Ellen Alaverdyan – Bass cover for Rush’s Tom Sawyer
An evening pause: We’ve seen her before in an evening pause, but this time she plays solo, covering the bass part in this Rush recording.
Hat tip Cotour.
Tag: music
October Project – Ariel
A evening pause: Performed live 1996.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Angela Lansbury – Tale as Old as Time
An evening pause: From the animated film Beauty and the Beast (1991), a truly great movie made when Disney Studios was still sane.
Alchemistic Records – The Ultimate James Bond Medley
An evening pause: The medley covers 25 songs from every James Bond film from Dr No (1962) to No Time To Die (2021).
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Toto – Hold The Line
An evening pause: Performed live 2013 in Poland.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Cabaret – Married
An evening pause: Performed by Grayson Samuels, Bella Coppola, and Anna Rose Daugherty at Texas State University.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman, who decided to find a version of this for an evening pause after we watched the 1972 movie Cabaret one evening. The film and play portrayed bluntly the decadence of Germany before World War II, a decadence that led directly to Nazi rule. Watching it now is somewhat horrifying, as it now accurately portrays the dominate and decadent leftist culture of America today. I watched and wondered if we Americans will have the courage and sense of morality to fight back and stop the kind of evils such decadence always leads to.
This song however is simply lovely, and illustrates the larger strength of the musical itself.
AcroDuoBallet – Arabian Dance
An evening pause: Beautifully performed, with grace and style. The performers are Elena Petrichenko and Sergey Chumakov.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Nelson Brothers – Garden Party
An evening pause: Performed live 2013. And yes, these are the sons of Ricky Nelson.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Led Zeppelin – The Ocean (Cover) by Ellen, Yoyoka, Eva, Mateo
An eveningpause: Hat tip Tom Wilson, who says, “This one is based.”
Anne Murray – Snowbird
An evening pause: Performed live 1996.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Sheryl Crow – The First Cut is the Deepest
An evening pause: Performed live 2003.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Moby & The Void Pacific Choir – Are You Lost In The World Like Me?
An evening pause: The animation is by Steve Cutts. It seems perfect for today, income tax day. Note that I post it as someone who does not own a smart phone and empathizes entirely with the film’s main character.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers – Refugee
An evening pause: Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Florence and the Machine – Cosmic Love
An evening pause: Quite beautiful, though her modern singing style obscures the words more than I think necessary.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Funny concert moments
An evening pause: Hat tip Mike Nelson.
From Deep Space 9 – Do-Re-Mi
An evening pause: A short but quite wonderful little performance from the Star Trek series Deep Space 9.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Mary Hopkin – Those Were The Days
An evening pause: It seems this week is 60s pop week.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Sonny & Cher – I Got You Babe
An evening pause: This performance, from 1987, has some important historical background. As noted on the youtube page,
In November of 1987, Sonny Bono was running for mayor of Palm Springs and Cher was promoting her upcoming movie Moonstruck. The divorced couple went on Letterman together and were coaxed into playing ‘I Got You, Babe’ with Paul Shaffer and his band; they weren’t exactly the best of friends at this point, but both of them knew it would make for unforgettable television. Had YouTube existed back then, this would have gone insanely viral the next morning. It wound up being the final time they ever sang together, as Bono passed away in January 1998.
The Seekers – Georgy Girl
An evening pause: Performed live in the band’s home town, Melbourne, Australia, in 1967. The song was written for the 1966 film, Georgy Girl.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Beach Boys – California Girls
An evening pause: Performed live in Japan in 2012.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.