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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.

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Americana songwriter #JohnPrine died on this date five years ago and I still haven't quite come to terms with the loss. In his memory, here's his iconic #SamStone.

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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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No, I haven't had a stroke. Today's #StupidAccordionTrick for #AprilFools is my take on #PhilosophyOfTheWorld by inadvertent outsider art legends #TheShaggs. Stay tuned for further stupidity in April, where I aim to be foolish all month long!

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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.

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This week's #StupidAccordionTrick is a solid tune from an album that earned its place living in our car's CD player for three years without ever getting removed, #TimesATicker from #AmeliaCurran's 2008 #WarBrides.

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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.