Kate Rusby – Who will sing me lullabies?
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Tag: entertainment
Ennio Morricone – Gabriel´s Oboe (clarinet version)
An evening pause: Performed live 2011 with Sabine Grofmeier on the clarinet. From the 1986 film The Mission.
Linsey Pollak – Carrot clarinet
An evening pause: A nice mix of art, food, and engineering.
Ann Miller – Too Darn Hot
An evening pause: From the 1953 film Kiss Me Kate. Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer – Hoedown
An evening pause: Performed live at the Nassau Coliseum in 1978. What makes this particular video intriguing is that it focuses entirely on what the drummer is doing.
The Muppets & Rita Moreno – Fever
An evening pause: My first thought was: how can she keep a straight face?
Hat tip to Phil Berardelli.
Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused To Sing
An evening pause: Animation by Jessica Cope.
Hat tip Jack O’Leary.
The things your kids will never understand
Link here. The one about MTV was especially funny.
Judy Collins with Shawn Colvin – Since You’ve Asked
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
The greatest electronic music of the fifties and sixties
Link here. Many of these could easily be an evening pause, other than the fact that they don’t have visuals. If you want to get a feel for the beginnings of electronic music, check them out. The styles range from space music to jazzy. The sampling even includes the electronic music from Forbidden Planet (1956), one of the best science fiction films ever made. I have put one as an example below the fold.
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Ana Yang – Blowing bubbles
An evening pause: Just watch.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.