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.
Tag: music
Tony Banks – Reveille
An evening pause: Performed by Tony Banks and the Czech National Symphony Orchestra & Choir, conductor: Nick Ingman.
Hat tip Danae.
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.
The Pretenders – My City Was Gone
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.
Catherine MacLellan, Chris Gauthier & the Blue Engine String Quartet – Snowbird
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Cliff Richard – The Twelfth Of Never
An evening pause: For Diane, on our anniversary this coming weekend.
Hat tip Danae.
Béla Fleck – Falani
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.
Harry Chapin – Cat’s in the Cradle
An evening pause: Performed live 1977.
Hat tip Danae.