Johnny Winter – Be Careful With A Fool
An evening pause: Performed live 1970. Tommy Shannon is on bass and Uncle John Turner is on drums.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Sarah McLachlan – Blackbird
An evening pause: Hat tip Doug Johnson.
Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi
An evening pause: This was I think the song that made her career. Its shallow environmentalism, from the still naive 1960s, seems appropriate today on Labor Day.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah
An evening pause: Cohen’s very personal prayer to life and existence.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
The Rat pack – Birth of the Blues
An evening pause: Performed live 1965. That’s Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Dean Martin, and Johnny Carson.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Minh Ngọc Ng – Handel’s Passacaglia
An evening pause: Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Van Morrison – Moondance
An evening pause: Performed live on television, and includes Etta James, George Benson, Carlos Santana, Dr. John, and Tom Scott.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Gerry & The Pacemakers – You’ll Never Walk Alone
An evening pause: The Rogers & Hammerstein classic from the 1945 musical Carousel. Pop groups in the 1960s routinely covered classics like this, because they knew their music history, used it to influence their own work, and also wished to celebrate it.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Jim Morrison of The Doors, as described by his father and sister
An evening pause: The interviews give a perspective that might surprise you.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
The Alan Parsons Project – Eye In The Sky
An evening pause: Performed live, with a full orchestra, 2013.
Hat tip John Jossy.
Amy Winehouse – Back To Black
An evening pause: I admit that I was never a fan of Winehouse, but quality is still quality, even if one has different tastes.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
VisioRacer – Audi’s Audi’s Supercharged V16 racecars of the 1930s
An evening pause: Some automotive racecar history from before WWII, showing cars then capable of going more than 250 miles per hour.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Sophie B. Hawkins – Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover
An evening pause: Performed live 1994.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Hazegrayart – A visual comparison of the space age’s unbuilt rocket concepts
An evening pause: None of course were ever built. Most were government concepts that would have cost a fortune and never considered profit as a motive. The last concept is the wildest, and uses exploding nuclear bombs to propel it.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Swingrowers – That’s Right!
An evening pause: Shot on location at London’s Rivoli Ballroom.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Tim “Randm” Salaz – Modern dance
An evening pause: As one commenter on youtube said, “This guy’s body must be fully made of water.”
Hat tip Dave McCooey.
James Kennerley – John Philip Sousa’s Liberty Bell March
An evening pause: I bet you didn’t know that this music was by Sousa. I also suspect Sousa would have never guessed how this march would become so well known in the late 20th century.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Busby Berkeley – Tap dance sequence from Lullaby of Broadway
An evening pause: Time for another Berkeley extravaganza. This except is only a small part of the full thirteen-plus minute Lullaby of Broadway number in the movie Gold Diggers of 1935. This movie was made when the talking pictures were still new, and making films that highlighted “All Talking! All Singing! All Dancing!” was the rage. It was also a time when all Americans danced arm-in-arm as one of their main forms of entertainment, so interest in great dancing like this was at its height.
Hat top Judd Clark.
Real Engineering – The Secret Invention That Changed World War 2
An evening pause: How old fashioned Yankee ingenuity helped win the war, in a way you would not expect.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Tower of Power – Me & Mrs Jones
An evening pause: Performed live I think in 2010.
Hat tip Cotour.