Geoff Castellucci – Sixteen Tons
An evening pause: Magnificent cover of Tennessee Ernie Ford’s classic.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Tag: music
Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence
An evening pause: I’ve posted several covers of this great song by other artists, as well as a different and earlier reunion performance by Simon & Garfunkel (which is no longer available). Here they are again, because the originals are always the best.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
Steve Martin – King Tut
An evening pause: Performed on Saturday Night Live on May 22, 1978.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
John Williams – Imperial March
An evening pause: What is most important about this performance is that Williams was doing the conducting on his 90th birthday. The only sour note of this performance is the idiotic masks they made some members of the orchestra wear. Obviously, a horn player can’t give anyone an infection, but a violin player can. Note too how all the VIPs on the front of the stage (such as Steven Spielberg) were also immune from COVID and didn’t need masks either. What fools and hypocrites.
Hat tip Phil Berardelli.
Ally Venable – One Side Understanding
An evening pause: Hat tip John Jossy.
Hank Williams – Cold Cold Heart
An evening pause: Performed live on television in 1952.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Zac Brown Band – Knee Deep
An evening pause: Performed live in 2022.
I heard this song on the radio and was astonished because it actually didn’t overload the sound with a typical rock instrumentation so that it was no longer a country tune but a simply rock song with the singer having a western accent. Instead it is simple and clear and a pleasure to listen to, partly because it doesn’t sound like every other pop song played these days.
It also makes a great song to start the weekend.
Morgan James – Dream On
An evening pause: An Aerosmith cover with Postmodern Jukebox.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Heart – Crazy on You
An evening pause: I posted this same song in 2022 from a different performance during the same 1977 tour. This version however was recorded as part of a documentary and includes some backstage footage that is definitely worth watching.
Has tip Rex Ridenoure, who notes that “Heart was the first rock band with female leads who also wrote all their own songs.”
Dean Martin – That’s Amore
An evening pause: Performed live on television 1965. A great song to start the week.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Clara Cernat & Thierry Huillet – Porumbescu Balada
An evening pause: Hat tip Judd Clark.
Bob Lind – Elusive Butterfly
An evening pause: Performed in 1965.
Hat tip Cotour.
Ray Bolger & Judy Garland – If I Only Had a Brain
An evening pause: From the 1939 MGM classic, The Wizard of Oz, when Hollywood still made films in which the witches were the bad guys, not the heroes.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Blue Man Group – Drumbone
An evening pause: Performed live 2010. Makes a nice contrast to the Bach dulcimer pause two days ago.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Naomi Priest & Saskia van Gerven – The Boxer
An evening pause: A beautiful cover of Paul Simon’s classic.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Ekaterina Yukhnova – Sarabanda
An evening pause: By J.S. Bach.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Dido – White Flag
An evening pause: Hat tip Doug Johnson.
Zbigniew Rybczyński – The Orchestra (final scene)
An evening pause: Music is of course Ravel’s Bolero. This provides us an elegant thumbnail history of the Soviet Union using dance, choreography, and clever filming. And it is honest, showing how the whole thing was run by gangstas, as all such top-down communist/socialist societies are, and as America is now adopting. More information about the entire work here.
Hat tip Dave McCooey.
Liza Minnelli – New York, New York
An evening pause: Performed live 1992. Now an ode to a city that no longer exists.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Gordon Lightfoot – The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
An evening pause: Performed live 1979. May he rest in peace.
Hat tip Rex Ridenoure.