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Ron Evans 🇨🇦 🆚
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Emotional Support Canadian🇨🇦. My Radio Show 25 O’Clock airs Saturdays @ 11 pm EST & repeats Mondays also @ 11 pm on canoefm.com. Second show Zero To Fifty - a celebration of music from 1900-1950 - airs every 1st, 3rd & 5th Saturday of each month @ 7 am EST!
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Thelma Todd and Buster Keaton in Speak Easily (1932).
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November Edition
Song #7
Trijntjte Oosterhuis
God Give Me Strength
Written by Burt Bacharach & Elvis Costello
Produced by Patrick Williams
2007 Blue Note (Netherlands)
The first of three songs featured co-written by Elvis Costello.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLXCWbkaDkQ
God Give Me Strength
YouTube video by Trijntje Oosterhuis - Topic
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November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
#20SongsByYear
#MusicChallenge
1928 - Day 11

With a super fun track perfect for a rattle ‘round the Palais parquet with yer hipsway sweetie, here’s the Melody Kings - Dancing Tambourine (10” 78 rpm shellac).

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The Melody Kings (Sam Lanin) - Dancing Tambourine (1928)
YouTube video by tmmvds
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November 11, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Just a killer track! ☠️☠️

Pretenders - Tattooed Love Boys (Pretenders, 1980). Farndon had the best Rock & Roll hair!

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Pretenders - Tattooed Love Boys (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Pretenders
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November 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
#B-SidesandBonusTracks
#MusicChallenge
Day 11

The European B-Side to their 1988 single Only A Memory, here’s The Smithereens - Lust For Life. Well, that's like hypnotising chickens!

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Lust For Life - The Smithereens
YouTube video by audiovidya
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November 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
A Very Canadian 🇨🇦 Moment Today: While on my mail route this afternoon, I had to stop for a couple of minutes and wait while a beaver dragged two saplings across the road to its dam. 🦫
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Morning Song.

Hopped up on beech nuts and Dick Clark’s Brylcreem fumes, here’s The Everly Brothers - When Will I Be Loved.

Fab vintage video: youtu.be/rI0ll5SexV0?...
Everly Brothers "When Will I Be Loved"
YouTube video by NRRArchives
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November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Random 45s In My Record Collection.

A lovely little pop number by a guy with a really great voice, here’s Ike Clanton - Sugar Plum (7” 45 rpm, 1962). Shoulda been a hit!

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November 10, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Evening Song.

With a fine slab o’ early R&B, here’s Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson and His Orchestra - Those Lonely, Lonely Nights (10” 78 rpm, 1955). 😢

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JOHNNY 'GUITAR' WATSON Those Lonely, Lonely Nights 1955
YouTube video by Steve
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November 10, 2025 at 5:23 AM
#B-SidesandBonusTracks
#MusicChallenge
Day 10

The B-Side to their 1961 debut single Surfin’, here’s The Beach Boys - Luau. Two minutes’ worth of clues as to where their sound might soon go.

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The Beach Boys - Luau
YouTube video by Robert Howlett
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November 10, 2025 at 3:46 AM
#20SongsByYear
#MusicChallenge
1928 - Day 10

With just a swell little number perfect for a jaunty jalopy putter with yer Someday Gal, here’s Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra - Got Everything But You (10” 78 rpm shellac).

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Duke Ellington - Got Everything But You (1928)
YouTube video by Overjazz
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November 10, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Just a great track!

Channeling his inner Buddy Holly, here’s Tommy Roe - Sheila (#1 Canada, 1962). Fun Fact: Sheila was part of The Beatles’ early live sets when playing in Hamburg, Germany; lead vocals were by George!

Nifty vintage performance clip: youtu.be/0i-wfec5HGY?...
Tommy Roe - Sheila
YouTube video by OLD TAPES
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November 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Just a great late-career track!

The Monkees - Listen To The Band (#63 US, The Monkees Present, 1969). Written by Michael Nesmith, he does lead vocal & guitar and is the only Monkee on the track!

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The Monkees- Listen to the Band ( Groovy Video ♫ !)
YouTube video by Grizelda Scouse
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November 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Random Early Jazz Records.

It’s Fox Trot Time!

Going back a whopping 99 years, here’s Ben Selvin and His Orchestra - Baby Face (10” 78 rpm shellac, 1926). Fun Fact: An instrumental version of this tune was used in the 1933 Barbara Stanwyck film of the same name!

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Ben Selvin and His Orchestra - Baby Face (1926)
YouTube video by CatsPjamas1
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November 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Just a great track!

Paul McCartney and Wings - Mrs. Vandebilt (Band On The Run, 1973).

Nifty l’il video: youtu.be/7ARTZIKYYtA?...
Paul McCartney & Wings - Mrs Vandebilt (Exclusive Video)
YouTube video by Сергей Salem Exclusive Video
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November 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
She was Dickensian, not in a sooty, wretched poorhouse way, but in that she would randomly stop and take ten minutes to describe a tree with five thousand or so words and you loved her even more so afterwards.
November 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
To lay down in a field once more; for the bees to hum my eulogy,
that would be a fine ending to this workaday comedy of a life.

#vss365
November 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.” - U.S. industrialist, philanthropist & hardcore Dewey Decimal System enthusiast Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919).
November 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
#B-SidesandBonusTracks
#MusicChallenge
Day 9

The B-Side to both their 1966 singles Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron and its Canadian variation Squeaky Vs. The Black Knight, here’s The Royal Guardsmen - I Needed You.

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The Royal Guardsmen I Needed You
YouTube video by oldanddustyrecords
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November 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
#20SongsByYear
#MusicChallenge
1928 - Day 9

Blind Lemon Jefferson - Hangman’s Blues (10” 78 rpm shellac). We’re far beyond the paper-and-pen word guessing game here, folks. 😵

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BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON - Hangman's Blues [1928]
YouTube video by Blues/Reggae/Country/Bluegrass/Gospel
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November 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Morning Song.

Live on Australian TV program The Don Lane Show in 1982, here’s a highly-caffeinated Twofer from The Kinks - You Really Got Me & Destroyer. And it goes like this!!

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The Kinks : You Really Got Me / Destroyer
YouTube video by Folk rock / Australian rock / MORE!
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November 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Known to shake rust from the laziest of hips! Also, DJ remains are amazingly high in vitamins E, G, B, D & F.
November 9, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Random 45s In My Record Collection.

The Mar-Keys - Last Night (#3 US, Last Night!, 1961). I’m a sucker for late 50s/early 60s rock or surf instrumentals!

Fun vintage performance clip: youtu.be/lX2SxowHef8?...
November 9, 2025 at 3:59 AM
(Nov. 8/25) Hiya! If you’re looking for an hour of fab tunes later tonight, my weekly radio programme 25 O’Clock surfs The Internets at 11 p.m. EST at canoefm.com! I’ll be spinning trax by Violent Femmes, OMD, Thunderclap Newman, The Clash & a bunch more great musical artists! Tune in & twist away!
November 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Evening Song.

Phoebe Snow - Every Night.

Fab live ‘79 TV performance of this underrated McCartney tune: youtu.be/tG0x12xeLLQ?...
Phoebe Snow Every Night Singer Songwriters 1979
YouTube video by icepick141
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November 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Just a great track from one of my all-time Top 10 favourite albums!

Co-written by the legendary Solomon Burke, here’s the equally-legendary Otis Redding - Down In The Valley (Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul, 1965). Every track on this Lp shoulda been a smash hit!

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Otis Redding - Down in the Valley
YouTube video by PerryCoxPF93
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November 9, 2025 at 1:37 AM