The King’s Singers – Barbara Allen
An evening pause: Arranged by John Rutter.
Tag: music
Itzhak Perlman & the Klezmer Conservatory Band
An evening pause: Two klezmer songs, performed live December 2013.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Orkestra Obsolete – Blue Monday
An evening pause: This 1983 electronic song is played here entirely on 1930s musical instruments.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Crash Test Dummies – Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
An evening pause: There is something about this song that reminds me of the impression of America by the Soviet refugee played by Robin Williams in Moscow on the Hudson (1984), “Strange but wonderful.”
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Swedish National Wind Band
An evening pause: Four classic television and movie themes arranged by Paul Jenkins, performed with spirit by what looks like a college or high school band.
Hat tip t-dub.
Joan Osborne – One Of Us
An evening pause: Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us?
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make His way home?
Peggy Lee & Frank Sinatra – Nice Work If You Can Get It
An evening pause: Recorded live, 1962.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Greg Kihn – The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)
An evening pause: Recorded live, July 6, 1981.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Pee Wee King & Golden West Cowboys – Slow Poke
An evening pause: Performed live for Country Style USA, a television show produced by the U.S. Army from 1957 to 1960 as a recruiting tool and featuring top country music performers. Stay till the end, to get a feel of a different America.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Kang Hye-Jung – Beautiful Dreamer
An evening pause: Stephen Foster’s magnificent lullaby, performed for South Korean television.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Paris HS Percussion Ensemble – Rung again
An evening pause: Performed live, March 11, 2010.
Hat tip Michael Nelson.
30 day timelapse at sea
An evening pause: Quite hypnotic, and captures the feel for what a modern ship freighter is like, which is nothing like the romantic past. And somehow, this feels fitting to show on the anniversary of the day Columbus first touched shore in the New World in 1492. He pushed the envelope possibly more than any human has ever done, and changed human history in doing so.
Hat tip Steven Golson.