An evening pause: A music video from 1975. The dancer is Lisa Leonard Dalton.
Hat tip Mike Nelson, who correctly adds, “Ahhh to be young again!”
An evening pause: Performed live 2024. The camera work and directing ain’t great, but it gets better as it goes, which is good because of the great solo near the end.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
An evening pause: Performed on television c1966. They are clearly lip synching to the original recording, but the song is great, and the sets and dancing are worth watching, if only to get a feel for 1960s variety show television.
Hat tip Cotour.
An evening pause: The visuals appropiately come from the 1929 Disney cartoon “Haunted House” starring Mickey Mouse. Seems appropriate for Halloween.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
An evening pause: A parody of “Smells like Teen Spirit,” according to the webpage, but as far as I am concerned it is a very funny parody of most “official” music videos, the kind I generally don’t like to post as evening pauses because, as Yankovic says in the first verse:
What is this song all about?
Can’t figure any lyrics out
How do the words to it go?
I wish you’d tell me, I don’t know
It gets better from there.
Hat tip Alan Hennings.
An evening pause: Created from “very rare footage of the Hollies recording ‘On A Carousel’ in the legendary Abbey Road Studios in 1967.”
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
An evening pause: Performed live 2023 as part of a concert dubbed, “Viking.” From the comments on the webpage:
Trøllabundin means spellbound. In the viking age, ‘Galder’ was a kind of magic song that was used in seiðr (magic/witchcraft) practiced by mainly women, and to ‘galdra’ was to affect something by magic singing.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
<An evening paus: A very nice cover.
Hat tip Cotour, who adds “These old guys have this piece nailed down!”
An evenin pause: Performed live 2022.
Hat tip Cotour.
Sorry this is late tonight. Was too busy doing other things over the weekend to schedule pauses.
An evening pause: Another new sport that harnesses technology for fun. The music Bonsaye by Mirages.
Hat tip Cotour.
An evening pause: Performed live 1970. A real taste of the sixties, even if this took place just after the decade ended.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
An evening pause: This performance by Royal Ballet and Opera company took place in 2015.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
An evening pause: No visuals, no instruments, just their voices singing to heaven.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
An evening pause: Taken from the album Viva Elvis, which is the soundtrack remix of Presley’s Cirque du Soleil show. From the youtube webpage:
Viva Elvis features new backing instrumentation on each track in an attempt to modernize the arrangements. This has met with a mixed critical response, with some reviewers praising the production quality and others opining that Elvis’s music is best left untampered with.
Hat tip Cotour.
An evening pause: The camera soon focuses on this couple, whose performance eventually won the competition, which apparently was their tenth victory. As noted in the comments, “You don’t understand exactly how great they are until you see them in a roomful of other people dancing the same dance.”
Hat tip Judd Clark.
An evening pause: From the sound track for the 2000 movie Gladiator. Performed live c2012.
Hat tip Ferris Akel.
