Iron Maiden – Fear of the Dark
An evening pause: Halloween might have been yesterday, but it deserves a song as well as a short film.
Hat tip Danae.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Penny Dreadful
An evening pause: Ideal for Halloween.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Kubla Khan
An evening pause: Read by Tom O’Bedlam. Listen close, and you will understand why this poem came after a dream induced by taking opium. Most fitting, the day before Halloween.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Mazzy Star – Fade Into You
An evening pause: Performed live 1994.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Green Grass Cloggers- music by Strictly Strings
An evening pause: As described on the website, this was an “individual ‘freestyle clogging’ exhibition by the Green Grass Cloggers with old time string band music by Strictly Strings from Boone, North Carolina.’
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Donovan & Crystal Gayle – Catch The Wind
An evening pause: Performed live, 1981.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
R.E.M. – The One I Love
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
The Music Man – 76 Trombones
An evening pause: The closing song and credits from one of the greatest musicals every put on film, The Music Man (1962).
It reminds us that there is always magic in the air, if only we look for it.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Tom Jones & Jeff Beck – Love Letters
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
John Prine – Lonesome Friends of Science
An evening pause: Listen to the words.
Hat tip Kyle Kooy.
Joseph’s Machines – The Cake Server
An evening pause: What I want to know is this: How did he get the baby to work on cue?
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Raymond Burley & Gordon Giltrap – Daisy Chain
An evening pause: Such gentle, and skilled playing, for a gentle song.
Hat tip Danae.
Gerry & Pacemakers – Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Crying
An evening pause: I haven’t posted this band since 2011. Time to do it again. The sound is the from the studio recording, sync’d to this stage performance. I’d rather have seen the live version, but I suspect the sound quality was so poor this is a better choice.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Alanis Morissette – Head Over Feet
An evening pause: Make sure you stick around to hear her comments after the song.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Carol Burnett – Palace Guard wants a pony
An evening pause: The title actually has nothing to do with the skit. Think bad television commercials.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Davy Spillane – Caoineadh Cu Chulainn
An evening pause: Played on the Irish uileann pipes.
Hat tip Danae.
Why Modern Music Is Awful
An evening pause: I find it interesting that almost all of the pop stars mentioned in this video have never been posted here as an evening pause. I want and like variety, and the main take-away from this video is the increasing sameness of modern music. Blah.
In sense, this video is an instruction manual for everyone who wants to send me a suggestion for an evening pause. It tells you the kind of music I will likely not be interested in, should you suggest it to me. To put it simply, if it sounds like everything else produced today, then it won’t get cast in the audition.
Mancini – Thorn Birds theme
An evening pause: As played by a brass quintet.
Hat tip Danae.
Snack Attack
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Punch Brothers & Rob Moose – Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
An evening pause: Performed live at the 2012 Telluride Bluegrass Festival, demonstrating that there really is a link between baroque music and American bluegrass. The fiddlers who came to early America had been trained to play this kind of music.
Hat tip Danae.