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  My #StupidAccordionTricks spree of iconic songs by women winds up with my running #TammyWynette's 1968 #StandByYourMan through the squeezebox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=takiobvvDIY

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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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  Here's a brief funny #StupidAccordionTrick for my April of Foolishness - from 1962, #BernardCribbins' #TheHoleInTheGround, championing class war. Why not? https://youtu.be/q8h8ZfQfHF0

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  I guess I was taking it for granted that I could just play silly songs for April but an emergency recording session was convened after someone threatened to immolate an ancient civilization, big vibe killer. So at a loss, here's #FlandersAndSwann's 1964 anti-nuclear-arms #20TonsOfTNT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5dJOQ1BDMc

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  For this week's #StupidAccordionTrick, I persist in my April folly of covering humorous songs by going all the way back to 1939 to this number #GrouchoMarx sang in #AtTheCircus: #LydiaTheTattooedLady. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Yvq1YFTEs

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  On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, I didn't cover Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck", but Bobby Sands' song "Back Home In Derry" which shares its melody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wlIvjWRotE

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  A big day for old #Zork fans such as myself - not only did Microsoft open-source the first three games from nearly 50 years ago, but I also received a sweet little book from ACMI about the game, including a scan from my #PixelPompeii blog a dozen years ago! https://pixelpompeii.blogspot.com/2025/11/zork-thursday.html

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  @Geoffberner it's located on the wrong side of the border, but if you haven't seen it yet, https://cleanaireventspresents.ticketspice.com/canary seems to be doing a decent job charting out a space for relatively safe indoor live music performance. Maybe they should have a franchise in BC.

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  @Geoffberner saw this comic strip from over a hundred years ago and immediately thought of you: https://bsky.app/profile/everetttrue.bsky.social/post/3m6lz5xhwuc2k

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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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  With 13 hours left on the clock before the winter solstice, I finally record a winter song for 2025 with The #LegendaryPinkDots' bizarre and sarcastic 1984 #GovernmentHealthWarning at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvRVH_j707c

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  The last Dionne sister died on Christmas Eve, so I pay tribute to those five Canadian heroes by recording this song from 90 years ago in which they are name-checked, #ILikeBananas (Because They Have No Bones). https://youtu.be/l3ui_BrGPOs

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  And one final #StupidAccordionTrick for 2025, to ring out the stupid old year and ring in the stupid new year, here's my very unlikely squeezy take on #KoolAndTheGang's 1980 occasion-agnostic groove #Celebration. Come on! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4IBciMZXZU

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  When things started spiraling the drain I queued up this song in my to-cover list and hoped I wouldn't have cause to record it, but here we are today with #NeilYoung's 1970 Kent State shooting protest song #Ohio. https://youtu.be/zCrkyAoKlYI

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  Either #JesseWelles is really going against the stream with his recent composition #JoinICE or possibly it is not intended in complete sincerity. https://youtu.be/DxcwDDPph0c

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  For this week's #StupidAccordionTrick -- RIP to Catherine O'Hara, who famously lip-synched to this calypso standard while possessed in a kitchy retro moment of indulgence in Beetlejuice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG4yfpSaJa4

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  I couldn't do Superbowl headliner Bad Bunny justice with my Duolingo Spanish, so today's #StupidAccordionTrick celebrates the openers #GreenDay with 2004's #AmericanIdiot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUknd619Yws

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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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  For this week's #StupidAccordionTrick, here's something a little more romantic than the song I shared for Valentine's day earlier this month - #BrandiCarlile's #TheStory. (sorry about the clams in the solo!) https://youtu.be/01kaPmmj8kI

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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.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQG1X2ca9ok

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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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aavDvd8EcuE

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  I keep trying to ride IWD all through March, so my latest #StupidAccordionTrick is, from 1999, #GoodbyeEarl as made famous by the #DixieChicks. https://youtu.be/hgMqnly49FQ

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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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-tT8tlnGW0