Morning Has Broken for Harp & Violin
An evening pause: Arranged by Joyce Weaver; Brent Williams, Violin; Merrie Beth Eubanks, Harp; Recorded Live at First United Methodist Church, Valdosta, GA on February 19, 2012. Produced by Chris Williams.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Andreas Vollenweider – May Green Be The Grass
An evening pause: Performed live in Santiago, 1995, with Eberhard Han, Mindy Jostyn, and Walter Keiser.
Hat tip Danae.
Bugs Bunny – 8 Ball Bunny
An evening pause: From 1950. Film buffs will especially get a laugh out of the reference to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
2Cellos – With or without you
Linda Ronstadt – Love has no pride
An evening pause: Recorded live from Tennessee State Prison in 1976 for a TV special called “A Concert Behind Prison Walls,” hosted by Johnny Cash and aired in 1977.
Roy Orbison – In Dreams
An evening pause: From A Black and White Night, recorded originally for television in 1988. Orbison is backed up here by an all star cast, including just to name a few Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, k.d. lang, and Bonnie Raitt.
Hat tip to Tom.
Beautiful woodworking
Above LA 4K
An evening pause: The creator strongly advises that you watch this in full screen HD with sound on. And I agree.
Hat tip Tom.
Steve’n’Seagulls – Thunderstruck
An evening pause: This Finnish band does a nice job of covering the AC/DC hard rock song Thunderstruck, but doing it in a bluegrass kind of way. The banjo player is especially amazing.
Hat tip to my lovely wife Diane.
Puddles Pity Party – Dancing Queen
An evening pause:
I’ve posted a performance by Puddles the sad clown (Mike Geier) previously. This cover by him of the ABBA hit is truly original and makes you actually hear the real meaning of the words.
The Cat Came Back
An evening pause: Hat tip to Phil Berardelli.
David Foster and Kenny G – Love Theme From St. Elmo’s Fire
Pink “Perfect”
Vocal Spectrum – The Music of the Night
Bambi meets Godzilla
An evening pause: A classic from 1969. I remember seeing this for the first time at one of the very first comic book conventions in New York. It brought the house down.
Hat tip to Phil Berardelli.
Reba McEntire – I’m gonna wash that man right outa my hair
Postmodern Jukebox – Burn
Hayley Westenra – Pie Jesu
An evening pause: Performed when she was fifteen years old. Hat tip Danae for finding me this amazing singer.
Market Street, San Francisco, April 14, 1906
An evening pause: This film footage has been circulating about on the web for several years. I even think I posted it previously but can’t find that post now. Either way, it was shot mere days before the San Francisco earthquake, and provides us a window into the reality of life then. The sound effects add to the reality, though they are not original to the time. They were added later and were dubbed in with what I think was great care. See the notes here for more details.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Perpetuum Jazzile – Africa
An evening pause: Hat tip to Mike.
Mary Hopkin – Those were the days
An evening pause: Recorded live in France, 1969. Though the song, in style and content, looked back at past generations when it was released late in the 1960s, it today tells us more of the strong conceits of the baby boom generation.
Hat tip to Edward Thelen.
Clarence White & Roland White – I Am A Pilgram/Soldiers Joy
An evening pause: Performed live on Bob Baxter’s “Guitar Workshop” in 1973. Hat tip to jwing, who wrote the following when he sent me the link:
Clarence was instrumental in making flat-picking guitar a lead solo instrument in bluegrass, along with Doc Watson. He played as a session musician for many groups in the 60’s such as the Everly Brothers and The Monkees. Later he became the lead guitarist for Roger McGuinn’s Byrds. He developed the B-string bender invention that you can hear on the Eagles’ song “Take It Easy.” Sadly, in 1973 while packing up the band’s van after a late night gig he was hit by a drunk driver and was killed. A huge loss to music. This video was recorded in LA only a few months before that fateful night. Enjoy a true virtuoso.
The More the Merrier
An evening pause: Watch Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea in the classic kiss scene from The More the Merrier (1943).
Hat tip to Phil Berardelli, author of Phil’s Favorite 500: Loves of a Moviegoing Lifetime (2014 edition).
The Happy Cats – Doesn’t come any better
Maria and the Captain dance the Laendler
An evening pause: From the classic musical, The Sound of Music (1965), a moment with few words where all things change because everyone understands everything anyway.
As I noted in my first Evening Pause on July 1, 2010, “Julie Andrews, in her prime, had one of the most incredible screen presences of any actor in the history of film.”
Eddi Reader – Galileo
An evening pause:
Galileo fell in love as a Galilean boy
And he wondered what in heaven, who’d invented such a joy.
But the question got the better of his scientific mind
And to his blind and dying day
He’d look up high and love and sighed and sometimes cried,
Who puts the rainbows in the sky?
Who lights the stars in the night?
Who dreamt up someone so divine?
Someone like you and made them mine?
Spyro Gyra at Montreux Jazz 89
Puddles Pity Party – “Royals”
Mike Oldfield – The Bell
Monty Python – Mafia
An evening pause: The first half captures perfectly the determination, courage, and willingness to fight for freedom of most of my baby boom generation. The second half for some reason reminds me of the IRS.