Tag: entertainment
Johnny Cash – Hurt
An evening pause: Normally I prefer live performances. Normally I don’t like music videos edited with pretentious images, often about adolescent angst. This video is none of that. It is Johnny Cash, in his old age, looking back in time.
Hat tip Jeff Poplin.
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Fingerstyle Jukebox – We Don’t Talk Anymore
An evening pause: The player is from Estonia, but no where on her youtube page does she give us her name.
An evening pause: The player is from Estonia, but no where on her youtube page does she give us her name.
The Duck Song
Smothers Brothers – Red River Valley
Avner Geller and Stevie Lewis – Defective Detective
One Direction – Moments
An evening pause: The teen-age girls in this audience could have easily been swiped from the audiences the Beatles faced when they first hit the world scene.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Marbles, Magnets, and Music (Synchronized)
Lorde – Glory and Gore
Conor Oberst – You Are Your Mother’s Child
David Byrne + NYC – Heroes
An evening pause: The event is one where the audience is enlisted to participate as a back-up choir for the night’s main performance.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Sasha & the Starlight – So Nice
Bobbie Gentry – Ode To Billie Joe
Celtic Woman – A Spaceman Came Travelling
Chet Atkins & Jerry Reed – Muleskinner Blues
Metric – Twilight Galaxy
Oktapodi
Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield – Between The Bars
Kealan O’Rourke – The Boy In The Bubble
An evening pause: Fitting for today. And yes, that is Alan Rickman narrating.
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Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Brian Hyland – Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
A evening pause: From the Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show, July 16, 1960. True, it is lip-sync’d, but the silly innocence of this bygone time makes it absolutely worthwhile. And I think this really does make a good lead-in to Valentine’s Day.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Friday Songs – Listen to the Music!
An evening pause: As noted at the youtube webpage, “a feel-good tribute to the Doobie Brothers hit.” It appears this guy produces a new cover song each Friday “to celebrate the best day of the week.”
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Lilly Yokoi – ballerina on bicycle
An evening pause: About a minute into this I was thinking, this is exactly the kind of bicycle tricks that teenage boys began doing in the 1980s. And that’s about when she really got started.
Hat tip Jeff Poplin.
Eddy Arnold & LeAnn Rimes – Cattle Call
An evening pause: LeAnn Rimes here is 14, Eddy Arnold is 76. They make a magnificent team.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Stevie Nicks – Stand Back
John Arthur Martinez – Closer To My Dream
An evening pause: For me personally, this song is perfect, on my birthday. Or as Gordon Dickson wrote in his magnificent science fiction book, Way of the Pilgrim, “He felt the urge to speak like a great hand at his back, pushing him forward, a hand that could not be resisted.”
Candide Thovex – quattro 2
Milton Berle & Harpo Marx – I’m forever blowing bubbles
Gustav Holst – St Paul’s Suite
An evening pause: Performed by the Eufonico String Orchestra, Rafał Nicze, conductor, as part of the 3rd Polish Nationwide Music Schools’ Symphonic Orchestras Competition, May 19, 2015.
The music here is soooo British, as it should be, written by Holst in honor of the St Paul’s Girls’ School where Holst was Director of Music for almost thirty years.
André Rieu & Carmen Monarcha – Habanera
An evening pause: I especially like the silent interplay between the two. Very much all in fun, but with a nice spark.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.