Preventative Health (The Purge)

Preventative Health (The Purge)

From Blind Skeleton's Three Tune Tuesday by Boneapart and Yulia

May 12, 2026 · 49 min · Episode 113

About this episode

The episode discusses health checks and features a playlist of historical music related to the theme of health.

This week on Three Tune Tuesday, we’re thinking about health — specifically, the kind of health check that requires preparation, a gown, and a level of personal exposure that no one particularly looks forward to. We open with a piece of good timing: “By the Saskatchewan,” recorded on this very date in 1911 by baritone Andrea Sarto, taken from the hit Broadway musical comedy The Pink Lady, with music by Ivan Caryll — who, as it happens, was also born on May 12, making this a double centenary of sorts. From there we move to Rosa Henderson’s 1923 Victor recording of “Good Woman’s Blues,” a spare and dignified classic blues performance written by George Butts and Hulbert Esmere, in which a woman of considerable self-possession states her case plainly, accompanied by nothing more than Wendell Talbert’s piano. We close with Dame Clara Butt, whose vast contralto fills Samuel Liddle’s setting of Henry Francis Lyte’s immortal hymn “Abide with Me” — written by Lyte on his deathbed in 1847 and first sung at his funeral. It is, in short, a playlist assembled in the spirit of a colonoscopy: you go in hoping for reassurance, you endure what must be endured, and you emerge, if all goes well…

People in this episode

Hosts: Boneapart, Yulia

Topics covered

  • health
  • preventative care
  • music history
  • blues
  • hymns
  • personal exposure

Keywords

  • preventative health
  • colonoscopy
  • music
  • blues
  • hymn
  • health check
  • personal exposure

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Pink Lady

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