The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir – Psalm 34
An evening pause: Some Old Testament religious passion, sung from my home town, Brooklyn, and very fitting for Christmas Eve.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Bobby Brown – Every Little Step
An evening pause: Performed live 2012. Hat tip to my wife Diane Zimmerman, who might have picked the song but I wanted to post it now as my own thank you to her. Every word Brown sings are words from me to you.
Do You Hear What I Hear – Whitney Houston
An evening pause: Performed live December 11, 1990.
Hat tip Cotour.
Scala & Kolacny Brothers – California Dreamin’
An evening pause: This choir cover of the classic Mamas & Papas song seems quite appropriate for the first day of winter.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Queen – You’re My Best Friend
An evening pause: We must always appreciate our friends, especially the ones who are honest and can be depended on.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
December 17, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
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Foxes and Fossils – I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day
An evening pause: I’ve posted this group before. Their Patreon site is here. The key words: “Peace on Earth, good will to men.”
Hat tip Gary McDaniel.
Dido – Thank You
An evening pause: Hat tip Dan Morris.
Alison Krauss & Yo-Yo Ma – The Wexford Carol
An evening pause: For my Christian readers and the Christmas season.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Andrea Bocelli – Panis Angelicus
An evening pause: Hat tip Dan Morris.
Viola Brand – Ballet on a bicycle
An evening pause: Another one of the myriad sports that humans have invented. Stay with it, it gets better and better.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
How It’s Made – Candy Canes
An evening pause: Seems appropriate for the season.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Christmas Food Court Flash Mob – Hallelujah Chorus
An evening pause: Most claimed flash mob performances are not really what they claim, often well staged with lots of cameras and hardly a surprise to the surrounding innocent crowd. This one, performed during the Christmas season in 2010, appears quite genuine, building out of nowhere at an ordinary mall food court. Even the camera work appears to be mostly from phones, many of which I think the producers obtained from the onlookers after the fact.
And of course, the music of Handel using the words of the Bible cannot be beat.
Hat tip Chris McLaughlin.
Led Zeppelin – Thank You
An evening pause: Hat tip Dan Morris.
5 Things You Don’t Know – Pearl Harbor
An evening pause: Some nice tidbits of historical trivia related to the attack that occurred this day in 1941 that forced the U.S. into World War II, and literally signed the death warrants for the Nazi and Japanese warlords.
Mean Mary James – Iron Horse
An evening pause: It is amazing how she makes that banjo sing like a train.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Black Pumas – Colors
An evening pause: Hat tip Tom Wilson, who notes that “they sound better live than on their CD, that shows talent.”
Dropkick Murphys – The Season’s Upon Us
An evening pause: As important as the Christmas season might be to family and friends, I think this song reminds us that friendship and family also must include humor and a requirement that we do not take ourselves too serious.
And boy, those two little kids must have had a blast making this video.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Allison Young & Josh Turner – Stardust
An evening pause: Song by Hoagy Carmichael.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Sade – Smooth Operator
An evening pause: Performed live in 1984.
Hat tip Cotour.