Heart – Mistral Wind
An evening pause: Performed live 1995.
Hat tip Ferris.
Tag: entertainment
Canned Heat – Let’s Work Together
An evening pause: Performed live 1973.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Crosby Stills Nash – Judy Blue Eyes
An evening pause: Performed live 1969 at Woodstock.
Hat tip both Mike Nelson and Wayne DeVette, who separately suggested this one day apart.
Skid Row – I Remember You
An evening pause: Performed live 1991.
Hat tip Terry.
Kenny Rankin – Blackbird
An evening pause: Performed c.2010.
Hat tip James Street.
Eric Sahlström Institute – Nyckelharpan
An evening pause: The instrument, the nyckelharpan or key harp, is played by Olov Johansson, and four of his students at Institute, Jonathan Wanneby, Elisabet Ryd and Lydia Ievins.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
Nina Simone – My Way
An evening pause: Recorded live 1971. We should all live our lives in this manner.
Hat tip James Street.
Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 23: II Adagio
An evening pause: Performed in 2020 by the National Orchestra of France with a piano solo by Khatia Buniatishvili and a ballet duet by Jordan Kindell and Verity Jacobson.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Mireille Mathieu – La Marseillaise
An evening pause: Performed live in 1989, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Eiffel Tower. What I especially like are the English subtitles, because for some reason this song is rarely translated. Knowing the meaning of what they are singing in the scene in the movie Casablanca makes that scene even more moving.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Sam and Dave – Hold On I’m Coming
An evening pause: Performed live 1966.
Hat tip James Street.
ZZ Top – Sharp Dressed Man/Tush
An evening pause: This was their first live appearance on television, on the Tonight Show in 1986. Note in the second song they mispronounce the yiddish word “tush,” which translates as ass. Mike Nelson, who suggested this pause, thought they did it to avoid problems with the FCC.
Monteverdichor Würzburg Orchestra – Finale from Handel’s Israel in Egypt
An evening pause: Performed live 2009. A good rousing way to start the week.
Hat tip James Street.