Jibjab – Time for some campaigning
An evening pause: In celebration of election day. This might have been made for the 2008 election, but it is remarkably up-to-day now, three years later.
Tag: music
Judi Dench – Send in the Clowns
An evening pause: From a 1995 television profile of Dame Judi Dench, ending with her performance of “Send in the Clowns” from a revival of Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music.
Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova – Falling Slowly
An evening pause: The Oscar-winning song from the film Once (2007), performed live.
Gene Pitney – Looking Through The Eyes Of Love
An evening pause: Some more good 1960s pop music on 1960s television.
The Piano
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Shirley Bassey – Two songs
An evening pause: From a 1964 music video, Shirley Bassey sings two songs, Cole Porter’s “I get a kick out of you,” followed by Ben King’s “I who have nothing.”
The Beatles performing Shakespeare
An evening pause: In honor of Shakespeare’s 400th birthday in 1964, the Beatles performed this short excerpt from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. How else could you see John Lennon dressed as a girl?
Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (mountains beyond mountains)
An evening pause:
The Grateful Dead – Mountains of the Moon
An evening pause: As performed in January 1969 for Playboy After Dark, at the Playboy mansion.
The Hastings College Choir – Home on the Range
An evening pause: This beautiful rendition brings new life to a classic American song that sadly has become so familiar most people won’t listen to it any longer.
Kate Rusby – Let me be
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Beauty and the Beast – Tale as Old as Time
An evening pause: As sung by Angela Lansbury during the movie.
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – Home
An evening pause: Having finally arrived in Tucson after four and a half days of driving, this song seemed most appropriate. I had previously posted a version taped live in a radio studio. Here they perform “Home” on television for Letterman. The energy is still infectious.
As they say,
Ah home!
Yes we are home!
Home is wherever there is you!”
Gerry & The Pacemakers – Ferry Cross The Mersey
An evening pause: From 1965, the Top of the Pops show. I’ve always liked this song, “Ferry Cross the Mersey,” but it is also fun to watch early television, with the band attempting to simulate playing to the original recording, while the kids on the dance fall make believe they’re dancing as they repeatedly sneak peaks at the cameras.
Three Redneck Tenors – Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony
An evening pause: Beethoven meets Pop.
Andrea Bocelli & Sarah Brightman – Time To Say Goodbye
An evening pause: As Diane and I head west today for our new life in Arizona, this song seems especially fitting.
Hugh Laurie – All you gotta do is . . .
An evening pause: Once again, a folksinger provides us the answer.
Placido Domingo – Furusato (My Country Home)
An evening pause: From a concert performed in Japan on April 10, 2011, only a month after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Stay for the end, to see the audience’s response.
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Red Clay Halo
An evening pause: Some great guitar pickin’!
Richard Kiley – The Impossible Dream
An evening pause: How about something uplifting? Sung by Richard Kiley, the man who created the role.