Marilyn Monroe – Diamonds are a girl’s best friend
An evening pause: From the 1953 movie, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Danny Kaye – Monahan O’Han
An evening pause: From the 1954 movie, Knock on Wood.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Keith Emerson – Creole Dance
An evening pause: Performed live in Budapest 1997. Emerson’s piano playing is amazing, and uses techniques I have never seen before.
Hat tip Chris McLaughlin.
No 6207 A Study in Steel
An evening pause: A fascinating and well-filmed documentary from 1935 describing how a British company then built locomotives. Note the lack of construction helmets, gloves, or safety glasses. Note also the number of workers involved. Today most of this work is automated, making it more precise and efficient. Then, however, they did not yet have such technology, and instead found ways to build very sophisticated machines using the skills of ordinary humans.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Franky Zapata demonstrating his Flyboard Air
An evening pause: Hat tip t-dub, who wrote that the Flyboard Air “is a real product developed by Franky Zapata. It’s a jet powered board that reminds me of what the Green Goblin used in Spiderman. This video was done in Monaco during the Formula 1 race this year. His company is called Zapata Racing and he has developed a jet pack, water hover board, and those fire hose things people use over water which is a hydraulic Flyboard I believe. If they only had this stuff back in the 70’s when I was growing up.” T-dub also added, “The Flyboard can go up to 10,000 feet, fly at 98 MPH, and has a duration of almost ten minutes depending on use. They have also set a Guinness record with the device.”
My thought: Once again, life imitates art.
Alexei Arkhipovsky – Going Home
An evening pause: This is not the American hymn, but a Russian piece performed here by the composer.
Hat tip Danae.
Madeleine Peyroux – Don’t Wait Too Long
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Mother, Father, Sister, Brother – The Sound of Philadelphia
An evening pause: This instrumental music, used as the theme music for the 1970s television show, Soul Train, has only one significant vocal line: “People all over the world!” I think the visuals used here, of Earth taken from the International Space Station, make that line seem especially appropriate.
Hat tip James Stephens.
Paul Mauriat & Orchestra – La pie voleuse
An evening pause: I especially like the use of digital sounds mixed with the standard orchestra.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Mary Travers – Follow Me
An evening pause: Live performance from a 1980 Peter, Paul, & Mary concert.
Huey Lewis and the News – Workin’ for a livin’
An evening pause: Another appropriate piece for the start of the week. Performed live, 1982.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
The Avalanches – Frontier Psychiatrist
An evening pause: I think the words from Moscow on the Hudson (1984) sum this music video up very well: “Strange but wonderful.”
Hat tip Max Hunt.