Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama
An evening pause: Performed live, July 2, 1977 at the Oakland Coliseum. It’s Thursday evening, the week is almost over!
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Tag: entertainment
Glenn Miller Orchestra – Moonlight Serenade
An evening pause: How about some classic American Big Band music to get us through the middle of the week?
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Jim Gaffigan – 4 Kids
An evening pause Some good stand-up comedy to lighten the first half of the week.
Hat tip Tim Vogel, who emailed to say “One of our friends sent this to us because we are having a 4th ourselves.”
Angela Hewitt – Claude Debussy’s “Clair de lune”
An evening pause: From a live 2012 performance.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Joey Alexander – Over The Rainbow
An evening pause: A nice transition from Judy Garland yesterday, and what I am posting tomorrow.
Hat tip Frank Kelly.
Judy Garland – The Man That Got Away
An evening pause: From A Star is Born (1954).
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
As always, I am open to evening pause suggestions from my readers. If you have one, say so here in a comment, but don’t post the link. I will email you to get it.
Neil Young – Old Man
An evening pause: Recorded live in London, 1971.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
The Band – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
An evening pause: From the Martin Scorsese documentary, The Last Waltz (1978).
Note that if a band tried to write a song like this today, sympathetic to the southerns who died during the Civil War, they would probably find their careers destroyed. So much for artistic freedom, and having empathy for all souls.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
The Tenors – My Father’s Son
An evening pause: For Father’s Day this coming Sunday.
Hat tip Danae.
Quincy Coleman – Baby Don’t You Cry (The Pie Song)
An evenig pause: Recipe by Sunita Marie, whose youtube channel simply says, “Music is fun.”
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Anthony Hopkins & André Rieu – And The Waltz Goes On
An evening pause: From the youtube page: “[Actor Sir Anthony] Hopkins said he had been an admirer of André Rieu for several years and wanted to meet him, so he sent him some music that he wrote with Rieu specifically in mind to perform and his dream came true when André Rieu masterfully performed it with his orchestra.”
Hat tip Danae.
Niamh McGlinchey – Love You ‘Till The End
An evening pause: Nice cover of a song by The Pogues.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Richard Wagner – Ride of the Valkyries
An evening pause: The Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Daniel Barenboim.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
The Corrs – Everybody Hurts
An evening pause: A cover of an REM song.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Cake – Short Skirt, Long Jacket
<An eveing pause: I have to admit that I almost didn’t schedule this, since I don’t particularly like the song. However, that’s my taste, and besides, the trumpet player makes up for it.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Passenger – Let Her Go
An evening pause: It is especially nice to watch how quickly the audience joins in to sing along.
Hat tip Danae.
Ricky Syers – Marionettes
Disturbed – The Sound Of Silence
An evening pause: One of the best performances I have ever seen of Paul Simon’s beautifully poetic song.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman
Prince & Lenny Kravitz – American Woman
An evening pause: Hat tip Keith Douglas.
Emmylou Harris & Mary Black – You’ll Never Be The Sun
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.