Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Fkj & Masego – Tadow
An evening pause: It is amazing how modern technology can allow artists like this the ability to create something so unique, so quickly, on the fly.
Hat tip t-dub.
Birds of Flame – Open Country Joy
An evening pause: This performance is a tribute to the 1970s art-rock group, Mahavishnu Orchestra. They add a bit of country to the sound, which works surprisingly well. Ignore the bad camerawork and focus on the music, which somehow for me works for the first day of spring.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Kuroshio Sea – 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world
An evening pause: The music is “Please Don’t Go” by Barcelona.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who rightly calls this “A moment of serenity from Okinawa.”
The Virginia Gentlemen – Lady in Red
Ides of March – Vehicle
Johnny Cash – Hurt
An evening pause: Normally I prefer live performances. Normally I don’t like music videos edited with pretentious images, often about adolescent angst. This video is none of that. It is Johnny Cash, in his old age, looking back in time.
Hat tip Jeff Poplin.
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The Duck Song
Smothers Brothers – Red River Valley
Avner Geller and Stevie Lewis – Defective Detective
One Direction – Moments
An evening pause: The teen-age girls in this audience could have easily been swiped from the audiences the Beatles faced when they first hit the world scene.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Betty Hutton – Murder, He Says
Lorde – Glory and Gore
Conor Oberst – You Are Your Mother’s Child
David Byrne + NYC – Heroes
An evening pause: The event is one where the audience is enlisted to participate as a back-up choir for the night’s main performance.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Sasha & the Starlight – So Nice
Bobbie Gentry – Ode To Billie Joe
Spitfire 944
An evening pause: Somehow to me this film about an American pilot from World War II and a single moment during his tour seems fitting to me on Washington’s birthday. I can’t explain why, but it does.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Celtic Woman – A Spaceman Came Travelling
Chet Atkins & Jerry Reed – Muleskinner Blues
Metric – Twilight Galaxy
Oktapodi
Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield – Between The Bars
Kealan O’Rourke – The Boy In The Bubble
An evening pause: Fitting for today. And yes, that is Alan Rickman narrating.
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Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Brian Hyland – Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
A evening pause: From the Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show, July 16, 1960. True, it is lip-sync’d, but the silly innocence of this bygone time makes it absolutely worthwhile. And I think this really does make a good lead-in to Valentine’s Day.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Abraham Lincoln – a tribute on his birthday
An evening pause: It is Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. It is time to once again repost this Lincoln tribute. As I have said previously, it is necessary we remember again the amazing good will he repeatedly expressed, even to those who hated him and wished to kill him. As I said in 2015:
We should also remind ourselves, especially in this time of increasing anger, bigotry, and violence, of these words from his second inaugural address, spoken in the final days of a violent war that had pitted brother against brother in order to set other men free:
Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Friday Songs – Listen to the Music!
An evening pause: As noted at the youtube webpage, “a feel-good tribute to the Doobie Brothers hit.” It appears this guy produces a new cover song each Friday “to celebrate the best day of the week.”
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Lilly Yokoi – ballerina on bicycle
An evening pause: About a minute into this I was thinking, this is exactly the kind of bicycle tricks that teenage boys began doing in the 1980s. And that’s about when she really got started.
Hat tip Jeff Poplin.
Eddy Arnold & LeAnn Rimes – Cattle Call
An evening pause: LeAnn Rimes here is 14, Eddy Arnold is 76. They make a magnificent team.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.