5secondfilms – Missing
An evening pause: This is undoubtedly the shortest evening pause ever. However. you will probably have to watch it more than once to get it.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Tag: entertainment
Nat King Cole – That Sunday, That Summer
An evening pause: From a 1963 BBC television special, An Evening with Nat King Cole.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Melinda Kathleen Reese – O Come O Come Emmanuel
An evening pause: The video replays her singing the same thing three times. There is a good reason, as she almost appears to have begun singing as a lark, and the acoustics of the church astonish her. The repeats help bring out this amazing quality.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Victor Borge at the White House
An evening pause: Unfortunately the youtube link does not say when this happened, but based on one Borge joke I suspect it was during the Eisenhower administration.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Charice – All By Myself
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Betty Hutton & Howard Keel – Anything You Can do
An evening pause: From the great Irving Berlin musical, Annie Get Your Gun (1950).
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Harpo Marx – Swanee River
An evening pause: From the Marx Brothers’ last film, Love Happy (1949).
Hat tip Danae.
Penderecki String Quartet – Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in F minor
An evening pause: They are really into this!
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Everybody’s Talking – Everybody’s Talking
An evening pause: The headline is not a typo. This trio is named that, and they are singing that Harry Nilsson song.
Hat tip Danae.
Sergei Rachmaninoff – Variation 18 on a theme by Paganini
An evening pause: One of the greatest and most beautiful melodies ever written, as part of a larger work. The pianist is Valentina Lisitsa, supported by the London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Francis conducting. Her playing style is the most fluid and relaxed I have ever seen.
Don McClean – American Pie
An evening pause: Sixty years ago this month a plane crash killed Buddy Holly. This is one person’s interpretation of the words of this classic song, finely done, and linked to that event.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Mohammed Rafi – Jaan Pehchan Ho
An evening pause: From the 1965 Bollywood thriller Gumnaam. It ain’t Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but it definitely has that 1960s energy and enthusiasm.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Farewell
An evening pause: We should know that our messages do get caught.
Tony Banks – Reveille
An evening pause: Performed by Tony Banks and the Czech National Symphony Orchestra & Choir, conductor: Nick Ingman.
Hat tip Danae.
Carol Burnett Show – The Accident
An evening pause: Time for some good 1960s television comedy. With Harvey Korman and Vickie Lawrence.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Harry Styles – Two Ghosts
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Lutenist Elizabeth Kenny – Introducing the Baroque Theorbo
An evening pause: “People complain a lot about the space that I take up”.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Larry L – Joanne
An evening pause: The song is by Mike Nesmith, written long after his time with the Monkees, nicely performed by an ordinary guy in what appears to be his bedroom.
Hat tip Danae.
Steve Miller Band – Fly Like An Eagle
An evening pause: Note that the song asks the typical leftist questions about the poor people in the world and how to help them, and the song’s answer is always, “Fly like an eagle, to be free,” which to me means only one thing: It is freedom and the American Dream that always provides the best solution.
Hat tip Tom Wilson.
Marshall & Alexander – Perhaps Love
An evening pause: I posted the original by John Denver and Plácido Domingo back in 2011, but it is such a wonderful song it is time to revisit it.
Hat tip Danae.