Rush – The Camera Eye
An evening pause: The visuals, of New York and London, were created by Still Kickin, and showing us two places once grand that our modern generation of “intellectuals” seems determined to destroy.
Hat tip Ferris.
Tag: entertainment
Dusty Hanes – What a Friend We Have in Jesus
An evening pause: A nice instrumental version. You might recognize the song as used in the documentarly series, The Civil War. The visuals are not that interesting, but the music is stellar.
Hat tip James Street.
Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
Hauser – Shostakovich’s Waltz No. 2
Violet Orlandi & Malinda Kathleen Reese – May It Be
An evening pause: A nice cover of an Enya song.
Hat tip Alton Blevins. And thank you all who submitted pause suggestions, almost all of which were really amazing. Stay tuned from some good stuff.
Alpha Divers – Kin Ha cavern in Mexico
An evening pause: To start our weekend let’s go cavern diving in Kin Ha Cavern in Mexico, also called a cenote. This is not exploration, but a commercial cave for divers, following a preset life line.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Alpha Divers – Kin Ha cavern in Mexico
Kaito – Sakura (Cherry Blossoms)
A. Piazzolla – Libertango
An evening pause: Performed 2010 by the Moscow City Symphony, dancers Inna Svechnikova and Dmitry Chernysh.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Harry Chapin – Taxi
Petula Clark – Downtown
Charles Berthoud – My Way
Billie Holiday – Fine And Mellow
An evening pause: Hat tip Judd Clark, who gives this background, “Written by Billie Holiday, who first recorded it on April 20, 1939 on the Commodore label. Performed by Billie Holiday in 1957 in a television special, The Sound of Jazz.”
Kazuho Monster – Dance like Octopus
An evening pause: From the youtube page: “I wanna be the best dancer in the world.”
Hat tip Tom Wilson.
Jonathan Scott – Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries
An evening pause: Performed on the organ of Rochdale Town Hall, Rochdale, UK.
Hat tip Judd Clark. To all: I could use suggestions from others. Right now Judd is doing the lion’s share of work, suggesting a lot of great evening pauses. I want more variety, however, including suggestions from many others. If you have suggested something before you know the routine. If you haven’t and want to, post a comment here, but DON’T post the link in your comment. I will contact you for it.
Neil Diamond – Solitary Man
An evening pause: One song from a full BBC concert from 1971. If you like it watch the whole concert, from the beginning. It is amazing how young Neil Diamond was when he did this concert.
Hat tip Rex Ridenoure.
Ladyva – Boogie Woogie
The O’Jays – Love Train
Cascade – Hotel California
An evening pause: Performed live in 2022 in Hanoi, Vietnam. The instruments are called Chapman Sticks.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Joe Bonamassa – The Last Matador Of Bayonne
Junshatang – Making a Yixing purple clay teapot
Natalie Imbruglia – Torn
John Lee Hooker & Van Morrison – Baby Please Don’t Go
Art Garfunkel – All I Know
Jean Harlow
An evening pause: A look back at early Hollywood, and someone who was then a big star and a great comic actor but who is mostly forgotten today.
Hat tip Judd Clark.