Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Lena Horne – Stormy Weather
PDQ Bach – Beethoven Symphony No. 5
An evening pause: Peter Jacoby is conducting (?) Orchestra X. For those who are unaware, PDQ Bach is the stage name used by Peter Schickele in performing his comedic music. Fans of both classical music and sports will really enjoy this.
Hat tip to Alex Gimarc.
Dean Martin & Caterina Valente – One Note Samba
Dusty Lumber Company – No talking just precision carpentry
An evening pause: This proves the value of having the right tools. Even so, you have to use your brain and know what you are doing.
It works to run this at 2x speed, by the way.
Hat tip Cotour.
Sue Foley & others – Okie Dokie Stomp
An evening pause: Performed live 2024. The camera work and directing ain’t great, but it gets better as it goes, which is good because of the great solo near the end.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 – Mas Que Nada
An evening pause: Performed on television c1966. They are clearly lip synching to the original recording, but the song is great, and the sets and dancing are worth watching, if only to get a feel for 1960s variety show television.
Hat tip Cotour.
Eric Clapton – She’s Waiting
Annie Marie Lewis – Headless Horseman
An evening pause: The visuals appropiately come from the 1929 Disney cartoon “Haunted House” starring Mickey Mouse. Seems appropriate for Halloween.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Geoff Castellucci – Monster Mash
“Weird Al” Yankovic – Smells Like Nirvana
An evening pause: A parody of “Smells like Teen Spirit,” according to the webpage, but as far as I am concerned it is a very funny parody of most “official” music videos, the kind I generally don’t like to post as evening pauses because, as Yankovic says in the first verse:
What is this song all about?
Can’t figure any lyrics out
How do the words to it go?
I wish you’d tell me, I don’t know
It gets better from there.
Hat tip Alan Hennings.
The Hollies- On A Carousel
An evening pause: Created from “very rare footage of the Hollies recording ‘On A Carousel’ in the legendary Abbey Road Studios in 1967.”
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Ozzy Osbourne And Lita Ford – Close My Eyes Forever
Deconstructed – How the bathyscaphe Trieste was the first to reach the ocean’s deepest point
Eivør & Danish National Symphony Orchestra – Trøllabundin
An evening pause: Performed live 2023 as part of a concert dubbed, “Viking.” From the comments on the webpage:
Trøllabundin means spellbound. In the viking age, ‘Galder’ was a kind of magic song that was used in seiðr (magic/witchcraft) practiced by mainly women, and to ‘galdra’ was to affect something by magic singing.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
The Guys Downstairs – How Long Has This Been Going On
<An evening paus: A very nice cover.
Hat tip Cotour, who adds “These old guys have this piece nailed down!”
Debby Boone – You Light Up My Life
The 5.6.7.8s – I Walk Like Jayne Mansfield
An evenin pause: Performed live 2022.
Hat tip Cotour.
Sorry this is late tonight. Was too busy doing other things over the weekend to schedule pauses.
Foundations – Build Me Up Buttercup
JD ‘FollowCam’ – Just “wing” it!
An evening pause: Another new sport that harnesses technology for fun. The music Bonsaye by Mirages.
Hat tip Cotour.
Alexis Dahl – How to ship 800 billion pounds of rock fast
Lena Haarberg – Fall Into You
I love love love my toy chicken!!!
An evening pause: Something wholesome to start the week. And stay with it, it gets better and better.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
This woman gives a chicken toy to this donkey. He loves it, brays with utters of joy, & funnily plays with it. No innocent being stays indifferent to love.pic.twitter.com/7jCzHa4UZP
— Hakan Kapucu (@1hakankapucu) September 3, 2025
Business Insider – The Rise And Fall Of The American Diner
An evening pause: This remains the place that Americans go to after church.
Enjoy the weekend. And find a great diner to eat at!
Hat tip Cotour.
Asleep At The Wheel – Roly Poly
Prince – Play that funky music
Melanie – The Nickel Song
Chuck Mangione Quartet – Land of Make Believe
David Bull – Taking a close look at an 1896 wood block print
An evening pause: From a series of podcasts about one particular type of art, dubbed David’s Choice.
Hat tip Cotour.