The Great Kiss-off
An 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.
Dan Hill – Sometimes When We Touch
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Hoagy Carmichael & Lauren Bacall – Am I Blue?
An evening pause: From the 1944 Humphrey Bogart film To Have and Have Not, which was also Lauren Bacall’s unbelievably spectacular screen debut. “You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.”
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
The Great Race – Pies Upon Pies
An evening pause: Getting hit in the face with a pie had once been a running gag in many Hollywood comedies, beginning in the silent era but continued repeatedly in movies for decades. This scene, from the 1965 film The Great Race could be one of the last. It surely wins for the most pies ever thrown.
Hat tip Danae.
Avi Avital – Vivaldi’s Mandolin Concerto in C Major
An evening pause: He starts out by very carefully placing a score before him on his stand, but then never opens or looks at it during the entire performance. Instead, he plays the whole thing from memory, wielding his mandolin as if it is part of him. And he and the entire group is clearly having a great deal of fun doing it.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Johnny Cash – Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down
An evening pause: Performed live, 1972.
Hat tip Danae.
Alison Krauss & Union Station – Man of Constant Sorrow
An evening pause: Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Dire Straits – Your Latest Trick
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Tzvi Erez – Chopin Nocturne Opus 55 #1 in F minor
An evening pause: Recorded live 2003.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Billy Preston – Nothing from Nothing
An evening pause: Performed during a Ringo Starr concert in Japan, 1995.
Hat tip Danae.
Dale Watson – Texas Armadillo
An evening pause: As we sit in the depths of the summer, this song about of all things roadkill somehow seems fitting to me.
Hat tip Robert Pratt of Pratt on Texas.
Verdi’s Il Trovatore – Anvil Chorus
An evening pause: I know very little about opera, having never been much of a fan, but I must admit that the old woman’s song here is most intriguing, and seems to lay the foundation for a good tale.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.