Lynda Carter – Rhumba Girl
An evening pause: Performed on television in 1981.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Tag: entertainment
Louis Armstrong – Mack The Knife
An evening pause: Performed live 1963.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Lynyrd Skynyrd – T For Texas
An evening pause: Performed live 1976.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Fleetwood Mac – The Chain
An evening pause: Performed live 1982.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Linda Ronstadt – Blue Bayou
An evening pause: Performed sometime in the 1970s.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
Joe Cocker – You Are So Beautiful
An evening pause: Performed live 1980. A good song to start the weekend.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
War – Low Rider
An evening pause: From the heart of the 1960s and 1970s.
Hat tip Cotour.
Mary Spender & Josh Turner – Sultans of Swing
An evening pause: One of the sharpest and clearest performances of this classic Dire Staits song.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Jeff Daniels – Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg speech
An evening pause: On election day, I give you the most concise and poetic description of what America has always stood for, first spoken on November 19, 1863. On this day it will either signal “a new birth of freedom,” or a sad funeral speech to a nation that was dedicated to government of the people, by the people, for the people, and successfully proved it for almost 250 years.
Judith Durham – Danny Boy
An evening pause: Performed live 1968. One of the most beautiful songs ever written.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Riccardo Cocchi &Yulia Zagoruychenko
An evening pause: Stay with it, it ain’t over till its over.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
House on Haunted Hill
An evening pause: For Halloween, I have decided to bring back this wonderfully staged classic from 1958, starring Vincent Price and directed by William Castle. No blood, no gore, but the worth every minute.
Swingrowers – Midnight
An evening pause: A prelude to Halloween. The visuals come from vintage 1920s and 1930s early cartoons, though the bulk comes from Walt Disney’s 1929 cartoon, Skeleton Dance.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Richard Marx – Hazard
An evening pause: Performed live 1992.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
Hohnerklang – Silence and I
An evening pause: Hat tip Tom Biggar, who notes this is quite “an interesting blend of instruments. The orchestra prides itself on giving you the “harmonica at its best!”
Gina Lollobrigida – Pagan dance
An evening pause: I think this makes a great start to the weekend. Clips from the 1959 movie Solomon and Sheba, centered on Gina’s pagan dance as Sheba, and edited to a piece of music by Dead Can Dance, called Cantara, which the youtube website labels “genuinely pagan music.” If you want to see the original film, go here and go to about 90 minutes. In the original, God steps in to stop all this hanky-panky.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Bee Gees – Please Please Me
An evening pause: From television, 1963, when these guys were really young. Make sure you watch until the very very end.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Jimi Hendrix – The Wind Cries Mary
An evening pause: Performed live 1967.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Eric Clapton – Cocaine
An evening pause: Performed live 2015. The directing however is very mediocre. During the very spectacular piano solo he or she seemed more interested cutting in a lot of random shots rather than showing what was really amazing, the piano player’s performance.
Still, a great performance. Hat tip Cotour.
Player – Baby Come Back
An evening pause: Hat tip Cotour.