Sheryl Crow – Strong Enough
An evening pause: Performed live 2005.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Julie Andrews – My Favorite Things
An evening pause: From the movie The Sound of Music (1965), a song about teaching children to face fear, to push past it, and live boldly and with courage. And to do it with humor. As Ray Bradbury wrote in his book, Something Wicked This Way Comes, you defeat evil and fear by laughing at it. The world needs to recapture this idea, or else we are doomed.
Hat tip Tom Wilson.
Jeff Lynne – When I was a Boy
An evening pause: A nice song to start the new year. Performed live 2017 in London.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Andrea McArdle – Tomorrow
An evening pause: The first Annie sings live at the 1977 Tony Awards. Seems as appropriate a song to greet the New Year as Auld Lang Syne.
Cameron Taylor – Auld Lang Syne
An evening pause: Short but very sweet.
Ray Stevens – Everything is Beautiful
An evening pause: Performed live 1970. Seems fitting as this bad year rolls to an end, since it looks forward with optimism and hope. And what other choice do we have?
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Kings Return Music – Ave Maria
An evening pause: I like how they describe themselves on their YouTube page: “We sing in stairwells.”
Hat tip Cotour, who actually sent me a different performance by these guys. I had seen this performance elsewhere, and decided to use it instead.
Natalie Merchant – Kind and Generous
An evening pause: A song of thank you.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
The Hatterine – Swinging by the Christmas tree
An evening pause: An “electro swing dance” to the song “What will Santa Claus say.” This somehow seems appropriate just after Christmas, after the presents are opened and the partying is done.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir – Psalm 34
An evening pause: Some Old Testament religious passion, sung from my home town, Brooklyn, and very fitting for Christmas Eve.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Bobby Brown – Every Little Step
An evening pause: Performed live 2012. Hat tip to my wife Diane Zimmerman, who might have picked the song but I wanted to post it now as my own thank you to her. Every word Brown sings are words from me to you.
Do You Hear What I Hear – Whitney Houston
An evening pause: Performed live December 11, 1990.
Hat tip Cotour.