Gerry Rafferty – Baker Street
An evening pause: There are some riffs that will always be remembered, even more than the song, even if the song is good. And this definitely applies to the sax solo here.
Hat tip Danae.
Tag: entertainment
Pat Upton/Spiral Staircase – I Love You More Today Than Yesterday
Dido – White Flag
The Ross Sisters – Solid Potato Salad
An evening pause: From the 1944 movie, Broadway Rhythm. It might be cheesy, but who cares.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Sergei Prokofiev – Symphony No. 1 (the Classical), last movement
Randy Newman – Better Off Dead
An evening pause: This song is an incredible downer, something that usually holds no interest for me. However, considering the politics in the past year, and what might come in the months ahead, it might be the best we can hope for.
Hat tip Dan Covert.
Christy Moore – The January Man
An evening pause: To signal the end of one year, and the arrival of another.
The January man is here,
The start of each and every year
Along the road forever,
Forever,
Forever.
Dick van Dyke and Julie Andrews – Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
An evening pause: With high hopes for the new year.
Hat tip Edward Thelen, who I thank for trying to offer me videos from a source other than youtube. Unfortunately, by the time this appeared, it was gone at that source and I had to rely on youtube.
Prayer about Getting Old
An evening pause: Fitting for the end of the year.
Stay with it. It isn’t exactly what you think, based on the start.
Hat tip Danae.
Tim Hawkins – Hip Replacement Song
An evening pause: Somehow, this seems appropriate following the holiday season.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Palmerston North Boys’ High School – Prayer Of The Children
An evening pause: Once again, for my Christian readers, on this their Christmas holiday, with deep abiding good will.
Hat tip Danae.
Come, ye thankful people, come
Pentatonix – White Winter Hymnal
Carol Of The Bells
An evening pause: Let’s both listen, and watch, as the song is performed acapella and in American Sign Language.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Sussin Family annual Christmas light display
An evening pause: Halfway through this I was wondering if there really was a house amidst the display. There is. This was their 2017 display.
Hat tip Danae.
Michael Praetorius – Quem pastores laudavere
A evening pause: Performed by the Tenet Vocal Artists, Dark Horse Consort, and Bach Collegium, December 14, 2013.
Hat tip Dan Coovert.
The Tremeloes – Here Comes My Baby
Kate Rusby – Hunter Moon
Joseph Haydn – Serenade for Strings
An evening pause: Performed by the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts String Orchestra conducted by Volker Hartung.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Los Cenzontles y Razilla Chiquilla – La Mula y El Arriero
An evening pause: The title in English: “The Mule and the Mule Driver.” The English subtitles make it all most decidedly clear.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Clara Bow – She’s Got It
An evening pause: Clara Bow doesn’t sing this, but the song was written about her for her hit 1927 silent movie, It, from which these clips were assembled.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Peter, Paul, & Mary – Light One Candle
John Williams – Hymn to the Fallen
An evening pause: On this day, the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, we must remember all those who died to keep us free. Or as one of the memorials shown in the video says, “We mark the price of freedom.”
Hat tip Danae.
Small Faces – Itchycoo Park
An evening pause: From 1967. If this doesn’t scream “The Sixties” I don’t know what does.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Glen Campbell & Roy Clark – Ghost Riders in the Sky
An evening pause: May they both rest in peace.
Make sure you watch the guitarist in the background near the end, shaking his head in disbelief at what he is hearing.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Carol Burnett: Love
Angel City Chorale – Al Ha-Nissim
Dave Alvin & The Guilty Ones – Johnny Ace Is Dead
Hank Williams & Anita Carter – I Can’t Help It If I’m Still in Love with You
An evening pause: Recorded live on television in 1952.
Hat tip Edward Thelen, who is making the effort to find videos on alternative venues from youtube.