Hillary Klug – Cotton Eyed Joe
An evening pause: Stay with it, it gets better and better, as she triples herself in the second half.
Hat tip Sherman LaViolette.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Chris Pritchard – World way: The City of LAX
An evening pause: From the website:
The impetus for “WORLD WAY: The City of LAX” was born in 2013 as I sat on a rooftop in El Segundo, waiting for a shoot to begin and looking out over LA. The incoming planes looked like a highway, evenly spaced and spread across multiple lanes. This led my eye to the end of their path – LAX. I realized I had a fully unobstructed view of the airport, and immediately started capturing timelapses of it. I became fascinated with the many layers of movement that were visible – planes taking off and landing, planes taxiing, ground support equipment moving on the ramp and throughout the airport, passenger vehicles on World Way, passengers on foot outside and inside the airport – all moving at their own unique pace. It made me realize that LAX is a city unto itself, with so many moving pieces and individual people all doing their part to keep it moving.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Gary Numan – Cars
An evening pause: From 1979, in every way possible.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Sade – Your Love Is King
An evening pause: Performed live 2011.
Hat tip Cotour.
Aaron Copland – Appalachian Spring
An evening pause: Performed by Perspectives Ensemble using the original 1944 orchestration.
Hat tip Diane Wilson, who admits that “it’s long-ish, but this is a superb performance of purely American experience set to music.” I agree. You will be refreshed and enlightened by it.
Bayin Wu – Das Boot
An evening pause: Building a unique model, with a unique concept.
Hat tip Cotour.
The Pretenders – Brass In Pocket
An evening pause: Performed live in London 2009.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Glen Campbell – Wichita Lineman
An evening pause: Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Mel Blanc & Jack Benny – Si
An evening pause: Good comedy never depends on crudeness. Sometimes good timing and a willingness to be silly is all you need.
Has tip Edward Thelen.
Sleepy Man Banjo Boys – Three bluegrass songs
An evening pause: From left to right that Robbie (14), Jonny (10), and Tommy (15) Mizzone, brothers from New Jersey.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
The fabled yacht Endeavour
An evening pause: Endeavour was built in 1934 in England in an attempt to win the America’s Cup from the U.S. It failed, but according to this Wikipedia page came closer than anyone until Australia II finally took the cup from the U.S. in 1983.
Hat tip Cotour, who notes that “the interior was rumored to cost about $1.2 million.”
Silent Monks Sing the Hallelujah Chorus
An evening pause: There is something both inspired and silly about this performance by this South Kitsap High School vocal group in Port Orchard, Washington.
Hat tip Martin Kaselis.
Driving the same car for 53 years
An evening pause: An American car before Robert McNamara introduced built-in obsolescence.
Hat tip Cotour.
Jonah Ho – Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No.2
An evening pause: Hat tip Tom Biggar, who writes, “I finally figured what’s wrong with my playing – I need to get a pair of jammies like his.”
To me, this illustrates the awesomeness possible from each person, especially the young, who don’t yet know they can’t do it, and so they do.
Survivor – Eye of the Tiger
An evening pause: Performed live 1985 in Japan. Stay with it. They just don’t want this performance to end.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
George Harrison tribute – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
An evening pause: Performed live in 2004 by Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne and others.
Hat tip Cotour.
Stan Hershonik – Making of an Aeolian Harp
A evening pause: Another demonstration of the amazing ability of humans to improvise new things using the most unexpected materials.
I must say however that the sound produced would be exactly what I’d expect to hear upon entering a haunted house.
Hat tip Diane Wilson.
Dickson Mounds
An evening pause: Time for some archeology.
Hat tip Cotour.
Mike Oldfield – In the beginning & Let there be light
An evening pause: A nice way to start the new year. And yes, that is Bill Anders’ voice, recorded during the Christmas Eve broadcast from Apollo 8 in 1968 in orbit around the Moon.
New Year’s resolution
An evening pause: Wise words, which we all should heed in the coming year.
New Years Resolution from Anateya Cranson on Vimeo.