Kylie Minogue & Paul McCartney – Dance Tonight
An evening pause: Performed live on New Year’s Eve, 2007. They are having so much fun!
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Tag: music
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts – I Love Rock’n’Roll
Dionne Warwick – I Say A Little Prayer
Midori- Variations on “The Last Rose of Summer” by Ernst
An evening pause: Performed live 1990, four days before her 19th birthday. As every single commenter at the youtube page correctly notes, this is an incredibly difficult piece. “Many great violinists won’t play this in public, or even record it.” Just watch and see. If you admire great guitar players, you will be astounded by some of the moves she performs.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
David Bowie & Freddie Mercury – Under Pressure
Chuck Berry & Etta James – Rock and Roll Music
Yanni – Aria: Ode to Humanity
An evening pause: I posted an earlier performance of this in 2016, but that is no longer available on youtube. This is newer performance is without doubt as magnificent.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Leon Redbone – Old Familiar Blues
Petula Clark – Sign Of The Times
A evening pause: This performance, almost certainly lip-synced, is from the Ed Sullivan Show in 1966. It is absolutely worth watching, not only because the song is good, but the set, costumes, and dance choreography will give those too young to have lived in the 1960s a real sense of the crazy no-holds-barred culture of that time. People were willing and free to try anything.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Linda Ronstadt – You’re No Good
Gary Wright – Love Is Alive
Norah Jones – Come Away With Me
Lalo Schifrin – Mission Impossible
Cher & Tina Turner – Shame on You!
Fender – recreating the classic “Brownie” Stratocaster used by Eric Clapton
An evening pause: Apparently Clapton used what is called a “Brownie” Stratocaster when he recorded the song Layla. In this video Fender rebuilds an old one to make it like new, for Clapton.
Hat tip Cotour.
Johann Sebastian Bach – Christmas Oratorio BWV 248
An evening pause: Good music is good music, and should not require the right season to enjoy.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Metal Church – Beyond The Black
An evening pause: Performed live 2016. Heavy metal music about a post-nuclear war world, written in 1984. It is a shame that fear might be returning.
Hat tip Björn Larsson a.k.a. LocalFluff.
The Rolling Stones & Sheryl Crow – Honky Tonk Women
Heart – Stairway to Heaven
Katie Webster – I’m bad
The Weavers – So Long
An evening pause: That’s (l to r) Ronnie Gilbert, Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, and Fred Hellerman. Performed live c1951.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
The best news in the world
An evening pause: This short video is kind of a Paul Harvey “Rest of the Story.” Stay with it, it is worth it.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Cindy Cashdollar & her 1927 Hermann Weissenborn Koa wood slide guitar
Clarence Gatemouth Brown – Leftover Blues
An evening pause: Very nice. Hat tip Judd Clark.
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Lavinia Meijer – Metamorphosis
David Bowie – The Man Who Sold The World
George Winston – Thanksgiving
John Williams – The Cowboys Overture
An evening pause: It is more than a decade since I last posted this magnificent piece of music from the 1972 John Wayne film, The Cowboys. Time to post it again, because I think it makes a great start to a new year. Rather than John Williams conducting, this time we have a 2018 performance by the Stanisław Moniuszko School of Music Orchestra in Bielsko Biała, Poland, Andrzej Kucybała, conductor.
Beth Hart – Jazz Man
An evening pause: The studio this was recorded in was once a church, and that apparently gave Hart some extra inspiration.
Hat tip John Jossy.