Dave Brubeck – Unsquare Dance
An evening pause: From a television performance sometime probably in the early 1960s. Unfortunately, the show and the dancers are unknown.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Zager And Evans – In The Year 2525
An evening pause: How about a pop classic from 1969? This song epitomizes the passionate, sometimes over-wrought cultural atmosphere of the 1960s quite nicely.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Gloria Gaynor – I will Survive
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen, who noted, “Some days just go better than others. For some of the other days, this song may be appropriate.”
The Backwards Brain Bicycle
An evening pause: This is show 133 of a series called Smarter Every Day which has some really entertaining and very educational videos. I especially like his video showing how the drill on Curiosity works. The video below however shows some actual experimentation done by the videographer himself, and is almost profound in it what reveals about the human learning process.
Hat tip Chris McLaughlin.
Stevie Wonder – My Cherie Amour
An evening pause: This performance, by Stevie Wonder as well as the audience, brought a smile to my face. When you watch I think you’ll see why, especially when Wonder asks the audience, “Can I sing with ya?”
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Jimi Hendrix – Red House
An evening pause: Some more nice guitar playing. Performed live in Stockholm, Sweden, 1969.
Hat tip Tom Wilson.
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Sondre Lerche – My Hands Are Shaking
An evening pause: I especially like the sound clarity and sharpness of the electric guitar playing.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
One Year on Earth – Seen From 1 Million Miles
An evening pause: This video release from NASA made the rounds a few weeks ago. It isn’t news, but it is cool. One important fact noted during this video is that the Earth’s cloud cover both warms and cools the planet. What wasn’t noted was that there is gigantic uncertainty about how much the clouds warm and cool, which is one of the main reasons no climate models have been even close to successfully predicting the climate.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Chloe and Jason Roweth – The Wild Colonial Boy
Peggy Lee – Fever
Three stops on Iceland’s golden circle
An evening pause: From the youtube webpage: “The three main stops on the Golden Circle route in Iceland: 1. The magnificent Gullfoss waterfall; 2. Haukadalur geothermal area (widely known as Geysir) – famous for its geysers and termal pools (Strokkur being the most active); 3. Thingvellir National Park, where the Icelandic Parliament was established in 930, and where the continental drift between Europe and North America can be easily noticed.”
The music is “The Most Beautiful Things” by Michael Murphy.
Hat tip Danae, who added “Just chillin’ with sights for a hot summer day.”
Pete Townshend – Let My Love Open The Door
Sara Bareilles – Many the Miles
Bernadette Peters – Unexpected Song
An evening pause: From the Andrew Lloyd Weber musical, Song & Dance. Performed live in London in 1998.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Ed Sheeran – The Parting Glass
An evening pause: At different performance of this song on youtube, Sheeran tells the audience that for this song to work “we’ve all got to be very very very quiet.” I agree. Take the time to listen quietly.
Hat tip Chris McLaughlin.
Harry Nilsson – As Time Goes By
An evening pause: This appears to a rehearsal for the 1973 BBC show, A Little Touch of Schmilsson, with Frank Sinatra’s arranger Gordon Jenkins.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Lower Waterholes Canyon, Arizona
An evening pause: Waterholes Canyon is a side canyon leading down into the Colorado River, north of the Grand Canyon. The people canyoneering here are caving friends of mine. The video was created by Kimberly Franke, whom you pretty much only see in the opening still shot, since she was wearing the camera most of the time. Her husband Kevin Franke is also a fellow caver who is the person with the white helmet and thick whitish beard. The woman in the red helmet doing the very long drop near the end is Belinda Norby, also a fellow caver. The music is “Point of No Return” by Roger Subirana Mata.
The world is filled with amazing things to see. This video does a nice job of highlighting just one of them.
Donna Fargo – Funny Face
Marilyn Monroe – Diamonds are a girl’s best friend
Danny Kaye – Monahan O’Han
Keith Emerson – Creole Dance
An evening pause: Performed live in Budapest 1997. Emerson’s piano playing is amazing, and uses techniques I have never seen before.
Hat tip Chris McLaughlin.
No 6207 A Study in Steel
An evening pause: A fascinating and well-filmed documentary from 1935 describing how a British company then built locomotives. Note the lack of construction helmets, gloves, or safety glasses. Note also the number of workers involved. Today most of this work is automated, making it more precise and efficient. Then, however, they did not yet have such technology, and instead found ways to build very sophisticated machines using the skills of ordinary humans.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Franky Zapata demonstrating his Flyboard Air
An evening pause: Hat tip t-dub, who wrote that the Flyboard Air “is a real product developed by Franky Zapata. It’s a jet powered board that reminds me of what the Green Goblin used in Spiderman. This video was done in Monaco during the Formula 1 race this year. His company is called Zapata Racing and he has developed a jet pack, water hover board, and those fire hose things people use over water which is a hydraulic Flyboard I believe. If they only had this stuff back in the 70’s when I was growing up.” T-dub also added, “The Flyboard can go up to 10,000 feet, fly at 98 MPH, and has a duration of almost ten minutes depending on use. They have also set a Guinness record with the device.”
My thought: Once again, life imitates art.
Alexei Arkhipovsky – Going Home
An evening pause: This is not the American hymn, but a Russian piece performed here by the composer.
Hat tip Danae.
Madeleine Peyroux – Don’t Wait Too Long
Mother, Father, Sister, Brother – The Sound of Philadelphia
An evening pause: This instrumental music, used as the theme music for the 1970s television show, Soul Train, has only one significant vocal line: “People all over the world!” I think the visuals used here, of Earth taken from the International Space Station, make that line seem especially appropriate.
Hat tip James Stephens.
Paul Mauriat & Orchestra – La pie voleuse
An evening pause: I especially like the use of digital sounds mixed with the standard orchestra.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Mary Travers – Follow Me
Huey Lewis and the News – Workin’ for a livin’
An evening pause: Another appropriate piece for the start of the week. Performed live, 1982.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
The Avalanches – Frontier Psychiatrist
An evening pause: I think the words from Moscow on the Hudson (1984) sum this music video up very well: “Strange but wonderful.”
Hat tip Max Hunt.