Santana – Soul Sacrifice
An evening pause: Performed live, August 8, 1970. A nice way to energize for the weekend.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Tag: entertainment
Idina Menzel – Tomorrow
An evening pause: If only more people sang this song.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young – Our House
An evening pause: A hit in 1970, this song to me was one of the nicest songs from that time, and in many ways signaled the end of the 1960s.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Hans Davis – Shadow Act
An evening pause: Fun stuff.
Hat tip Cotour.
Looking Glass – Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl)
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Bucky Covington – Different World
A evening pause: Performed live in 2014.
Hat tip Mike Nelson, who notes that the song probably “resonates far more to you and me than the performer. The lyrics trigger vibrant memories of my life as a kid in the 1960s going to Redeemer Lutheran grade school.” I agree, as someone who also grew up in the 1960s going to public school in Brooklyn, New York. Yet, I also suspect that Covington’s childhood, born in 1977 in North Carolina and growing up in the 1980s, was not that much different. No computers, and as a kid you played outside.
And most important of all, you grew up with a mother and a father, who were committed to staying together to raise their kids. That time is sadly long gone, and the children since have suffered terribly because of it.
Three Dog Night – Easy To Be Hard
An evening pause: Hat tip Diane Zimmerman, who quite cogently noted, “The band looks so 70s!”
Spy Hippo discovers a Fish Spa!
An evening pause: You need to watch to understand the title. And though the “spy hippo” is a bit of a gimmick and I suspect did not take all the underwater footage, the show does appear have gotten some fascinating film of the hidden life of hippopotamuses.
Hat tip Cotour.
Spandau Ballet – True
An evening pause: Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Teddy Swims – I can’t make you love me
An evening pause: A beautiful rendition of one of Bonnie Raitt’s best songs.
Hat tip Cotour.
a-ha – Take On Me
An evening pause: Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata
An evening pause: Here what counts is the audience. From the youtube webpage:
Mongkol is a 61-year-old former logging elephant. His captive-held life was spent hauling trees in the Thai forest. His body shape is deformed through hard labor, he lost his right eye and tusk in this brutal logging practice. Mongkol was rescued and brought to Elephants World to spend the rest of his days relaxing peacefully in freedom by the River Kwai. I discovered Mongkol is an extremely gentle, sensitive elephant who enjoys music, especially this slow movement by Beethoven which I play to him occasionally in the day and night.
I think he listens with as much rapt pleasure as anyone who loves Beethoven.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.