The Beach Boys – Good Vibrations
An evening pause: Somehow, this seems right to start the summer season. Performed live 2012.
Tag: entertainment
Dwayne O’Brien – We Remember
An evening pause: To the men who flew the planes.
And all who’ve coursed through hostile skies,
Know that freedom requires a sacrifice,
To those who paid the highest price,
We remember.With a place of honor so deserved,
For what flesh and blood and steel have earned,
That may the glory be reserved,
For the colors they so bravely served.Keep them flying, keep them flying,
So that all who see them will know,
That our freedom was won by the blood that flowed,
And we remember.
Hat tip Chris Whiting.
Ferris Akel – Snow Geese Takeoff, March 20, 2021
An evening pause: Wait for it — a moment that tells us even on Earth there is alien things going on all around us. Makes for a good start to the weekend.
Hat tip Ferris.
Darrell Scott – You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive
An evening pause: Performed live 2011.
Hat tip James Street.
Grace Bowers – Red House
An evening pause: She is seventeen, doing Jimi Hendrix.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Original Enigma Voices – Sadeness
An evening pause: Performed live in Tel Aviv 2019.
David Bowie – Cat People
An evening pause: Performed live 1983.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
An Engineer’s Guide to Cats 2.0 – The Sequel
Emmy Russell & Lukas Nelson – Lay Me Down
An evening pause: Performed at an October 2022 concert celebrating the life of Loretta Lynn.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Swing Ninjas – I Wanna Be Like You
An evening pause: Hat tip Judd Clark.
André Rieu & the Johann Strauss Orchestra – Seventy-Six Trombones
An evening pause: This video is apropos of Arlo Guthrie’s words about the impact of American music in yesterday’s evening pause. Here a classical orchestra in Austria performs a song from one of Broadway’s greatest musicals, The Music Man, and everyone in the audience knows it.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Arlo Guthrie – I Can’t Help Falling In Love With You
An evening pause: The introduction is long, but worth it because Guthrie soon transcends the shallow politics of these lefty folk singers. Performed live 1993. To hear Elvis Presley sing it, go to this 2013 evening pause.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Rush – The Camera Eye
An evening pause: The visuals, of New York and London, were created by Still Kickin, and showing us two places once grand that our modern generation of “intellectuals” seems determined to destroy.
Hat tip Ferris.
Dusty Hanes – What a Friend We Have in Jesus
An evening pause: A nice instrumental version. You might recognize the song as used in the documentarly series, The Civil War. The visuals are not that interesting, but the music is stellar.
Hat tip James Street.
Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
An evening pause: Performed live 1994.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
Hauser – Shostakovich’s Waltz No. 2
An evening pause: Performed live 2018.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Violet Orlandi & Malinda Kathleen Reese – May It Be
An evening pause: A nice cover of an Enya song.
Hat tip Alton Blevins. And thank you all who submitted pause suggestions, almost all of which were really amazing. Stay tuned from some good stuff.
Alpha Divers – Kin Ha cavern in Mexico
An evening pause: To start our weekend let’s go cavern diving in Kin Ha Cavern in Mexico, also called a cenote. This is not exploration, but a commercial cave for divers, following a preset life line.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Kaito – Sakura (Cherry Blossoms)
An evening pause: Hat tip Alton Blevins.
A. Piazzolla – Libertango
An evening pause: Performed 2010 by the Moscow City Symphony, dancers Inna Svechnikova and Dmitry Chernysh.
Hat tip Judd Clark.