Tag: music
Hozier & Annie Lennox – Take Me to Church / I Put a Spell on You
A evening pause: Performed live 2015.
Hat tip Doug Johnson. Note too that this does not come from youtube, but from metatube. Let’s find more alternative video resources like this, just to increase some competition.
Rollerman – Downhill extreme
AC/DC – Thunderstruck
An evening pause: A bit of energy to start the week. Performed live 1991. For those unfamiliar with this rock piece (like me), I think it helpful here to turn on captions to find out what the performers and audience are singing.
Hat tip James Street.
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Lenny
Fiona Apple & Elvis Costello – I Want You
Samba – Bamboleo
An evening pause: Stay with it, the second and third dancing couples in this compilation are especially good. This isn’t Astaire & Rogers, but it is superbly done, nonetheless.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Massive Attack – Teardrop
An evening pause: Proves that good music with modern rock instruments does not have to be loud. I just wish this singer wasn’t using the modern slurring singing style that makes it almost impossible to understand the words.
Amazing Saxophone Solo
An evening pause: It is shame there is not more information about this sax player, who is astonishing in her skill.
Hat tip James Street.
Bastille – Pompeii
The Chantay’s – Pipeline
An evening pause: Performed live on the Lawrence Welk show, May 18, 1963. Note that was a successful rock band instrumental, a decade before art rock became a thing.
Hat tip Rex Ridenoure.
Sterling Cottam, Mike Massé, Jeff Hall – Can’t Help Falling in Love
An evening pause: A very nice cover of my favorite Elvis song. The camera placement could have been better but who cares.
Hat tip Sayomara.
Band Maid – Thrill
An evening pause: Most of the lyrics are in Japanese, but if you turn on closed captions they are translated into English.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Natalie Merchant – Carnival
Glenn Miller Band – I’ve got a Gal in Kalamazoo
An evening pause: From the 1942 film, Orchestra Wives. The word “brass” in all its meaning captures the sense of this music and the American free culture then. Everything and anything was allowed, within the moral confines of Judeo-Christian ethics.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
I am in need for evening pause suggestions. If you are interested in suggesting an evening pause, please say so in the comments (without providing a link to that suggestion). I will contact you so you can forward it directly to me to schedule. The guidelines for submitting Evening Pauses:
1. The subject line should say “evening pause.”
2. Don’t send more than one per email.
3. Variety! Don’t send me five from the same artist. I can only use one. Pick your favorite and send that.
4. Live performance preferred.
5. Quirky technology, humor, and short entertaining films also work.
6. Search BtB first to make sure your suggestion hasn’t already been posted.
7. I might not respond immediately, as I schedule these in a bunch.
8. Avoid the politics of the day. The pause is a break from such discussion.
Bond – Victory
Butch Miles – Drum Solo
An evening pause: Performed live with Count Basie & His Orchestra on July 13, 1979.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Robert Tiso – Toccata and Fugue in D on Glass Harp
An evening pause: I posted a different glass harp performance of this Bach piece back in 2015. Apparently, it is a favorite of glass harp players. Each performance however has its own uniqueness.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
Gamazda – Pink Floyd’s Time on the piano
An evening pause: Her real name is Aleksandra Kuznetsova, and was trained at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Now she happily makes her living producing and playing piano covers of great rock music.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Raquel Welch – Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In
An evening pause: From the 1970 television special, Raquel!, with this song a perfect illustration of the naive silliness of that time. The costumes however are truly magnificent.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Procol Harum – Something Magic
Joan Blondell & Etta Moten – Remember My Forgotten Man
An evening pause: From the movie Gold Diggers of 1933. At least then there was an effort to remember the forgotten man. Today, it is considered racist to mention it.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Zladko “Zlad” Vladcik – Elektronik Supersonik
An evening pause: Actually, this was created by filmmaker Santo Cilauro, who plays Vladcik in the video. I think it showed up on Youtube in the 2000s, but this isn’t confirmed. It is meant to be as silly as Spike Jones.
Hat tip sippin_bourbon.
Rick Wakeman – Summertime
Spike Jones – Tchaikovsky Medley
An evening pause: A bit of classic American silliness to herald in the weekend. Aired live June 7, 1952.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Rush – The Trees
Nena – 99 Luftballons
An evening pause: This pretty 1983 German pop song so perfectly predicts the Biden administration’s silly overreaction to the Chinese spy balloons last month, and the really dangerous consequences that could have resulted.
The lyrics of the original German version tell a story: 99 balloons are mistaken for UFOs, causing a military General Officer to send pilots to investigate. Finding nothing but balloons, the pilots put on a large show of fire power. The display of force worries the nations along the borders and the war ministers on each side encourage conflict to grab power for themselves. In the end, a cataclysmic war results from the otherwise harmless flight of balloons and causes devastation on all sides without a victor.
Hat tip Jay, who is still off in the tropics doing ham radio stuff.
Betsy Palmer, Robert Goulet, & Bess Myerson – “I’ve got a secret”
An evening pause: A slightly different pause tonight from a 1964 episode of the quiz show “I’ve got a secret.” Can you guess where the dialogue comes from that they perform at the opening of this segment, before they tell you? Also keep watching for a more accurate rendition, all done in a bit of silly good-natured fun.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman, who recognized it instantly.
Phil Cunningham – Overture/The Farther Shore
Ashley McBryde – Four songs
An evening pause: Performed live March 2023. The songs: Light on in the kitchen, and small selections from Strawberry wine, Neon Moon, and Wide Open Spaces.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.