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.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
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.
Sara Evans – I Could Not Ask For More
An evening pause: I think for this holiday season I think we should focus on songs of thanksgiving, especially considering how hard we must now fight for our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Similar suggests will be welcome!
The United States Army Field Band – The Battle Hymn of the Republic
An evening pause: Performed live 2016.
Hat tip David McCooey, who had recommended this 1908 recording.
Anastasia Huppmann – Piano Sonata No 23 in F minor movement 3
An evening pause: By Beethoven.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Gregory Porter – Concorde
An evening pause: The music video story imposed on the song is somewhat predictable and unoriginal, but the song is top notch.
Hat tip to Robert Pratt of Pratt on Texas.
The Fixx – Saved by Zero
An evening pause: Hat tip Dan Morris.
Chris Stapleton – Cold
An evening pause: Hat tip Cotour.
Haley Reinhart & Casey Abrams – Time of the Season
An evening pause: Hat tip Dan Morris.
Readers! I am in need of evening pause suggestions! If you’ve seen something you think would work, say so in the comments, without providing a link. I will email you. For those interested in participating in making this webpage fun, here are my guidelines for suggesting evening pauses:
1. The subject line should say “evening pause.”
2. Don’t send more than three in any email. I prefer however if you send them one email at a time.
3. Variety! Don’t send me two or three or five from the same artist. I can only use one. Pick your favorite and send that.
4. Live performance preferred.
5. Quirky technology, humor, and short entertaining films also work.
6. Search BtB first to make sure your suggestion hasn’t already been posted.
7. I might not respond immediately, as I schedule these in a bunch.
Allison Young – Where Is My Mind?
An evening pause: Another Postmodern Jukebox performance.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Corporal Matthew Creek – The Last Post
An evening pause: Played at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. From the youtube page:
In military tradition, the Last Post is the bugle call that signifies the end of the day’s activities. It is also sounded at military funerals to indicate that the soldier has gone to his final rest and at commemorative services
In honor of this Armistice Day, the eleventh day of the eleventh month, and those who gave their lives for freedom, something that appears at this moment sadly lost in Australia.
Imogen Heap – Blanket
An evening pause: Jeff Beck on guitar.
Hat tip Dan Morris.