In memory of…
A evening pause: It is important to remind ourselves repeatedly of the lengths that evil people will go to exert their will on innocents, merely for the sake of power.
The song, “Wake me up when September ends,” is by Green Day.
Tag: music
Fleetwood Mac – Tusk
Foxes and Fossils – Can’t Hurry Love
An evening pause: The reason for the band’s name I think will become obvious as you watch.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Paul Simon – 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
An evening pause: From the Simon & Garfunkel reunion concert in Central Park on September 19, 1981.
Hat tip Joseph Griffin.
John Williams – Imperial March
An evening pause: John Williams conducting.
To my mind, this would have also been good for Labor Day yesterday, as this music for the evil Empire of Star Wars makes an ideal anthem for the left.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Dschinghis Khan – Moskau
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who notes, “What we have here is a German group with a Mongolian name singing about a city in Russia.” And they did this in 1979, during the height of the Soviet empire.
I think this is an expression of freedom, but I’m not really sure. What I do know is that the song was a hit in Soviet Russia, and was used extensively during the 1980 Moscow Olympics. And I suppose it is a good song for Labor Day.
Peter Schilling – Major Tom Coming Home
An evening pause: From American Bandstand, 1983. This is fitting because Diane and I are heading home today.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Yenne Lee – Autumn Leaves
An evening pause: I find the precise dance of her fingers on the fretboard as she plays to be mesmerizing.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
John Hiatt – Have a little faith in me
Celtic Woman – Westering Home
An evening pause: As Diane and I drive south from Glacier National Park, heading to Capital Reef, this travel song somehow seems appropriate.
Hat tip Tim Vogel, who adds that the hat tip should really go “to my mother who keeps playing this for my young kids.”
Eugene Godsoe – Your Hand in Mine
An evening pause: A beautiful performance on the piano of this “Explosions in the Sky” musical piece.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn – Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man
Steely Dan’s Rikki Don’t Lose That Number
An evening pause: The only member of Steely Dan playing here appears to be Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, playing lead guitar. The others include Kipp Lennon on vocals, Nathan East on bass, and CJ Vanston on keys.
Hat tip Joseph Griffin.
Billy Preston & Syreeta – With you I’m born again
Young Readers – We Will Become Silhouettes
An evening pause: Though this song has nothing to do with it, the lyrics to me somehow fit with today’s eclipse.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Edvard Grieg – In the Hall of the Mountain King
An evening pause: From Peer Gynt, and a nice way to end the week, with a bang.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Loggins and Messina – Angry Eyes
Of Monsters and Men – Dirty Paws
An evening pause: I haven’t posted anything by this group since 2012. Time for another, this time about a war between the bees and the bees.
Love Unlimited – It may be winter outside (but in my heart it’s spring)
An evening pause: Performed live 1974. The center singer, Glodean James, was married to Barry White at the time.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Antonio Calsolaro – Tarantella Napoletana
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who writes, “The tarantella is an uplifting folk dance music popular in many regions of Italy. Each region with its own version. This performance is of a tarantella from the Naples area. … Maestro Antonio Casolaro is on the mandolin. Francesco Polito on guitar.”
Dire Straits – Sultans Of Swing
Rogue Wave – Lake Michigan
Blue Öyster Cult – (Don’t Fear) The Reaper
Sly & the Family Stone and Prince – Everyday People
Desmond Dekker – Israelites
Julie Andrews – My Favorite Things
An evening pause: You need to watch all of The Sound of Music (1965) to understand the context that makes the song even better, and explains the way the clip ends.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Cole Porter – Night and Day
An evening pause: I think this makes a nice contrast with yesterday’s evening pause. Both show talent, skill, musical ability, but which is actually more civilized?
From the 1934 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musical, The Gay Divorcee.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
An evening pause: I think this makes a nice contrast with yesterday’s evening pause. Both show talent, skill, musical ability, but which is actually more civilized?
From the 1934 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musical, The Gay Divorcee.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Jane’s Addiction – Jane Says
An evening pause: The future, or as I like to say, the coming dark age.
Jane says
I’ve never been in love
I don’t know what it is
Only knows if someone wants her
I want them if they want me
I only know they want me
Hat tip Joseph Griffin.
Brooks and Dunn – Only in America
An evening pause: In honor of what happened today, 48 years ago, when three American astronauts safely landed home on Earth, after walking on the Moon. From the chorus:
Only in America
Dreamin’ in red white and blue
Only in America
Where we dream as big as we want to
We all get a chance
Everybody gets to dance
It will be the American ideas of freedom, individual achievement, and capitalism that will make the settlement of the solar system possible. Other nations will participate, but it will still be these ideas that fuel the journey.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.