Lennon Sisters – May you always
An evening pause: Left to right: Kathy, Peggy, Janet, and Dianne. From a 1960s Lawrence Welk show.
Listen to the words. They express the hope and dreams of the 1960s.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Laura Engel – Bésame Mucho
An evening pause: With André Rieu and his orchestra.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Vangelis – Chariots Of Fire
An evening pause: Performed live at the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens on June 28, 2001.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
World Party – Ship Of Fools
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Simon & Garfunkel – The Sounds Of Silence
An evening pause: From a recent live performance. I’ve posted this song before, sung by others, but not surprisingly, the best version is still performed by the originals.
I also think of this verse today whenever I read of the insane craziness going on in the political world:
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
No one dared
Disturb the sound of silence
Hat tip Peter Fenstermacher.
Wilfred Owen – Dulce et Decorum est
An evening pause: In memory of those who died on D-Day, to keep us free.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Julie Andrews and Gene Kelly
An evening pause: From Julie Andrews 1971-72 television show. Remember, they put this together for a weekly show. No CG. No editing. Just two performers performing, impeccably.
Tatyana Ryzhkova – Capricho Arabe
An evening pause: Composed in 1892 by Francisco Tárrega.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Mucking about off-hours in San Francisco, California
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen, who writes, “A brief tour of the Jeremiah O’Brien engine room (an operational Liberty Ship) and other San Francisco sights. The narrator mentions the degaussing coils that they started to use on ships during WWII to prevent magnetic mines from sinking them. The slight of hand is especially good; I think I figured it out. There was a time, before the 1980s, when the passengers helped to turn the cable cars.”
I like these comments by the videographer at his youtube website: “This WW2 Liberty ship only took 50 days to build! Vid includes random shots between getting pissed on by a homeless dude and avoiding that guy wearing nothing but a gold sequined sock.” Well, no one should be surprised. This is in fascist California.
Santo & Johnny – Sleep Walk
An evening pause: The song should immediately be familiar, though I doubt most people today will know of the performers who wrote it.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who writes, “This performance is from 1959, an era when performers wore ties to show respect to their audience. One must wonder how performers show respect to their audience, these days–or even if it’s an issue.”
Jimmy Roberts – A House With Love In It
An evening pause: Granted, it is hokey 1960s television staging, but the song and performance are nice.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
A Memorial Day remembrance
An evening pause: For all those who are left behind.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.