Swing Ninjas – I Wanna Be Like You
An evening pause: Hat tip Judd Clark.
Tag: music
Andrรฉ Rieu & the Johann Strauss Orchestra – Seventy-Six Trombones
An evening pause: This video is apropos of Arlo Guthrie’s words about the impact of American music in yesterday’s evening pause. Here a classical orchestra in Austria performs a song from one of Broadway’s greatest musicals, The Music Man, and everyone in the audience knows it.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Arlo Guthrie – I Can’t Help Falling In Love With You
An evening pause: The introduction is long, but worth it because Guthrie soon transcends the shallow politics of these lefty folk singers. Performed live 1993. To hear Elvis Presley sing it, go to this 2013 evening pause.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Rush – The Camera Eye
An evening pause: The visuals, of New York and London, were created by Still Kickin, and showing us two places once grand that our modern generation of “intellectuals” seems determined to destroy.
Hat tip Ferris.
Dusty Hanes – What a Friend We Have in Jesus
An evening pause: A nice instrumental version. You might recognize the song as used in the documentarly series, The Civil War. The visuals are not that interesting, but the music is stellar.
Hat tip James Street.
Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
An evening pause: Performed live 1994.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
Hauser – Shostakovich’s Waltz No. 2
An evening pause: Performed live 2018.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Violet Orlandi & Malinda Kathleen Reese – May It Be
An evening pause: A nice cover of an Enya song.
Hat tip Alton Blevins. And thank you all who submitted pause suggestions, almost all of which were really amazing. Stay tuned from some good stuff.
Kaito – Sakura (Cherry Blossoms)
An evening pause: Hat tip Alton Blevins.
A. Piazzolla – Libertango
An evening pause: Performed 2010 by the Moscow City Symphony, dancers Inna Svechnikova and Dmitry Chernysh.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Harry Chapin – Taxi
An evening pause: Performed live 1972.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
Petula Clark – Downtown
An evening pause: Performed live 1965.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Charles Berthoud – My Way
An evening pause: Or as the performer labeled this video, “If Sinatra played bass.”
Hat tip Cotour.
Billie Holiday – Fine And Mellow
An evening pause: Hat tip Judd Clark, who gives this background, “Written by Billie Holiday, who first recorded it on April 20, 1939 on the Commodore label. Performed by Billie Holiday in 1957 in a television special, The Sound of Jazz.”
Kazuho Monster – Dance like Octopus
An evening pause: From the youtube page: “I wanna be the best dancer in the world.”
Hat tip Tom Wilson.
Jonathan Scott – Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries
An evening pause: Performed on the organ of Rochdale Town Hall, Rochdale, UK.
Hat tip Judd Clark. To all: I could use suggestions from others. Right now Judd is doing the lion’s share of work, suggesting a lot of great evening pauses. I want more variety, however, including suggestions from many others. If you have suggested something before you know the routine. If you haven’t and want to, post a comment here, but DON’T post the link in your comment. I will contact you for it.
Neil Diamond – Solitary Man
An evening pause: One song from a full BBC concert from 1971. If you like it watch the whole concert, from the beginning. It is amazing how young Neil Diamond was when he did this concert.
Hat tip Rex Ridenoure.
Ladyva – Boogie Woogie
An evening pause: How about some hot boogie woogie to take us into the weekend.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
The O’Jays – Love Train
An evening pause: Clearly from 1970s television.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Cascade – Hotel California
An evening pause: Performed live in 2022 in Hanoi, Vietnam. The instruments are called Chapman Sticks.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.