Teddy Swims – I can’t make you love me
An evening pause: A beautiful rendition of one of Bonnie Raitt’s best songs.
Hat tip Cotour.
Tag: entertainment
a-ha – Take On Me
An evening pause: Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata
An evening pause: Here what counts is the audience. From the youtube webpage:
Mongkol is a 61-year-old former logging elephant. His captive-held life was spent hauling trees in the Thai forest. His body shape is deformed through hard labor, he lost his right eye and tusk in this brutal logging practice. Mongkol was rescued and brought to Elephants World to spend the rest of his days relaxing peacefully in freedom by the River Kwai. I discovered Mongkol is an extremely gentle, sensitive elephant who enjoys music, especially this slow movement by Beethoven which I play to him occasionally in the day and night.
I think he listens with as much rapt pleasure as anyone who loves Beethoven.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
The B52’s – Love Shack
An evening pause: Hat tip Cotour.
Yes, Prime Minister – The need to know
An evening pause: Stay with it. It will soon remind you of modern DC politics.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Talking Heads – Burning Down the House
An evening pause: Performed live in Los Angeles in 1983. Somehow, everything about this song symbolizes to me the entire sixties generation.
Hat tip Cotour.
Brazilian Orchestra medley
An evening pause: This appears to be a youth orchestra, but unfortunately everything on the webpage is in Portuguese, so I’m not sure.
Hat tip David Nudelman.
Yuval Salomon – Sweet Child O’ Mine
An evening pause: This is a cover for a Guns N’ Roses song.
Hat tip Lee S.
Carol Burnett Show – Singles Bar
An evening pause: Somehow this seems appropriate for Valentine’s Day.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Whitney Houston – Didn’t We Almost Have It All
An evening pause: Hat tip Cotour.
The Temptations – Just My Imagination
An evening pause: I should have scheduled this for January 27. Diane will understand why.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
John Cougar – Ain’t Even Done With The Night
An evening pause: Performed live 1981, with what I think is one of the strangest background dance line-up ever.
Hat tip Cotour.
Brendan Kavanagh – Mums, Kids, & Boogie Woogie
An evening pause: I guarantee this will bring a smile to your face.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Rhiannon Giddens – Wayfaring Stranger
An evening pause: My brother Jon sent this to me today as a birthday present. I like it so much that I decided to reschedule my pauses to air it tonight.
Grace Thomas – Electro Swing Dance Freestyle
An evening pause: The song is Lost in the Rhythm, performed by Octavia Rose.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Hillary Klug – Cotton Eyed Joe
An evening pause: Stay with it, it gets better and better, as she triples herself in the second half.
Hat tip Sherman LaViolette.
Gary Numan – Cars
An evening pause: From 1979, in every way possible.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Sade – Your Love Is King
An evening pause: Performed live 2011.
Hat tip Cotour.
Aaron Copland – Appalachian Spring
An evening pause: Performed by Perspectives Ensemble using the original 1944 orchestration.
Hat tip Diane Wilson, who admits that “it’s long-ish, but this is a superb performance of purely American experience set to music.” I agree. You will be refreshed and enlightened by it.
Bayin Wu – Das Boot
An evening pause: Building a unique model, with a unique concept.
Hat tip Cotour.