Erhan Shukri – Rasputin
An evening pause: Performed live 2016.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Tag: entertainment
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 KΕsaku Yamada with lyrics from a 1921 Japanese poem by RofΕ« Miki.
Eagles – Lyin’ Eyes
An evening pause: Performed live 1977.
Hat tip Cotour.
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra – O Magnum Mysterium
An evening pause: Peformed live July 2020. They minimize the appearance of the stupid social distancing by good camerawork.
Diana Damrau – Queen of the Night
An evening pause: From Mozart’s The Magic Flute, performed by the Royal Opera. If the closed captions are off, turn them on, as they provide a translation.
As “the fat lady” has now sung, we can go off and enjoy the weekend.
Hat tip Blair Ivey.