Keeping April's foolishness going for my #StupidAccordionTricks this month, here's my take on #JimStafford's thirsty 1974 country tune #SpidersAndSnakes: youtu.be/GdC0d2-F4CU
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(Speaking of which, I should be playing Jun 28 at a Leonard Cohen tribute night at the Heatley in Strathcona!)
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I'm just trying to keep learning (and, uh, "rapid prototyping") a new song every week to keep from getting too rusty and keep me exploring the world of music in search of great songs that I missed from the past, present and future. Recordings are nice but live performances are where it's at!
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For this week's #StupidAccordionTrick, I persist in my April folly of covering humorous songs by going all the way back to 1939 to this number #GrouchoMarx sang in #AtTheCircus: #LydiaTheTattooedLady.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Yv...
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I was taking it for granted that I could play silly songs for April but an emergency recording session was convened after some big vibe killer threatened to immolate an ancient civilization. At a loss, here's #FlandersAndSwann's 1964 anti-nuclear-arms #20TonsOfTNT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5dJ...
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The Delphic Oracle told King Croesus of Lydia that if he attacked Persia "a great empire will fall."
He saw this as a prediction of victory and attacked.
It was his own great empire that fell.
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There should be funny new songs for me to tap for this series also, but my historical research has privileged the old. I'll have to try to keep that in mind.
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Of course I do what I like, but I at least like to pretend there is a method to my madness.
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Here's a brief funny #StupidAccordionTrick for my April of Foolishness - from 1962, #BernardCribbins' #TheHoleInTheGround, championing class war. Why not?
youtu.be/q8h8ZfQfHF0
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(No animals were harmed in the making of this video.)
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I've done a deep dive into the history of musical comedy and the novelty single, and begin the program this month with this crown jewel from the genre's late grand master, #TomLehrer's 1959 #PoisoningPigeonsInThePark.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QJI...
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Ok, the first day of April is here, meaning I get to turn over a new leaf and be explicitly silly in my #StupidAccordionTricks selections all month long in honor of #AprilFools. (I know, you're wondering... What were his excuses for doing it all the other months before?)
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My #StupidAccordionTricks spree of iconic songs by women winds up with my running #TammyWynette's 1968 #StandByYourMan through the squeezebox:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=taki...
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My #StupidAccordionTricks quest to celebrate IWD all month long has led me to some strange places, perhaps none odder than here: #ShaniaTwain's 1997 anthem #ManIFeelLikeAWoman:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-tT...
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I keep trying to ride IWD all through March, so my latest #StupidAccordionTrick is, from 1999, #GoodbyeEarl as made famous by the #DixieChicks.
youtu.be/hgMqnly49FQ
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A bolder foray into my #StupidAccordionTricks campaign of songs by kick-ass women for IWD all month long, here's last year's #Manchild by #SabrinaCarpenter:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aavD...
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As the start of my spree of IWD-inspired #StupidAccordionTricks cover songs this month, I kick it off with #Jax's #VictoriasSecret song. (Why? Epstein, sadly.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQG1...
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For this week's #StupidAccordionTrick, here's something a little more romantic than the song I shared for Valentine's day earlier this month - #BrandiCarlile's #TheStory. (sorry about the clams in the solo!)
youtu.be/01kaPmmj8kI
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Valentine's Day kind of snuck up on me, but I should be sharing more #StupidAccordionTricks love songs in February, and they start with this improbable 2003 #Goldfrapp banger, #StrictMachine: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZLc...
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I couldn't do Superbowl headliner Bad Bunny justice with my Duolingo Spanish, so today's #StupidAccordionTrick celebrates the openers #GreenDay with 2004's #AmericanIdiot: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUkn...
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For this week's #StupidAccordionTrick -- RIP to Catherine O'Hara, who famously lip-synched to this calypso standard while possessed in a kitchy retro moment of indulgence in Beetlejuice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG4y...
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Either #JesseWelles is really going against the stream with his recent composition #JoinICE or possibly it is not intended in complete sincerity.
youtu.be/DxcwDDPph0c
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When things started spiraling the drain I queued up this song in my to-cover list and hoped I wouldn't have cause to record it, but here we are today with #NeilYoung's 1970 Kent State shooting protest song #Ohio.
youtu.be/zCrkyAoKlYI
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And one final #StupidAccordionTrick for 2025, to ring out the stupid old year and ring in the stupid new year, here's my very unlikely squeezy take on #KoolAndTheGang's 1980 occasion-agnostic groove #Celebration. Come on!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4IB...
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The last Dionne sister died on Christmas Eve, so I pay tribute to those five Canadian heroes by recording this song from 90 years ago in which they are name-checked, #ILikeBananas (Because They Have No Bones).
youtu.be/l3ui_BrGPOs
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And in case you find you somehow can't get enough of this stuff, I have a playlist of all the wintery songs I've made videos of over the years over at www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOyD...
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With 13 hours left on the clock before the winter solstice, I finally record a winter song for 2025 with The #LegendaryPinkDots' bizarre and sarcastic 1984 #GovernmentHealthWarning at www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvRV...
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It's been maybe a month since I got any new #StupidAccordionTricks recordings together -- but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to celebrate #DickVanDyke's 100th birthday with #FidelityFiduciaryBank from 1964's #MaryPoppins: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsgh...
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On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, I didn't cover Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck", but Bobby Sands' song "Back Home In Derry" which shares its melody:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wlI...
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As part of my #RemembranceDay duties, I have diligently recorded an antiwar song for last week's #StupidAccordionTrick: #ElvisCostello's 1984 #Shipbuilding, a look at the Falklands War.
youtu.be/ZWxtEPTYPNs
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