A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
An evening pause: I think this launch was in December 2022, from Cape Canaveral. Makes a great start for the weekend.
Hat tip Greg the Geologist.
La casualidad de ir en un avión justo cuando en Cabo Cañaveral se está lanzando el SpaceX Falcon 9. 🚀
📹: ᶜʰᵉᶠᵖⁱⁿᵏᵖʳ ᵀᴷ pic.twitter.com/aGA0twz81r
— Imágenes Históricas (@HistorieEnFotos) December 16, 2022
An evening pause: Performed live either 1978 or 1979. For Valentine’s Day tomorrow.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
An evening pause: I last posted a recreation in April 2017. Today, on Lincoln’s birthday, I present a recreation by Hal Holbrook, performed live on the Ed Sullivan Show on February 13, 1966.
As I wrote in 2017, “Listen to the words, however. This is no pandering speech, as we routinely see today. It is hard, muscled, and honest, bluntly recognizing that all, from both sides of the Civil War, must pay for the scourge of slavery.”
An evening pause: From the first episode of The Judy Garland Show, taped in June 1964 and aired December 1964.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
An evening pause: Something to ponder over the weekend. The video only includes two short clips from this 1964 BBC show, and thus picks two that have ended up to be largely right. And though Clarke’s predictions were not all right, he hit the mark an incredibly high number of times.
Hat tip John Jossy.
"The only thing we can be sure of about the future, is that it will be absolutely fantastic."#OnThisDay 1917: Writer, futurist and inventor Arthur C Clarke was born.
In 1964, he appeared on Horizon and gave some astonishing predictions about the future. pic.twitter.com/ID0X7idWyy
— BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) December 16, 2023
An evening pause: This is actually a very old fable, but the visuals here underline its meaning. And I think it is perfect for my birthday.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
This video explains "LIFE" in a nutshell..‼️ pic.twitter.com/nxY1ZNK4I3
— Manly Mentor (@manly_mentor) December 22, 2024
An evening pause: With Doug Wamble (guitar), Ron Mcbee (percussion), and Sam Reider (accordion). The song is by Rag’n’Bone Man.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
An evening pause: Performed live 2011.
Hat tip Alton Blevins, who needs to clean out his inbox, which is now so full all of my emails to him bounce.
An evening pause: Performed live 2013 in Hong Kong when it was still free. I wonder if the Chinese would allow an American band there now.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
An evening pause: Hat tip Judd Clark, who provides this translation:
O flower flower
O flower flower bouquet bouquet
I’m for you
I’m for you
I’m crazy for you
I’m crazy, I’m crazy
I’m crazy, this is trueWhere did you go that I was always on your mind
I’m dying from missing you because I cannot see you
Where did you go that I was always on your mind
I’m dying from missing you because I cannot see you
An evening pause: My readers recommend so many organ performances I decided to start the weekend with short but entertaining primer on how pipe organs work. As always, there are surprises. Our narrator was the organist on Monday’s evening pause.
An evening pause: Hat tip Gary, who correctly notes that “Johnny Cash’s grandson sounds very much like him.”
An evening pause: A nice cover of the Rogers & Hammerstein song from The Sound of Music (1965).
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
An evening pause: Performed live 2024. Seem celebratory enough for Inauguration Day.
Hat tip Alton Blevins, who also needs to clean out his full inbox so that he can receive emails. It has been full now for several weeks, and all emails to him thus bounce.
An evening pause: You can tell they are not only utterly focused on what they are doing, they are having a great deal of fun as they do it.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
An evening pause: The song apparently is from the Doctor Who television series, but as I have never been a fan, I do not know the context.
Hat tip James Street.
An evening pause: A cover of a song from the end credits of the 2003 The Lord of the Rings film, The Return of the King..
Hat tip Alton Blevins, whose gmail inbox is filled and thus cannot receive any emails from me, or anyone. Alton: Clean out your inbox!
An evening pause: A fun look at the physics and scale of the many spinning space stations proposed by science fiction writers over the decades. None of this is real, since sadly we have done only a few very inconclusive efforts in space to test this engineering.
Hat tip John Hunt.
An evening pause: Performed live 2012, but this was not before an audience but was simply their sound check performance beforehand to make sure the microphones were all at the right level to mix properly.
Hat tip to Ferris Akel, who adds “by a band that always took soundchecks very seriously.”
An evening pause: A bit of contrast from yesterday’s pause. Performed live 2022 by the Symphony Orchestra & Grand Choir of the Collegium Musicum Berlin, Donka Miteva conducting.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
An evening pause: If you haven’t yet got up from your weekend partying, this will do it. Performed live sometime in the early 1970s.
Hat tip Alec Gimarc.
