Tag: television
Monty Python – Lumberjack Song
Robert Goulet and Julie Andrews – My cup runneth over
“I will blast Britain’s Got Talent winner into space.”
Robert Goulet – If ever I would leave you
Cannonball fired in Mythbusters stunt goes through nearby home
Oops! A cannonball fired during a Mythbusters stunt went off course, bouncing through two walls of a nearby home and then crashing through the window of a minivan.
Oops! A cannonball fired during a Mythbusters stunt went off course, bouncing through two walls of a nearby home and then crashing through the window of a minivan.
India’s satellite television channels face blackouts due to the unreliability of an aging satellite.
India’s satellite television channels are facing blackouts due to the unreliability of an aging satellite.
India’s satellite television channels are facing blackouts due to the unreliability of an aging satellite.
Gene Pitney – Looking Through The Eyes Of Love
The Beatles performing Shakespeare
An evening pause: In honor of Shakespeare’s 400th birthday in 1964, the Beatles performed this short excerpt from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. How else could you see John Lennon dressed as a girl?
Gerry & The Pacemakers – Ferry Cross The Mersey
An evening pause: From 1965, the Top of the Pops show. I’ve always liked this song, “Ferry Cross the Mersey,” but it is also fun to watch early television, with the band attempting to simulate playing to the original recording, while the kids on the dance fall make believe they’re dancing as they repeatedly sneak peaks at the cameras.
Three Redneck Tenors – Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Red Clay Halo
Neil Diamond – Coming to America
An evening pause: The video is a bit too darkly lit, but the chemistry of the audience with Neil Diamond’s singing is enthralling. “Today!”
Beethoven — second movement, Fifth Symphony, performed by NBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini
An evening pause: This March 22, 1952 television performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony from Carnegie Hall by the NBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Arturo Toscanini, was probably the most remembered by the generation of our parents. I show the second movement, because it happens to be my favorite. Listen as the opening theme returns several times during the piece, only changing the last time into something even more beautiful.
Watching Toscanini as he conducts is fascinating as well.
The Ten Tenors – Bohemian Rhapsody
Yanni – Nostalgia
Loreena McKennitt – The Stolen Child
An evening pause: William Butler Yeats’ poem, The Stolen Child, set to song.
Away with us he’s going,
The solemn-eyed:
He’ll hear no more the lowing
Of the calves on the warm hillside
Or the kettle on the hob
Sing peace into his breat,
Or see the brown mice bob
Round and round the oatmeal-chest.For he comes, the human child,
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
From a world more full of weeping
than he can understand.
Monty Python – The Cheese Shop sketch
Walking on water
An evening pause: Walking on water. As the youtube website explained, “They filled a pool with a mix of cornstarch and water made on a concrete mixer truck. It becomes a non-newtonian fluid. When stress is applied to the liquid it exhibits properties of a solid.”
Jack Benny meets Twilight Zone
Manfred Mann – Blinded by the Light
An evening pause: I dare anyone to watch these guys perform this song and still claim that rock stars aren’t talented musicians.
Holistic ER
Compliation of news fails 2011
Frank Sinatra – High Hopes
John Cleese – How to irritate people by being considerate
Judy Garland – Pretty girl milking her cow
Candid Camera demonstrates the power of conformity
Christopher Walken reads “The Three Little Pigs”
An evening pause: How about another modern retelling of a classic children’s tale? Christopher Walken reads “The Three Little Pigs”.