Eric Clapton – Signe
An evening pause: Performed live 1992.
Hat tip Ferris Akel.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Soggy Bottom Boys – I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow
An evning pause: Performed live 2001.
Hat tip Judd Clark, in a roundabout way.
David Hartley – Why Wichita Lineman is the greatest unfinished song of all time
A evening pause: As Hartley says in describing how this classic song was created, “But they kept it so simple.” After watching the video below I think you will want to go back to yesterday’s pause and listen again.
May everyone have a great weekend.
Hat tip Cotour.
Glen Campbell – Wichita Lineman
An evening pause: I normally don’t post pauses that are not live and have no visuals, such as this one. However, in this case I have reasons for using this original recording of this wonderful song, which will become evident in tomorrow’s evening pause.
Larry Kimpel, Billy Cobham, & George Duke – Stratus
An evening pause: Performed live c2009.
Hat tip Cotour.
Jefferson Starship – Jane
An evening pause: No idea when this live performance took place.
Hat tip Ferris Akel.
Little Cars – When Sweden Switched To Driving On The Right
An evening pause: A bit of technology history.
Hat tip Rex Ridenoure.
Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire – Swing Time
An evening pause: From the 1936 film of the same name. Fred improvises to save Ginger’s job as a dance teacher. Watch how Rogers’ impression of him and her interaction during the dance evolves so naturally. I have always found her to be not only a great dancer, able to keep up with Astaire (the king of all dance), but also a marvelous actress.
Note too how this is not the gymnastics of modern dance, which is often only one small step above a Jane Fonda exercise video, but an amazingly nuanced and choreographed sequence of complex steps and moves, set to American pop music but with graceful classical ballet in mind.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Thanksgiving repost: Miracle on 34th Street
An evening pause: This was posted in 2023. Time to repost.
Original text:
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This movie used to be a tradition for television on Thanksgiving. At that time the holiday was well linked with the then joyous and relatively Christian Macy’s Day Parade (now warped into a queer agenda demonstration). [Editor: an agenda that thank god appears to be on the run.]
I think it makes for a good opening to the holiday season.
Josephine Baker – Dance Josie, Dance
An evening pause: From the 1935 French film, Princesse Tam Tam.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Dexys Midnight Runners – Come On Eileen
An evening pause: Performed live on a children’s television show (!), 1982. Stay with it, the beginning was part of the show’s shtick.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Robert Goulet & Julie Andrews – My Cup Runneth Over
An evening pause: From the 1966 Broadway musical, I Do! I Do!, and performed here on the Julie Andrews Show. I originally posted this in 2012, on our wedding anniversary. This chorus now strikes me most profoundly:
In only a moment we both will be old
We won’t even notice the world turning cold
And so, in this moment with sunlight above
My cup runneth over with love.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Restless Viking – The Great Lakes Flight of MSgt William Wyman
An evening pause: A great though tragic story that deserves telling.
Have a great weekend!
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Sonny and Cher – I Got You Babe
An evening pause: Performed on television in 1965, though I am almost certain they are lip-synching to song’s distributed recording. I posted this before, but that was in 2012. I think enough time has passed.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Marilyn Monroe – Lazy
An eveing pause: From the Hollywood film There’s No Business Like Show Business (1954).
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Couldn’t Stand The Weather
An evening pause: Performed live 1985.
Hat tip Ferris Akel.
Leonid & Friends – Stay the Night
A evening pause: Another great cover from this Russian band, this time a song by Chicago. Recorded in 2018, which explains why the lead vocalist is a Ukrainian. It appears he is no longer with the group.
Hat tip Dan Coovert.
I’m fixing a hole where the rain gets in
An evening pause: I think we all take for granted the amount of sophisticated engineering that goes into modern construction. No English, but you don’t need it.
Hat tip Cotour.
Home Free – The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
An evening pause: A very nice cover of the Gordon Lightfoot song.
Hat tip Tom Laskowski.
Lena Horne – Stormy Weather
An evening pause: From the 1943 film of the same name.
Hat tip Judd Clark.