The Fixx – Red Skies
An evening pause: Hat tip Joe Griffin.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Liberace & Jack Benny
An evening pause: Notice the timing.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Lesley Gore – California Nights
An evening pause: From a very amusing 1967 Batman television episode, with the evil arch villain Catwoman, played by Julie Newmar. Lesley Gore’s lip-syncing isn’t the best, but the overall silliness of the scene, as well and the entire show, makes it is worth watching. The song is nice too. Unfortunately, I can’t find the whole episode, but this search on youtube finds a host of scenes from that classic of campy 1960s television.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
George Michael & Wham Careless Whisper
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Joe Bonamassa & Tina Guo – Woke Up Dreaming
A evening pause: Man, I get tired just watching them play.
Hat tip John Jossy.
Maria Mena- All This Time
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Nils Lofgren – Keith Don’t Go
An evening pause: What an incredible guitar player.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Journey To The Edge Of Space
An evening pause: The 360 degree view, from a high altitude balloon.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Sachal Jazz Orchestra – Take Five
An evening pause: I’ve posted this song previously, performed by writer Brubeck and his quartet. This Pakistani version is definitely worth its own viewing, however, as it uses some very different instruments to make it happen.
Hat tip Tom Wright.
Thomas Quasthoff & Sylvia Schwartz – Papageno & Papagena
An evening pause: From Mozart’s opera Die Zauberflöte.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
T Rex – Bang A Gong (Get It On)
An evening pause: The history of this band (which I hadn’t known until I began putting this post together) is very interesting, as it mirrors the overall cultural disaster of the 1960s. The finale is especially depressing:
Marc Bolan and his girlfriend Gloria Jones spent the evening of 15 September 1977 drinking at the Speakeasy and then dining at Morton’s club on Berkeley Square, in Mayfair, Central London. While driving home early in the morning of 16 September, Jones crashed Bolan’s purple Mini 1275GT into a tree (now the site of Bolan’s Rock Shrine), after failing to negotiate a small humpback bridge near Gipsy Lane on Queens Ride, Barnes, southwest London, a few miles from his home at 142 Upper Richmond Road West in East Sheen. While Jones was severely injured, Bolan was killed in the crash, two weeks before his 30th birthday.
Bolan’s death ended the band. Steve Peregrin Took died from asphyxiation from a cocktail cherry after his throat was numbed from his use of morphine and magic mushrooms in 1980, Steve Currie also died in a car crash, in 1981; Mickey Finn succumbed to illness in 2003. Peter ‘Dino’ Dines died of a heart attack in 2004.
Regardless, they created good music, for a short time.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
The Emotions ~ Best of My Love
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.