Sara Bareilles – Many the Miles
An evening pause: Performed live, on a houseboat in Sausalito, California.
Hat tip Frank Kelly.
Tag: entertainment
Bernadette Peters – Unexpected Song
An evening pause: From the Andrew Lloyd Weber musical, Song & Dance. Performed live in London in 1998.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Ed Sheeran – The Parting Glass
An evening pause: At different performance of this song on youtube, Sheeran tells the audience that for this song to work “we’ve all got to be very very very quiet.” I agree. Take the time to listen quietly.
Hat tip Chris McLaughlin.
Harry Nilsson – As Time Goes By
An evening pause: This appears to a rehearsal for the 1973 BBC show, A Little Touch of Schmilsson, with Frank Sinatra’s arranger Gordon Jenkins.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Lower Waterholes Canyon, Arizona
An evening pause: Waterholes Canyon is a side canyon leading down into the Colorado River, north of the Grand Canyon. The people canyoneering here are caving friends of mine. The video was created by Kimberly Franke, whom you pretty much only see in the opening still shot, since she was wearing the camera most of the time. Her husband Kevin Franke is also a fellow caver who is the person with the white helmet and thick whitish beard. The woman in the red helmet doing the very long drop near the end is Belinda Norby, also a fellow caver. The music is “Point of No Return” by Roger Subirana Mata.
The world is filled with amazing things to see. This video does a nice job of highlighting just one of them.
Donna Fargo – Funny Face
An evening pause: Performed live in 1972.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Marilyn Monroe – Diamonds are a girl’s best friend
An evening pause: From the 1953 movie, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Danny Kaye – Monahan O’Han
An evening pause: From the 1954 movie, Knock on Wood.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Keith Emerson – Creole Dance
An evening pause: Performed live in Budapest 1997. Emerson’s piano playing is amazing, and uses techniques I have never seen before.
Hat tip Chris McLaughlin.
Alexei Arkhipovsky – Going Home
An evening pause: This is not the American hymn, but a Russian piece performed here by the composer.
Hat tip Danae.
Madeleine Peyroux – Don’t Wait Too Long
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Mother, Father, Sister, Brother – The Sound of Philadelphia
An evening pause: This instrumental music, used as the theme music for the 1970s television show, Soul Train, has only one significant vocal line: “People all over the world!” I think the visuals used here, of Earth taken from the International Space Station, make that line seem especially appropriate.
Hat tip James Stephens.
Paul Mauriat & Orchestra – La pie voleuse
An evening pause: I especially like the use of digital sounds mixed with the standard orchestra.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Mary Travers – Follow Me
An evening pause: Live performance from a 1980 Peter, Paul, & Mary concert.
Huey Lewis and the News – Workin’ for a livin’
An evening pause: Another appropriate piece for the start of the week. Performed live, 1982.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
The Avalanches – Frontier Psychiatrist
An evening pause: I think the words from Moscow on the Hudson (1984) sum this music video up very well: “Strange but wonderful.”
Hat tip Max Hunt.
Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young – Almost Cut My Hair
An evening pause: From a 1974 live performance.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Grease – We Go Together
An evening pause: From the 1978 film, Grease.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
1776 – Hatching an Egg
An evening pause: For the Fourth of July, this song from the 1976 movie version of the 1972 musical, 1776. Not only did the musical capture the essence of the men who made independency happen, it is also a rollicking and entertaining work of art.
I last posted this piece last in 2010. Time to watch again.
Michael McDonald – Hits Medley
An evening pause: Performed live 2009. I think this is a good way to start the weekend.
Hat tip Frank Kelly.