Ron Evans 🇨🇦 🆚

Snowfall on a rural Ontario road

Someone has ordered another 3”-6” of the fluffy stuff for tonight and tomorrow morning; the shovelling muscles are getting an early workout this year! ❄️

I’m seeing posts of people being congratulated for having 40k, 50k, 80k #s of followers. Why not instead follow folks who post consistently interesting, informative, entertaining content & who don’t collect followers like Pokémon? Your home feed will thank you for it!😁

YouTube video by Astrolux777 Pete Townshend - Face Dances Pt. II HQ Stereo

Morning Song.

Getting up & doing the morning constitutionals in front of a buncha wonky early animatronics because don’t we all?, here’s Pete Townshend - Face Dances, Pt. 2 (All The Best Cowboys…, 1982).

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YouTube video by The78Prof 1929 HITS ARCHIVE: Button Up Your Overcoat - Helen Kane

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #musicchallenge

Day 9: The 1st song you'd put on a mixtape to a crush

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1930s radio

(Dec. 8/25) Hi! Looking for some nifty tunes to fill yer ears tonite? Tune in to canoefm.com @ 11 p.m. EST for my weekly radio programme 25 O’Clock! I’ll be waxxin’ up the ol’ turntable with trax by Jimmy Reed, Perez Prado, Marshall Crenshaw an’ a buncha other great musical artists! Enjoy!!

YouTube video by ASACurator Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - The Charleston

#MusicChallenge
#12DaysOfSongs
#MusicSky

Day 9: A song about dancing

Going back an even 100 years, here’s Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - Charleston (10” 78 rpm shellac, 1925).

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General Public - I’ll Take You There 1994 single

#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge

Day 9

Vox Alert!! 🚨🎸

From the 1994 OST to the movie Threesome, here’s General Public with a great take on that classic staple of a song I’ll Take You There.

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YouTube video by BrainwaveDyes Savoy Truffle - They Might Be Giants

Just a nifty cover!

They Might Be Giants - Savoy Truffle. It’s all in the Montelimar, y’know??

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XTC - Here Comes President Kill Again (Oranges & Lemons, 1989).

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YouTube video by MisterCanning Jack Webb - Try a Little Tenderness

Northern Soul This Ain’t!!

Jack Webb - Try A Little Tenderness (7” 45 rpm, 1958). 🚓🚓🚓

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YouTube video by The Best Christmas Songs Nick Lowe - Hooves on the Roof

Hey Kids - Time for some more Holiday Cheer! 🎉

Written by the wonderful Canadian singer/songwriter @ronsexsmith.bsky.social 🇨🇦, here’s the equally wonderful Nick Lowe - Hooves On The Roof (Quality Street, 2013).

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A movie I never saw from start to finish until this year.

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins - Baptize Me In Wine, 1953 7” 45 rpm record

If this track don’t make yer toes tap, ye just might wanna check ‘em for a tag!

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins - Baptize Me In Wine (7” 45 rpm, 1953). Drink deep, children - the night is still young!

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YouTube video by John1948TwelveC The Tokens - Tonight I Fell In Love (original version)

Just a great track!

The Tokens - Tonight I Fell In Love (#12 Canada, 7” 45 rpm, 1961). Shooby dooby wah!

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Louis w/Keely Smith & Sal Butera - The Wildest Show at Tahoe (‘57) is one of my all time fave live albums!

Don & The Goodtimes - I’ll Be Down Forever, 1965 7” 45 rpm record

Random 45s In My Record Collection.

Hailing from Portland OR, here’s Don & The Goodtimes - I’ll Be Down Forever (7” 45 rpm, 1965).

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Movie theatres forever.

I’ve spent far too much & not nearly enough time at the front bar of the Shoe over the years!

The Flying Burrito Brothers - Wheels

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YouTube video by INXS INXS - By My Side (Official Music Video)

#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge

Day 8

An underrated track, here’s INXS - By My Side (#54 Canada, X, 1990). One of their more mellow singles.

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YouTube video by Skydiggers Skydiggers - "I Will Give You Everything" (official video)

#12DaysOfSongs
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Dec 8: A band that is A-mazing

Featuring Andy Maize on lead vocals, here’s Toronto’s very own Skydiggers 🇨🇦 - I Will Give You Everything (Skydiggers, 1990).

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YouTube video by goldiesmusic Georgia Gibbs Kiss of Fire

Just a great track!

A record that hit #1 in the U.S. back in 1952 that would’ve been perfect for use as a James Bond movie theme, here’s Georgia Gibbs - Kiss Of Fire.

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It’s Max Fleischer Animation Studios Time!

Raggedy Ann And Raggedy Andy (1940/41). 🥰🥰

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Canada got rid of pennies a number of years ago; the rounding off is very simple & doesn’t come into play with digital/bank card/credit card purchases. You’ll get used to it very quickly.

Yeah, back then they’d let six year olds fly anything!

YouTube video by collinsfollower This Can't Be Love by Dorothy Collins on Your Hit Parade

Good Old Television, 70 years ago!

From a 1955 broadcast of Your Hit Parade, here’s Dorothy Collins - This Can’t Be Love.

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YouTube video by RobinsRareRecordings Joan Edwards - I Got Rhythm (NBC radio, USA, 1948)

Just a wonderful song! 🥰

Broadcast Dec. 6, 1948 on the NBC Radio programme The Railroad Hour, here’s the ever-lovely Joan Edwards - I Got Rhythm.

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YouTube video by Atticus Jazz Prince Of Wails - Wolverine Orchestra (after Bix, w Jimmy McPartland) (1924)

Random Early Jazz Records.

It’s Fox Trot Time!

Going back a whopping 101 years to December 1924, here’s the Wolverine Orchestra - Prince Of Wails (10” 78 rpm shellac).

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YouTube video by randomandrare Eddie Lang I'm All Alone (1956)

Random Early R&B Records.

New Orleans guitarist Eddie Lang - I’m All Alone (10” 78 rpm, 1956). A fine rocker.

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YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Paw Patrol - SNL

Paw Patrol. Still more qualified than ICE.

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