Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Irwin Allen – The Time Tunnel
An evening pause: For those like myself who as a kid watched all of Irwin Allen’s sometimes good, often boringly predictable, but always truly cheesy sci-fi television shows, this documentary will bring back memories. Allen’s shows also explain why Star Trek became the phenomenon it did, as it was so much better.
And can you guess the name of the documentary’s narrator/anchor?
Hat tip Robert Pratt.
Stephanie Trick & Paolo Alderighi – Home in Pasadena
Berlin & Teri Nunn – Take My Breath Away
An evening pause: Performed live 2023. The sound and camerawork could be better, but her performance more than compensates.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Kid Creole & the Coconuts – Stool Pigeon
Sing with me!
An evening pause: Reggie, the performer, simply sets up on the street and asks passersby to sing with him. This video includes a selection of some singers. From the youtube website:
As a musician, I’m all about creating musical experiences that have people feeling happy and free, and that’s why the “Sing With Me for Free” series exists. Since 2018, I have asked thousands of random people to sing with me on camera. A lot of people have said no, some have said no initially but changed their minds to yes, and some have said yes right away. I ask these people to sing with one purpose: to create a way for them to experience a sense of happiness and freedom they did not feel before. And much of the time, this actually works (and that makes ME happy).
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman
Fran Blanche – A Desperate Light: Moore’s Tubes
An evening pause: A key moment and a forgotten man in the history of technology.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Up Above My Head
Kylie Minogue & Ricky Martin – Livin La Vida Loca
The Bride of Frankenstein
An evening pause: For Halloween, the 1935 classic, one of the greatest horror films ever made, directed with style and originality by James Whale.
Tomaso Albinoni – Adagio in G minor for violin strings and organ
Conversations with a Calvinist – Denominations Order Coffee
An evening pause: Quite funny, and with a hint of truth. Also, you’d get the same thing if you did this about the Jewish faith, so don’t think this is Christian bashing.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Belén Bandera & Carla Motis – El Testament d’Amèlia
An evening pause: From Wikipedia: “El testament d’Amèlia is a popular Catalan folk song. It tells the story of a young lady in her deathbed who knowingly drank the poisoned drink given to her by her stepmother, whom she knows has been sleeping with her husband.”
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Spicy110 – The Rolleron from an Aim-9 Sidewinder missile
An evening pause: An example of simple but very clever engineering designed to keep a missile flying in a stable manner.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Mark Knopfler – Going Home
An evening pause: Performed live 2019. The music is from the 1983 movie Local Hero.
Hat tip Phil Berardelli.
Cab Calloway – Minnie the Moocher
Metalball Studios- All metric system distance units at scale
An evening pause: Another attempt to get a sense of the vastness of existence.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Musiquizzers – Guess that song: 60’s
An evening pause: It is amazing how many of these short clips (as well as the full songs) are still so familiar and well known, considering its more than a half century since they were first played on the radio. Speaks well to their originality and uniqueness.
But how many of the songs and performers can you guess?
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Redbone – Come And Get Your Love
Daniele Vitale – Playing the biggest sax in the world
An evening pause: Fascinating and entertaining, but that last song was not meant to be played on this instrument.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Gene Krupa & Buddy Rich – Drum Battle
Icehouse – Great Southern Land
An evening pause: Performed live 2005.
Hat tip Phil Berardelli, who says this song is this Australian band’s love anthem to their country.
Alexander Sevastian – Bach’s Organ Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Take A Pebble
Tanya Tucker & Delbert McClinton – Tell me about it
Michael Knowles – Celebrating Columbus
An evening pause: I posted this two years ago, and think it should be seen again. As I wrote then,
On this day when all should be celebrating Christopher Columbus and his willingness “sail beyond the sunset,” to use a phrase from Tennyson, this short video give us an accurate picture of the man, his times, and his achievements. It also puts the lie to the bigoted, hateful, leftist slanders that have been used in recent years to poison his legacy.
Tate Naugle – Dad Jokes
Nicole Scherzinger & Lang Lang – Reflection
Lonnie Johnson – Another Night to Cry
Armstrong and Miller – The Art Historian’s Most Clumsiest Moments
An evening pause: Ben Miller of the Armstrong and Miller show does a series of wonderful send-ups of the typical narrator/anchor of public television documentaries. This short skit appears to have been a regular running gag on their show. More funny routines here.