Joan Osborne – One Of Us
An evening pause: Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us?
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make His way home?
Tag: music
Peggy Lee & Frank Sinatra – Nice Work If You Can Get It
An evening pause: Recorded live, 1962.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Greg Kihn – The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)
An evening pause: Recorded live, July 6, 1981.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Pee Wee King & Golden West Cowboys – Slow Poke
An evening pause: Performed live for Country Style USA, a television show produced by the U.S. Army from 1957 to 1960 as a recruiting tool and featuring top country music performers. Stay till the end, to get a feel of a different America.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Kang Hye-Jung – Beautiful Dreamer
An evening pause: Stephen Foster’s magnificent lullaby, performed for South Korean television.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Paris HS Percussion Ensemble – Rung again
An evening pause: Performed live, March 11, 2010.
Hat tip Michael Nelson.
30 day timelapse at sea
An evening pause: Quite hypnotic, and captures the feel for what a modern ship freighter is like, which is nothing like the romantic past. And somehow, this feels fitting to show on the anniversary of the day Columbus first touched shore in the New World in 1492. He pushed the envelope possibly more than any human has ever done, and changed human history in doing so.
Hat tip Steven Golson.
Wings – I’ve Just Seen A Face
An evening pause: From the 1976 American tour.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Glen Campbell/Mel Tillis/Roy Clark – When I Stop Dreaming
An evening pause: Performed live 1987.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Learning To Fly
An evening pause: Performed live, 2006.
R.I.P.
I’m learning to fly
But I ain’t got wings
Coming down
Is the hardest thing.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Hugh Laurie – All you gotta do is . . .
An evening pause: I posted this in 2011, with the comment, “Once again, a folksinger provides us the answer.” Keith Douglas suggested I post it again, noting that maybe they should play it at football games.
I think they already are, though sadly they don’t know it.
Atomik Harmonik – Turbo Polka
An evening pause: An ABBA-inspired group from Slovenia doing a very modern version of the polka. The song might be in English, but it doesn’t really matter. Yee-hah!
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Timelapse photography of Fort Jefferson in Dry Tortugas National Park
An evening pause: From the youtube webpage: “On a remote island hours away from Key West lies the largest masonry structure in the Americas: Fort Jefferson. Built with 16 million bricks, but never finished, the fort served as a prison during Civil War. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, upon visiting the island, named it a National Monument, and in 1992 it became part of Dry Tortugas National Park.”
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Rory Feek – Fifty Thousand Names
An evening pause: The song is by George Jones. It speaks of those who died and are remembered at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. Even though that particular war was somewhat misguided, the courage and bravery of those who fought it, and the fact that in the end it did serve to halt for a time the spread of communism and tyranny, should not be forgotten.
There’s stars of David and rosary beads
and crucifixion figurines
and flowers of all colors large and small
There’s a Boy Scout badge and a merit pin
Little American flags waving in the wind
and there’s 50,000 names carved in the wall.
Sadly, there are a lot of very wealthy athletes today who have forgotten this.
The Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter
An evening pause: Performed live in 1998.
Hat tip Joseph Griffin.
Fleetwood Mac – Big Love
An evening pause: That’s Lindsey Buckingham performing here.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Alex Farris – Anarchestra
An evening pause: Who says you have to play the musical instruments that already exist? This guy decided he’d invent a few hundred of his own.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Hanson – Where’s the Love
An evening pause: Performed live on the The Weird Al Show in 1998.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
An evening pause: Performed by Cinematic Pop Orchestra and Choir.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Tom Petty – It’ll All Work Out
An evening pause: Performed live in 1986.
Hat Edward Thelen.