Glen Campbell/Mel Tillis/Roy Clark – When I Stop Dreaming
An evening pause: Performed live 1987.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Hugh Laurie – All you gotta do is . . .
An evening pause: I posted this in 2011, with the comment, “Once again, a folksinger provides us the answer.” Keith Douglas suggested I post it again, noting that maybe they should play it at football games.
I think they already are, though sadly they don’t know it.
Timelapse photography of Fort Jefferson in Dry Tortugas National Park
An evening pause: From the youtube webpage: “On a remote island hours away from Key West lies the largest masonry structure in the Americas: Fort Jefferson. Built with 16 million bricks, but never finished, the fort served as a prison during Civil War. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, upon visiting the island, named it a National Monument, and in 1992 it became part of Dry Tortugas National Park.”
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Rory Feek – Fifty Thousand Names
An evening pause: The song is by George Jones. It speaks of those who died and are remembered at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. Even though that particular war was somewhat misguided, the courage and bravery of those who fought it, and the fact that in the end it did serve to halt for a time the spread of communism and tyranny, should not be forgotten.
There’s stars of David and rosary beads
and crucifixion figurines
and flowers of all colors large and small
There’s a Boy Scout badge and a merit pin
Little American flags waving in the wind
and there’s 50,000 names carved in the wall.
Sadly, there are a lot of very wealthy athletes today who have forgotten this.
Hot riveting
An evening pause: We assume that the majority of manufacturing today is done by assembly line machines. Apparently this is not so, when it comes to riveting.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Fleetwood Mac – Big Love
An evening pause: That’s Lindsey Buckingham performing here.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Hanson – Where’s the Love
An evening pause: Performed live on the The Weird Al Show in 1998.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
An evening pause: Performed by Cinematic Pop Orchestra and Choir.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Tom Petty – It’ll All Work Out
An evening pause: Performed live in 1986.
Hat Edward Thelen.
Stone Temple Pilots – Big Empty
An evening pause: Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
The Temptations – I Can’t Get Next To You
An evening pause: This might be a lip-synced tv performance, but they do it so well.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Carl Orff – O Fortuna from Carmina Burana
An evening pause: The first half of this video is a great performance of Orff’s piece, written as the opening for Carmina Burana. The second half shows what I think is the closing scene from a staged performance, but has no sound and is unclear. Regardless, the first half is breath-taking, and includes English subtitles, which clearly places the context of this music in 1930s Germany.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Alanis Morissette – All I Really Want
An evening pause: Performed live October 19, 1997.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Judy Collins – Send In The Clowns
An evening pause: I haven’t posted this Steven Sondheim song since 2013, and I have never posted Judy Collins’ version. Here is a recent live performance.
Hat tip Joseph Griffin.
Michael Davis on Johnny Carson
An evening pause: Time for some silliness, especially since its been two years since my last Michael Davis post.
In memory of…
A evening pause: It is important to remind ourselves repeatedly of the lengths that evil people will go to exert their will on innocents, merely for the sake of power.
The song, “Wake me up when September ends,” is by Green Day.
Fleetwood Mac – Tusk
An evening pause: With help from the USC Marching Band.
Hat tip Joseph Griffin.
Foxes and Fossils – Can’t Hurry Love
An evening pause: The reason for the band’s name I think will become obvious as you watch.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Paul Simon – 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
An evening pause: From the Simon & Garfunkel reunion concert in Central Park on September 19, 1981.
Hat tip Joseph Griffin.
John Williams – Imperial March
An evening pause: John Williams conducting.
To my mind, this would have also been good for Labor Day yesterday, as this music for the evil Empire of Star Wars makes an ideal anthem for the left.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.