Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Joey Alexander – Over The Rainbow
An evening pause: A nice transition from Judy Garland yesterday, and what I am posting tomorrow.
Hat tip Frank Kelly.
Judy Garland – The Man That Got Away
An evening pause: From A Star is Born (1954).
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
As always, I am open to evening pause suggestions from my readers. If you have one, say so here in a comment, but don’t post the link. I will email you to get it.
Neil Young – Old Man
The Band – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
An evening pause: From the Martin Scorsese documentary, The Last Waltz (1978).
Note that if a band tried to write a song like this today, sympathetic to the southerns who died during the Civil War, they would probably find their careers destroyed. So much for artistic freedom, and having empathy for all souls.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
The Tenors – My Father’s Son
Quincy Coleman – Baby Don’t You Cry (The Pie Song)
An evenig pause: Recipe by Sunita Marie, whose youtube channel simply says, “Music is fun.”
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Anthony Hopkins & André Rieu – And The Waltz Goes On
An evening pause: From the youtube page: “[Actor Sir Anthony] Hopkins said he had been an admirer of André Rieu for several years and wanted to meet him, so he sent him some music that he wrote with Rieu specifically in mind to perform and his dream came true when André Rieu masterfully performed it with his orchestra.”
Hat tip Danae.
Niamh McGlinchey – Love You ‘Till The End
How Its Made – Train Wheels
Richard Wagner – Ride of the Valkyries
The Corrs – Everybody Hurts
Cake – Short Skirt, Long Jacket
<An eveing pause: I have to admit that I almost didn’t schedule this, since I don’t particularly like the song. However, that’s my taste, and besides, the trumpet player makes up for it.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Passenger – Let Her Go
An evening pause: It is especially nice to watch how quickly the audience joins in to sing along.
Hat tip Danae.
President Roosevelt’s announcement of D-Day, June 6, 1944
An evening pause: On this anniversary of D-Day, it is worthwhile to go back in time and relive that time to understand better what our country then stood for. Below is President Roosevelt’s radio speech to the nation, announcing the D-Day invasion and its apparent initial success. What is striking is that he spends little time talking about what happened, nor does he spend any time extolling the triumph of his administration. Instead, he humbly turns his speech into his heartfelt prayer for the lives of the soldiers, the people at home, and the people in Europe who are suffering under Hitler’s rule, reminding everyone of the nation’s real goal: “A peace that will let all men to live in peace, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.” He then ends the prayer with these words, “Thy will be done, almighty God. Amen.”
This speech tells us as much about the nation that Roosevelt lived in as it does about Roosevelt himself. He knew his audience, and he knew they believed deeply in freedom, truth, human rights, and moral commitment. He also knew they would be honored to join him in this prayer, with the same humbleness as he was expressing. He knew they would not be offended, whatever their faith, because the important thing was to have good will and to strive for a just conclusion of the war.
If only such things could happen today.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Ricky Syers – Marionettes
Disturbed – The Sound Of Silence
An evening pause: One of the best performances I have ever seen of Paul Simon’s beautifully poetic song.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman
Prince & Lenny Kravitz – American Woman
Emmylou Harris & Mary Black – You’ll Never Be The Sun
The B-1 Lancer Bomber
An evening pause: One reason we have a Memorial Day is to honor those who have died to keep us free. We also remember them to remind us that the sacrifice was necessary.
I think it is long past time to repeat the same effort, no matter the cost, and use this plane’s payload a lot more than we are. There are people in the Middle East who are gleefully killing people for the sake of power. We should no longer tolerate them.
Hat tip Rocco.
R.E.M. – Losing My Religion
An evening pause: This kind of music video I really like: A live performance, filmed expressly for the video. No audience, no special effects, no fake cute story expressing the angst of adolescence. Just the musicians, their instruments, the words of the song, and the cameraman.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Yanni, Lisa Lavie, Lauren Jelencovich – Aria
Wintergatan – Starmachine2000
An evening pause: The same people who gave us the Marble Machine show us again how to use technology to make good music.
Hat tip Danae.
Chito
An evening pause: Hat tip George Petricko, who noted, “Just when you think the whole world has gone rotten, you see someone like this.” I say, this is just one more testament to what is possible if you are humble and do the best you can, with what you have.
The Cowsills – The Rain, The Park and Other Things
Electric Light Orchestra -.Can’t get it out of my head
Jamey Johnson & Lee Ann Womack – “Give It Away”
Johann Strauss – Perpetuum mobile
An evening pause: Hat tip Dane, who added that “Herbert von Karajan’s eccentricity as a conductor” makes this worth watching all by itself.
Blockhead – The Music Scene
An evening pause: Animation by Antonio Francisco Schepperd. As I watched this I could not help think of the very expressive 1960s word psychodelic.