I kick off my month of Halloween music, an annual #StupidAccordionTricks speciality, with an admittedly peculiar selection, not obviously all that spooky on the face of things. But dig a little and I think you'll agree it belongs! From 1950, it's "The Thing"!
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One of the few pieces of camouflage in my #StupidAccordionTricks catalogue, allowing me to disguise myself as a normal accordion fellow who just loves the tunes from simpler times, most of you are probably familiar with #Sway from #DeanMartin's 1954 version.
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Because I have fallen behind, I have pulled a canned recording out of storage: my #StupidAccordionTricks version of #JacquesBrel's #Amsterdam... en français épouvantable!
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Just had to break out of my silent #StupidAccordionTricks rut with a sloppy squeezy rendition of Santo & Johnny's 1959 steel guitar instrumental #SleepWalk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yXXI_4fBvY
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Keeping my weekly #StupidAccordionTricks cover songs a little explicitly silly this month for April Fool's, here's #Trooper's 1976 #TheBoysInTheBrightWhiteSportsCar
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Keeping April's foolishness going for my #StupidAccordionTricks this month, here's my take on #JimStafford's thirsty 1974 country tune #SpidersAndSnakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdC0d2-F4CU
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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.)
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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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZLcS1C8e2w
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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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsghgSolS6o
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Greetings, everyone! Musically speaking, other than playing #StupidAccordionTricks in my basement every week I'm practically retired. However: bizarrely, I have a gig coming up to tell you about. It's a benefit for #AccordionNoir's parent radio station #CFRO Co-Op Community Radio, taking place the night of Wednesday Nov 19 at the WISE Lounge, beneath the storied WISE Hall.
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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'd expected and was a little nervous about failing to read the historical moment and following it up with a dud. Sadly, this one is proving evergreen: the Italian partisan ballad #BellaCiao.
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For no particular reason, here's my #StupidAccordionTricks cover of #Chumbawamba's 1994 antifa anthem #TheDayTheNaziDied
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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!
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Usually if you were to say it felt like I was playing #AllNightLong, it would just be a metaphor for how interminable this #StupidAccordionTricks set was, feeling like it was lasting forever and you'd never see the blessed end of it. But in this case you'd just be accurately naming #LionelRichie's 1983 song.
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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
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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.
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I've fallen behind with my #StupidAccordionTricks schedule this month, but here's an evergreen tune I had installed in an "In Case Of Emergency, Break Glass" box. It's @Geoffberner 's exhaustingly evergreen #MaginotLine.
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#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!
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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.
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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.) So here's another #SineadOConnor song - from 1990, #BlackBoysOnMopeds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVZuqOXRjM4&feature=youtu.be
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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.
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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.
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Kicking off this October's program of spooky #StupidAccordionTricks, here's a sales pitch for a deal with the Devil, in #ElvisCostello's #ThisOfferIsUnrepeatable.
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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!
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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.
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Happy #StupidAccordionTricks #Easter! In celebration of the occasion I am the eggman... We are the eggmen... #IAmTheWalrus! (Koo koo k'choo!) All these years and I finally play a #Beatles song, and _this_ is the one I pick?
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I took my sweet time getting around to it, but in the fullness of time no song is safe from my #StupidAccordionTricks! Here I am wrecking bbno$' 2021 banger #Edamame!
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#LoganWhitehurst has been gone 17 years now, but his songwriting genius lives on! For this week's seasonal #StupidAccordionTricks video, I cover his #WhenWerewolvesCollide.
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On this week's #StupidAccordionTricks, from 1974's #FreeToBeYouAndMe, here's the song #ItsAllRightToCry performed by the sensitive football-playing cross-stitch enthusiast, #RoseyGrier.
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My father has a summer birthday and growing up at summer parties he would memorably feature this song on the regular playlist - but it never comes up on classics radio, so the task is left to me and my #StupidAccordionTricks. From #theKinks' 1983 album State of Confusion, here's #ComeDancing.
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Finally we're far enough into the year for me to make a 2023 #StupidAccordionTricks cover, and as with my recent take on "Here", it also engages the dubious pleasures of being a social introvert. Here's #CharlotteCardin's #Confetti:
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For #July4 your contrary host recorded a #StupidAccordionTricks cover of #GoingToATown by #RufusWainwright, the song for the moment! https://youtu.be/BeasRDIrNGc
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I slowed down with the public #StupidAccordionTricks posts in June, so for Canada Day here's #RunAwayToMars by @iamtalk from Ottawa. I heard it on the radio and couldn't leave it be!
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My kids are having an oversized influence on my #StupidAccordionTricks selections these days, but I could never argue with a pizza. This one is for all the #CharlotteDiamond fans out there, #IAmAPizza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o20FJZZEMM4
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#StupidAccordionTricks don't get much more stupid than this: for #MayThe4th, I've covered Bad Lip Reading's rewritten speech and song-and-dance number between Luke and Yoda, "Seagulls! (Stop It Now)." It's a hot mess! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFjLRyCqgdM
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Another surprise (if not necessarily all that unexpected -- hoaxes have been preparing us for a decade or so) memorial #StupidAccordionTricks tribute, this time to #GordonLightfoot with my take on his #IfYouCouldReadMyMind, his first charting hit -- via https://youtu.be/ccvCJpxlPB8
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I'm keeping the #StupidAccordionTricks funny as we work our way through the Foolish month of April... here's my squeezy proof of concept taking on #Cake's 2001 #ShortSkirtLongJacket from the album #ComfortEagle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OHCg8XjAtM
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My April Fool's spree of #StupidAccordionTricks lives up to its adjective with this latest cover video, for #BarnesAndBarnes' 1978 song #FishHeads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTTgT3S10Rk
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The #StupidAccordionTricks march on, keeping up a quick pace to keep up with various self-imposed milestones. I'm celebrating #Easter with this one, a best fit so obvious I don't think it's occurred to anyone else yet: #TomWaits' 1999 #ChocolateJesus.
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My final #StupidAccordionTricks video for IWD March, here's a #BritneySpears hit from 2008, #Womanizer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAZDlK8VONw
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I had a lot of catch-up to do, but I continue my #StupidAccordionTricks spree of celebrating powerful women songwriters this #IWD March with a somewhat lackadaisical (some might say "scrubby") cover of #TLC's 1999 #NoScrubs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4b-PZf1ZFM&feature=youtu.be