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.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
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.
John Hess – Auld Lang Syne
An evening pause: The new year beckons and the trumpets blow.
Why Oil Paint Is So Expensive
An evening pause: Hat tip Cotour.
Catalina Vicens – Rondeau
An evening pause: The instrument is a medieval portative organ. The music is not medieval but was written in 2014 by American composer Carson Cooman.
Hat tip Diane Wilson.
Christmas Songs on Steel
An evening pause: Somehow to me this seems more appropriate the day after Christmas.
Hat tip Cotour.
Jennifer Nettles – O Holy Night/Hallelujah
An evening pause: For my Christian readers, from a secular Jew, in good will.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
U.S. Army Band – Bluegrass Christmas Medley
An evening pause: Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Mariah Carey – All I Want For Christmas Is You
An evening pause: I hope we all get our own equivalent of what she wants.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
The Starbugs – Mr Tambourine Man
An evening pause: Sung by Jessie Hillel, Sarah Whitaker, Roisin Anderson, Ben Anderson, Rebecca Jenkins. From the youtube page: “We have re-pitched this captivating selection of favourites to suit children’s voices.”
Truly one of Bob Dylan’s most beautiful and poetic songs.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.