If – Forgotten Roads
An evening pause: Recorded live 1971, and in every way is part of that time period.
Hat tip Alec Gimarc.
Tag: entertainment
John Gabriel & Nelson Riddle – El Dorado
An evening pause: I think this song quite fitting to end the summer season. Sung by George Alexander, it plays over the opening credits to the classic 1966 John Wayne film of the same name, directed by Howard Hawks. The magnificent paintings that form the backdrop to the credits were painted by Olaf Wieghorst.
My daddy once told me what a man ought to be.
There’s much more to life than the things we can see.
And the godliest mortal you ever will know
Is the one with the dream of El Dorado.So ride, boldly ride, to the end of the rainbow.
Ride, boldly ride, till you find El Dorado.
Rowan Atkinson on free speech
An evening pause: A different way to enter the weekend. This speech by this comedian was given about a decade ago as part of a campaign to change British law to get the word ‘insulting’ removed from Section 5 of the Public Order Act, as part of the Crime and Courts Bill. The campaign succeeded, but it appears the modern police and governments (from both sides of the political spectrum) in Great Britain have recently decided to ignore it. If you are conservative and criticize illegal immigration or Islam, those governments have decided that this speech is now illegal. I like this quote most of all:
“For me, the best way to increase society’s resistance to insulting or offensive speech is to allow a lot more of it. As with childhood diseases you can better resist those germs to which you have been exposed.”
Too bad we appear to have decided to abandon this wise philosophy, not only in regards to speech, but to infectious diseases as well.
Hat tip Rex Ridenoure.
Arcade Fire – Wake Up
An evening pause: Performed live 2005. In many ways this song is a descendent of yesterday’s evening pause, though it lacks the humor.
Hat tip James Street.
Ozark Mountain Daredevils – Chicken Train
Barry White & Love Unlimited Orchestra – Love’s Theme
Phil Collins – Against All Odds
Ringo Starr, Robbie Robertson, & many others – The Weight
An evening pause: It remains amazing how pervasive the music of the 1960s remains, worldwide.
Hat tip Mike Nelson for providing this nice way to go into the weekend.
Greg Lake – From The Beginning
The Hollies – Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress
Tina Charles – I Love To Love
Jeff Kashiwa – The Night Is Young
Laufey & Iceland Symphony Orchestra – I Wish You Love
Night Ranger – Goodbye
An evening pause: Performed live in 2022 with the Contemporary Youth Orchestra. Make sure you stay till the end.
Hat tip Terry.
Dorothy Dandridge – Cow Cow Boogie
5th Dimension – Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In
An evening pause: Performed live on television in 1969 by the group’s original members, Billy Davis Jr., Florence LaRue, Marilyn McCoo, Lamonte McLemore, and Ronald Townson. This music, from the Broadway musical Hair, reflects the naive and somewhat arrogant attitude of that baby boom generation. It is also a very beautiful song, sung beautiful.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Georg Friedrich Händel – The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Johnny Cash – Hurt
An evening pause: A truly moving music video by Cash, reflecting on his life in music and pictures.
Make your own memories this weekend.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Climax – Precious And Few
Arvo Pärt – Summa
An evening pause: Performed by the Morphing Chamber Orchestra. The haunting music is a rearrangement by Pärt of a piece of sacred music from 1300s called Stabat Mater.
Hat tip Ferris Akel.
Otta Orchestra – Gretela
Toploader – Dancing in the moon light
Happy Days Are Here Again/Get Happy – Judy Garland & Barbra Streisand
An evening pause: This isn’t piano-centered, but it definitely is an example of another great genre of great music sung by two great performers. Performed live 1963 on the Judy Garland Show for television.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
An evening pause: This isn’t piano-centered, but it definitely is an example of another great genre of great music sung by two great performers. Performed live 1963 on the Judy Garland Show for television.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
J.S. Bach – Concerto No. 1 in D minor BWV 1052
An evening pause: Like the past two evening pauses this week, this also centers on a piano solo, and also takes us to an entire different musical genre. It is a bit long for a pause, but I can’t resist continuing the piano theme. You might recognize the third movement.
The soloist is 18-year-old Ignas Maknickas (who is clearly having fun), playing with Lithuania’s Ciurlionis School of Arts Symphony Orchestra.
Hat tip Todd Jones.
John Anderson – Seminole Wind
An evening pause: Starts with a piano solo, like yesterday’s pause, but takes us to an entirely different kind of music.
Hat tip Sayomara.
Emerson Lake & Palmer – Show Me the Way To Go Home
Avery “Drummer” Molek – Wipe Out
An evening pause: Something to start the weekend, brought to you by a six-year-old. Performed live 2013.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Tim Simek & Marl Edelman – Whiskey Before Breakfast
Merle Haggard – If I Could Only Fly
Ann Miller – I’ve Gotta Hear That Beat
An evening pause: From the 1953 film Small Town Girl. Proves once again that America was not hostile to highlighting women in all things in the past. They simply had to have the talent, skill, and determination to earn that spotlight.
Hat tip Judd Clark.