Pink “Perfect”
An evening pause:
Tag: music
Vocal Spectrum – The Music of the Night
An evening pauses: From Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera.
Reba McEntire – I’m gonna wash that man right outa my hair
An evening pause: From the magnificent 2006 Carnegie Hall television production.
Postmodern Jukebox – Burn
An evening pause: Make sure you stay for the Flame-O-Phone.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Hayley Westenra – Pie Jesu
An evening pause: Performed when she was fifteen years old. Hat tip Danae for finding me this amazing singer.
Perpetuum Jazzile – Africa
An evening pause: Hat tip to Mike.
Mary Hopkin – Those were the days
An evening pause: Recorded live in France, 1969. Though the song, in style and content, looked back at past generations when it was released late in the 1960s, it today tells us more of the strong conceits of the baby boom generation.
Hat tip to Edward Thelen.
Clarence White & Roland White – I Am A Pilgram/Soldiers Joy
An evening pause: Performed live on Bob Baxter’s “Guitar Workshop” in 1973. Hat tip to jwing, who wrote the following when he sent me the link:
Clarence was instrumental in making flat-picking guitar a lead solo instrument in bluegrass, along with Doc Watson. He played as a session musician for many groups in the 60’s such as the Everly Brothers and The Monkees. Later he became the lead guitarist for Roger McGuinn’s Byrds. He developed the B-string bender invention that you can hear on the Eagles’ song “Take It Easy.” Sadly, in 1973 while packing up the band’s van after a late night gig he was hit by a drunk driver and was killed. A huge loss to music. This video was recorded in LA only a few months before that fateful night. Enjoy a true virtuoso.
The Happy Cats – Doesn’t come any better
An evening pause:
Maria and the Captain dance the Laendler
An evening pause: From the classic musical, The Sound of Music (1965), a moment with few words where all things change because everyone understands everything anyway.
As I noted in my first Evening Pause on July 1, 2010, “Julie Andrews, in her prime, had one of the most incredible screen presences of any actor in the history of film.”
Eddi Reader – Galileo
An evening pause:
Galileo fell in love as a Galilean boy
And he wondered what in heaven, who’d invented such a joy.
But the question got the better of his scientific mind
And to his blind and dying day
He’d look up high and love and sighed and sometimes cried,
Who puts the rainbows in the sky?
Who lights the stars in the night?
Who dreamt up someone so divine?
Someone like you and made them mine?
Spyro Gyra at Montreux Jazz 89
An evening pause: Hat tip to Danae.