An evening pause: Performed live, 1988. The magnificent set starts wth “Guitars Cadillacs,” then goes on to “Streets of Bakersfields,” “Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room,” and finishes with a song I simply can’t identify. It’s a bit long for an evening pause, but worth every second. And a great way to end the week.
Hat tip Robert Pratt of Pratt on Texas.
An evening pause: Time for some lessons in sentence structure and the history of an obscure bit of punctuation.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
An evening pause: From the movie Annie Hall (1977).
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
An evening pause: Seems to me that these guys could be Mrs. Hughes’ son from the comedy routine posted in yesterday’s evening pause.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
An evening pause: Hat tip Robert Pratt, of the radio show Pratt on Texas, who offers it “to balance the ‘jazzy.'”
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who was quite right when he said this nine minute animated film flies by in an instant.
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
A evening pause: Hat tip Robert Pratt.
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen, who adds, “Probability can be counterintuitive.”
An evening pause: In order, “Kiss the Girl” (The Little Mermaid), “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” (The Lion King), “A Whole New World” (Aladdin), “I See the Light” (Tangled), and “You’ll Be in My Heart” (Tarzan), and then finishing with a reprise of “A Whole New World.” All good songs, but to my ear, it is very clear that “A Whole New World” stands out.
And the singer is really joyous.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
An evening pause: Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
An evening pause: Performed live on television sometime in the mid-1960s.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who notes, “Etta James was an inspiration to a generation of popular female singers, from Janice Joplin to Christina Aguilera.”
An evening pause: Performed live 1993.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
An evening pause: You have heard his voice, many times. This highlight reel, suggested by Jim Mallamace, includes just a few, all amazingly different:
Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion
Boris Badenov
Pillsbury Doughboy
Lion and Mouse
Voyages Through Inner Space
Burgermeister Meisterburger
The Beatles Cartoon
Morocco Mole
Ludwig von Drake
He was a contemporary of Mel Blanc (most famous for providing the voices for Warner Brothers’ cartoons), was as good, but is far less well known.
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
An evening pause: Hat tip Jeff Poplin, who asks, “How many do you know?”
