Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Lucky Chops NYC
Roy Clark & Johnny Cash – Orange Blossom Special
ABBA – Waterloo
Counting Crows – Angels of the Silences
Lucas Vaskange – Infinite Zoom
An evening pause: This has been going around, but with a French narration that has no translation. The version below overlays a pleasant music track that I think enhances it nicely.
Hat tip Rex Ridenoure.
Formula 1 crash right after start
An evening pause: This short analysis of a spectacular race track crash right at the start of a Formula 1 race illustrates well the sophistication of modern technology, not only in protecting the driver’s life but in providing the information for reconstructing the cause of the accident. And it all happens during an ordinary sports broadcast.
You’ll probably want to watch this more than once to catch how one car gets flipped over on its back.
Hat tip Tom Wilson.
Device Orchestra – Sweet Dreams
An evening pause: Another clever musical repurposing of household electronic gear.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Thelma Houston – Don’t leave me this way
The Jacksons – Shake Your Body
An evening pause: It seems we are on a string of 1970s tunes. The clothes surely date them all. As for this video, I can only feel sorrow watching a young vibrant Michael Jackson, before he destroyed himself.
Hat tip Tom Wilson.
David Bowie – Starman
Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine
Colt Clark and the Quarantine Kids – Fortunate Son
Sam Dodge – the Mitchell BNCR camera
An evening pause: A bit of history about one of the most fundamental pieces of equipment used on practically every big Hollywood film.
Hat tip Wayne Devette.
The Spinners – Rubberband Man
An evening pause: Performed live in 1976. Includes one of the most entertaining and fun back-up singer dance routines I’ve ever seen.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra – Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)
Gerard Hoffnung – The Bricklayers Story
An evening pause: This is an old story, but he does it so well. And it is a nice introduction to the weekend. May your projects turn out better.
Hat tip James Street.
Earl Scruggs & all the great banjo players in 1971 – Foggy Mountain Breakdown
An evening pause: I posted a more recent version in 2015 when Scruggs was much older. This version is exhilarating because of the number of great players involved.
Hat tip Able Windsor.
Amy Macdonald – Born to run
Mike Oldfield – The Source of Secrets
An evening pause: Actually, this is three pieces, “The Source of the Secrets,” “Secrets,” and “Far above the Clouds.”
Hat tip “t-dub” Tom Wilson.
I’d like one piece of feedback about this video. When you watch it embedded on Behind the Black, is the music interrupted by commercials? That happens when you watch on YouTube. I am curious it this happens when a song is embedded on another webpage.
Dean Martin & Rick Nelson – Rio Bravo
An evening pause: This medley of songs were performed as part of the Howard Hawks’ 1959 western Rio Bravo. The first song, “My rifle, my pony, and me,” was actually adapted from the main theme by Dimitri Tiomkin from Hawks’ earlier classic, Red River (1948). When Diane and I were watching this recently, I recognized the music, but it took a while to figure out where I’d heard it before.
Both movies are examples of the kind of entertaining and rich films Hollywood used to produce, routinely.
The Poor Refugee Who Invented Patek Philippe
An evening pause: The history of business is too often ignored, even though it is the lifeblood of our modern technological society. Here is just one example.
Hat tip Cotour.
Angel City Chorale – Africa
An evening pause: I posted a different and great performance back in 2014. This performance is I think even better.
Hat tip Doug “Space” Plata.
Van Johnson – Flim Flam Floo
An evening pause: This song comes from the first full television movie, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, first aired on NBC in 1957, and then subsequently re-aired almost yearly for the next decade. If you want to watch it, it is available on the internet archive here.
I post it today because it is a perfect expression of the hopeful culture of the 1960s that made possible the Apollo 11 lunar landing that occurred fifty-three years ago today. As the song says, “The world is filled with wonderment and magic,” and then insists “You can find the beauty in all you perceive/Just believe that it’s there in view.”
I recently rediscovered this movie of my childhood, and was astonished to discover that though I hadn’t heard this song in more than fifty years, I remembered its message as if I had only watched it yesterday. Its message was what my parent’s generation believed, and tried with all their might to pass on to their children. Their belief made the Apollo 11 landing possible. Sadly, most of my baby boomer generation decided to reject this hopeful vision, thus producing the increasingly gloomy society we have today.
Let us work to recapture that wonder and hope. Only then can our children breathe free to achieve some true wonders of their own.
Thanks to Wayne Devette for clipping this song from the full movie for me.
Bee Gees – Too much heaven
Theresa Andersson – Birds fly away
An evening pause: With some creativity, one can do so much with modern technology.
Hat tip Dan Morris.