A. Piazzolla – Libertango
An evening pause: Performed 2010 by the Moscow City Symphony, dancers Inna Svechnikova and Dmitry Chernysh.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Tag: entertainment
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.
The Doobie Brothers – Long Train Runnin’
Little Eva – The LocoMotion
Bach – Concerto for three harpsichords in D minor
Cissie Redgwick – Gimme That Swing
Fred Astair & Ginger Rodgers – The yam dance
Neil Diamond – Holly Holy
Ricky Rialto & the Green Rats – Rockin’ Daddy
An evening pause: I’m not sure why, but the video makers and dancers all appear to be Italian.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Vivaldi – Spring
An evening pause: Seems the perfect piece of music to herald in the first weekend of spring. This is first movement of Vivaldi’s The Seasons. Performed here by Alana Youssefian and the Voices of Music.
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – Tijuana Brass Medley
Seasick Steve – Walkin’ Man
Celtic Thunder – Whiskey In The Jar
Voidwalkeraudio – Desire
An evening pause: The visuals come from the 1927 German film by Fritz Lang, Metropolis, and cover the scene dubbed “Maria’s Dance.” You can see the full movie here, as well as many other places on line.
Hat tip Judd Clark, who adds, “To understand what’s going on here, one needs to see the whole movie, preferably the latest restored version, and to really understand, one needs to read Lang’s wife Thea Von Harbou’s book “Metropolis”.
Simon Sinek – How great leaders inspire action
An evening pause: Though I do not think his hypothesis goes far enough, this short TED talk posits some intriguing ideas about leadership. And it seems somehow appropriate today on the Ides of March, which also makes me wonder what Julius Caesar (and other successful leaders, both good and evil) would think of these ideas.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.