Kid Creole & the Coconuts – Stool Pigeon
An evening pause: Performed live 1982.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Sing with me!
An evening pause: Reggie, the performer, simply sets up on the street and asks passersby to sing with him. This video includes a selection of some singers. From the youtube website:
As a musician, I’m all about creating musical experiences that have people feeling happy and free, and that’s why the “Sing With Me for Free” series exists. Since 2018, I have asked thousands of random people to sing with me on camera. A lot of people have said no, some have said no initially but changed their minds to yes, and some have said yes right away. I ask these people to sing with one purpose: to create a way for them to experience a sense of happiness and freedom they did not feel before. And much of the time, this actually works (and that makes ME happy).
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman
Fran Blanche – A Desperate Light: Moore’s Tubes
An evening pause: A key moment and a forgotten man in the history of technology.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Up Above My Head
An evening pause: Performed live in France 1965.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Kylie Minogue & Ricky Martin – Livin La Vida Loca
An evening pause: Performed live in 2000.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
The Bride of Frankenstein
An evening pause: For Halloween, the 1935 classic, one of the greatest horror films ever made, directed with style and originality by James Whale.
Tomaso Albinoni – Adagio in G minor for violin strings and organ
An evening pause: Performed by the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra.
Hat tip Dave McCooey.
Conversations with a Calvinist – Denominations Order Coffee
An evening pause: Quite funny, and with a hint of truth. Also, you’d get the same thing if you did this about the Jewish faith, so don’t think this is Christian bashing.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Belén Bandera & Carla Motis – El Testament d’Amèlia
An evening pause: From Wikipedia: “El testament d’Amèlia is a popular Catalan folk song. It tells the story of a young lady in her deathbed who knowingly drank the poisoned drink given to her by her stepmother, whom she knows has been sleeping with her husband.”
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Spicy110 – The Rolleron from an Aim-9 Sidewinder missile
An evening pause: An example of simple but very clever engineering designed to keep a missile flying in a stable manner.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Mark Knopfler – Going Home
An evening pause: Performed live 2019. The music is from the 1983 movie Local Hero.
Hat tip Phil Berardelli.
Cab Calloway – Minnie the Moocher
An evening pause: Performed live 1958.
Hat tip sippin_bourbon.