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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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

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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?) I've done a deep dive into the history of musical comedy and the novelty single, and begin the program this month with this crown jewel from the genre's late grand master, #TomLehrer's 1959 #PoisoningPigeonsInThePark. (No animals were harmed in the making of this video.)

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

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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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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!)

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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.

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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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Whenever I get stuck in a rut contemplating heavy topical repertoire, I get shaken out of it by the death of a beloved celebrity. In this case, it was Catherine O'Hara, who famously lip-synched to this calypso standard while possessed in a kitchy retro moment of indulgence in Beetlejuice. It was only three years ago I memorialised Belafonte himself, which underscores a fundamental truth here: she left us too early.