Woods – Rain On
An evening pause: I especially like the simplicity of the music, combined with the interplay between the guitarist and the singer.
Tag: music
The Swiss Top Secret Drum Corp
An evening pause: My only comment: This is insane!
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Cat Choir
An evening pause: Time for some more silliness, but in a classical form.
All that Jazz – audition scene
An evening pause: Stay with it. The last bits of dialogue are worth it.
Hat tip to Phil Berardelli, author of Phil’s Favorite 500: Loves of a Moviegoing Lifetime.
Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill
An evening pause: I love it when the performers are clearly have fun!
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman
Debussy – The Girl with the Flaxen Hair
An evening pause: Mary Elizabeth Bowden on trumpet and Naomi Woo on piano.
Hat tip Danae for suggesting the music.
The Everly Brothers – All I Have To Do Is Dream
An evening pause: From the 1983 reunion concert.
J.S. Bach – Toccata and Fugue in D on Glass Harp
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Steve Martin – The Crow
An evening pause: Here’s Steve Martin, Bela Fleck, Tony Trischka, and Brittany Hass playing a song written by Steve Martin.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Carrie Underwood – Different Drum
An evening pause: For a long time I tried and failed to find an original performance of this song by Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Poneys, but could never find it. Carrie Underwood, however, does a great Ronstadt imitation at Ronstadt’s 2014 induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Hat tip Danae.
Sesame Street – Fat Cat Sat Hat
An evening pause: Time again for some silliness.
ABBA – Arrival
An evening pause: Performed live at the 2014 Netherlands Military Tattoo, their version of Great Britain’s annual Proms.
Hat tip Danae.
Kenny Rogers – The Gambler
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
B.B. King – The Thrill Is Gone
An evening pause: To B.B. King, may he rest in peace.
Performed live at the 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival.
Hat tip Tom Wilson and Tom Biggar.
Jack Johnson, Eddie Vedder, Kawika Kahiapo – Constellations
An evening pause: Performed live at the Kokua Festival 2007.
Hat tip Danae.
Chico and Harpo Marx – At the piano
An evening pause: From The Big Store (1941).
Hat tip to Phil Berardelli, author of Phil’s Favorite 500: Loves of a Moviegoing Lifetime.
Guang Dong – Pas de deux
An evening pause: Just watch.
Gordon Lightfoot – Carefree Highway
An evening pause: Performed live in Reno in 2000. It is amazing to compare this older Lightfoot with Lightfoot performing in 1974. He is as good, but he looks like a different man.
Hat tip Danae.
Lorrie Morgan – Something in Red
An evening pause: I posted a Morgan 1992 performance of this classic back in 2012. In 1992 she was performing the song when it was fresh and a just released hit. Almost a quarter century later it remains one of the best songs ever written, and so I think I should post it again, this time in a more recent live performance from 2007.
Willie Nelson – Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
An evening pause: Performed live in 1980, around the time that Nelson, who had been working in relative obscurity for years, had suddenly been “noticed”.
Hat tip t-dub for reminding me that Nelson deserved more notice, again.