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?)

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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Other than playing #StupidAccordionTricks in my basement I'm practically retired as a musician. But: I have a gig coming up to tell you about, a benefit for @accordionnoir.bsky.social 's parent radio station #CFRO taking place the night of Wed Nov 19 at the WISE Lounge, beneath the WISE Hall.

Part scary, part silly, all #StupidAccordionTricks: here's my take on the ghostly 1934 music-hall standard #WithHerHeadTuckedUnderneathHerArm

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I got a bigger response from my latest shrewd #StupidAccordionTricks selection than I expected & was a bit nervous about failing to read the historical moment & following it up with a dud. Sadly, this one is proving evergreen: the Italian partisan ballad #BellaCiao.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glm1...

For no particular reason, here's my #StupidAccordionTricks cover of #Chumbawamba's 1994 antifa anthem #TheDayTheNaziDied

youtu.be/s21IF7OWo8E

Late in the night, I finally had a chance to record an #OzzyOsbourne memorial #StupidAccordionTricks tribute -- you know, as quietly as possible so as not to awaken my family. As one does! Last stop, everyone off the #CrazyTrain!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBcS...

Usually if you said I was playing #AllNightLong, it would just be a metaphor for how interminable this #StupidAccordionTricks set was, feeling like you'd never see the blessed end of it. But in this case you'd just be accurately naming #LionelRichie's 1983 song.

youtu.be/zeq1DtqwTUA

We reached the summer solstice somehow, so here's a deep cut for my weekly #StupidAccordionTricks series, the shortest video I've ever recorded and also the oldest song, nearly 800 years of age! Stand back, #SumerIsIcumenIn

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw5W...

Some celebrity deaths call for emergency expedited #StupidAccordionTricks, and #BrianWilson's definitely qualified. Rest in peace, king! Here's his sublime #GodOnlyKnows, compromised only with the drag factor of my squeezebox and singing.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2xv...

I've fallen behind with my #StupidAccordionTricks schedule this month, but here's a classic tune I had installed in an "In Case Of Emergency, Break Glass" box. It's #GeoffBerner's exhaustingly evergreen #MaginotLine.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwIM...

#KatieLee sang this lolsob song, #theWillToFail, in 1957's psychoanalysis-themed "Songs of Couch and Consultation", so I'm keeping the silly songs rolling for April's #StupidAccordionTricks

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To finish off my #StupidAccordionTricks month of songs by kick-ass women songwriters, I climbed into the ring with #Heart's #Barracuda and wound up flat on my back, figuratively speaking. But I had to take a crack at it!

youtu.be/T7-_atItZN8

For IWD March I try to dedicate my weekly #StupidAccordionTricks selections to songs by kick-ass women songwriters. #LesleyGore's iconic feminist anthem #YouDontOwnMe technically doesn't qualify, but here it seems I have recorded it regardless.

youtu.be/3Q9WA797PI0

It's my annual #StupidAccordionTricks conflict of wanting to observe St. Patrick's day with some Irish music but not having any interest in Celtic music (DESPITE playing an instrument that fits with it... the pitfalls of the contrarian.)

In March I try to surf #IWD all month long and focus my #StupidAccordionTricks on kick-ass women songwriters, so here's #MalvinaReynolds' 1964 protest song #ItIsntNice, a tune whose time has come again.

youtu.be/iYtVNFBnOUc

My final love song for February's #StupidAccordionTricks, here's #DanBern's unrecorded (and very silly) #CashAndNin, an NSFW exploration into two tastes that just might go great together.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv6m...

I regretted not making more #ChappellRoan covers in 2024 for my #StupidAccordionTricks series, but that's easy to fix. In tribute to the indomitable spirit of LA and resilient queer communities everywhere, I have covered #PinkPonyClub on my stupid squeezebox.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFTE...

What happened? I'm still reeling a bit from the US Election, but I rather get the feeling that the explanation may be sitting out in plain sight in this 1966 #PhilOchs song, #LoveMeImALiberal, this week's #StupidAccordionTricks selection.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw8U...

Running out of time for more spooky #StupidAccordionTricks to inflict on the world, I looked way back to the @creakingplanks' ZombieWalk afterparty set to share with you our very improbable condensed arrangement of #FelaKuti's 1977 anti-military anthem #Zombie.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=q17I...

Kicking off this October's program of spooky #StupidAccordionTricks, here's a sales pitch for a deal with the Devil, in #ElvisCostello's #ThisOfferIsUnrepeatable.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJT2...

RIP #KrisKristofferson, I came by a decade too late to witness his big pop culture splash but for my entire life he milled around in the background just being a stand up dude. Here's his #SundayMorningComingDown for an impromptu #StupidAccordionTricks memorial tribute
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhXS...

Demi Adejuyigbe has thrown in the towel, leaving the field for others to celebrate the 21st of September according to their fashion. Here on #StupidAccordionTricks, I think you know what that means, so enjoy my squeezy rendition of #September by #EarthWindAndFire!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKzG...

This time on #StupidAccordionTricks: Last weekend my family held an "ancient Greek" dinner, which churned this silly song about the Apple of Discord from a children's album (JJ's Tunes and Tales, 2012) back into my memory.

youtu.be/QHNTEreX8Q4

For sure I thought that Thrift Shop would wind up being the first #Macklemore song I drew into my #StupidAccordionTricks sphere, but in the interest of timeliness #HindsHall skipped the queue.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERXd...