Stevie Nicks – Stand Back
A evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
John Arthur Martinez – Closer To My Dream
An evening pause: For me personally, this song is perfect, on my birthday. Or as Gordon Dickson wrote in his magnificent science fiction book, Way of the Pilgrim, “He felt the urge to speak like a great hand at his back, pushing him forward, a hand that could not be resisted.”
Candide Thovex – quattro 2
An evening pause: This guy sure knows how to find some beautiful spots.
Hat tip Frank Kelly.
Milton Berle & Harpo Marx – I’m forever blowing bubbles
An evening pause: Time for some silliness. From live television 1959.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Gustav Holst – St Paul’s Suite
An evening pause: Performed by the Eufonico String Orchestra, Rafaล Nicze, conductor, as part of the 3rd Polish Nationwide Music Schools’ Symphonic Orchestras Competition, May 19, 2015.
The music here is soooo British, as it should be, written by Holst in honor of the St Paul’s Girls’ School where Holst was Director of Music for almost thirty years.
Andrรฉ Rieu & Carmen Monarcha โ Habanera
An evening pause: I especially like the silent interplay between the two. Very much all in fun, but with a nice spark.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Aaron Tippin – You Gotta Stand for Something
An evening pause: Hat tip Sayomara.
Every shuttle launch, simultaneously
An evening pause: A special evening pause, to remember what happened on this date 32 years ago. Despite the many successes shown here, there of course is one that stands out for different and tragic reasons.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
The Continental Divide Trail in Four Minutes
An evening pause: The music is Paper Tigers by Javier Dunn.
Hat tip Jeff Poplin.
Gaither Vocal Band & Jake Hess – Cool Water
An evening pause: The intro is long, but stick with it, it will all be worthwhile.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
John Anderson – Seminole Wind
An evening pause: Hat tip Jeff Poplin.
Maria Muldaur- Midnight At The Oasis
An evening pause: Recorded live 1974.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell – Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight
An evening pause: They are having so much fun doing this. Hat tip Jeff Poplin.
Just an ordinary story about the way things go,
Round and round nobody knows.
But the highway
Goes on forever.
That ol’ highway
Goes on forever.
Jamey Johnson & Alison Krauss – Seven Spanish Angels
An evening pause: Performed live at a concert honoring Willie Nelson.
Hat tip Jeff Poplin.
Jason Headley – It’s Not About The Nail
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who wrote, “This video is maddening to a male. I’m afraid to show it to my wife.”
Justin Johnson -Crankin’ Up the 3-String Shovel Guitar
An evening pause: Hat tip Jeff Poplin.
An illicit visit to two abandoned Soviet space shuttles
An evening pause: Hat tip John Harman. This video has been around for awhile, but I hadn’t ever actually watched it until now. What it shows is very cool, but sad in so many ways. As a government project the whole Soviet space shuttle program was generally a dead end waste of resources (as was our own shuttle). Yet, it was possibly one of Soviet Russia’s greatest technological achievements — which they have allowed to rot away in these abandoned hangers, rather than opening them up for their citizens to see and admire and learn from.
Bell X1 – She’s A Mystery To Me
A evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen. The camera work could be better, but the song is really good, and as Edward notes, “I have to say that any group with a name like this is cannot be all bad.”
What Happened to James Garner?
An evening pause: I previously posted a biography of Robert Mitchum by this same filmographer. This one, about James Garner, is equally worth a viewing. And like the Mitchum biography, it shows how humble and ordinary a man Garner was.
Hat tip Willi Kusche.
Alyce Tzue – Soar
An evening pause: The music is Monody by Christian Bรผttner, known generally as TheFatRat. The singer is Laura Brehm.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.