Imogen Heap – Blanket
An evening pause: Jeff Beck on guitar.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Tag: entertainment
At Last the 1948 Show – Policewomen Sketch
An evening pause: This aired in 1967. That’s John Cleese, Marty Feldman, and Graham Chapman, with Tim Brooke-Taylor supervising.
Hat tip Cotour.
MonaLisa Twins – Drive My Car
An evening pause: Hat tip Dan Morris.
Lisa Hannigan – Undertow
An evening pause: Hat tip Dan Morris.
Level 42 – Something About You
An evening pause: Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Harriet Krijgh – Kabalevsky’s 1st Cello Concerto
An evening pause: Hat tip Dan Morris, who provides this interesting historical tidbit. “Dmitry Kabalevsky, described as an opportunistic Soviet toady (three Stalin prizes, four Orders of Lenin), today seems widely forgotten.” I leave it to you to decide why, after listening to this selection.
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble – Riviera Paradise
An evening pause: Hat tip Cotour.
The Haunting
An evening pause: For the Halloween weekend, one of Hollywood’s best ghost films, Robert Wise’s The Haunting (1963), based on a short story by Shirley Jackson.
No blood. No gore. No violence. Only an overwhelming sense of dread and fear, evoked by brilliant filmmaking.
Fun Boy Three – Our Lips Are Sealed
An evening pause: A very typical 80s song, very sad, hopeless, and depressing. Background here.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Eddie Van Halen – Another greatest guitar solo ever
An evening pause: Performed live in 1986. I suspect there are a lot of guitar solos that people will label the greatest ever.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Elli Siitonen – Popcorn
A evening pause: Song by Gershon Kingsley, played on a kantele, a traditional Finnish string instrument, with looper added.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Boy Meets Girl – Waiting for a Star to Fall
An evening pause: Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Alison Krauss, Shawn Colvin, Jerry Douglas – The Boxer
An evening pause: “But the fighter still remains.”
Hat tip Daniel Morris. I posted this in 2013, and it was time to post it again.
Stuart Hamm – The greatest bass solo ever
An evening pause: He goes from classical to country to rock, in less than four minutes.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Crowded House – Weather With You
An evening pause: Performed live 2016. Stay with it. It gets better and better.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Nat King Cole – September Song
An evening pause: Performed live in 1957 on Cole’s television show. The music was composed by Kurt Weill, with lyrics by Maxwell Anderson.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Patrick Dykstra – Chasing Ocean Giants
An evening pause: Hat tip Cotour, who correctly describes this as “a meeting of aliens from two different worlds.”
Igudesman & Joo – Rachmaninov had big Hands
An evening pause: Hat tip Dan Morris.
Chaka Kahn – Ain’t Nobody
An evening pause: Performed live 2012. Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
The Bangles – Hazy Shade Of Winter
An evening pause: Performed live 1987.
Hat tip Daniel Morris.