Carol Burnett – Palace Guard wants a pony
An evening pause: The title actually has nothing to do with the skit. Think bad television commercials.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Davy Spillane – Caoineadh Cu Chulainn
An evening pause: Played on the Irish uileann pipes.
Hat tip Danae.
Why Modern Music Is Awful
An evening pause: I find it interesting that almost all of the pop stars mentioned in this video have never been posted here as an evening pause. I want and like variety, and the main take-away from this video is the increasing sameness of modern music. Blah.
In sense, this video is an instruction manual for everyone who wants to send me a suggestion for an evening pause. It tells you the kind of music I will likely not be interested in, should you suggest it to me. To put it simply, if it sounds like everything else produced today, then it won’t get cast in the audition.
Mancini – Thorn Birds theme
An evening pause: As played by a brass quintet.
Hat tip Danae.
Snack Attack
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Punch Brothers & Rob Moose – Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
An evening pause: Performed live at the 2012 Telluride Bluegrass Festival, demonstrating that there really is a link between baroque music and American bluegrass. The fiddlers who came to early America had been trained to play this kind of music.
Hat tip Danae.
The Crying Shame – Camel
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
BBC’s Proms Hedwig’s Theme
An evening pause: By John Williams.
Hat tip Danae.
Lobo – I’d Love You To Want Me
An evening pause: Performed live 1972.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
One Minute Fly
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
The Mavericks – All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen, who quite correctly notes, “Such an upbeat performance for such a downbeat title.”
The Smothers Brothers – Marching To Pretoria
An evening pause: Performed live in 1963 on the television show Hootenanny, at the very beginning of their career.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Rick Wakeman – Children of Chernobyl
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Elvin Bishop – Fooled around and fell in love
An evening pause: Performed live 1976.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Mike Olbinski – Breathe
An evening pause: The music for this short film is by Ex Makina and is also called Breathe. I think it appropriate to show now, as the monsoon season here in Arizona is winding down.
Hat tip Willi Kusche, who helped me open the monsoon season back in June.
Robert DeMayo – The Star Spangled Banner
An evening pause: DeMayo does not sing the anthem, but interprets it using American Sign language. I am posting this now, in defiance of the new NFL season, with its spoiled million dollar football players spitting on this country and its freedoms that made them rich.
Stay with it. If you watch closely you will begin to understand the sign language, and the power of the song’s words will then start to hit you, in a new way.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Nordic Choir – Sure on this Shining Night
An evening pause: From a James Agee poem:
Sure on this shining night
Of star made shadows round,
Kindness must watch for me
This side the ground.
The late year lies down the north.
All is healed, all is health.
High summer holds the earth.
Hearts all whole.
Sure on this shining night I weep for wonder wand’ring far alone
Of shadows on the stars.
Hat tip Danae.
Leaving Home | A Tragicomedy
An evening pause: This does not go in exactly the direction you think it will.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
John Rzeznik – Iris
An evening pause: Rzeznik is from a band called the Goo Goo Dolls, for those who follow such things.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Asia – The Smile Has Left Your Eyes
A evening pause: Performed live 1990.
Hat tip Danae.