An evening pause: , The song “Impossible,” sung by Julie Andrews and Edie Adams, from the live 1957 television production of Rogers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella.
For the world is filled with zanies and fools
Who don’t believe in sensible rules
And won’t believe what sensible people say
And because these daft and dewy-eyed dopes
Keep building up impossible hopes,
Impossible things keep happening every day.
An evening pause: Axis of Awesome playing every pop song ever written.
An evening pause: Kirk, McCoy, Spock, and Scotty as barbershop quartet.
An evening pause: Peter, Paul, & Mary singing Arthur Sullivan’s “I have a song to sing o” in Australia.
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An evening pause: “Written by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings about the pain Clapton felt following the death of his four-year-old son, Conor, who fell from a window of the 53rd-floor New York apartment of his mother’s friend, on March 20, 1991.”
An evening pause: From 1989. Produced by the Pet Shop Boys.
An evening pause: The finale from the movie 42nd Street (1933). Stay with it, as it gets better and better.
An evening pause: Part of an Italian show (unfortunately without subtitles), this clip shows a video of the taping session where Denver and Domingo recorded their stunning duet.
An evening pause: The adagio from Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez.
An evening pause: El Condor Pasa, played by a Peruvian flute and a Chinese E-Wu and Flute. As the youtube webpage notes, “This is possibly the best-known Peruvian song worldwide, partly due to a cover version by Simon and Garfunkel in 1970 on their Bridge over Troubled Water album, which is called “El Condor Pasa (If I Could)” in full.”
