Foreigner – Urgent
An evening pause: Performed live 1982, with a truly great sax solo by Mark Rivera.
Hat tip Ferris Akel.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Badgerland Birding – Five things you didn’t know about Owls
An evening pause: Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Gravity – Rocket Size Comparison as of 2024
A evening pause: The list is not quite complete, but it does give a sense of the comparable sizes of the most important rockets flying today, with a few important historic examples thrown in for context.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Chris Rea – The Road To Hell
An evening pause: Performed live 2006.
Hat tip Alec Gimarc, who adds these details: “Chris Rea passed away last week. About our age. Over 30 studio albums. British. Very much an acquired taste. Been listening to him for nearly 40 years. Smooth, smoky voice. He specialized in slide guitar. Road to Hell is probably his greatest hit.”
Anabasis – Dead Can Dance
A evening pause: Performed live c2018.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
HotPlays – Beethoven’s 5th Symphony
An evening pause: It isn’t what you expect. More from this group here.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
This a cappella group performs Beethoven’s 5th Symphony. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Credit: HotPlaysMusic YT pic.twitter.com/GB6NRQaOvs
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) December 18, 2025
Christina Petrou – Ta Pedia Tou Pirea
An evening pause: Accompanied by the André Rieu orchestra and Charis Laurijsen & Panos Dimakis.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Stefan Langer – Compilation of glider low passes over beach, lake, and mountains
An evening pause: So, what will you be doing this weekend?
Hat tip Cotour.
Marshall Crenshaw – Whenever You’re On My Mind
A evening pause: Performed live 1985.
Hat tip Ferris Akel.
John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John – Summer Nights
An evening pause: From the 1980 film Grease.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Veritasium – The Ames Window
An evening pause: A wonderful demonstration that one should never assume your first glance is right.
Jonasquin – If Stayin’ Alive Had Been Written in 16th Century
An evening pause: Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Peter Schickele performs Schickele and P.D.Q. Bach
An evening pause: A performance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson from 1987.
Hat tip Alex Gimarc.
Sotheby’s – Two impossible watches that shouldn’t exist
A evening pause: The subject of watches and time, possibly linked to astronomy, seems fitting on this first day of the new year, when we start a new number in our lives.
Hat tip Cotour.
Bing Crosby – Let’s Start the New Year Right
An evening pause: From the 1942 film Holiday Inn. Stay with this after the song for a truly spectacular dance number by Fred Astaire, dancing as a New Year’s Eve drunk with Marjorie Reynolds.
Paolo Ercoli – Song for a winter’s night
A evening pause: A nice rendition of the Gordon Lightfoot song on an instrument called the squareneck dobro.
Hat tip Cotour.
Rita Hayworth – Steal a Show
A eveningpause: From the 1947 musical Down to Earth, where Hayworth places the goddess of dance, who comes down from heaven to save the show.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Marula Eugster Rigolo – One feather
An evening pause: A nice way to close out the season of miracles.
Hat tip John Jossy.
Brigham Young University Choir & Orchestra – Oh Come All Ye Faithful
An evening pause: I hope all my Christian readers had a wonderful and joyous Christmas, from your Jewish but very secular host. With good will to all!
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Kathy Mattea – Mary did you know
An evening pause: Another reprise, this time from 2020. As I wrote then: “This song honoring Jesus I think really speaks of every child born on Earth, and how every parent should see them. As Wordsworth said, they come ‘trailing clouds of glory.'”
Did you know that your baby boy has walked where angels trod?
When you kissed your little baby then you kissed the face of god.