Ambosspolka
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Malamace, who correctly notes that “The ‘electric cords’ on the hammers are hilarious and fitting because the hammer impacts actually caused sparks.”
Tag: entertainment
Royal Guardsmen – Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron
An evening pause: Fun bubblegum music from the 1960s.
Hat tip Roland.
Voorhees Choir – Three Hanukkah Songs
An evening pause: This week is Hannukkah. Three songs to celebrate the lit candle that did not burn out.
Glenn Yarbrough – Baby The Rain Must Fall
An evening pause: Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Elise Trouw – The Girl from Ipanema
An evening pause: This might my favorite version ever of this song.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
The Diamonds – Little Darlin’
An evening pause: Hat tip Tom Biggar.
BouzoukXp – Belenos
An evening pause: The wonders of technology: all played by the same person.
Hat tip Bob Roberts.
Nandi Bushell – Rock and Grohl
An evening pause: The musical talent and passion are both outstanding. The shallow philosophy, when compared to Aristotle or Plato or Moses (to list only a few), is kind of sad to watch. She really believes that life is that simple. As a child such shallow passion is fine. I fear however that in the arriving dark age no one will ever do anything to make her think more deeply.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Wendy Law – Comparing cellos: Bach Cello Suite No. 1
An evening pause: She plays the same Bach piece on three different cellos, valued respectively at $5,000, $180,000, and a $1 million. Can you tell any difference, and if so, which do you like the best?
Hat tip Phill Oltman.
Mark Korven & Tony Duggan-Smith – The Apprehension Engine
An evening pause: Without doubt this is the musical instrument of our time.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Buster Keaton – Elevator chase
An evening pause: Some funny silliness from the silent movie era. And if you don’t know who Buster Keaton was, it is time you found out.
Hat tip Cotour.
Chiquita Banana – The original commercial
An evening pause: This will not mean anything to my younger readers, but this song and commercial seared itself into the brains of everyone who went to the movies or watched television in the 40s, 50s, and 60s. The first version, shown here, was produced by Disney for the United Fruit Company.
I can think of no reason not to sear this song into some new generations.
Hat tip David Nudelman.
Eiro Nareth – Interstellar
An evening pause: A 12-string arrangement of Hans Zimmer’s movie score.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Eva Vergilova – Free Bird
An evening pause: Another guitar piece, but of a very different kind from yesterday’s.
Hat tip Mike Nelson. Note also that this pause was taken from Rumble, an alternative to Youtube. I encourage those who wish to suggest evening pauses to always see if they can find something there first. Reliance solely on Youtube is not healthy, and the competition will do everyone good.
Midlife Jazzband/Swiss Dixie Jazzer – Tiger Rag
An evening pause: I think the band is named Midlife Jazzband, and they are playing the named songs. The website is unclear however and I could have some of it backwards. No matter.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Amin Toufani – Gratitude
An evening pause: From a time in the distant past when people could socialize and entertain each other as normal human beings. And according to the youtube website, the fire was real.
Hat tip lazarus long.
Debussy plays Debussy – Clair de Lune
An evening pause: As the youtube webpage notes, “This is not an acoustic recording. This is a recording obtained by piano roll.”
Rolls for the reproducing piano were generally made from the recorded performances of famous musicians. Typically, a pianist would sit at a specially designed recording piano, and the pitch and duration of any notes played would be either marked or perforated on a blank roll, together with the duration of the sustaining and soft pedal. Reproducing pianos can also re-create the dynamics of a pianist’s performance by means of specially encoded control perforations placed towards the edges of a music roll, but this coding was never recorded automatically. Different companies had different ways of notating dynamics, some technically advanced (though not necessarily more effective), some secret, and some dependent entirely on a recording producer’s handwritten notes, but in all cases these dynamic hieroglyphics had to be skillfully converted into the specialized perforated codes needed by the different types of instrument.
Thus, we are listening now to a player piano, replaying the music as Debussy played it.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Justin Johnson – I’ve been everywhere
An evening pause: I normally don’t post two suggestions in a row from the same reader, but this particular collapsible (!) guitar contrasts too nicely with Friday’s theorbo. From the youtube webpage:
If the ability to break down and re-assemble wasn’t crazy enough, it actually STAYS IN TUNE when you put it back together, thanks to the air-tight construction techniques and locking tuners!
The song is by Johnny Cash.
Hat tip Jeff Poplin.
Brandon Acker – Canario
An evening pause: The music was written in the early 1600s by G.G. Kapsberger. The instrument is called a theorbo. I posted a different performance featuring this medieval instrument in 2019, in which the instrument’s origins is described. In both cases the quality of sound is hauntingly wonderful..
Hat tip Jeff Poplin.
Samara Ginsberg – Inspector Gadget for 8 cellos
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace.