Rowan Lipkovits · @nicheinterests
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On this week's , from 1974's , here's the song performed by the sensitive football-playing cross-stitch enthusiast, .

youtu.be/FJ4cKX3IZVY

#roseygrier #itsallrighttocry #freetobeyouandme #StupidAccordionTricks

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Rowan Lipkovits · @nicheinterests
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One of the best stupid tricks in my bag was inherited from the @creakingplanks - we called it emotional inversion. To demonstrate, here's 's monster 2013 hit ... done sad!

youtu.be/KvfyazFSLxE

#happy #pharrell #StupidAccordionTricks

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Rowan Lipkovits · @nicheinterests
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Finally we're far enough into the year for me to make a 2023 cover, and as with my recent take on "Here", it also engages the dubious pleasures of being a social introvert. Here's 's :

youtube.com/watch?v=d_BUUBFlOz

#confetti #charlottecardin #StupidAccordionTricks

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Rowan Lipkovits · @nicheinterests
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For your contrary host recorded a cover of by , the song for the moment! youtu.be/BeasRDIrNGc

#rufuswainwright #goingtoatown #StupidAccordionTricks #july4

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Rowan Lipkovits · @nicheinterests
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I slowed down with the public posts in June, so for Canada Day here's by @iamtalk from Ottawa. I heard it on the radio and couldn't leave it be!

youtube.com/watch?v=H_jjjDi0nb

#runawaytomars #StupidAccordionTricks

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Rowan Lipkovits · @nicheinterests
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My kids are having an oversized influence on my selections these days, but I could never argue with a pizza. This one is for all the fans out there, : youtube.com/watch?v=o20FJZZEMM

#iamapizza #charlottediamond #StupidAccordionTricks

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Rowan Lipkovits · @nicheinterests
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don't get much more stupid than this: for , I've covered Bad Lip Reading's rewritten speech and song-and-dance number between Luke and Yoda, "Seagulls! (Stop It Now)." It's a hot mess! youtube.com/watch?v=cFjLRyCqgd

#maythe4th #StupidAccordionTricks

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Rowan Lipkovits · @nicheinterests
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Another surprise (if not necessarily all that unexpected -- hoaxes have been preparing us for a decade or so) memorial tribute, this time to with my take on his , his first charting hit -- via youtu.be/ccvCJpxlPB8

#ifyoucouldreadmymind #gordonlightfoot #StupidAccordionTricks

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Rowan Lipkovits · @nicheinterests
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I'm keeping the funny as we work our way through the Foolish month of April... here's my squeezy proof of concept taking on 's 2001 from the album : youtube.com/watch?v=_OHCg8XjAt

#comforteagle #shortskirtlongjacket #cake #StupidAccordionTricks

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Rowan Lipkovits · @nicheinterests
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My April Fool's spree of lives up to its adjective with this latest cover video, for ' 1978 song : youtube.com/watch?v=qTTgT3S10R

#fishheads #barnesandbarnes #StupidAccordionTricks

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Rowan Lipkovits · @nicheinterests
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The march on, keeping up a quick pace to keep up with various self-imposed milestones. I'm celebrating with this one, a best fit so obvious I don't think it's occurred to anyone else yet: ' 1999 .

youtube.com/watch?v=rhpZ339gOk

#chocolatejesus #tomwaits #easter #StupidAccordionTricks

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Rowan Lipkovits · @nicheinterests
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April Fool's day has arrived, the perfect setting for . Here's a funny song from the last century, the ' , via youtube.com/watch?v=_melFZ8I6_

#leonardcohensdayjob #austinloungelizards #StupidAccordionTricks

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Rowan Lipkovits · @nicheinterests
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Rowan Lipkovits · @nicheinterests
139 followers · 95 posts · Server theha.us

I had a lot of catch-up to do, but I continue my spree of celebrating powerful women songwriters this March with a somewhat lackadaisical (some might say "scrubby") cover of 's 1999 :

youtube.com/watch?v=O4b-PZf1ZF

#noscrubs #tlc #iwd #StupidAccordionTricks

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Rowan Lipkovits · @nicheinterests
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Didn’t get to squeeze it into my Valentine’s songs list this year but he forced his way to the front of the queue in the worst possible way. RIP to steel guitar god , here’s his country song .

youtu.be/trPMZN_6NiM

#StupidAccordionTricks #thisbarstoolsreservedformyheart #davidlindley

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Rowan Lipkovits · @nicheinterests
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As February comes to an end so too do I wind down my program of allegedly lustful, passionate and romantic songs for . Here’s a wacky old specimen of that style of tune, ’s from 1959’s “An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer”. If ever a song could serve as a compelling reminder to use protection in your libidinous dealings, it’s this one!

youtu.be/-puxuJMQHno

#masochismtango #tomlehrer #StupidAccordionTricks

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Rowan Lipkovits · @nicheinterests
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A deep cut for this installment of my series: an original musical arrangement I made in 2006 of a poem, "Ring-a-ding-ding", by Alexandra Oliver, that you simply wouldn't have ever had the chance to hear anywhere else: youtube.com/watch?v=YHnf1laV9E

#StupidAccordionTricks

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Rowan Lipkovits · @nicheinterests
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For Valentine’s Day, I pulled myself together long enough to cough up a sincere love song for my series - this time, ’s from 1957, written for Peggy Seeger & made famous by Roberta Flack. youtu.be/sjjkrx5a9ms

#thefirsttimeeverisawyourface #ewanmaccoll #StupidAccordionTricks

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Rowan Lipkovits · @nicheinterests
131 followers · 67 posts · Server theha.us

24 hours ago I had no inkling I'd be recording a song on the and sharing it today as a memorial tribute, but life is full of surprises. Here's his , which I first learned of from Naked Eyes' cover:

youtube.com/watch?v=ZG5unWag27

#alwayssomethingtheretoremindme #StupidAccordionTricks #accordion #burtbacharach

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Rowan Lipkovits · @nicheinterests
129 followers · 66 posts · Server theha.us

I'm doing another February run of offbeat love songs for , starting with 's iconic , that we performed in the earliest days of the Creaking Planks. youtube.com/watch?v=MGBW6sAekL

#ifellinlovewithadeadboy #anohni #StupidAccordionTricks

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