Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill
An evening pause: I love it when the performers are clearly have fun!
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman
Tag: music
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.