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An evening pause: Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Roy Clark & Johnny Cash – Orange Blossom Special
An evening pause: Performed live on television 1978.
Hat tip Blair Ivey.
ABBA – Waterloo
An evening pause: Performed live in 1974.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Counting Crows – Angels of the Silences
An evening pause: Performed live 1997.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Lucas Vaskange – Infinite Zoom
An evening pause: This has been going around, but with a French narration that has no translation. The version below overlays a pleasant music track that I think enhances it nicely.
Hat tip Rex Ridenoure.
Formula 1 crash right after start
An evening pause: This short analysis of a spectacular race track crash right at the start of a Formula 1 race illustrates well the sophistication of modern technology, not only in protecting the driver’s life but in providing the information for reconstructing the cause of the accident. And it all happens during an ordinary sports broadcast.
You’ll probably want to watch this more than once to catch how one car gets flipped over on its back.
Hat tip Tom Wilson.
Device Orchestra – Sweet Dreams
An evening pause: Another clever musical repurposing of household electronic gear.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Thelma Houston – Don’t leave me this way
An evening pause: Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
The Jacksons – Shake Your Body
An evening pause: It seems we are on a string of 1970s tunes. The clothes surely date them all. As for this video, I can only feel sorrow watching a young vibrant Michael Jackson, before he destroyed himself.
Hat tip Tom Wilson.
David Bowie – Starman
An evening pause: Performed live July 6, 1972.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine
An evening pause: A classic from the early 1970s.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Colt Clark and the Quarantine Kids – Fortunate Son
An evening pause: Performed live 2021.
Hat tip James Street.
Sam Dodge – the Mitchell BNCR camera
An evening pause: A bit of history about one of the most fundamental pieces of equipment used on practically every big Hollywood film.
Hat tip Wayne Devette.
The Spinners – Rubberband Man
An evening pause: Performed live in 1976. Includes one of the most entertaining and fun back-up singer dance routines I’ve ever seen.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra – Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)
An evening pause: A cover of Bob Dylan’s song, performed live 2019.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Gerard Hoffnung – The Bricklayers Story
An evening pause: This is an old story, but he does it so well. And it is a nice introduction to the weekend. May your projects turn out better.
Hat tip James Street.
Earl Scruggs & all the great banjo players in 1971 – Foggy Mountain Breakdown
An evening pause: I posted a more recent version in 2015 when Scruggs was much older. This version is exhilarating because of the number of great players involved.
Hat tip Able Windsor.
Amy Macdonald – Born to run
An evening pause: Intensely done.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Mike Oldfield – The Source of Secrets
An evening pause: Actually, this is three pieces, “The Source of the Secrets,” “Secrets,” and “Far above the Clouds.”
Hat tip “t-dub” Tom Wilson.
I’d like one piece of feedback about this video. When you watch it embedded on Behind the Black, is the music interrupted by commercials? That happens when you watch on YouTube. I am curious it this happens when a song is embedded on another webpage.
Dean Martin & Rick Nelson – Rio Bravo
An evening pause: This medley of songs were performed as part of the Howard Hawks’ 1959 western Rio Bravo. The first song, “My rifle, pony, and me,” was actually adapted from the main theme by Dimitri Tiomkin from Hawks’ earlier classic, Red River (1948). When Diane and I were watching this recently, I recognized the music, but it took a while to figure out where I’d heard it before.
Both movies are examples of the kind of entertaining and rich films Hollywood used to produce, routinely.