John Downer Productions – Half a billion monarch butterflies
An evening pause: Hat tip Andrew Worth.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
The Bee Gees – Jive Talkin’
An evening pause: Performed live 1975.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
The Mash Report – Northerner terrifies Londoners by saying “Hello”
An evening pause: Nice comedy piece, based on far more truth than it could possibly imagine, performed as it were in I think 2017.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
The Association – Cherish
An evening pause: Performed live 1979.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Salut Salon – Competitive Foursome
An evening pause: This makes a great bookend to yesterday’s evening pause. And yes, they are having as much fun playing as the musicians yesterday.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
2CELLOS – Mombasa
An evening pause: 2CELLOS is Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser. This was performed live in Tokyo in July 2015. And boy, were they all having fun doing it.
Hat tip David Eastman.
Luke Aikins – Sky diving without a parachute from 25,000 Feet
An evening pause: I admit I could not have watched this live.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Ivashka and Baba-Yaga
A evening pause: An entertaining animated cartoon from Soviet Russia, 1938. It subconsciously reveals much about Russia’s rough society of that time between the world wars. Even in the 1930s Russia was still largely an illiterate peasant culture, less than three generations since the freeing of the serfs and now ruled by Stalin and the communists with an iron hand.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
An evening pause: A short seven minute tour of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio.
You will never see a museum in this manner. And as they go by, how many of these flying vehicles can you name?
Hat tip David Eastman.
Blind Willie Johnson – Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground)
An evening pause: This cover of Johnson’s song is by someone who for some reason doesn’t give his name on his youtube page. Blind Willie Johnson was a gospel singer from the 1920s who had been blinded as a child. If you want to hear him performing his magnificent guitar piece go here. There are no visuals, sadly, which is why I choose this cover, as it is I think important to see the playing to understand how brilliant the piece is.
Hat tip Mike Nelson, who in noting that Johnson’s recorded performance was one of the pieces of music included on the Voyager spacecraft the U.S. sent beyond the solar system, asks, “Is this the behavior of a “systemically” racist society?”
Natalie Cole & Nat King Cole – Unforgettable
An evening pause: A father and daughter duet, only possible through the magic of modern technology.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Kid Kyle & The Students – So Young
An evening pause: This kid could really belt it out.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.