Ray Lynch – The True Spirit of Mom and Dad
An evening pause: Some Ray Lynch to help relax us through these difficult times.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Danielle “ate the sandwich” Anderson – Things we have in common
An evening pause: Danielle “Ate the Sandwich” Anderson.
Bonnie Raitt – Angel from Montgomery
An evening pause: performed live, December 1974.
John Sebastian – Darling be home soon
An evening pause: As performed at Woodstock, 1969.
Go, and beat your crazy heads against the sky.
Try, and see beyond the houses in your eyes.
It’s okay to shoot the moon.
Danny Kaye and Beverly Sills – Opera parody
An evening pause: With a bit of Brooklyn at the start to set the tone!
Cosmonaut Titov becomes the first man to fly in space more than 24 hours
An evening pause: Fifty years ago today Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov became the second Russian to fly in space, and the first to stay in orbit more than one day. During his seventeen orbit flight he also was the first human to experience space sickness and to sleep in space.
The newsreel below is somewhat comical, as the Soviets were not very forthcoming with information. To provide visuals the newsreel used film footage showing a V2 rocket from World War II, as well as a very unrealistic globe with an equally unrealistic spacecraft to “demonstrate the course of an orbit around the earth.”
Nonetheless, because the newsreel is of that time, it illustrates well the fear the west had of the Soviet’s success in space. For a communist nation to be so far ahead of the U.S., which so far had only flown two suborbital flights, was a challenge to the free world that could not stand.
John Cleese – How to irritate people by being considerate
An evening pause: From the 1969 mock documentary by John Cleese, How to Irritate People.
A Bell for Adano
An evening pause: This lovely and poignant scene from the 1945 film, A Bell for Adano, showcases the superb acting of Gene Tierney and John Hodiak. He is an American commander of Italian descent put in charge of an Italian village now under U.S. rule near the end of World War II. She is a local Italian girl longing to find her sweetheart who went off to fight for Italy and is now missing.
The movie was based on a short but profound book by John Hersey. And what I remember most from that book is this speech by the Hodiak character in trying to explain to the Italians the right way for government officials to act:
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Downhill mountain biking in southern Utah
An evening pause: Dirt biking in southern Utah.
Moody Blues – Your Wildest Dreams
An evening pause:
And when the music plays
And when the words are
Touched with sorrow
When the music plays
I hear the sound
I had to follow
Once upon a time
Once beneath the stars
The universe was ours
Love was all we knew
And all I knew was you
I wonder if you know
I wonder if you think about it
Once upon a time
In your wildest dreams
Judy Garland – Pretty girl milking her cow
An evening pause: From her 1964 television show.
Catherine Destivelle – solo climb in Mali
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Simon & Garfunkel – The Boxer live in Central Park
An evening pause: Live in Central Park, New York, 1981.
Moving Graffiti
An evening pause: from blublu.org.
Those Dancing Days – Home Sweet Home
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Connie Dover – Where shall I go?
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The Muppets – Movin’ right along
An evening pause:
Driving cross country in four minutes
An evening pause: In four minutes.
Candid Camera demonstrates the power of conformity
An evening pause: From a 1960 episode of Allen Funt’s Candid Camera television show.
Quadriga Consort — Cliffs of Dooneen
An evening pause: