David Bowie – Starman
An evening pause: Performed live July 6, 1972.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Tag: music
Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine
An evening pause: A classic from the early 1970s.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Colt Clark and the Quarantine Kids – Fortunate Son
An evening pause: Performed live 2021.
Hat tip James Street.
The Spinners – Rubberband Man
An evening pause: Performed live in 1976. Includes one of the most entertaining and fun back-up singer dance routines I’ve ever seen.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra – Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)
An evening pause: A cover of Bob Dylan’s song, performed live 2019.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Earl Scruggs & all the great banjo players in 1971 – Foggy Mountain Breakdown
An evening pause: I posted a more recent version in 2015 when Scruggs was much older. This version is exhilarating because of the number of great players involved.
Hat tip Able Windsor.
Amy Macdonald – Born to run
An evening pause: Intensely done.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Mike Oldfield – The Source of Secrets
An evening pause: Actually, this is three pieces, “The Source of the Secrets,” “Secrets,” and “Far above the Clouds.”
Hat tip “t-dub” Tom Wilson.
I’d like one piece of feedback about this video. When you watch it embedded on Behind the Black, is the music interrupted by commercials? That happens when you watch on YouTube. I am curious it this happens when a song is embedded on another webpage.
Dean Martin & Rick Nelson – Rio Bravo
An evening pause: This medley of songs were performed as part of the Howard Hawks’ 1959 western Rio Bravo. The first song, “My rifle, pony, and me,” was actually adapted from the main theme by Dimitri Tiomkin from Hawks’ earlier classic, Red River (1948). When Diane and I were watching this recently, I recognized the music, but it took a while to figure out where I’d heard it before.
Both movies are examples of the kind of entertaining and rich films Hollywood used to produce, routinely.
Angel City Chorale – Africa
An evening pause: I posted a different and great performance back in 2014. This performance is I think even better.
Hat tip Doug “Space” Plata.
Bee Gees – Too much heaven
An evening pause: Hat tip Cotour.
Theresa Andersson – Birds fly away
An evening pause: With some creativity, one can do so much with modern technology.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Dave Koz & Keiko Matsui – Beneath the Moonlit Sky
An evening pause: Performed live 2021.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Bobby Goldsboro – Honey
An evening pause: Performed live in 2020.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway – She’ll Change
An evening pause: Hat tip Dan Morris.
Jonny Lang – Rack ’em up
An evening pause: Time for a little blues, from a live 1999 performance.
Hat tip John Jossy.
The Strawbs – The Winter Long
An evening pause: Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Lesley Gore – You Don’t Own Me
An evening paus: Performed live on television in 1964.
Hat tip Dan Steele.
Paweł Zadrożniak – The Floppotron 3.0
An evening pause: You need to watch this to believe it.
Hat tip Bill Heinz.
Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra – Wayfaring Stranger
An evening pause: Performed live 2018.
Hat tip Dan Morris.