The Yardbirds – Shapes of Things
An evening pause: Performed on French television in 1966. I suspect they are lip-synching to the record album, but the editing makes this hard to confirm.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Primal Space – The water system of the ancient city of Granada
Candy Dulfer & Jan Van Duikeren – Jazz improvisation
Edvard Grieg – In the Hall of the Mountain King
An evening pause: From Peer Gynt, and performed by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra in 2019.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose – Treat Her Like A Lady
Munich Bach Orchestra – Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F major,3rd movement
An evening pause: For those old enough, you will recognize this music, as it was the theme music for the William Buckley’s show, Firing Line, from the 60s and 70s.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Jay Leno’s Garage – 1965 Shelby 427 Cobra Competition
An evening pause: For car buffs, and anyone else who wants to take a drive this weekend.
Hat tip Cotour.
Jason Colacino and Katie Boyle – Honky Tonk
An evening pause: How about some hot dancing today? Some truly original moves that I think Fred Astaire would applaud.
Hat tip Mike Nelson. Note too that he found this on X. It is nice to give youtube some competition.
❤️🔥 Jason Colacino and Katie Boyle – Honky Tonk
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Josh Turner – Long Black Train
3 Doors Down – Kryptonite
Bananarama – Cruel Summer
B1M – Building the newest biggest neutrino telescope
An evening pause: Worth watching, though this underground telescope won’t be operational any earlier than 2032, and considering the present political situation related to government funding, it might never get finished at all.
Hat tip Cotour.
Gin Blossoms – Hey Jealousy
An evening pause: Hat tip Wayne DeVette, who notes, “The band’s name comes from a photo of W.C. Fields in Kenneth Anger’s book Hollywood Babylon, which bore the caption ‘W.C. Fields with gin blossoms’, referring to the actor’s telangiectasia-spotted face and rhinophymic nose by the slang term for the skin condition known as rosacea.”
Beth Hart – A Change Is Gonna Come
The Electric Prunes – I Had Too Much To Dream
An evening pause: Performed on television sometime in the 1960s.
Hat tip to Diane Zimmerman.
Sorry this is late. Got distracted this week with doctors’ appointments and other silly stuff.
Wang Leehom – More I Cannot Wish You
An evening pause: This song is from the Broadway production of Cole Porter’s Guys & Dolls, which unfortunately got cut from the movie. It is song by an older man, a kind of father figure in the play, wishing the best for a young woman co-worker.
This version is actually the best live performance I could find, and amazingly it is from Beijing in 2017.
American Battlefield Trust – Famous Civil War Photos in 360°
An evening pause: I just finished reading a book of letters written by a soldier who participated in the battle of Antietam, just south of Burnside Bridge. The irony was that Burnside spent more than a day and multiple attempts to capture the bridge, when in fact his troops could have simply walked across the creek at any point, never getting their legs wet above the knee. The soldier was Captain Wolcott Pascal Marsh, and his regiment actually forded the creek further south and advanced farther than almost anyone else in Burnside’s battalion. The book: Letters to a Civil War Bride.
Like all the Civil War battle fields, Antietam is definitely worth visiting.
Hat tip Cotour.
Dionne Warwick – A House Is Not Home
Nils Lofgren – Valentine
Lucie Horsch & The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century – Bach
The Waterboys – The Whole of the Moon
Classics IV – Stormy
Oliver Anthony – Scornful Woman
An evening pause: Hat tip Wayne DeVette, who adds this tidbit, “Shortly after he hit up on that song, his wife divorced him and demanded an outrageous cut of all his future earnings.”
James Cox – The Silver Swan
An evening pause: From the Bowes Museum in northern England, east of the Lake District.
Hat tip Cotour.
Popa Chubby – Rollin’ and tumblin’
Cat Stevens – Bitterblue
An evening pause: Performed live 1971, before he rejected all of western civilization and became a Muslim.
Hat tip Ferris Akel.
André Rieu – Scotland the Brave & Amazing Grace
An evening pause: Performed live in Bahrain in 2024. It shouldn’t surprise us that these Arabs play bagpipes. It is merely a reflection of the British colonial influence from the past century.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Primal Space – The Underground Clocks of Paris
An evening pause: Some fascinating technology history, worth fast forwarding through the annoying commercial in the middle.
Hat tip Willi Kusche.