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This week's #StupidAccordionTrick was one of my wife's favourite #TomTHall songs, #ILove, covered on the occasion of her birthday!

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We do #Pride in August here in Vancouver, so for this week's #StupidAccordionTrick I've gone back to 1984 to accordionise #BronskiBeat's anthem of queer youth alienation, #SmalltownBoy. Recorded well after midnight, the entire performance is a kind of fugue state.

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Rest in Power to #TomLehrer, whose transgressive songs about life and politics were so powerful when he wrote them sixty years ago that I dare not record most of them even today! From 1967's That Was The Year That Was, here's #Pollution.

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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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Twenty years ago, this lustily-delivered arrangement of a nonsense poem by Brotus was a centrepiece in our weeklong avant-garde performance poetry cabaret "That's My Brain... and you're KILLING it!"  Four of its alumni were coincidentally at a sunny picnic this past weekend, so I took the opportunity to commit the nonsense to video for weird posterity.

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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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Happy #CanadaDay! In honour of the occasion, today's #StupidAccordionTrick is one of the most Canadian songs ever, #AnneMurray's 1968 #Snowbird!

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Today's #StupidAccordionTrick is a tune I had only ever heard before as a schoolyard rhyme when I was ten, assuming it was a gag from a TV show. No: it was written by #BennyBell in 1946 and my ten-year-old just brought it to my attention! Are you ready for #ShavingCream?

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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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Here's a #StupidAccordionTrick I had in the can for a rainy day, a comedic musical retelling of the story of #KingMidas and his Golden Touch.

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

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Circling back around to pop music for this week's #StupidAccordionTrick, here's the Korean drinking game #BrunoMars turned into a pop banger with Rosé, #APT, in Tom Waits reggae style.

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Wrapping foolish April with my most foolish #stupidaccordiontrick of the month - possibly of the entire year.l - from 1966, here's #FrankZappa's #CallAnyVegetable! 

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Here we are, we saved the biggest April Fool's #StupidAccordionTrick for the end of the month. I know, you're thinking "What's so funny about Cyndi Lauper?" but you'd be surprised.

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Happy #Easter! For today's #StupidAccordionTrick, here's the wacky and sacreligious 1957 tune #PlasticJesus.

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For this week's #StupidAccordionTrick in my April of foolishly humorous songs I have visited #BrookeAbbey 's disaster dirge #TheWreckOfTheCrashOfTheEasthillMineDisaster, an incredible song that took the filk world by storm around twenty years ago.