Swedish National Wind Band
An evening pause: Four classic television and movie themes arranged by Paul Jenkins, performed with spirit by what looks like a college or high school band.
Hat tip t-dub.
Tag: entertainment
Joan Osborne – One Of Us
An evening pause: Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us?
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make His way home?
Peggy Lee & Frank Sinatra – Nice Work If You Can Get It
Greg Kihn – The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)
Pee Wee King & Golden West Cowboys – Slow Poke
An evening pause: Performed live for Country Style USA, a television show produced by the U.S. Army from 1957 to 1960 as a recruiting tool and featuring top country music performers. Stay till the end, to get a feel of a different America.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Kang Hye-Jung – Beautiful Dreamer
An evening pause: Stephen Foster’s magnificent lullaby, performed for South Korean television.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Paris HS Percussion Ensemble – Rung again
Ginger Cat vs The Paper Army
An evening pause: Time for some silliness, which I suppose is also appropriate for a Friday the thirteenth.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
30 day timelapse at sea
An evening pause: Quite hypnotic, and captures the feel for what a modern ship freighter is like, which is nothing like the romantic past. And somehow, this feels fitting to show on the anniversary of the day Columbus first touched shore in the New World in 1492. He pushed the envelope possibly more than any human has ever done, and changed human history in doing so.
Hat tip Steven Golson.
Wings – I’ve Just Seen A Face
Glen Campbell/Mel Tillis/Roy Clark – When I Stop Dreaming
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Learning To Fly
An evening pause: Performed live, 2006.
R.I.P.
I’m learning to fly
But I ain’t got wings
Coming down
Is the hardest thing.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
An evening pause: Performed live, 2006.
R.I.P.
I’m learning to fly
But I ain’t got wings
Coming down
Is the hardest thing.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Hugh Laurie – All you gotta do is . . .
An evening pause: I posted this in 2011, with the comment, “Once again, a folksinger provides us the answer.” Keith Douglas suggested I post it again, noting that maybe they should play it at football games.
I think they already are, though sadly they don’t know it.
Atomik Harmonik – Turbo Polka
An evening pause: An ABBA-inspired group from Slovenia doing a very modern version of the polka. The song might be in English, but it doesn’t really matter. Yee-hah!
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
An evening pause: An ABBA-inspired group from Slovenia doing a very modern version of the polka. The song might be in English, but it doesn’t really matter. Yee-hah!
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Timelapse photography of Fort Jefferson in Dry Tortugas National Park
An evening pause: From the youtube webpage: “On a remote island hours away from Key West lies the largest masonry structure in the Americas: Fort Jefferson. Built with 16 million bricks, but never finished, the fort served as a prison during Civil War. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, upon visiting the island, named it a National Monument, and in 1992 it became part of Dry Tortugas National Park.”
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Rory Feek – Fifty Thousand Names
An evening pause: The song is by George Jones. It speaks of those who died and are remembered at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. Even though that particular war was somewhat misguided, the courage and bravery of those who fought it, and the fact that in the end it did serve to halt for a time the spread of communism and tyranny, should not be forgotten.
There’s stars of David and rosary beads
and crucifixion figurines
and flowers of all colors large and small
There’s a Boy Scout badge and a merit pin
Little American flags waving in the wind
and there’s 50,000 names carved in the wall.
Sadly, there are a lot of very wealthy athletes today who have forgotten this.
The Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter
When the Day Breaks
Fleetwood Mac – Big Love
Alex Farris – Anarchestra
An evening pause: Who says you have to play the musical instruments that already exist? This guy decided he’d invent a few hundred of his own.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
An evening pause: Who says you have to play the musical instruments that already exist? This guy decided he’d invent a few hundred of his own.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Hanson – Where’s the Love
Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
Tom Petty – It’ll All Work Out
Stone Temple Pilots – Big Empty
The Temptations – I Can’t Get Next To You
An evening pause: This might be a lip-synced tv performance, but they do it so well.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Carl Orff – O Fortuna from Carmina Burana
An evening pause: The first half of this video is a great performance of Orff’s piece, written as the opening for Carmina Burana. The second half shows what I think is the closing scene from a staged performance, but has no sound and is unclear. Regardless, the first half is breath-taking, and includes English subtitles, which clearly places the context of this music in 1930s Germany.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Alanis Morissette – All I Really Want
Judy Collins – Send In The Clowns
An evening pause: I haven’t posted this Steven Sondheim song since 2013, and I have never posted Judy Collins’ version. Here is a recent live performance.
Hat tip Joseph Griffin.
Michael Davis on Johnny Carson
An evening pause: Time for some silliness, especially since its been two years since my last Michael Davis post.
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Freebird
An evening pause: From their live concert, July 2, 1977 in Oakland.
I want to especially note the flag that drapes the entire back of their stage. Twas a free time in California then. I wonder if a band would dare hang such a flag in that oppressive place now.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
An evening pause: From their live concert, July 2, 1977 in Oakland.
I want to especially note the flag that drapes the entire back of their stage. Twas a free time in California then. I wonder if a band would dare hang such a flag in that oppressive place now.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.