Dave Matthews Band – Satellite
An evening pause: Performed live, December 15, 1995.
Hat tip Dave Williams.
Tag: entertainment
Merle Haggard – Okie From Muskogee
An evening pause: Someone who did not live through the 1960s cannot imagine the violent reactions to this song when it came out in 1969. It was either loved or hated, expressing the polarization of the times. Sadly, not much has changed in half a century, other than the poles have grown farther apart, with the side Haggard is gently criticizing here so filled with hate that it would not surprise me if they would to try to prevent the song’s performance if someone wanted to sing it on a college campus today.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman, in honor of Merle Haggard’s passing last week.
Imogen Heap – Just For Now
An evening pause: I challenge anyone to tell me what the lyrics in this piece are about. In fact, don’t bother, because the meaning of the words is really irrelevant. The focus is on the sound of the words, and that sound is really really good.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Pink Floyd – Julia Dream
An evening pause: Early Pink Floyd, set to some evocative animation.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Anne Sofie von Otter & Stéphanie d’Oustrac – Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour
An evenig pause: From Jacques Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffman. Performed live in Paris, 2001, conducted by Marc Minkowski.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Evanescence – Going Under
An evening pause: Some modern music, to remind us that there is a culture out there that is very different than the tiny geek-oriented engineering world my readers like. In watching this very nicely produced music video, I was most struck by the vision the singer has of her audience. I wonder thus what her audience thinks of her and themselves, especially when this video has been viewed almost 70 million times.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
John Prine – Sabu Visits The Twin Cities Alone
An eveing pause: A silly song for April Fools. Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Rod Stewart – Moonglow
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
The Ronettes – Be My Baby
An evening pause: Performed live on the television show Shindig!, August 11, 1965. Be sure to read the notes about this song and group at the youtube link.
Hat tip Rocco.
Guy Clark with Karen Matheson – Dublin Blues
An evening pause: Hat tip Kyle Kooy.
Count Basie- Flight of the Foo Birds
An evening pause: A nice contrast with last night’s Beatles pause.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
It’s the Beatles
An evening pause: Broadcast on December 7, 1963 by the BBC, this excerpt from the 30 minute television show before 2,500 members of The Beatles’ Northern Area Fan Club gives us a glimpse into the craziness that heralded the Beatles arrival on the world scene. The clip includes the last third of the show.
Why do these teenage girls remind me of modern voters attending rallies for Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders?
Hat tip Rocco.
Eddie Reader – Dragonfly
An evening pause: Eddi Reader is one of my favorite singers. This song mixes Celtic, English, Irish, Italian, and even some Greek folk styles.
As soon as we are here, we disappear, like a dragonfly.
“Have they tried SEC to Aux?”
An evening pause: From one of the best dramatic series ever produced of the 1960s space race, From the Earth to the Moon (1998), this is the Apollo 12 launch scene.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Wintergatan – Marble Machine
An evening pause: The video describing how they built this is as interesting to watch.
Hat tips to Tom Biggar and Karla Zajac.
Grace Slick & Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
An evening pause: Performed live at Woodstock, August 17, 1969.
Hat tip Rocco.
High Diving Giraffes
An evening pause: Based on some emails I have received, I think some people have been fooled by this cool animation and actually think these are real giraffes! This just tells us that it will not be long now before real actors are no longer necessary and it will be possible to do live action films entirely with animation.
Hat tip George Petricko.
Jeremy Schonfeld & Deborah Cox – Somewhere Out There
An evening pause: From the film An American Tale (1986) and composed by James Horner (who is the guy they show periodically watching in the audience).
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Gaelynn Lea – Someday we’ll linger in the sun
An evening pause: This starts slow, but stick with it. The music and song are haunting and quite beautiful, as is the performance.
Hat tip Elbo Altins.
The Kingsmen – Louie Louie
An evening pause: Normally I don’t post videos with no visuals, but for this I will make an exception. It is probably the first time anyone has ever done the hard work necessary to translate the mumblings of the singer to find out the lyrics of this pop tune. Before now, who knew?
Hat tip Phil Berardelli.