Tony Banks – Reveille
An evening pause: Performed by Tony Banks and the Czech National Symphony Orchestra & Choir, conductor: Nick Ingman.
Hat tip Danae.
An evening pause: Performed by Tony Banks and the Czech National Symphony Orchestra & Choir, conductor: Nick Ingman.
Hat tip Danae.
An evening pause: Time for some good 1960s television comedy. With Harvey Korman and Vickie Lawrence.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
An evening pause: “People complain a lot about the space that I take up”.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
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.
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.
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.
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace. The opening chords should be very familiar to talk radio fans. As Jim says, “The 6 opening bars of the song are almost as familiar to many as the first 4 bars of Beethoven’s 5th.”
Knowing the subject matter of this song clarifies for me one reason why Rush picked it, back in 1988, when his show started.
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
An evening pause: One of the silliest shows ever produced by television. These cameos however provide a nice survey of 1960s television and culture. How many do you know? And can you name the actor playing Santa?
Hat tip Max Hunt.
An evening pause: For Diane, on our anniversary this coming weekend.
Hat tip Danae.
A evening pause: All I can think when I watch musicians play like this is that their brains and bodies are in a place that non-musicians cannot imagine.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
An evening pause: Performed live 1977.
Hat tip Danae.
An evening pause: From the Carol Burnett Show.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
An evening pause: From 1972. The music is beautiful. Pay no attention to the hairstyles.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
An evening pause: One of my favorite songs, first performed by the King in the movie Blue Hawaii and posted previously as an evening pause. This nice cover captures the song just as well, despite the singer’s youth and the lack of fancy camera work.
Hat tip Clark Lindsey.
An evening pause: Performed live, 2014. The project goal for the two pianists, Adam Kromelow and Angelo Di Loreto, is to arrange and play the music of the band Genesis.
Hat tip Danae.
An evening pause: Performed live, 2013.
An evening pause: Is it Irish? Or is it bluegrass? Or folk? Or rock? Or maybe it is just good music?
Hat tip Danae.