The Hollies – Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress
An evening pause: Performed live 1973.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Tina Charles – I Love To Love
An evening pause: Performed live in 1976.
Hat tip James Street.
Jeff Kashiwa – The Night Is Young
An evening pause: Some light jazz to start the week.
Hat tip Ferris.
Laufey & Iceland Symphony Orchestra – I Wish You Love
An evening pause: A nice piece to start the weekend.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
Night Ranger – Goodbye
An evening pause: Performed live in 2022 with the Contemporary Youth Orchestra. Make sure you stay till the end.
Hat tip Terry.
Dorothy Dandridge – Cow Cow Boogie
An evening pause: From the 1942 film of the same name.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
5th Dimension – Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In
An evening pause: Performed live on television in 1969 by the group’s original members, Billy Davis Jr., Florence LaRue, Marilyn McCoo, Lamonte McLemore, and Ronald Townson. This music, from the Broadway musical Hair, reflects the naive and somewhat arrogant attitude of that baby boom generation. It is also a very beautiful song, sung beautiful.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Georg Friedrich Händel – The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
An evening pause: Performed live 2015. From Handel’s oratorio Solomon.
Hat tip James Street.
Johnny Cash – Hurt
An evening pause: A truly moving music video by Cash, reflecting on his life in music and pictures.
Make your own memories this weekend.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Climax – Precious And Few
An evening pause: Performed live 1972.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Arvo Pärt – Summa
An evening pause: Performed by the Morphing Chamber Orchestra. The haunting music is a rearrangement by Pärt of a piece of sacred music from 1300s called Stabat Mater.
Hat tip Ferris Akel.
Otta Orchestra – Gretela
An evening pause: Performed live 2020.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Toploader – Dancing in the moon light
An evening pause: Hat tip James Street.
Ferris Akel – Great Blue Heron
An evening pause: The music is called “Surprise Attack” by James Horner, and was written for the 1982 film, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan. The action is produced by a Great Blue Heron at Sapsucker Woods, Ithaca, New York on July 20, 2024.
May your weekend activities be as successful.
Hat tip Ferris Akel.
J.S. Bach – Concerto No. 1 in D minor BWV 1052
An evening pause: Like the past two evening pauses this week, this also centers on a piano solo, and also takes us to an entire different musical genre. It is a bit long for a pause, but I can’t resist continuing the piano theme. You might recognize the third movement.
The soloist is 18-year-old Ignas Maknickas (who is clearly having fun), playing with Lithuania’s Ciurlionis School of Arts Symphony Orchestra.
Hat tip Todd Jones.
John Anderson – Seminole Wind
An evening pause: Starts with a piano solo, like yesterday’s pause, but takes us to an entirely different kind of music.
Hat tip Sayomara.
Emerson Lake & Palmer – Show Me the Way To Go Home
An evening pause: Hat tip James Street.
Avery “Drummer” Molek – Wipe Out
An evening pause: Something to start the weekend, brought to you by a six-year-old. Performed live 2013.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Tim Simek & Marl Edelman – Whiskey Before Breakfast
An evening pause: Classic American.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Merle Haggard – If I Could Only Fly
An evening pause: Performed live 1986.
Hat tip James Street.