Dean Martin – That’s Amore
An evening pause: Performed live on television 1965. A great song to start the week.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Tag: music
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.
Julie Andrews segment during of Carol Burnett’s 90th Birthday Special
An evening pause: Aired in 2023. The best part is the short film providing sample moments from the three television specials they did together.
Hat tip Phil Berardelli.
Etta James, Gladys Knight and Chaka Khan – Ain’t Nobody’s Business
An evening pause: Performed live 1987.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Ana Popovic – Some blues improv
An evening pause: Hat tip Judd Clark.
Redd Volkaert – Only Daddy That’ll Walk The Line
An evening pause: Hat tip Judd Clark.
Chris Isaak – Wicked Game
An evening pause: Performed live I think in 2011.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
Hozier & Annie Lennox – Take Me to Church / I Put a Spell on You
A evening pause: Performed live 2015.
Hat tip Doug Johnson. Note too that this does not come from youtube, but from metatube. Let’s find more alternative video resources like this, just to increase some competition.
Rollerman – Downhill extreme
An evening pause: More road stuff, of an entirely different kind.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
AC/DC – Thunderstruck
An evening pause: A bit of energy to start the week. Performed live 1991. For those unfamiliar with this rock piece (like me), I think it helpful here to turn on captions to find out what the performers and audience are singing.
Hat tip James Street.
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Lenny
An evening pause:Hat tip Rex Ridenoure.