David Bowie – The Man Who Sold The World
An evening pause: Performed live 1979 on Saturday Night Live.
Hat tip Chris McLaughlin.
Tag: entertainment
Private Snafu – Coming!!
An evening pause: This was the first of a World War II cartoon series directed by Chuck Jones, voiced by Mel Blanc, and written by Theodor Geisel aka Dr. Seuss and designed to with humor raise the work ethic of soldiers and officers.
Hat tip Lazurus Long, who adds that “it was a bit racy and [thus] popular with the servicemen.”
Today our military authorities probably consider our servicemen and women to be too fragile for such stuff. And hopefully this evening pause will air before Google’s YouTube decides it must be banned.
The Offspring – Self Esteem
An evening pause: Performed live 1995.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who added, “A time before cell phones waved in everyone’s hand. A time where crowds were in the moment. A time when there were crowds.”
I would add it was a time when people were also not afraid, but lived life with spirit and exuberance, ignoring its natural risks because to pay attention to them would make life intolerable.
Enjoy your weekend. Get out of your house. Do something grand. And do it with as many people as you can find.
Military band joke
An evening pause: One marching band from Britain is performing to an Italian audience when a band representing the Italian Bersaglieri (mobile light infantry who traditionally run at a trot instead of march) arrives to upstage them.
Silly and staged, but fun nonetheless.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Steve Harvey – Foolproof Excuses When Late for Work
An evening pause: As I am late in posting tonight’s evening pause, I thought this short comedy monologue entirely appropriate.
The Outlaws – Waterhole
An evening pause: Performed live 2007.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Goose house – Country Roads
An evening pause: I guarantee that every one of these performers has seen Hiyao Miyazaki’s magnificent film, Whisper of the Heart, from whence this instrumentation and its Japanese translation is taken.
You should too.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Andreas Hellkvist – B3 Boogie
An evening pause: It appears this song “materialized” while Hellkvist was simply trying out this Hammond organ.
Hat tip Cotour.
Dire Straits – Industrial Disease
An evening pause: Hat tip Blair Ivey.
Bob Dylan – Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man
An evening pause: Performed live at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964.
Hat tip Roland.
Glenn Miller Orchestra Scandinavia – American Patrol
An evening pause: Americans once had brass, and Glenn Miller’s music captured it, both in instruments and in sound. This has a happy defiant exuberance that now seems lost.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
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.
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
An evening pause: Nice cover of Boston’s hit song.
Hat tip Saromaya.
Josh Tanner – Decommissioned
An evening pause: A fun short horror film taking off from actual events on ISS.
Hat tip Roland.
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
A evening pause: Hat tip Sayomara.
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.