Carol Burnett Show – Rancid Harvest
An evening pause: This will be especially funny to those who are familiar with John Hilton’s Random Harvest.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Tag: entertainment
Optical Illusion Dance
An evening pause: It is almost impossible to see this as it really is.
The song, Tanz, was written by a German named Hiss. Though the music sounds Cajun, its roots are German.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Iron Butterfly – In a Gadda Da Vida
An evening pause: Hat tip Mike Nelson, who adds this tidbit of the song’s history:
The lyrics are about Adam and Eve living “In the Garden of Eden” but Doug Ingles, the composer, consumed an entire gallon of wine the night he wrote it, and when he sang it to a bandmate to transcribe the lyrics he slurred words so badly it got transcribed as In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida instead, which in the end stuck.
Bluegrass Large Family Band – Foggy Mtn. Rock
An evening pause: Hat tip Tom Biggar, who notes pointedly, “Must be something wrong with this – it looks like a bunch of deplorables having a good time.”
The Hindley Street Country Club – More than a feeling
Josh Tanner – Decommissioned
Wild Cherry – Play that funky music
An evening pause: Recorded live in 1976.
Hat tip Mike Nelson, who has found a nice alternative video site to Youtube by using the Wayback machine archive to find this video.
Steve ‘n Seagulls – Nothing else matters
FlippinDingDong – Trailer Annie
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who rightly added, “No clue what this means, but I’m certain the student animators had fun making it.”
Fun to watch too. They might have done it on a computer, but it sure has the feel of hand-drawn animation.
Evanescence – Bring Me To Life
The Muppets – Bohemian Rhapsody
An evening pause: I know I’ve posted this song more than a few times previously, but this version is truly unique. I had even posted it previously, back in 2012. More than enough time however has passed, so I think it okay to show it again. As I noted then, “A very talented actor once told me that a great deal of all comedy is based on contrast, on juxtaposing extreme opposites in unexpected ways.”
This does that quite well I think.
Hat tip Frank Kelly.
Nathan Evans – The Wellerman
An evening pause: It seems a lot of people took Evans singing in the center and did their own piece, singing along with him. This video puts many of them together. You can see the full list on the youtube page.
Hat tip Tom Donahue.
Eddy Goldfarb – The Man Who Invented More Than 800 Iconic Toys
How a recording-studio mishap shaped ’80s music
The Association – Never My Love
Foxes & Fossils – Harvest Moon
The Carol Burnett Show – Star Trip
Sergei Vasiliev – Russian Cyberpunk Farm
An evening pause: Russian-made, and filled with Russian fantasies and reality. Can you tell which is which?
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Ladyva – Für Elise
An evening pause: The original is by Beethoven. The interpretation is American Boogie Woogie.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Warren Zevon – Lawyers, Guns, and Money
Herman’s Hermits – There’s A Kind Of Hush
An evening pause: This live performance is from 1999. The song was a hit in 1966.
Hat tip Roland.
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Styx – Fooling Yourself
The Grass Roots – Temptation Eyes
An evening pause: Forgive the television artifacts in the video. Recorded live in 1982.
Hat tip Roland.
Pearl Jam – Off he goes
An evening pause: Performed live 2016.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
NOTE: Youtube will not allow me to embed this video. Click on the picture, and then click on the link to go to youtube where you can watch it.
Squirrel vs Physicist
An evening pause: This battle between an inventive physicist and an even more determined squirrel does raise the question, who really is smarter?
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Stevie Nicks – Landslide
Tan Ce Ding – The Masseuse
An evening pause: The future?
Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who added, “What is our responsibility to our devices when they become self-aware? And what will be our responsibility to each other?
Edison Lighthouse – Love Grows
Margaret Thatcher does “Yes Minister” skit
An evening pause: Yes Minister was a British comedy show set within the halls of Parliament. In the past year I have posted a number of clips from the show (here, here, here and here) that illustrate how truthfully it skewed the political class.
Today we have a skit with two of the show’s stars performing with the actual prime minister at the time, Margaret Thatcher. She clearly understood the truthful humor of the show, as she explained once during an interview.
Hat tip Andrew Worth.