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Ron Hallowe’evans 🎃 🇨🇦 🆚

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Emotional Support Canadian🇨🇦. My Radio Show 25 O’Clock airs Saturdays @ 11 pm EDT & 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 EDT!

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Ron Hallowe’evans 🎃 🇨🇦 🆚 @punicatthebyrsa.bsky.social · Jul 18

Find someone who is acrobatically in love with you. 😍

Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · Jul 17

Thelma Todd and Buster Keaton in Speak Easily (1932).

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Ron Hallowe’evans 🎃 🇨🇦 🆚 @punicatthebyrsa.bsky.social · 3h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Annie Oakley, the inventor of high-end fashion sunglasses

Ron Hallowe’evans 🎃 🇨🇦 🆚 @punicatthebyrsa.bsky.social · 3h

ash from cinder
cinder from bone
bone from flesh
flesh from soil
soil from ash

we all fall down

#vss365 #ash

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Ron Hallowe’evans 🎃 🇨🇦 🆚 @punicatthebyrsa.bsky.social · 4h

Evening Song.

Dinah Shore - My Isle Of Golden Dreams (10” 78 rpm, 1951). Just lovely! 🥰

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My Isle Of Golden Dreams

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Ron Hallowe’evans 🎃 🇨🇦 🆚 @punicatthebyrsa.bsky.social · 5h

The Toronto Blue Jays: Giving Red Sox fans a secondary team to root for since 1977.

#BlueJays #RedSox #MLB

Ron Hallowe’evans 🎃 🇨🇦 🆚 @punicatthebyrsa.bsky.social · 5h

#80sTop30
#BlueSkyMusic

Day 9

“We are the Knights that say…Hoorah, hoorah, hoorah, yea!!”

With a fittingly goofy & ramshackle faux-period video, here’s Tenpole Tudor - Swords Of A Thousand Men (#6 UK, Eddie, Old Bob, Dick And Gary, 1981). Oh, to be young & stupid!😁

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Tenpole Tudor - Swords Of A Thousand Men

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Ron Hallowe’evans 🎃 🇨🇦 🆚 @punicatthebyrsa.bsky.social · 8h

Random Early Jazz Records.

It’s Fox Trot Time!

Going back a whopping 101 years, here’s the Varsity Eight - How I Love That Girl (10” 78 rpm shellac, 1924). 🥰

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How I Love That Girl - Varsity Eight

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Ron Hallowe’evans 🎃 🇨🇦 🆚 @punicatthebyrsa.bsky.social · 8h

Just a wonderful song.

From an artist you don’t necessarily hear about much anymore, here’s Peggy Lipton - Red Clay County Line (7” 45 rpm, 1969). Fun Fact: Written by the legendary Jimmy Webb!

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Red Clay County Line

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Ron Hallowe’evans 🎃 🇨🇦 🆚 @punicatthebyrsa.bsky.social · 14h

I’m wondering if this is where the whole “Meat on a Stick” thing started!

Ron Hallowe’evans 🎃 🇨🇦 🆚 @punicatthebyrsa.bsky.social · 21h

Morning Song.

With a fine vocal refrain by Irving Kaufman, here’s a super fun number by Lou Gold and His Orchestra that’s perfect for waking up & kickstarting the brain - (I Like What She Likes She Likes What I Like) Ev'rything We Like We Like Alike (10” 78 rpm, 1928).😁

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Everything We Like We Like Alike • Lou Gold and His Orchestra (Victrola Credenza)

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Ron Hallowe’evans 🎃 🇨🇦 🆚 @punicatthebyrsa.bsky.social · 1d

That was from one helluva disturbing episode of The Courtship of Eddie’s Father!

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Ron Hallowe’evans 🎃 🇨🇦 🆚 @punicatthebyrsa.bsky.social · 1d

I viewed one such film a couple of days ago from 1935 (with the weirdly cheerful title Festive Nuremberg!), and parts of it were coming uncomfortably close to today’s events.

Ron Hallowe’evans 🎃 🇨🇦 🆚 @punicatthebyrsa.bsky.social · 1d

All the What’s In My Bag videos are great!

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Ron Hallowe’evans 🎃 🇨🇦 🆚 @punicatthebyrsa.bsky.social · 1d

“I love the smell of photo ops in the morning…they smell like…desperate justification.”

Ron Hallowe’evans 🎃 🇨🇦 🆚 @punicatthebyrsa.bsky.social · 1d

Topsell’s hippo was certainly hungry!

Hippopotamus illustration from Edward Topsell’s The History of Four-footed Beasts (1607)

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Ron Hallowe’evans 🎃 🇨🇦 🆚 @punicatthebyrsa.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not crying, you’re crying. Okay, we’re both crying.

One Of The Lonely Ones, an album recorded in 1969 but shelved due to personal tragedy & lost until discovered by his family & released in 2015, here’s Roy Orbison with a heartbreakingly beautiful track I Will Always.💔

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I Will Always

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Ron Hallowe’evans 🎃 🇨🇦 🆚 @punicatthebyrsa.bsky.social · 1d

He was a member of Big Big Train from about 2010-2020.

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Ron Hallowe’evans 🎃 🇨🇦 🆚 @punicatthebyrsa.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks. Apart from a few of the early Genesis albums, this is about as close as I get to Prog Rock!

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Ron Hallowe’evans 🎃 🇨🇦 🆚 @punicatthebyrsa.bsky.social · 1d

Random 60s Pop Hits!

A goofy track with a cheesy vocal that never fails to make me laugh, here’s Chicago pop idol Ral Donner - She’s Everything (I Wanted You To Be) (7” 45 rpm, 1961). This single inexplicably made it all the way to #12 in ‘61 on the Canadian music charts!

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She's Everything

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Ron Hallowe’evans 🎃 🇨🇦 🆚 @punicatthebyrsa.bsky.social · 1d

#GenreRoulette
#MusicChallenge
#RockNRollWednesday
#ProgRock

Featuring Dave Gregory of XTC on guitar, here’s Bournemouth UK rock collective Big Big Train - Leopards (English Electric Part Two, 2013). A track that wouldn’t have been out of place on Mummer or The Big Express!
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Leopards

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Ron Hallowe’evans 🎃 🇨🇦 🆚 @punicatthebyrsa.bsky.social · 1d

#80sTop30
#BlueSkyMusic

Day 8

Pauline Murray And The Invisible Girls - Dream Sequence (Self-titled 1980 Lp). A stellar track from Murray, a founding member & lead singer of the great mid-70s UK Punk band Penetration.

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Dream Sequence

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Ron Hallowe’evans 🎃 🇨🇦 🆚 @punicatthebyrsa.bsky.social · 1d

If you must, strip naked and run singing loudly through the hallways of Versailles while hurling sauerkraut at the tourists, but only if you must.

Ron Hallowe’evans 🎃 🇨🇦 🆚 @punicatthebyrsa.bsky.social · 1d

Take 5 minutes out of your day today and just be a silly goose.

a drawing of a goose wearing a baseball cap with the words " you 're a silly goose " below it

Alt: a drawing of a goose wearing a baseball cap with the words " you 're a silly goose " below it

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 5d

You think your pain & your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

J. Baldwin

#Photography

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Joaquín Galán @joaquingalan.bsky.social · 2d

#Architecture: Passive House by Mareines Arquitetura in Brazil 🇧🇷 www.archdaily.com/1034428/pass...

Passive House / Mareines Arquitetura

Completed in 2024 in São Paulo, Brazil. Images by Leonardo Finotti . Conceived in the isolation of the pandemic, the Passive House is a direct response to the desire for a simpler, autonomous life con...

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Ron Hallowe’evans 🎃 🇨🇦 🆚 @punicatthebyrsa.bsky.social · 1d

Morning Song.

With a fine little number perfect for a slow kitchen glide or humming as you check the milk door, here’s Lloyd Keating and His Music - Have A Little Faith In Me (10” 78 rpm shellac, 1929).

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Have A Little Faith In Me by Lloyd Keating and his Music, 1929.

YouTube video by Joe Marx

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