Gordon Lightfoot – The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
An evening pause: Uses nicely edited archival documentary footage and pictures to highlight to story told by the song, intercut with Lightfoot’s live performance in 1979.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Mae West – I Wonder Where My Easy Rider’s Gone
An evening pause: From the 1933 film She Done Him Wrong. And yes, the young guy you see is Cary Grant. Sadly the print here is old and fuzzy, but a newer reprint is not available on line.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Aaron Copland – “The Promise of Living” from The Tender Land
An evening pause: I posted this for Thanksgiving in 2012 and 2015. Time to post again. As I wrote in 2015:
The hope of America will always live on, even when America is gone. Ordinary people want freedom, love, family, and the right to live their lives as they wish, without harming others, so they can bring in “the blessings of harvest,” whatever that harvest might be. It must be our goal to allow that to happen, and to stop those that wish to prevent it.
The promise of living
With hope and thanksgiving,,,
Stan Ridgway – Camouflage
An evening pause: Though performed live, this version is edited and dubbed with the official recording from 1986. While the song is quite good, I can’t help thinking about yesterday’s pause.
Hat tip Alex Gimarc.
Rick Beato – The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse
An evening pause: His conclusions have implications far beyond music itself and on the entire worsening of our culture.
Hat tip Chris McLaughlin.
Jefferson Airplane – Crown Of Creation
An evening pause: Performed live 1968 on the Smothers Brothers television show. Nicely performed but it is still the typical self-righteous tripe from the baby boom generation.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Ferris Akel – Napping Raccoon
An evening pause: This is how many of us all feel at the end of a hard week. Music is the “Daydream” by the Lovin’ Spoonful.
Hat tip Ferris Akel, who filmed this on September 21, 2024.
Vince Gill, Gregg Allman, Zac Brown – Midnight Rider
Insider Food – How New York’s Best Bagel Shop Makes 100,000 Bagels By Hand Every Week
Lynyrd Skynyrd – T For Texas
A Climber’s Perspective – Stacking of a 490′ Self-Supporting Tower via helicopter
An evening pause: The tower is in Watts, Oklahoma. When the lineman looks to his right he is looking at the helicopter, which for the first few minutes, before it rises above the horizon, is difficult to see.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Fleetwood Mac – The Chain
Linda Ronstadt – Blue Bayou
Joe Cocker – You Are So Beautiful
War – Low Rider
Mary Spender & Josh Turner – Sultans of Swing
An evening pause: One of the sharpest and clearest performances of this classic Dire Staits song.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Jeff Daniels – Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg speech
An evening pause: On election day, I give you the most concise and poetic description of what America has always stood for, first spoken on November 19, 1863. On this day it will either signal “a new birth of freedom,” or a sad funeral speech to a nation that was dedicated to government of the people, by the people, for the people, and successfully proved it for almost 250 years.
Judith Durham – Danny Boy
An evening pause: Performed live 1968. One of the most beautiful songs ever written.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Riccardo Cocchi &Yulia Zagoruychenko
House on Haunted Hill
An evening pause: For Halloween, I have decided to bring back this wonderfully staged classic from 1958, starring Vincent Price and directed by William Castle. No blood, no gore, but the worth every minute.
Swingrowers – Midnight
An evening pause: A prelude to Halloween. The visuals come from vintage 1920s and 1930s early cartoons, though the bulk comes from Walt Disney’s 1929 cartoon, Skeleton Dance.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Richard Marx – Hazard
Hohnerklang – Silence and I
An evening pause: Hat tip Tom Biggar, who notes this is quite “an interesting blend of instruments. The orchestra prides itself on giving you the “harmonica at its best!”
Eric Clapton – Cocaine
An evening pause: Performed live 2015. The directing however is very mediocre. During the very spectacular piano solo he or she seemed more interested cutting in a lot of random shots rather than showing what was really amazing, the piano player’s performance.
Still, a great performance. Hat tip Cotour.
Player – Baby Come Back
Minh Ngọc Ng – La Valse d’Amélie
Train – Drops Of Jupiter
The Rolling Stones – Midnight Rambler
OrtoPilot – Bittersweet Symphony
An evening pause: I wish he had used two cameras, just to give the visuals some variety, but the music overcomes the weak camerawork.
Hat tip Sayomara.