Carly Simon – You’re So Vain
An evening pause: Performed live in 1987 on Martha’s Vineyard.
Hat tip Alton Blevins, who sent it as a memorial for the passing of Simon’s two sisters last week.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Bob Fosse – Cuarto de la Banda
An evening pause: A very different dance number from the 1969 film Sweet Charity, the first that Bob Fosse directed.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
The Revenge: Timo Boll vs. KUKA Robot
An evening pause: It is a commercial for KUKA robotics, and it is a bit staged, a competition between a KUKA robot and table tennis professional Timo Bollo playing music on glasses. Nonetheless, the punchline is good. Human creativity can always beat out robotic programming.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Speakeasies Swing Band – Black Swamp Village
An evening pause: Another piece with Catarina Sisinni the lead singer. Seems perfect for Halloween.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Swimming with orcas
An evening pause: A nice way to start the weekend. As noted by the orca expert, “They’re really just big dolphins with a fancy paint job.”
Hat tip Cotour.
Annie Marie Lewis & Danny B. Harvey – House of the Risin’ Sun
An evening pause: Lewis is the niece of Jerry Lee Lewis.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
National Geographic – Alien Body Invader
An evening pause: This is not a science fiction movie, but it could be.
Hat tip Cotour.
Jerry Reed – Lord Mr Ford
An evening pause: Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
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.