Lord Vinheteiro – Take on Me
An evening pause: Some silliness to start the week.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Tag: music
Max Steiner – Casablanca suite
An evening pause: From the 1942 film Casablanca, still one of the greatest movies ever made.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Helen Mirren – On The Good Ship Lollipop
An evening pause: From the 1980 film, The Fiendish Plot of Dr Fu Manchu.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Jefferson Starship – Jane
An evening pause: Performed live 1981.
Hat tip Gene Shipp.
Cyd Charisse, John Brascia, & Sammy Davis Jr. – Frankie & Johnny
An evening pause: From the 1956 film, Meet Me in Las Vegas. The dancing is great, but I really think Sammy Davis makes the piece with his singing.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Patricia Neway – Climb Every Mountain
An evening pause: The Rodgers and Hammenstein song from The Sound of Music, performed live on the Ed Sullivan Show, 1959.
Makes an interesting contrast with yesterday’s pause.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
The Rolling Stones – Sympathy For The Devil
An evening pause: Performed live 1968.
Hat tip Blair Ivey.
Glen Campbell – Galveston
An evening pause: Performed live on television 1969.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Happy Childhood Dance Ensemble – Kalinka
An evening pause: MORE young talent. Performed live 2020.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Jude Kofie – Rock The Casbah
An eveing pause: More young talent. This is different in that he improvises his own piano version based on only hearing a portion of the original.
Hat tip Cotour.
The Graystones & J8KE – Baker Street
An evening pause: Hat tip Mike Nelson, who adds, “by a group of kids that make me jealous as I never had ANY musical aptitude whatever.”
Ethel Merman – Anything Goes
An evening pause: From a 1954 television production.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Dolly Parton, Stella Parton, & Cassie Parton – Break My Mind
An evening pause: Performed live on television 1970.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Billy Gibbons, Kingfish Ingram, & Orianthi – La Grange
An evening pause: Performed live 2025, and beautifully directed by Gibbons as well.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Annie Lennox – There Must Be An Angel
An evening pause: Performed live 2006.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
Elmer Bernstein – To Kill A Mockingbird Suite
An evening pause: Performed live 2014 by the Beethoven Academy Orchestra with Sara Andon on the flute.
Some movies are made special because of their score, and I think this applies to the 1962 film, To Kill a Mockingbird. It is a superb work of art, but it rises above many comparable films due to the music that Elmer Bernstein wrote for it. His suite only gives a hint of its effectiveness, in the movie.
Johnny Cash & June Carter – Jackson
An evening pause: Performed live 1967.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Peter Gabriel – In Your Eyes
An evening pause: Performed live 1993.
Hat tip Ferris Akel.
Cyd Charisse & Ricardo Montalban – Bar dance
An evening pause: A truly hot dance from the 1948 film, On an Island with You.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Stephen Sondheim – Someone in a Tree
An evening pause: For my birthday, a repost of a 2010 evening pause of one of my favorite Broadway songs, from Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures, which I only recently learned was his favorite song as well.
It tells the story of a significant moment in history, the moment when Japan’s leaders signed their first international treaty in 1852 with the United States, but from the point of view of outside witnesses. Its point is profound, that history is not just made by the leaders who sign the deals, but by every individual who makes up the whole of human society.
It’s the fragment, not the day
It’s the pebble, not the stream
It’s the ripple, not the sea
That is happening.
Not the building but the beam
Not the garden but the stone
Only cups of tea
And history
And someone in a tree.