Naomi Priest & Saskia van Gerven – The Boxer
An evening pause: A beautiful cover of Paul Simon’s classic.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Ekaterina Yukhnova – Sarabanda
An evening pause: By J.S. Bach.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Dido – White Flag
An evening pause: Hat tip Doug Johnson.
Don McMillan – Comedy for scientists
An evening pause: I wonder how many of my readers will get that last joke.
Hat tip Tom Biggar. And a great weekend to all.
Zbigniew Rybczyński – The Orchestra (final scene)
An evening pause: Music is of course Ravel’s Bolero. This provides us an elegant thumbnail history of the Soviet Union using dance, choreography, and clever filming. And it is honest, showing how the whole thing was run by gangstas, as all such top-down communist/socialist societies are, and as America is now adopting. More information about the entire work here.
Hat tip Dave McCooey.
Liza Minnelli – New York, New York
An evening pause: Performed live 1992. Now an ode to a city that no longer exists.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Gordon Lightfoot – The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
An evening pause: Performed live 1979. May he rest in peace.
Hat tip Rex Ridenoure.
Julie Andrews segment during of Carol Burnett’s 90th Birthday Special
An evening pause: Aired in 2023. The best part is the short film providing sample moments from the three television specials they did together.
Hat tip Phil Berardelli.
Etta James, Gladys Knight and Chaka Khan – Ain’t Nobody’s Business
An evening pause: Performed live 1987.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Ana Popovic – Some blues improv
An evening pause: Hat tip Judd Clark.
Zorro – One In a Million Moments From Nature
An evening pause: Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Redd Volkaert – Only Daddy That’ll Walk The Line
An evening pause: Hat tip Judd Clark.
Chris Isaak – Wicked Game
An evening pause: Performed live I think in 2011.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
Brick Experiment – 20 Mechanical Principles combined in a Useless Lego Machine
An evening pause: How many of you have heard the names of these various items when talking to your car mechanic, and have no idea what they are?
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Hozier & Annie Lennox – Take Me to Church / I Put a Spell on You
A evening pause: Performed live 2015.
Hat tip Doug Johnson. Note too that this does not come from youtube, but from metatube. Let’s find more alternative video resources like this, just to increase some competition.
Rollerman – Downhill extreme
An evening pause: More road stuff, of an entirely different kind.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Exploring Arizona’s Abandoned Highway 60 and the Claypool Tunnel
An evening pause: Better late than never. I forgot to schedule some pauses. This one is fascinating because of the history of technology it reveals.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
AC/DC – Thunderstruck
An evening pause: A bit of energy to start the week. Performed live 1991. For those unfamiliar with this rock piece (like me), I think it helpful here to turn on captions to find out what the performers and audience are singing.
Hat tip James Street.
The Thornton Quarry in Illinois
An evening pause: A drone view of the Thornton Quarry in Illinois, one of the largest stone quarries in the world, which is located here.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Lenny
An evening pause:Hat tip Rex Ridenoure.