Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
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Girl with the dogs – A cat on an emotional rollercoaster
An evening pause: This woman regularly posts videos of her grooming sessions with different animals. This particular session is quite entertaining. It also shows the necessity of regularly combing/brushing long-hair cats. If you own one, do it! Both you and your cat will be happier.
Hat tip Diane.
Patsy Cline – Walkin’ After Midnight
An evening pause: Performed live 1957 on television.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Ferris Akel – One beautiful bird pesters another, to music
An evening pause: The video shows a long flight of a majestic Red-tailed Hawk, periodically being harassed by a small Red-Winged Blackbird, which even periodically hitches a ride on the hawk’s back. Appropriately, the mustic is Hitch a Ride, performed by Boston.
Hat tip Ferris Akel.
Stringspace Jazz Band – Hit The Road Jack
An evening pause: It’s Friday. May we all hit the road and have some fun.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Carole King – So Far Away
An evening pause: Performed live 1971.
Hat tip Ice Pilot.
Ann-Margret – Dancing to Tequila
An evening pause: From the Youtube page:
Ann-Margret set to the Champs’ eternal hit “Tequila”. Scenes from “Viva Las Vegas” (1964), “Bye-Bye Birdie” (1963), “Made in Paris” (1966), “The Swinger” (1966) and “The Tiger and the Pussycat” (1967).
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Harp & VolfgangTwins – Paint It Black
An evening pause: The music is great, but I generally dislike these music videos that put the performers in some beautiful place that is also a place where it is absolutely impossible to record a performance. They then do lip synch and editing to hide the fact that the performance is faked. Ugh.
Still, as I said, the music is great, and the scenery is beautiful.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Gene Kelly & Cyd Charisse – Gotta Dance
An evening pause: From the 1952 movie, Singing in the Rain.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Carlos Santana & Rob Thomas – Smooth
An evening pause: Performed live 1999. Some energy for the weekend.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Marilyn Monroe – Happy Birthday/Thanks For The Memories
An evening pause: Another bit of cultural history from the 1960s. From the Youtube webpage:
Marilyn footage singing to JFK on his gala birthday bash on May 19th 1962. The running joke for the evening, as planned, was that Marilyn was late! it was planned that way for the event. Everything we see Marilyn do on stage was rehearsed right down to her arm movements and jumping up and down at the end of the song as we can see in the rehearsal photos before the event. so Marilyn did this spot on as planned.
Sadly, she would be dead by August, and Kennedy by November of the next year.
Hat tip Judd Clark.