Micah Tyler – You’ve Gotta Love Millennials
An evening pause: A great cover of the Beatles song, rewritten to also give us some funny and sad commentary on the modern world.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Mark Wills – Jacob’s Ladder
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who correctly notes that “Country music so delicious, you could eat it with a fork.”
Florence Lacey – It Only Takes a Moment
Buckethead – Big Sur Moon
An evening pause: The guitar playing here by Angela Maldonado proves that you don’t need a synthesizer and computer software to play this stuff.
Hat tip Insomnious.
OutKast – Hey Ya!
An evening pause: I am generally not a fan of hip hop, but this music video is filled with so much happiness I can’t resist it.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who adds, “Andre’ 3000 sings and plays all 8 parts in this video from 2003. There were so many takes from different angles, eventually exhausted, he had his last character sit down during the performance.”
Tine Thing Helseth – Libertango
Roger Whittaker – The Last Farewell
Angles and Dangles on the USS Pasadena
A evening pause: For Veterans Day, let’s take a ride on an American modern nuclear submarine, with Bill Whittle. I bet you will not be able to guess what the control room reminded him of.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Henry De Winter and the Bratislava Hot Serenaders – Livin’ in the Sunlight, Lovin’ in the Moonlight
<An evening pause: The little dog is an especially nice touch.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who adds that “The Bratislava Hot Serenaders revive 1930’s music as best as can be done with modern instruments.”
Natalija Havralenko – In A Sentimental Mood
The Star-Spangled Banner
An evening pause: During the 2015 Kentucky Music Educators convention in Louisville, the 500 high students in attendance would gather each night just before curfew on the balconies of the Hyatt Regency’s vast interior lobby and sing the national anthem.
I think it fitting to show this tonight, on election day. The United States will always hold the honor of being the first nation on Earth to attempt the great experiment of self-government, established by conscious choice with the creation of founding documents. For this, we will forever I think be remembered in human history, a fact for which Americans should always be proud.
Hat tip Peter Fenstermacher.
The Script – Superheroes
<An evening pause: I like the words he uses to introduce the song, “You might wonder why superheroes are born, but I gotta tell ya, sometimes they’re not born, they’re made.”
Hat tip Andrew_W.
Matt Monro – Born free
An evening pause: From the 1966 film of the same name.
Born free
And life is worth living
but only worth living
‘Cause you’re born free.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
North Korean children on the guitar
An evening pause: The performances here are quite spectacular, but as the youtube link notes, they are also “creepy as hell.” Ask yourself repeatedly if you haven’t become one of these North Korean kids when you vote this coming Tuesday.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
George Carlin on language of politics
An evening pause: With the election less than a week away, I think this comedy speech by George Carlin sums up the fundamental dishonesty of the modern Washington establishment politician, from both parties. And though he is quite funny, I couldn’t help thinking of what Robert Heinlein said: “We laugh because it hurts.”
Let me also add that when we vote next week I think it most important to consider which politicians most remind you of the dishonest corrupt liars Carlin so ably describes. That should help you realize who you shouldn’t vote for.
Hat tip Frank Kelly.
Christopher Cross – Arthur’s Theme
It’s The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
Resonance experiment
An evening pause: While I am sure there are engineers out there who can explain how the interaction of the vibrator with the plate causes the patterns, I look at this from my more philosophical side, and note how this experiment reveals very simply how the universe is filled with hidden wonders and patterns that challenge us as humans to uncover.
Hat tip Tom Wilson.
Ghetto Kids Dancing – Sitya Loss
An eveing pause: I like the feeling that this is entirely spontaneous, even if it isn’t.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Peter Green & Carlos Santana- Black Magic Woman
Tony Bennett – I’m Just A Lucky So And So
Charlene – I’ve Never Been To Me
Celtic Woman – Isle of Inisfree
An evening pause: Written by Dirk Farrelly in 1950 while on a bus heading to Dublin, the song invokes the longing of an immigrant far from home.
And when the moonlight peeps across the rooftops,
Of this great city, wondrous though it be,
I scarcely feel its wonder or its laughter…
I’m once again back home in Inisfree.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Iron Horse – Rocketman
<An evening pause: A very nice performance of Elton John’s song. I just wish they had dumped the shots of astronauts in space and stuck with the musicians. Their playing is far more interesting to watch.
Hat tip Frank Kelly.
Bette Midler – Do You Want To Dance?
United States Navy Band – Selections from Jersey Boys
An evening pause: All the songs were originally by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and were used in the musical Jersey Boys, which tells that band’s story.
Hat tip Frank Kelly.
Audrey Hepburn – Moon River
An evening pause: I’ve posted this song as an evening pause previously, but I think Audrey Hepburn’s performance of the song in the 1961 movie, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, which introduced it to the world, deserves to be seen.
Hat tip Andrew_W.
Tripp Crosby – Conference Call in Real Life
An evening pause: I thank God every day that I don’t work in the corporate world!
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
André Rieu – The Beautiful Blue Danube
An evening pause: What I think makes these performances by Rieu and his orchestra so especially appealing is that he finds musicians who are glad to show how much they enjoy playing this lovely music. He recognizes the importance of fun.
And yes, as a child of the 1960s, I cannot help listening to this music and see spaceships docking. Those of my generation will of course immediately know to what I am referring. Will anyone younger?
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Upper Austrian Youth Orchestra – Sebastian, the Cyber Conductor
An evening pause: Created by Sebastian Gurtler and Aleksey Igudesman. Unfortunately, the full performance is not available for U.S. audiences. This clip however, is worth every second.
Hat tip Frank Kelly.