967, 3:20).
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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 Billy Cotton and his band performing Two Hearts on a Tree (1934, 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 are Woody Herman and his big band performing Four Brothers (1963, 3:19).
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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 Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic performing Ludwig van Beethoven‘s Symphony No. 7 in A Major, op. 92 (33:31).
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