Michael Kiwanuka – Cold Little Heart
An evening pause: Hat tip Rex Ridenoure.
Tag: entertainment
Elina Garanca – When I hear the sound of the cymbal
An evening pause: From the operetta Gypsy Love.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Fair Play Crew – Video Game
An evening pause: To really appreciate this skit, you really would have had to have spent hours playing early coin-operated video games in the 1980s and 1990s.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Gregory Peck – Harper Lee while filming To Kill a Mockingbird
An evening pause: A touch of gentle reality for the weekend.
Hat tip Cotour.
Barcelona Flamenco – Dance and Flute
An evening pause: This is most definitely Spanish in tone.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Gilbert O’Sullivan – Alone Again (Naturally)
An evening pause: Performed live 1972.
Hat tip Cotour.
The dancers of the Fandango Ballroom – Hey Big Spender
A evening pause: From the 1969 film Sweet Charity.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Lord Vinheteiro – Take on Me
An evening pause: Some silliness to start the week.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Max Steiner – Casablanca suite
An evening pause: From the 1942 film Casablanca, still one of the greatest movies ever made.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Helen Mirren – On The Good Ship Lollipop
An evening pause: From the 1980 film, The Fiendish Plot of Dr Fu Manchu.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Jefferson Starship – Jane
An evening pause: Performed live 1981.
Hat tip Gene Shipp.
Cyd Charisse, John Brascia, & Sammy Davis Jr. – Frankie & Johnny
An evening pause: From the 1956 film, Meet Me in Las Vegas. The dancing is great, but I really think Sammy Davis makes the piece with his singing.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Patricia Neway – Climb Every Mountain
An evening pause: The Rodgers and Hammenstein song from The Sound of Music, performed live on the Ed Sullivan Show, 1959.
Makes an interesting contrast with yesterday’s pause.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
The Rolling Stones – Sympathy For The Devil
An evening pause: Performed live 1968.
Hat tip Blair Ivey.
MIT – Quicker than a Wink
An evening pause: This 1940 short film won an Academy Award for best one-reel short. It provides a nice and witty demonstration of the first technology that allowed very high speed slow motion movies to be made.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Glen Campbell – Galveston
An evening pause: Performed live on television 1969.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Family Tree Nuts – Annie Moore, Ellis Island’s first immigrant
An evening pause: A bit of history to usher in the weekend.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Happy Childhood Dance Ensemble – Kalinka
An evening pause: MORE young talent. Performed live 2020.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Jude Kofie – Rock The Casbah
An eveing pause: More young talent. This is different in that he improvises his own piano version based on only hearing a portion of the original.
Hat tip Cotour.
The Graystones & J8KE – Baker Street
An evening pause: Hat tip Mike Nelson, who adds, “by a group of kids that make me jealous as I never had ANY musical aptitude whatever.”