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...
Here's a brief funny #StupidAccordionTrick for my April of Foolishness - from 1962, #BernardCribbins' #TheHoleInTheGround, championing class war. Why not?
youtu.be/q8h8ZfQfHF0
I keep trying to ride IWD all through March, so my latest #StupidAccordionTrick is, from 1999, #GoodbyeEarl as made famous by the #DixieChicks.
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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
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...
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...
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...
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.
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RIP #MarkVolman! I never had much occasion to tap this classic tune prior, but now for this week my #StupidAccordionTrick will be sending him off with #TheTurtles' 1967 #HappyTogether
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iEd...
This week's #StupidAccordionTrick was one of my wife's favourite #TomTHall songs, #ILove, covered on the occasion of her birthday!
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We do #Pride in August here in Vancouver, so for this week's #StupidAccordionTrick I've gone back to 1984 to accordionise #BronskiBeat's anthem of queer youth alienation, #SmalltownBoy. Recorded well after midnight, the entire performance is a kind of fugue state.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TBg...
Happy #CanadaDay! In honour of the occasion, today's #StupidAccordionTrick is one of the most Canadian songs ever, #AnneMurray's 1968 #Snowbird! youtu.be/F8-qbMLF_0o
Today's #StupidAccordionTrick is a tune I'd only heard before as a schoolyard rhyme when I was ten, assuming it was a gag from a TV show. No: it was written by #BennyBell in 1946 and my ten-year-old just brought it to my attention! Are you ready for #ShavingCream?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr8b...
Here's a #StupidAccordionTrick I had in the can for a rainy day, a comedic musical retelling of the story of #KingMidas and his Golden Touch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2D4...
Circling back around to pop music for this week's #StupidAccordionTrick, here's the Korean drinking game #BrunoMars turned into a pop banger with Rosé, #APT, in Tom Waits reggae style.
youtu.be/uVS3kStmW1M
Wrapping foolish April with my most foolish #stupidaccordiontrick of the month - possibly of the entire year! - from 1966, here's #FrankZappa's #CallAnyVegetable!
youtu.be/2m50JGKzDjM
Here we are, we saved the biggest April Fool's #StupidAccordionTrick for the end of the month. I know, you're thinking "What's so funny about Cyndi Lauper?" but you'd be surprised.
youtu.be/7tJpgMG-wso
Happy #Easter! For today's #StupidAccordionTrick, here's the wacky and sacreligious 1957 tune #PlasticJesus.
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For this week's #StupidAccordionTrick in my April of foolishly humorous songs I have visited #BrookeAbbey 's disaster dirge #TheWreckOfTheCrashOfTheEasthillMineDisaster, an incredible song that took the filk world by storm around twenty years ago.
youtu.be/N7SzbUGap8Y
No, I haven't had a stroke. Today's #StupidAccordionTrick for #AprilFools is my take on #PhilosophyOfTheWorld by inadvertent outsider art legends #TheShaggs. Stay tuned for further stupidity in April, where I aim to be foolish all month long!
youtu.be/3a87bZE6abA
This week's #StupidAccordionTrick is a solid tune from an album that earned its place living in our car's CD player for three years without ever getting removed, #TimesATicker from #AmeliaCurran's 2008 #WarBrides.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbv9...
Rest in Power #RobertaFlack! In homage, I submit this week's #StupidAccordionTrick -- her biggest hit of 1973, #KillingMeSoftlyWithHisSong
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RoX...
Now on the dark side of the Valentine's wavelength, here's my improbable #StupidAccordionTrick of #ShawnHook's #RemindingMe.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=svmf...
#HappyValentinesDay! Today's #StupidAccordionTrick is just sweet and sentimental - from the #MagneticFields' #69LoveSongs, it's #theBookOfLove.
youtu.be/5P1t3PEG-Pk
Valentine's Day is coming up while the world burns down, so unfortunately here's a #StupidAccordionTrick for the Stupidest Timeline: #BruceCockburn's 1984 #LoversInADangerousTime.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tyxy...
This song was written by Shel Silverstein & first recorded in '74 with Dr. Hook, but never found its stride until #MarianneFaithfull covered it in her '79 album #BrokenEnglish... so in her memory, here's #theBalladOfLucyJordan for this week's #StupidAccordionTrick.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5goj...
We missed Xmas, but recorded (if not shared) in time for New Year, here's the Lipkovits Family Band covering the #PlasticOnoBand's #HappyXmas #WarIsOver for my holiday #StupidAccordionTrick. I don't really like most Christmas music, but I like war even less!
youtu.be/XNO_IUZx724
For something wintry, by which I mean bleak & despairing, for this week's #StupidAccordionTrick I returned to one of my earliest covers, of #CarterBurwell's memorable theme to 96's #Fargo -- itself an arrangement of a traditional Norwegian fiddle tune, The Lost Lamb.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gVp...
It's tough for me to choose Xmas repertoire... My standard objections are that the songs are either too religious or too secular, which is a net that nothing escapes from. Well, here's this week's #StupidAccordionTrick, #JacksonBrowne's #RebelJesus, which might just have found a way to be both.
... but the popular imagination on both sides of the political spectrum was set alight, yielding at least two viral spontaneous folk songs, by Joe Devito and Mipso, chronicling the tale of this unexpected folk hero for our times. I have medleyed them together for this week's #StupidAccordionTrick.
