Vivaldi – Spring
An evening pause: Seems the perfect piece of music to herald in the first weekend of spring. This is first movement of Vivaldi’s The Seasons. Performed here by Alana Youssefian and the Voices of Music.
Tag: music
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – Tijuana Brass Medley
An evening pause: Performed live on television 1975.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Seasick Steve – Walkin’ Man
An evening pause: Performed live 2010.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Celtic Thunder – Whiskey In The Jar
An evening pause: Performed live 2011.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Procol Harum – Whiter Shade of Pale
Patsy Cline – Walkin’ After Midnight
An evening pause: Performed live 1957 on television.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Ferris Akel – One beautiful bird pesters another, to music
An evening pause: The video shows a long flight of a majestic Red-tailed Hawk, periodically being harassed by a small Red-Winged Blackbird, which even periodically hitches a ride on the hawk’s back. Appropriately, the mustic is Hitch a Ride, performed by Boston.
Hat tip Ferris Akel.
Stringspace Jazz Band – Hit The Road Jack
An evening pause: It’s Friday. May we all hit the road and have some fun.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Carole King – So Far Away
An evening pause: Performed live 1971.
Hat tip Ice Pilot.
Ann-Margret – Dancing to Tequila
An evening pause: From the Youtube page:
Ann-Margret set to the Champs’ eternal hit “Tequila”. Scenes from “Viva Las Vegas” (1964), “Bye-Bye Birdie” (1963), “Made in Paris” (1966), “The Swinger” (1966) and “The Tiger and the Pussycat” (1967).
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Harp & VolfgangTwins – Paint It Black
An evening pause: The music is great, but I generally dislike these music videos that put the performers in some beautiful place that is also a place where it is absolutely impossible to record a performance. They then do lip synch and editing to hide the fact that the performance is faked. Ugh.
Still, as I said, the music is great, and the scenery is beautiful.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Gene Kelly & Cyd Charisse – Gotta Dance
An evening pause: From the 1952 movie, Singing in the Rain.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Carlos Santana & Rob Thomas – Smooth
An evening pause: Performed live 1999. Some energy for the weekend.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Marilyn Monroe – Happy Birthday/Thanks For The Memories
An evening pause: Another bit of cultural history from the 1960s. From the Youtube webpage:
Marilyn footage singing to JFK on his gala birthday bash on May 19th 1962. The running joke for the evening, as planned, was that Marilyn was late! it was planned that way for the event. Everything we see Marilyn do on stage was rehearsed right down to her arm movements and jumping up and down at the end of the song as we can see in the rehearsal photos before the event. so Marilyn did this spot on as planned.
Sadly, she would be dead by August, and Kennedy by November of the next year.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Spanky & Our Gang – Sunday Will Never Be The Same
An evening pause: Performed live on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1967. The costumes scream the late sixties.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore – Walk On
An evening pause: Makes a nice contrast with yesterday’s evening pause.
Hat tip Robert Pratt of Pratt on Texas.
Carmesí Guitar Duo – Danza from La Vida Breve
An evening pause: Music by Manuel De Falla.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Golden Earring – Twilight Zone
An evening pause: Performed live 1984.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Dire Straits – Sultans Of Swing
An evening pause: It has been six years since I posted Dire Straits performing this song, and that version is now gone on Youtube. Time to post it again, especially because this official music video focuses so nicely on the performance itself.
Hat tip Cotour.
Paul Davis – I go Crazy
An evening pause: Performed live on television, probably sometime in the 1970s.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.