Tag: music
Alison Krauss – Down to the River to Pray
An evening pause: Performed live 2002, when traditional American Christian gospel tunes were still considered mainstream instead of “white supremacy.”
Counting Crows – Catapult
Ronald Binge – Elizabethan Serenade
The Hollies – I Can’t Let Go
Heart – Barracuda
Foxes and Fossils – Can’t Let Go
An evening pause: Performed live 2013. I’ve posted a number of performances by this group previously. They do magnificent covers of many classic songs. Their Patreon site is here.
Hat tip John Jossy.
Delta Goodrem – In This Life
Motis & Chamorro quintet & Scott Hamilton – Meditaçao
Stephen Stills – Treetop Flyer
The Cardigans – You’re The Storm
An evening pause: Hat tip Dan Morris.
Readers: I am in need of evening pause suggestions! If you’ve seen something on the web that you think would fit, note this fact as a comment below. Do NOT post a link to your suggestion. I will email you and schedule it.
And if you’ve suggested previously, please feel free to email me some new stuff! The guidelines:
1. The subject line should say “evening pause.”
2. Don’t send more than three in any email. I prefer however if you send them one email at a time.
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.
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers – Never Gonna Dance
An evening pause: We’ve had a lot of 1970s pop songs and dance recently. Here’s an example of one of the greatest movie dance numbers, from the 1936 movie Swing Time. Note how smooth and ballet-like it is, unlike the staccato and gymnastic styles that began to dominate dance after the 1960s.
Note also the remarkable lack of cuts. The dance is performed with only one cut, which means Astaire and Rogers had to get it perfect, the whole way through each of these two shots. It took 47 takes before they succeeded.
Chic – Le Freak
Johnny Rivers – Memphis Tennessee
An evening pause: Performed live, 1964. Also includes a short interview of Rivers afterward, who by the way wrote the song Secret Agent Man.
Hat tip Dan Steele.
An evening pause: Performed live, 1964. Also includes a short interview of Rivers afterward, who by the way wrote the song Secret Agent Man.
Hat tip Dan Steele.
Lucky Chops NYC
Roy Clark & Johnny Cash – Orange Blossom Special
ABBA – Waterloo
Counting Crows – Angels of the Silences
Device Orchestra – Sweet Dreams
An evening pause: Another clever musical repurposing of household electronic gear.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Thelma Houston – Don’t leave me this way
The Jacksons – Shake Your Body
An evening pause: It seems we are on a string of 1970s tunes. The clothes surely date them all. As for this video, I can only feel sorrow watching a young vibrant Michael Jackson, before he destroyed himself.
Hat tip Tom Wilson.
David Bowie – Starman
Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine
Colt Clark and the Quarantine Kids – Fortunate Son
The Spinners – Rubberband Man
An evening pause: Performed live in 1976. Includes one of the most entertaining and fun back-up singer dance routines I’ve ever seen.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra – Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)
Earl Scruggs & all the great banjo players in 1971 – Foggy Mountain Breakdown
An evening pause: I posted a more recent version in 2015 when Scruggs was much older. This version is exhilarating because of the number of great players involved.
Hat tip Able Windsor.
Amy Macdonald – Born to run
Mike Oldfield – The Source of Secrets
An evening pause: Actually, this is three pieces, “The Source of the Secrets,” “Secrets,” and “Far above the Clouds.”
Hat tip “t-dub” Tom Wilson.
I’d like one piece of feedback about this video. When you watch it embedded on Behind the Black, is the music interrupted by commercials? That happens when you watch on YouTube. I am curious it this happens when a song is embedded on another webpage.
Dean Martin & Rick Nelson – Rio Bravo
An evening pause: This medley of songs were performed as part of the Howard Hawks’ 1959 western Rio Bravo. The first song, “My rifle, pony, and me,” was actually adapted from the main theme by Dimitri Tiomkin from Hawks’ earlier classic, Red River (1948). When Diane and I were watching this recently, I recognized the music, but it took a while to figure out where I’d heard it before.
Both movies are examples of the kind of entertaining and rich films Hollywood used to produce, routinely.