The Smothers Brothers – Marching To Pretoria
An evening pause: Performed live in 1963 on the television show Hootenanny, at the very beginning of their career.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Rick Wakeman – Children of Chernobyl
Elvin Bishop – Fooled around and fell in love
Mike Olbinski – Breathe
An evening pause: The music for this short film is by Ex Makina and is also called Breathe. I think it appropriate to show now, as the monsoon season here in Arizona is winding down.
Hat tip Willi Kusche, who helped me open the monsoon season back in June.
Robert DeMayo – The Star Spangled Banner
An evening pause: DeMayo does not sing the anthem, but interprets it using American Sign language. I am posting this now, in defiance of the new NFL season, with its spoiled million dollar football players spitting on this country and its freedoms that made them rich.
Stay with it. If you watch closely you will begin to understand the sign language, and the power of the song’s words will then start to hit you, in a new way.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Nordic Choir – Sure on this Shining Night
An evening pause: From a James Agee poem:
Sure on this shining night
Of star made shadows round,
Kindness must watch for me
This side the ground.
The late year lies down the north.
All is healed, all is health.
High summer holds the earth.
Hearts all whole.
Sure on this shining night I weep for wonder wand’ring far alone
Of shadows on the stars.
Hat tip Danae.
Leaving Home | A Tragicomedy
An evening pause: This does not go in exactly the direction you think it will.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
John Rzeznik – Iris
An evening pause: Rzeznik is from a band called the Goo Goo Dolls, for those who follow such things.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Asia – The Smile Has Left Your Eyes
Filming rocket launches
An evening pause: Normally I post things unrelated to space in my evening pauses, but this video describing the history of the development of the cameras that film rocket launches is too good to not post. Besides, every rocket launch is entertaining to watch, even those that fail.
Hat tip Kevin Franke.
Henry Mancini – Inspector Clouseau Theme
An evening pause: From the 1964 Blake Edwards film, The Pink Panther. Written by Mancini with the actor Peter Sellers specifically in mind.
Hat tip Danae.
John Sebastian – Darling be home soon
An evening pause: A simple love song, as performed at Woodstock, August 1969. The moment in time is significant.
Go–
And beat your crazy heads against the sky.
Try–
And see beyond the houses and your eyes.
It’s okay to shoot the Moon.
On this day, September 11th, it is worthwhile taking this glimpse at what the American dream stood for, and still stands for — gentle love and allowing each person to follow their dreams to do wonderful things — versus those other extremist ideologies that brook no dissent and have killed thousands, on this day as well as before and after.
Patricia Janečková – Les oiseaux dans la charmille
The Cranberries – Zombie
An evening pause: In watching this passionate 1999 performance of this anti-war song, I couldn’t help thinking that the only zombies present were the audience and the singers, locked into simplistic 1960s messages without thought. Nonetheless, it is a great performance and song.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Camel – Stationary Traveller
Guangdong Acrobatic Troupe of China
An evening pause: Very beautifully done, but I must admit that my back hurt watching some of this.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Lizz Wright – Reaching for the Moon
Tim Conway & Harvey Korman – WWII airplane jump
Bernie Marsden & Micky Moody – Till The Day I Die
Fat Cat Staying Alive 10 Hours
An evening pause: This pause is a bit more than a pause, since it is ten hours long. I don’t expect anyone to watch it all, as the first three minutes makes the point, quite hilariously, and well worth a few minutes of entertainment. As the filmmaker notes, “Fat cats are always funny…”
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
10cc – I’m not in love
Jerry Goldsmith – Rambo First Blood: “It’s a Long Road”
Pachelbel’s Chicken
Scorpions – Wind Of Change
An evening pause: The video might think so, but not all changes are good. The key is to tell the difference.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Jeanne Robertson – Don’t Hire a Hit Man
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Back to youtube. I am making it a policy to look to see if any youtube video is also available on other sites, like real.video. Unfortunately, this video was not available elsewhere.
If you want to send me suggestions, keep this in mind. Youtube needs some competition.
Gabriella Quevedo – Blackbird
An evening pause: This evening pause is partly an experiment. It is embedded not from youtube but from real.video. I would appreciate comments, problems, etc.
The Kempters – The Orange Blossom Special
An evening pause: What makes this fun is that the whole front row of fiddlers is actually 14-year-old Chris Kempter, competing against himself for top spot on the band.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Neil Young – Cinnamon Girl
Rossini – Overture to The Thieving Magpie
An evening pause: Boian Videnoff conducts the Mannheim Philharmonic Orchestra.
And no, this was not written for Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971).
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Eric Clapton – Tears In Heaven
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae, who suggested a different performance that I posted back in 2015. I also posted a third version in 2011. No matter. There is something very heartfelt about the song and every Clapton performance that makes it worth watching again and again. The song was written following the death of Clapton’s four-year-old son, Conor, after falling from a window of the 53rd-floor New York apartment on March 20, 1991.