Berlin & Teri Nunn – Take My Breath Away
An evening pause: Performed live 2023. The sound and camerawork could be better, but her performance more than compensates.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Tag: music
Kid Creole & the Coconuts – Stool Pigeon
Sing with me!
An evening pause: Reggie, the performer, simply sets up on the street and asks passersby to sing with him. This video includes a selection of some singers. From the youtube website:
As a musician, I’m all about creating musical experiences that have people feeling happy and free, and that’s why the “Sing With Me for Free” series exists. Since 2018, I have asked thousands of random people to sing with me on camera. A lot of people have said no, some have said no initially but changed their minds to yes, and some have said yes right away. I ask these people to sing with one purpose: to create a way for them to experience a sense of happiness and freedom they did not feel before. And much of the time, this actually works (and that makes ME happy).
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman
Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Up Above My Head
Kylie Minogue & Ricky Martin – Livin La Vida Loca
Tomaso Albinoni – Adagio in G minor for violin strings and organ
Belén Bandera & Carla Motis – El Testament d’Amèlia
An evening pause: From Wikipedia: “El testament d’Amèlia is a popular Catalan folk song. It tells the story of a young lady in her deathbed who knowingly drank the poisoned drink given to her by her stepmother, whom she knows has been sleeping with her husband.”
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Mark Knopfler – Going Home
An evening pause: Performed live 2019. The music is from the 1983 movie Local Hero.
Hat tip Phil Berardelli.
Cab Calloway – Minnie the Moocher
Musiquizzers – Guess that song: 60’s
An evening pause: It is amazing how many of these short clips (as well as the full songs) are still so familiar and well known, considering its more than a half century since they were first played on the radio. Speaks well to their originality and uniqueness.
But how many of the songs and performers can you guess?
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Redbone – Come And Get Your Love
Daniele Vitale – Playing the biggest sax in the world
An evening pause: Fascinating and entertaining, but that last song was not meant to be played on this instrument.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Gene Krupa & Buddy Rich – Drum Battle
Icehouse – Great Southern Land
An evening pause: Performed live 2005.
Hat tip Phil Berardelli, who says this song is this Australian band’s love anthem to their country.
Alexander Sevastian – Bach’s Organ Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Take A Pebble
Tanya Tucker & Delbert McClinton – Tell me about it
Nicole Scherzinger & Lang Lang – Reflection
Lonnie Johnson – Another Night to Cry
The Petersens – You’re Still the One
An evening pause: According to the group, this cover has special meaning. From the youtube webpage: “After all these years of playing music together despite so many people advising us to choose a different path, it reminds us of the beauty of sticking to something good.”
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Hadar Nehemya – Song of Songs
An evening pause: As Friday night begins the Sabbath in the Jewish faith, this seems appropriate tonight. The group is called 12 Tribes Music. Watch with closed captions turned on to see the King James English translation of these the lyrics, from the Song of Solomon of the Old Testament. The improvised sections of the performance however are wholly modern.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Josh Groban – Pure Imagination
An evening pause: The song was first performed by Gene Wilder in the 1971 film Willa Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, posted here in 2019.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Gunhill Road – I Got a Line in New York City
An evening pause: Something a bit different. As noted on the youtube webpage, the visuals here “were created by human artists tapping into the assistance of leading-edge generative AI.” Normally I find the fad to go to AI to do our thinking and creativity for us to be more than appalling, but in this case it is clear the artists guided the art, and then fitted it well to the music.
Hat tip Bob Robert.
Manon – Act I, ‘Bedroom’
An evening pause: Written by Kenneth MacMillan and performed by Marianela Nuñez as Manon and Federico Bonelli as Des Grieux of the Royal Ballet.
Contrast the gentility and elegance of this dance of two, of which Astaire and Rogers were of the same class, with that of the raw modern gymnastic routines of large groups. Both have their merits, but to me there is something more civilized and thoughtful about the former.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
The Waifs – Crazy Train
Wedding String Quartet – Le Onde by Ludovico Einaudi
An evening pause: This video breaks one of rules for a good evening pause, in that is is shot from one static wide shot camera. I normally reject such videos, as the visuals are boring. I make an exception here because of the music and the arrangement, which is so breath-taking you don’t care about the visuals at all. Makes me want to know more about this composer and his work.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Adele – Set Fire To The Rain
Tchaikovsky – Waltz of the Flowers
An evening pause: Most people today likely associate this music with space stations and spacecraft in space (influenced by the movie 2001: a Space Odyssey), but this video shows the real reason it was written, for dancing the waltz.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Bonnie Raitt – Runaway
Cyndi Lauper – She Bop
An evening pause: Performed live in Japan, around 1986.
Hat tip Judd Clark, who describes this accurately as “appealingly bizarre.” To me it simply shows how Cyndi Lauper had a humble sense of humor.