Steely Dan – Home at last
An evening pause: The song is set to visuals from many Steely Dan concerts over the decades.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Tag: entertainment
Seasick Steve – Roy’s Gang
An evening pause: Hat tip Mike Nelson.
16 hands 2 pianos – Dublin International Piano Competition
An evening pause: It might have been easier to use all the pianos on the stage, but it was clearly more fun doing it this way. The players are the previous winners at the competition.
Hat tip Charlie Tutino.
Viet View – In The Year 2525
An evening pause: This is a cover of the classic Zager and Evans 1960s song. It also cleverly uses material from numerous post-1980s sci-fi movies to match the words. Overall, those movies portray a brave new world future (as Huxley saw it), humorless, soulless, and inhumane — as does the song.
Hat tip Bob Robert.
Bonnie Raitt – Burning Down The House
An evening pause: Hat tip Dan Morris.
Nightmare Song from Gilbert & Sullivan’s Iolanthe
An evening pause: Performed live 2018. Sadly, I don’t know who the singer is, and the youtube website does not say. UPDATE: Charlie tells me the singer is Andrew Shore.
Note: You want to watch this with the captions running.
Hat tip Charlie Tutino.
Alberta Hunter – My Handy Man
An evening pause: Hat tip Charlie Tutino.
Mike Rowe – Can You Be There By Nine?
An evening pause: Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Krisztina Vellai – Aerial Silk Act
A evening pause: Don’t try this at home.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Want to make a suggestion for an evening pause? Behind the Black could use your help. If you’ve done it before you know the routine. If not, mention that you have something in the comments but don’t post the link to it. I will contact you.
The guidelines:
1. The subject line should say “evening pause.”
2. Don’t send more than three in any email. I prefer however if you send them one email at a time.
3. Variety! Don’t send me five from the same artist. I can only use one. Pick your favorite and send that.
4. Live performance preferred.
5. Quirky technology, humor, and short entertaining films also work.
6. Search BtB first to make sure your suggestion hasn’t already been posted.
7. I might not respond immediately, as I schedule these in a bunch.
8. Avoid the politics of the day. The pause is a break from such discussion.
The Eagles – Seven Bridges Road
An evening pause: Hat tip Blair Ivey.
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram – Empty Promises
An evening pause: Performed live February 2020 in Tennessee. Note how normal everything is. No masks, no social distancing, and especially no fear. Just a bunch of people enjoying themselves.
Hat tip Tom Wilson.
Amira & Friends – My Way
A evening pause: Performed live in 2017. It is sad that too many now no longer honor someone who follows these words, but despises them instead:
For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught
To say the things he truly feels
And not the words of one who kneels
The record shows
I took the blows
And did it my way
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Beki Hemingway & Robin James Hurt – Keep Your Distance
An evening pause: Hat tip Dan Morris.
Bob & Ray, Jane, Laraine & Gilda – Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?
An evening pause: Bob & Ray, performing live in 1979 with the three very talented ladies from the original Saturday Night Live crew.
Hat tip Charlie Tutino.
Seal – Kiss from a rose
A evening pause: Hat tip Dan Morris.
The Dodo – Cora Rose: the poodle who lost her front legs
An evening pause: Hat tip Mike Nelson.
The Partridge Family – I think I love You
An evening pause: From the 1970s television show.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
The Jack Benny Show – Casting For Television Special
An evening pause: Originally aired January 1, 1961. For those too young to know, Benny had two running gags that help explain some of the humor. First, he was ridiculously cheap, and second, he never admitted he was older than 39. Above all, you must recognize the intended silliness of everything said or done.
Note also that the telegram delivery man is Mel Blanc, who provided the voices for Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and almost all Warner Brothers cartoons from the 1940s to the 1960s.
Dobie Gray – Drift Away
An evening pause: Performed live on television 1973.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Coldplay – Viva La Vida
An evening pause: Performed live 2017.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.