Chris Isaak – Wicked Game
An evening pause: Performed live 2012.
Hat tip Rex Ridenoure.
Tag: entertainment
Ed Kowalczyk – Heaven
An evening pause: Chorus:
Take back your evidence
It has no power to deceive
I`ll believe it when I see it for myself
I don`t need no one to tell me about heaven
I look at my daughters, and I believe.
I don`t need no proof when it comes to God and truth
Hat tip Clark Jerrell.
Low Darts – My Old School
An evening pause: Great cover by a group of high school students of this Steely Dan song.
Hat tip Cotour.
Gilligan’s Island, if done today
An evening pause: As expected, this silly 1960s comedy has to become a predictable formula horror vehicle, filled with lots of AI and CGI slop. Quite funny, until you think about it for awhile.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Carlos Santana – Europa (Earth’s Cry Heaven’s Smile)
An evening pause: Performed live 2011.
Hat tip Rex Ridenoure.
Roglit Ishay: Vidui (Confession)
An evening pause: Vidui is a central prayer on Yom Kippur, the day of atonement in Judaism, a day of fasting when each person asks forgiveness for the sins of the past year. Performed live 2026.
Hat tip Cotour.
Dave Matthews Band – Corn Bread
An evening pause: Performed live 2007.
Hat tip Clark Jerrell.
Def Leppard – Rocket
An evening pause: Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Lorne Greene – Describes working on Bonanza
An evening pause: Recorded 1963. It was a very different world.
Hat tip Cotour.
Ted Nugent – Cat Scratch Fever
An evening pause: Performed live 1979. I had never heard of this real disease caused from an infected cat scratch, until my knee surgeon warned me about it prior to surgery. As our two cats are gentle and have never scratched me, and are also indoor cats, I wasn’t concerned.
Then Diane sent me this song. Heh. You learn something new every day.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
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Jeff Beck – A Day in the Life
An evening pause: Performed live 2007.
Hat tip Rex Ridenoure.
Erhan Shukri – Rasputin
An evening pause: Performed live 2016.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Dan Hartman – I Can Dream About You
An evening pause: Performed live prior to Hartman’s passing in 1994.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Juan Luis Rubiales – Three knives
An evening pause: Some magic to herald the weekend. Note that near the beginning of his actual performance the sound drops out for 40 seconds. Stick with it, the loss is irrelevant.
Hat tip Cotour.
Candy Dulfer – Lily Was Here
An evening pause: Performed live 2010.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
Emma Kok & Matheu Hinzen – You’re The One that I Want
An evening pause: Performed live c2025. From the musical Grease.
Hat tip Judd Clark, who notes that this performance is “Quite different than from the last time you showed Emma Kok,” when she was only fifteen.
Maria Callas – Bizet’s Carmen Habanera
An evening pause: Performed live 1962. Make sure you have closed captions activated as it provides a translation.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Andy Kaufman as Elvis Presley
An evening pause: A very talented comic actor once told me something very profound about comedy: “Play opposites, it works every time.” Performed live on the Tonight Show 1977.
Hat tip Cotour.
Edgar Winter & Billy Strings – Fly Away
An evening pause: Performed live February 20, 2026.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Ririko Takagi & Kaoruko Igarashi – Akatonbo [Red dragonfly]
An evening pause: Performed live 2022. This is a children’s song written in 1927 by Kōsaku Yamada with lyrics from a 1921 Japanese poem by Rofū Miki.