Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Emmylou Harris – Pancho & Lefty
Eleanor Powell – Hula
An evening pause: From Honolulu (1939). What I like about this is that everyone involved has no worries about offending anyone. They are free to take the native cultural music of Hawaii and embellish it as the whim takes them. They were free (to repeat that forgotten word) to be as creative as they like. The result is a pretty hot dance number.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
42 second engine change
Maurice Chevalier & Hermione Gingold – I Remember It Well
An evening pause: Somehow this seems right for my 62nd birthday. From the 1958 classic movie Gigi.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
The Browns – Little Jimmy Brown
An evening pause: Anyone who has ever spent any time in the backwoods of the eastern United States will recognize the culture and social framework from which this song springs.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Lars Andersen – Archery done the right way
An evening pause: This short clip is fascinating in that it separates the myths about archery vs historical reality, then proves its point with actual demonstrations.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Hayley Westenra – Scarborough Fair
Itzhak Perlman & Janet Guggenheim – Two pieces
Madre Luna – Aelfheim
Michael Davis – Juggler
An evening pause: I saw Davis perform live in the Bahamas back in 1992. He was the warm-up act, and was far far better than the star attraction, which I don’t remember any longer. His style is so nice and silly and funny you just want to keep watching and watching forever. Part 2 of this performance can be found here.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
The Seekers – I’ll Never Find Another You
A plane is born
Isn’t it Romantic?
An evening pause: From the 1932 film Love Me Tonight, starring Maurice Chevalier. Stay with it, because it gets quite entertaining. And don’t you want to know what happens next?
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Nanci Griffith – Love at the Five and Dime
An evening pause; Hat tip Tom Biggar, who made me realize that I had never previously posted any Nanci Griffith on BtB. Shameful!
A Honda Rube Goldberg
An evening pause: It might only be a Honda commercial, but trust me, it’s worth watching.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Fourplay – Bali Run
Karine Polwart – Follow the Heron home
John Jorgenson – Red On Red
Joe Cocker – The Moon’s a Harsh Mistress
An evening pause: In honor of Joe Cocker’s passing last month. No visuals, but the performance from his 1974 album “I can stand a little rain” is sterling.
Fred Astaire & Barrie Chase – Miss Otis Regrets
Six cool science experiments you can do at home
Sting – Every breath you take
Ra Paulette – cave artist
Paul Kelly – Careless
Kevin Delaney Makes a Cloud
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen. As he wrote in an email to me, “Don’t let anyone tell you that science isn’t fun.”