Tag: music
Brian Hyland – Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
A evening pause: From the Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show, July 16, 1960. True, it is lip-sync’d, but the silly innocence of this bygone time makes it absolutely worthwhile. And I think this really does make a good lead-in to Valentine’s Day.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Friday Songs – Listen to the Music!
An evening pause: As noted at the youtube webpage, “a feel-good tribute to the Doobie Brothers hit.” It appears this guy produces a new cover song each Friday “to celebrate the best day of the week.”
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Eddy Arnold & LeAnn Rimes – Cattle Call
An evening pause: LeAnn Rimes here is 14, Eddy Arnold is 76. They make a magnificent team.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Stevie Nicks – Stand Back
John Arthur Martinez – Closer To My Dream
An evening pause: For me personally, this song is perfect, on my birthday. Or as Gordon Dickson wrote in his magnificent science fiction book, Way of the Pilgrim, “He felt the urge to speak like a great hand at his back, pushing him forward, a hand that could not be resisted.”
Milton Berle & Harpo Marx – I’m forever blowing bubbles
Gustav Holst – St Paul’s Suite
An evening pause: Performed by the Eufonico String Orchestra, Rafał Nicze, conductor, as part of the 3rd Polish Nationwide Music Schools’ Symphonic Orchestras Competition, May 19, 2015.
The music here is soooo British, as it should be, written by Holst in honor of the St Paul’s Girls’ School where Holst was Director of Music for almost thirty years.
André Rieu & Carmen Monarcha – Habanera
An evening pause: I especially like the silent interplay between the two. Very much all in fun, but with a nice spark.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Aaron Tippin – You Gotta Stand for Something
Gaither Vocal Band & Jake Hess – Cool Water
An evening pause: The intro is long, but stick with it, it will all be worthwhile.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
John Anderson – Seminole Wind
Maria Muldaur- Midnight At The Oasis
Diana Krall – The Look Of Love
Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell – Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight
An evening pause: They are having so much fun doing this. Hat tip Jeff Poplin.
Just an ordinary story about the way things go,
Round and round nobody knows.
But the highway
Goes on forever.
That ol’ highway
Goes on forever.
Jack Johnson – Flake
Jamey Johnson & Alison Krauss – Seven Spanish Angels
Justin Johnson -Crankin’ Up the 3-String Shovel Guitar
Bell X1 – She’s A Mystery To Me
A evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen. The camera work could be better, but the song is really good, and as Edward notes, “I have to say that any group with a name like this is cannot be all bad.”
Bryan Adams – Heaven
Alyce Tzue – Soar
An evening pause: The music is Monody by Christian Büttner, known generally as TheFatRat. The singer is Laura Brehm.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Park Ki-Young – Nella Fantasia
An evening pause: The music is by Enrico Morricone from the film The Mission (1986). There it is entitled Gabriel’s Oboe, a musical piece I have posted previously here as an evening pause. Here it is sung to lyrics written by Chiara Ferraù, celebrating the joys that freedom brings. “I dream of souls that are always free,/Like the clouds that fly.”
Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who notes that this song is written by an Italian and sung by a Korean about the American aspiration of freedom. Seems to me that this illustrates two aspects of that American aspiration, one of which is freedom, the second of which is that freedom is something all people from all cultures aspire to.
Traveling Wilburys – End Of The Line
An evening pause: Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, and Tom Petty. Roy Orbison was also part of this late 1980s band (they show a framed photo of him in this video), but he passed way before the band’s second album in 1990 was recorded.
An evening pause: Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, and Tom Petty. Roy Orbison was also part of this late 1980s band (they show a framed photo of him in this video), but he passed way before the band’s second album in 1990 was recorded.
The Stylistics – You Make Me Feel Brand New
An evening pause: Performed live in 1975. A nice song for the new year. We should all have someone to make us feel brand new.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Dan Fogelberg – Same Old Lang Syne
Billie Joe Armstrong – Good Riddance(Time of Your Life)
Michelle Moyer & Clyde Bawden – Silent Night
An evening pause: A nice way to close this year’s Christmas season. Hat tip Wayne DeVette, who notes this performance’s “unique arrangement.” Quite refreshing.
Buddy Greene – How Can I Keep From Singing
An evening pause: Most people in the secular world today know this version of the hymn, but this performance of the original is so magnificent I think all should see it, whether you are Christian or not. And for those who are Christian, what better day but today to hear it.
To me, it was this performance from 1987 by Jean Redpath that is most meaningful, but in good will I — a secular humanist born a Jew — post the gospel version now.
Greg Lake – I believe in Father Christmas
Benjamin Shapiro – Theme from Schindler’s List
An evening pause: Performed live in 1996, when Shapiro was twelve years old. Note that this is that Ben Shapiro, the orthodox Jew and well-known conservative columnist whom leftists ignorantly love to call a Jew-hater and white supremacist. How they come to that conclusion can only be because they are willfully ignorant or so filled with hate and their ideology that they can’t look at reality with any honesty.
I think, during this holiday season, it is wise to also reflect on humanity’s tragic failures, one of the worst of which was the Holocaust during World War II.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.