Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Anne Murray – I Just Fall in Love Again
Footage of the Red Baron from 9/17/17
An evening pause: No music this time, only some history. Hat tip Tim Biggar, who notes “Couple of interesting things: The Fokker used a 9 cyl radial (clearly seen when they prime the cyls before takeoff). Unlike most modern designs, the crankshaft was bolted to the frame and did not rotate. The prop was bolted to the engine case and the entire engine case rotated. Lots of gyroscopic force made it hard to maneuver.
“The ‘flight suit’ and the gauntlets are worth noting.
“I think that may be Goering on the left (plain uniform with Iron Cross) at the 3:05 mark.
“At the end we see a Sopwith he shot down and the Brit pilot who lived.”
I note the sense of comradarie between these pilots at the end. In World War I there still was a sense of behaving civilly (as in civilization) even during war.
Joe Hisaishi & New Japan Philharmonic World Dream Orchestra – Tubular Bells
The Muppets – Ode to Joy
An evening pause: It could be argued that all classical music would be better played in this manner.
Lorrie Morgan – Will You Love Me Tomorrow
An evening pause: How about a wonderful country rendition of this pop classic?
Snake vs Centipede
An evening pause: This story illustrates well the unexpected and sometimes harsh aspects of nature. described well by Tennyson as “red in tooth and claw.”
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Eric Clapton – Tears in Heaven
An evening pause: I posted a 1999 Clapton performance of this song in 2011, but this 2013 version is worth watching as well.
Hat tip Danae.
Tammi Terrell and Marvin Gaye – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
An evening pause: Performed live on the Johnny Carson Show sometime in the 1960s.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman
Where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean
An evening pause: But not very relaxing. Hat tip to Phill Oltmann, who notes “This video is of commercial fishing boats returning from fishing off the coast of Washington and Oregon. They are crossing the Columbia Bar, which is the site the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean.”
Anthony Newley and Petula Clark – You and I
Dolly Parton – Jolene
An evening pause: Performed live, 2014. I especially like the dancing security guards.
Hat tip Danae.
Hey, I am still looking for tips for my evening pauses. Why let Danae have all the fun? If you see a video you think might fit, make a comment here mentioning that you have something, but don’t post the link. I will email you to get it from you.
Leroy Anderson – Typewriter Song
Phil Collins – In The Air Tonight
Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Prelude and Yodel
Judy Garland – Somewhere over the rainbow
An evening pause: I posted this performance back on November 23, 2010, had forgotten, and found it again by accident. It bears another viewing. As noted at the youtube link,
Judy Garland only performed “Over The Rainbow” twice during her many television appearances, which spanned 14 years. She performed it on her first TV Special, “Ford Star Jubilee” in the episode called “The Judy Garland Special” in 1955, and sang it to her children on The Christmas Edition of her weekly TV show “The Judy Garland Show” (1963).
Here Judy is dressed up [in the first special] as the tramp character she played when doing a duet with Fred Astaire in the film ‘Easter Parade’.
Watch. It shows why she was both a great singer and a great actress.
Tim Weisberg – Margarita
Bird loves GoPro
Don McLean – American Pie
Bond Girls – Korobushka
TU Delft – Ambulance Drone
An evening pause: This demo of a proposed use for drones highlights again the magnificent potential that engineering always has to improve our lives — if we use it right.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Frank Sinatra – My Way
An evening pause: Performed live, 1971. If anyone ever tries to tell you that you can’t say or do something, just think of this song, and these words:
For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught.
To say the things he truly feels;
And not the words of one who kneels.
The record shows I took the blows –
And did it my way.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Vince Carrola – Pachelbel’s Canon in D
An evening pause: Absolutely one of the most original performances of this classic piece of music I have ever seen. And man, can he play the guitar.
Joni Mitchell – Both Sides Now
An evening pause: Performed live, 1970. One of the best and most profound pop songs ever written. It is subtle and simple, deep and shallow, all at the same time.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Brainstorm – the world’s smartest mouse
An evening pause: You might say this a variation on a Rube Goldberg device, except that instead of gravity running the show it is a mouse.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Readers: I am always looking for tips for my evening pauses. If you see a video you think might fit, make a comment here mentioning that you have something, but don’t post the link. I will email you to get it from you.
James Taylor – Still crazy after all these years
Take 6 – Star-Spangled Banner
Jonah Morgan – A GoPro view of surfing in Indonesia
An evening pause: Taped on August 25, 2014. Hat tip Danae, who wrote, “It was 111.4 degrees under the side porch roof this afternoon, which explains why this video appeals to me. The visibility of the sea floor is just frosting on the cake.”
To me, this probably gives one who has never surfed (like myself) the best sense of what it is like to do it.
New Japan Philharmonic World Dream Orchestra – The Windmills of Your Mind
An evening pause: The conductor, Joe Hisaishi, is also the composer for the music in Hayao Miyazaki‘s best animated films.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Cher – Gypsys, Tramps, and Thieves
An evening pause: From a performance during the 1970s the Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour.
Hat tip Danae. As she notes, this was when Cher “still seemed semi-normal.” Without doubt, she could sing, and act. Too bad in later years she stopped focusing on where her best talents lay.