Lord Vinheteiro – Take on Me
An evening pause: Some silliness to start the week.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
History of Everything – The Freshwater Paddle Carriers
An evening pause: A bit of history for the weekend.
Hat tip Blair Ivey.
Max Steiner – Casablanca suite
An evening pause: From the 1942 film Casablanca, still one of the greatest movies ever made.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Helen Mirren – On The Good Ship Lollipop
An evening pause: From the 1980 film, The Fiendish Plot of Dr Fu Manchu.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Jefferson Starship – Jane
An evening pause: Performed live 1981.
Hat tip Gene Shipp.
Cyd Charisse, John Brascia, & Sammy Davis Jr. – Frankie & Johnny
An evening pause: From the 1956 film, Meet Me in Las Vegas. The dancing is great, but I really think Sammy Davis makes the piece with his singing.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
WFAA – The mystery of the stolen de Kooning painting worth $165M
An evening pause: There are some mysteries that will always remain unsolved. And this one is one of the strangest.
Hat tip Cotour.
Patricia Neway – Climb Every Mountain
An evening pause: The Rodgers and Hammenstein song from The Sound of Music, performed live on the Ed Sullivan Show, 1959.
Makes an interesting contrast with yesterday’s pause.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
The Rolling Stones – Sympathy For The Devil
An evening pause: Performed live 1968.
Hat tip Blair Ivey.
MIT – Quicker than a Wink
An evening pause: This 1940 short film won an Academy Award for best one-reel short. It provides a nice and witty demonstration of the first technology that allowed very high speed slow motion movies to be made.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Glen Campbell – Galveston
An evening pause: Performed live on television 1969.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Family Tree Nuts – Annie Moore, Ellis Island’s first immigrant
An evening pause: A bit of history to usher in the weekend.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.