Jerry Reed – Lord Mr Ford
An evening pause: Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Madison Cunningham – All At Once
An evening pause: I especially like the clarity of her guitar playing.
Hat tip Tom Wilson.
Kathia Buniatishvili – from Bach’s Cantata BMV 208
An evening pause: Soft, gentle, and joyful.
Hat tip Dan Steele.
Helene Fischer – Jeden Morgen wird die Sonne
An evening pause: The dress and lighting effects raise this to a whole new level.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Aldo Nova – Fantasy
An evening pause: Also fast and breathless, like last night’s pause, though of a somewhat different musical genre.
Hat tip Tom Wilson.
Barrington Pheloung – Morse’s Oxford
An evening pause: A tour of Oxford, set to the music used in the first two Morse television series, Inspector Morse and Inspector Lewis, both of which were set in Oxford. As for the music, I wonder if my readers know the trick/pun Pheloung used as a basis for the theme’s main melodic line.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
MonaLisa Twins – Please Mr. Postman/Wipe Out
An evening pause: Performed live in 2016.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Paul Harvey’s The Rest of the Story
An evening pause: An example of undaunted courage.
Danny B. Harvey – The Surfer Girl
An evening pause: This seems perfect to open the weekend.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
María Dueñas & Itamar Golan – Fauré: Après un rêve
An evening pause: Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Celtic Woman – Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring
An evening pause: Irish folk meets classical Bach.
Mitch & Mickey – When You’re Next to Me
An evening pause: This movie scene was created for the Christopher Guest pseudo-documentary film A Mighty Wind (2003), recreating with marvelous and loving accuracy a look back at the folk song era of the 1960s, but doing it about a bunch of completely mythical folk groups. The song is by the actor Eugene Levy, who plays Mitch. Catherine O’Hara plays Mickey.
The irony is that though this is actually the best song by far in the movie, the scene was deleted. The only time you hear this song is over the end credits. However, as Levy is quoted on the youtube page:
“At the end of this movie, when we do the concert, it was all filmed basically live. We’re not pre-recording the music and lip-synching to it. We’re actually filming it live. It put a little added pressure on what you thought was a relatively good singing voice. It took a little work and I think I can speak for Catherine, too, as two of the relatively non-musician people. It was exciting and scary.”
A touching and surprisingly effective film, expressing the magic that can happen to us all, but sometimes only in a short burst that is soon lost and cannot be truly recaptured.
Malinda – The Sound of Silence
An evening pause: Paul Simon’s masterpiece of poetry, always worth hearing again.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Speakeasies Swing Band – Angelina
An evening pause: The band is Greek, specializing in swing. The singer is Catarina Sisinni. This was performed live in 2016 in Thessaloniki.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Master Du – A donkey gets a manicure
An evening pause: This guy, Master Du, specializes in trimming the hoofs of donkeys that have become deformed and need specialized work. (Make sure the closed captions are on to get some translation of the narration.) This is how it is done in China. I wonder how that compares to the techniques used in the U.S., and other nations.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman, who found this work so interesting she ended up watching Master Du videos for more than an hour.
The Bangles – September Gurls
An eveing pause: Performed live 2000.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Hans Zimmer – Pirates Of The Caribbean Medley
An evening pause: Performed live in Prague 2017.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
I am in need for evening pause suggestions. If you are interested in suggesting an evening pause, please say so in the comments (without providing a link to that suggestion). I will contact you so you can forward it directly to me to schedule. The guidelines for submitting Evening Pauses:
1. The subject line should say “evening pause.”
2. Don’t send more than three in any email. I prefer however if you send them one email at a time.
3. Variety! Don’t send me five from the same artist. I can only use one. Pick your favorite and send that.
4. Live performance preferred.
5. Quirky technology, humor, and short entertaining films also work.
6. Search BtB first to make sure your suggestion hasn’t already been posted.
7. I might not respond immediately, as I schedule these in a bunch.
8. Avoid the politics of the day. The pause is a break from such discussion.
The Jack Benny Show – November 4, 1951
An evening pause: This was the first episode in Benny’s second season on television, following nineteen years doing a regular radio show. The first singer is Bob Crosby, brother of Bing. The taxi driver is Mel Blanc, voice of Bugs Bunny and almost all of the characters in Warner Brothers best cartoons.
Almost everything in this episode works, but make sure especially you stay with it to see the Benny’s performance as lead fiddler of a hillbilly band.
U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday
An evening pause: Performed live 1983.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Gregory Porter – Revival
An evening pause: Hat tip Blair Ivey.