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Humor

Animals Musical comedy Comedians Film clips TV show clips Funny ads

 

Guy struggling
with heavy object
Foodcourt flirting
Listen to
cassette tape
A good guy
with a gun
Flintstones
Amazon Echo Silver
Kissing test
The mystery many
men go through...
Medieval helpdesk
(for "the book")
Redneck 911
Two angry Women
A Big Deck
Barney Fife and the
Preamble to the Constitution
What it was,
was football
- Andy Griffith

Granny goes digital
Hasty snow removal
Tech support
Bill Cosby
gets confused
Steve Martin
Holiday Wishes
Who's on first?
Abbott and Costello
Suspected terrorists
Granny air bag
OctoMom birth video
Smartest kid in class
Don DeLuise
egg trick
How to fail a
breathalyzer
Shocking News Cast
Guiness Record
High Note

It's not about
the nail
Concrete buffer
gone wild
News sex bloopers
VW commercial
2013 Super Bowl
Worst burglar ever
NYC bike lanes

Haitian construction

Animals

 

Perpetual chase
Who made this mess?
Cats stealing
dog beds
Kitten plays
with Doberman
Dogs plays
with fireworks

Musical comedy


Rob Paravonian's
Pachelbel Rant
John Belushi
does Joe Cocker
(see the original)


Cocker & Belushi
Feelin' Alright
Rachmaninov
had big hands
Happy Birthday
by master composers
Comedians

        Woody Allen – I love the old Woody Allen comedies!
  Bananas
- tries to subtly buy a nudie magazine
  Bananas
- subway scene (that's Silvester Stallone as hoodlum)
  Bananas
- gives parking assistance
  Take the Money and Run
- plays cello
  Take the Money and Run
- tries to rob a bank
  Take the Money and Run
- another bank holdup
  What's Up, Tiger Lily?
- an interview in the intro, "Death is my bread, and danger my butter..."

        Cheech & Chong

Coke scene
(Next Movie)
Mexican Americans
(Next Movie)
Chong rocks out
(Next Movie)
Stoned in car
(Up in Smoke)
Dave's not here
(YouTube audio)
        Red Green

        Louis C.K. – his language can be a little racy but he is hilarious

        Tom Mabe – got his start spoofing telemarketers

        Shaun Micallef

Film clips

  The Sweetest Thing
Christina Applegate and Cameron Diaz
  Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Sean Penn played surfer Jeff Spicoli
  What's New Pussycat?
Peter Sellers in the opening scene of one of my favorite movies
  Dr. Strangelove
Peter Sellers and Keenan Wynn
"You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company."
  Casino Royale
Peter Sellers and Orson Welles in the 1967 spy spoof
"Don't think that went unnoticed—I see everything that goes on at this table."
  Five Easy Pieces
Jack Nicholson orders toast in the diner scene
"I want you to hold it between your knees."
  Amadeus
Tom Hulce as Mozart
"There are too many notes."
TV show clips

  Taxi
Reverend Jim's driving exam (I shortened this from a longer scene because all I wanted here was the one joke)
"What does a yellow light mean?"

        Blackadder – this hilarious British TV series featured Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) and Hugh Laurie (who played on TV on House with an American accent)
 
Court Martial
How did the war start?
Explaining evolution
to a creationist
Edmund hires a ship
Royal Wedding
Prince George
is all man
 
Will Shakespeare
General Melchett
visits the troops
Time travel
Don't mention Macbeth

        David Letterman

Working the
drive-through window
at McDonalds
Cheney vs. Pelosi:
The blink count
Sonny and Cher singing
"I Got You Babe"
Tribute to Bill Gates
Letterman flips off viewer
McCain bails out

Beer launching fridge


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Funny ads
    - some fake, some foreign, see more on YouTube


Trunk monkey
(Suburban Auto Group)
Stuck on an escalator
(Becel)
Shareholder meeting
(Airtran)
Locked door
(nice'n easy)
Improve your English
(Berlitz)
Indecent Proposal
(MasterCard)

Tidy Up
(IKEA)
French phone network
(SFR)
French cable channel
(CANAL+)
How long can you
hold your breath?
(Sealect Tuna)
Robo-Bash
(Bud Light)
More commercials
Monty Python videos

  "And now for something completely different!"
  Monty Python (Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam) produced some of what I consider the most hilarious comedy of all time. Back in the early 70s they had a weekly TV show that I never missed. I purchased the The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus Megaset when it came out on DVD and now I can watch this great comedy whenever I feel like it.

Flying Circus videos
  Here are some of my favorite Python sketches. I acquired these videos on the Internet, but since I own the DVD set of all the episodes I may see if I can rip them from the DVDs to get the best quality videos.  
 

Spam
Nudge, Nudge
The Ministry of
Silly Walks
Italian Class
The Smuggler
Argument Clinic
Dirty Hungarian
Phrasebook
The Man With
Three Buttocks
Mr. Hilter
Self Defense Class
Secret Service
Dentists
Lifeboat
The International
Philosophy Match
"I want to get married."
Buying a Bed

Hide and Seek
Olympics Final
Inspector Tiger
(Agatha Christie)
Railway Timetables
(Agatha Christie)
Architect Sketch
Bored Airline Pilots
Exploding Penguin
Spanish Inquisition
The Butcher
Restaurant Sketch
Archaeology
Today
The Cheese Shop
Dead Parrot
The French Sketch
Kilimanjaro
Expedition
The Visitors Sketch

Lumberjack Song
The Office Sketch
Arthur
"Two Sheds"
Jackson
The Hospital Sketch
Fish-Slapping
Dance
The Silly
Job Interview
Travel Agency
Deja Vu
Bicycle
Repairman
Sam Peckinpah's
"Salad Days"
Vocational Guidance
Counsellor
Always Look On
The Bright Side Of Life

Movie sketches
 

The Holy Grail
The Black Knight
The Holy Grail
French Taunting
The Holy Grail
Bloody Peasants
The Life of Brian
The Stoning Scene
The Life of Brian
Biggus Dickus
The Life of Brian
Bright Side of Life
The Meaning of Life
Every Sperm
Is Sacred

Live at the Hollywood Bowl
 

The Last Supper
Whizzo
(Crunchy Frog)
The Travel Agency
The Argument Clinic
The Ministry of
Silly Walks
"Never Be Rude
To An Arab"
Philosophers’
Song

Python member highlights
 

Graham Chapman
Eric Idle
Michael Palin
John Cleese
Terry Jones
Terry Gilliam
Graham Chapman Eulogy
by John Cleese
Political satire

Romnesia
   Saturday Night Live videos on YouTube

  Videos of Bush and friends
    I had so much fun with political humor during the Bush presidency that I will always treasure these gems.
Dubya – "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
 George Bush & Tony Blair – "Endless Love"
Dubya clips – our articulate leader at his best
 Dubya appears on The Tonight Show after the 2004 election
Top 10 Favorite George W. Bush Moments
 Top 10 Bush thoughts with a hammer
How does Bush win an election?
 What's behind Dubya's stupid speeches?
The Bush pilot (a subtitled German video)
 Controlling the borders
Dubya & Little Richard
 Tightening the Mexican border
Tony Blair – "Should I Stay or Should I Go"
 Googler-in-Chief on the Internets
Republican: New Wonder Drug Hits Market
 Great Moments in Presidential Speeches
Fey / Palin Couric interview
Melania plagiarizes Michelle at RNC convention
More Bush videos on YouTube

Amusing (and interesting) videos

Animal videos Friends' videos

 

When it's not
your time to die
Sculpting Elvis
with a chainsaw
Crushing machine
Hauling logs
Cosmic Eye
Universe size comparison
Vincent van Gogh
Visits the Gallery
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science In America
The Spock pinch
Tug of War
Defying gravity
Geo-challenged
Americans
Cool kite!
Apple Macintosh
1984 commercial
Speed artist paints
Federer in 4 minutes

Speed painter
Cellphone commercial
in 1989
Rush hour in Bangladesh
Powers of Ten
(Charles & Ray Eames)
Smart dog!
Elgin Park
A Rube Goldberg style
Honda commercial
Sand animation
Ferenc Cakó
Jerome Murat zombies
Beach walker
Chris Bliss juggling
The Tesla factory
Parking wars
Luckiest people alive

LG Optimus Hyper
Facade in Berlin
Blizzard Nemo
in timelapse
Greatest Card Trick Ever
We are dead stars
So You Want to
Live in Montana
Susan Boyle
Goodell reacts to
Super Bowl XLIX
Cat & dolphin



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Animal videos


Kitten and Pitbull
Kittens on slide
Cat kneads dog
Panda Wrestling
Family of ducks
crossing highway
Baby panda's
first steps
Mine. no touch.

Friends' videos
Jim

Sunday Night Barbecue
(garage burns down)
The Road to Perdition
(Lucy goes to jail)
Andrey

Hurricane Sandy
at Revere Beach
Action videos

 

Tornado footage
Presidential Limo
driver try-outs
Gymkhana
Hudson River crash
(w/ great simulation)
Cruise ship in
rough seas
(outside view)
Battle at Kruger
(buffalo and lions)
186mph
on motorcycle!
Felix Baumgartner's
skydive
44 flips in
34 seconds
Extremely fast
backflipping
They used to
build them tough
Skydiving
Test drive
Test drive2

Cliff Diving
is so Insane!
How he survived?




Sports

There are some New England Patriots Super Bowl videos on the Boston page.

 

Malcom Butler
Super Bowl pick
Doug Flutie's
Hail Mary
LaGarrette Blount
51-yard touchdown
"Beast Quake"
Marshawn Lynch TD
Bad lip reading
15-lateral victory
67-yard high school
field goal
Amazing comeback
Amazing catch
by ball girl
AT&T
Hello Commercial
Roger Federer's
tweener
Epic badminton
Table tennis
Bowling 2 spares

Unicycle dance
Halftime spills
Winning shot
Bare-handed catch
(from Wimp.com)
Spectacular
athletic feats
Why I didn't make
the Olympics
Over-the-shoulder
3-pointer
Ski with Olympic
Champion Ted Ligety
Simply amazing!
Columbian
bullfighting festival
Softball score
Usain Bolt
Fastest Man Alive
Car soccer

Dancing videos


Russian Jitterbug
Emerald Belles
Texas high school girls
Dance videos to
Uptown Funk
Salsa kids!
Wedding boogie
(the story)
The Ross Sisters
Solid Potato Salad
Bindi & Derek's Jive
(DWTS victory)
Dancing at the Movies
Big Bang Theory
Flash Mob
Soy Andina -
Andes dancing
  Contemporary click for more – I really love contemporary and jazz dancing!

Pilobolus
Dance Theater
Couple dancing to
Doot-Doot by Freur
Phillip Chbeeb &
Renee Kester
Subway station
Chaz Buzan &
Courtney Schwartz
A Breakup Story
DJ Smart &
Zola Williams
All I Ask
Paulina Macias
Jazz Solo 2014
Paulina
Audrey Case
Royal Flux
Audrey

Music

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Jazz favorites Rock & Pop favorites Keyboard players Guitar players Bass players Classical Other House music

Jazz favorites
Miles Davis – members of his bands always went on to outstanding solo careers
 
Bitches Brew, 1969
(52 min.)
Splatch
Isle of Wight Festival
(35 min.)
Hannibal


Human Nature
Footprints
So What 		 
Mahavishnu Orchestra – John McLaughlin's superb fusion band of the early-70s (see more McLaughlin below).
This band featured McLaughlin (guitar), Jerry Goodman (violin), Jan Hammer (keyboards), Rick Laird (bass), and Billy Cobham (drums).
     
 


The Noonward Race
Dance of Mya
Meeting of the Spirits 		     

A Lotus on
Irish Streams
4 songs
(songs names while playing)
One Word
Festival de
Chateauvallon 		       
Jerry Goodman – a great jazz fusion violinist who played in the Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Flock, and The Dixie Dregs
 
Introduction
(The Flock)

Perputuum Mobile
Solo
Chardeau: Résilience
Kat Food
(The Dixie Dregs) 		       
Return to Forever – Chick Corea's jazz fusion group of the 70s (see more Corea below)
 
Spain


500 Miles High


Romantic Warrior


Beyond the 7th Galaxy


Vulcan Worlds


Space Circus

 
Milton Nascimento – one of the best performers in my favorite genre, Brazilian jazz
 
Milagre dos Peixes
Nada Sera
Como Antes

O Que Sera
(w⁄ Chico Buarque)
Cravo e Canela
Acustico Na Suica
 
Travessia
Don Quixote
Volver a Los 17
(w/ Mercedes Sosa) 		           
Airto Moreira and Flora Purim – fantastic Brazilian husband and wife musicians
 
Harvest Jazz series
1982
Shoulder
Jazz Summit
Hollabrunn, 1985 		               
John Coltrane – one of the most influential improvisors and composers of all time
 
A Love Supreme


Naima


Resolution


Afro Blue
My Favorite Things
Impressions
 
Impressions
(w/ Eric Dolphy)
I Want To Talk
About You 		             
Richard Galliano – amazing! (richardgalliano.com)
 
Waltz For Nicky
(w/ Bireli Lagrene)
Tangaria
Mozartango
Libertango
La Valse a Margaux
(w/ Sebastien Surel)
Mozambique
(w/ Michel Portal)
Tchaikovsky
1st Concerto (1972) 		 
Anthony Braxton – fantastic avant-garde reed player
 
Impressions
Iridium 		       
Weather Report – outstanding musicians who also had successful individual careers
 
Black Market
Elegant People
Birdland 		     

Rock & Pop favorites
Woodstock Psychedelic Ska
Bob Dylan – Dylan had a tremendous influence on everyone who came after him
 

History of Rock & Roll

As a folk singer
It's Alright Ma
(I'm Only Bleeding)
Maggie's Farm
Newport '65
Dylan goes electric
Like a Rolling Stone
Newport '65
Bob Dylan and
Suze Rotolo 		   
Pink Floyd
 
Us and Them
(1988)
Brain Damage
(1994)
Another Brick
in the Wall
(1980)
Shine On You
Crazy Diamond
(1990)
Time
(1988)
Money
(1989) 		     
 
Cymbaline
(1970)
Grantchester  
Meadows
(1970) 
Green is the Colour
(1970)
Atom Heart Mother
(1970)
Comfortably Numb
(1980)
Wish You Were Here
(1988) 		     
 
Live 8
(2005) 
Us and Them
(David Gilmour)
Us and Them
(Rick Wright intro)
Shine On You
Crazy Diamond
(David Gilmour, 2007)
 
MTV Rockumentary
(1969-1972)

Electric Light Orchestra
  ELO - Hyde Park, 2014
     
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac – the original band (pre- Nicks & Buckingham) when they were an English group in the 60s
 
Oh Well
Albatross
Man of the World
The Peter Green Story 		         
Crosby, Stills, & Nash (and Young)
 
Teach Your Children
Long Time Gone
Helplessly Hoping
Southern Man
Down By The River
You Don't Have To Cry
Neil Young
- Old Man 		 
Joni Mitchell – a 1979 tour backed by Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Michael Brecker, Jaco Pastorius, and Don Alias; some of the songs have film clips edited in at Mitchell's direction
 
Free Man in Paris
In France They
Kiss On Main Street
Raised On Robbery
Black Crow
Edith and The Kingpin
John Lennon
 
Imagine
Woman
Yer Blues 		     
The Yardbirds – from the 1966 Antonioni film Blowup, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page on guitars
 
Stroll On 		         
The Byrds
 
Chestnut Mare 		           
Peter Frampton – like the rest of us baby-boomers Frampton has aged, just a little more publicly
 
Baby, I Love Your Way
(1976)
Show Me The Way
(1976)
Baby, I Love Your Way
(2000)
The Geico commercial
(2007) 		 
Bruce Springsteen
 
Secret Garden
Dancing in the Dark
(Courteney Cox dancing) 		     
The Bangles
 
Hazy Shade of Winter

From the movie, Less Than Zero 		 
Ike & Tina Turner
 
     
Elvis Presley
 
Hound Dog 		           
Jimi Hendrix
 
Hey Joe 		           
Tim Rose
 
Hey Joe 		This was the original recording of this song that inspired the Jimi Hendrix version.          
Dire Straits
 
 
Jewel
 
         
Led Zeppelin
 
Stairway to Heaven 		This is from the 1973 concert film "The Song Remains the Same"          
Linda Ronstadt
 
Desperado 		         
The Eagles
 
Hotel California 		         
John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
 
You're the One
That I Want

They got together in 2013 and redid this great song they had done in Grease. 		         
Woodstock, 1969   (The history of Woodstock, List of performances & events)
  Richie Havens

Freedom 		Santana

Soul Sacrifice 		Jefferson Airplane

White Rabbit 		Crosby, Still & Nash

Suite: Judy Blue Eyes 		Joe Cocker

With a Little Help
from My Friends
  The Who

See Me, Feel Me 		Jimi Hendrix

Foxy Lady 		Country Joe McDonald

The 'Fish' Cheer/
I-Feel-Like-I'm-
Fixin'-To-Die Rag

Psychedelic rock – in the late-60s, when I was in my early twenties, I was really into this music
Country Joe & the Fish – these songs were recorded at the Monterey Pop Festival, 1967
 
Section 43
Not So Sweet
Martha Lorraine 		         
Spirit
 
Nature's Way
Nature's Way
(environmental theme)
I Got a Line on You 		   

Ska – when my son Alex was in high school he turned me on to this great Jamaican music
Reel Big Fish
 
Take On Me

I saw them perform this in concert with Alex 		 
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
 
The Impression That I Get 		 
Save Ferris
 
Come On Eileen

This is the commercial video but it's a great song 		 

Keyboard players
  Keith Jarrett – I first saw this incredible jazz pianist perform with Charles Lloyd in the 60s. His Köln Concert (1975) is the best-selling solo jazz concert ever recorded. It is totally improvised and the fourth segment, Part II c, is one of my favorite piano pieces. It became known as Memories of Tomorrow in transcriptions and there are many nice covers of it on YouTube like this one.
 
Fort Yawuh,
Berlin '73
'Round Midnight
Tokyo '84 Encore
Funky Tonk solo
(w⁄ Miles Davis)
Umbria Jazz Festival,
Perugia, Italy '74
Free jazz solo, '67 		 
 
Solar
Bach's Italian Concerto 		       
Chick Corea – one of the best
 
'Round Midnight
500 Miles High
(w/ some RTF)


Why Wait
(w/ some RTF)


L's Bop
(w/ some RTF)


Spain
(w/ Hiromi Uehara)
Mozart Allegro
(w/ Keith Jarrett)
Sometime Ago 		 
 
Now He Sings, Now He Sobs

McCoy Tyner – a member of Trane's quartet
 
Giant Steps
Mr. P.C.
Moment's Notice 		     
Bill Evans
 
Person I Knew
Gloria's Step
My Romance
Waltz For Debby 		   
Thelonius Monk
 
'Round Midnight
Don't Blame Me
Blue Monk
Straight, No Chaser 		   
Roger Friedman (www.rogerfriedman.com)
 

I love watching his fascinating instructional videos on YouTube, many with a MIDI keyboard above the one he is playing on showing which keys are being pressed.
Roger was at Berklee at the same time I was, and in addition to being an outstanding piano player he is also a doctor.
See also Lot2learn Jazz Piano.
Gabriela Montero (www.gabrielamontero.com)
– "La Divina del Piano" is known for her celebrated technical skills and her talent for improvisation.
What she does with a little piece of melody she hears for the first time is amazing.
 

2009 Inauguration
(w/ Ma,Perlman,McGill)
Paganini Duet
(w/ Martha Argerich)
Joropo 		       

   Tal Zilber – an Israeli born pianist (Page Music bio)
 
 

I also have some of my favorite keyboard players listed below under Classical.

Guitar players
John McLaughlin – Paco de Lucia – Al Di Meola – Larry Coryell – these guys could just blow everybody away in the guitar world
 
Rio Ancho
McLaughlin,
de Lucia & Di Meola
Rio Ancho
Di Meola & de Lucia
Rio Ancho
Paco de Lucia
(the original)
Meeting Of
The Spirits
McLaughlin,
de Lucia & Coryell
Guardian Angel
McLaughlin,
de Lucia & Coryell
Solo videos
Al Di Meola

Spain
McLaughlin,
de Lucia & Di Meola
Callejon del Muro
Paco de Lucia
In a Silent Way
John McLaughlin
& Joe Zawinul 		             
   Pat Metheny – one of the most versatile guitarists influenced by many genres
 
Have You Heard
Phase Dance
Lone Jack
Bright Size Life
Acoustic Medley
Waltz For Ruth
(w/ Charlie Haden) 		 
– interview containing Kenny G remarks, the same way I see it.


   Paul Gilbert – the greatest technical rock guitarist I have ever heard—played with Racer X & Mr. Big (Gilbert bio)
 
 
   Bireli Lagrene – one of the world's greatest guitarists (lagrene.com)
 
A duet with
Sylvain Luc
(Live in Marciac 2000)
Vienne Song
Dinello
(w/ Dominique
Di Piazza)
Mediterranian
Sundance
(w/ Al Di Meola)
age 13
at Montreux
Guitar 1 CD-rom
Waltz For Nicky
(w/ Richard Galliano) 		   
George Benson – I saw him perform several times in the '60s when he was a jazz guitarist (before he became a pop singer)
 
'Round Midnight


Stella By Starlight
(w⁄ McCoy Tyner)

           
  Jeff Beck
(one of a kind)

Cause We've Ended
as Lovers 		Luis Moreno
(guitar hammering)

Fusion 		Mason Williams
(a pop classic)

Classical Gas 		Paul Simon
(and his brother Ed)

Anji 		Charo
(a suprise?)

Malaguena 		 
  – An 81-year-old on guitar (Bob Wood of Nashville, TN)

Bass players
Stanley Clarke – my favorite bass player (listen to Clarke's 1972 solo on Sometime Ago by Return to Forever). I posted the first Clarke video below on YouTube.
 
School Days
(Live at Montreux)
School Days
Jam
Duals
Song To John
Solo and interview
at Newport, 2003 		   

Saratoga Jazz Fest, 2008
Romantic Warrior
The Thunder Tour
at the Hollywood Bowl
(more info) 		   
Miroslav Vitous
 
My Foolish Heart
Solo with
Jan Garbarek
Autumn Leaves
Clouds in the
Mountain solo
Live in Vienna
     
Avishai Cohen / YouTube channel – these are just a few videos by an incredible artist. (avishaimusic.com)
 
     
Charlie Haden
 
Ornette Coleman
clips
Lonely Woman
Body and Soul
(w/ Richard Galliano)
La Passionara 		     
Victor Wooten
 
Club A38,
Budapest, 2007
2-hand tapping
jazz solo
San Sebastian
Jazz Fest, 2006
With Flecktones
at San Sebastian
Amazing Grace
(Flecktones concert)
Amazing Grace
(Bass Day 1998) 		 
 
Norwegian Wood
Slapping & tapping,
brother Regi on guitar
A Chick From Corea
(w/Steve Bailey)
 
Dave Holland
 
Homecoming
Metamorphose 		     
Fred Hopkins
 
Bass solo at
Village Vanguard 		     
Jaco Pastorius
 
A Portrait of Tracy
Slang 		       
Eberhard Weber
 
Brother Wind March
Why Not Brazilian 		     
Jean Baudin – tapping, slapping and fingerstyle on 11-string and 9-string bass (jeanbaudin.com)
 
Mario Theme
Bach Invention
Every Breath You Take (w/ Yves Carbonne)
Nuclear Rabbit
information 		         
Stuart Hamm
 
SF Concert Medley
Love Thing
Moonlight Sonata
Country Music

Star-Spangled
Banner
           
Jeff Schmidt (5-string bass)
 
Little Sunflower 		 
Dominique Di Piazza (5-string bass)
 
Little Rose 		 

Classical
Titles Artists Piano child prodigies

Titles . . .
Chopin: Etude Op.10 No.4 in C# minor
 

One of my favorite Chopin pieces. 		   

Chopin: Fantasie Impromptu Op.66 in C# minor
 

Another favorite Chopin piece. 		   

Chopin: Etude Op.25 No.2 in F minor
 

Another favorite Chopin piece. 		   

Bach: English Suite No.2 Prelude
 

One of my favorite Bach pieces. 		   

Bach: Invention No.13 in A Minor
 

One of the most famous and beautiful Bach masterpieces. 		   

Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata, 3rd Mvt, Presto agitato
 

One of my favorite Beethoven pieces. 		   
Pachelbel: Canon in D
 

This classic piece is played at many weddings. 		     
Carmina Burana
 
Seiji Ozawa conducts the Berlin Philharmonic and the Shin-Yu Chorus of Japan performing O Fortuna and Fortune plango vulnera, the first two pieces in the Carmina Burana, a collection of 24 poems set to music by Bavarian composer Carl Orff.

Artists . . .
   Yundi Li (Wikipedia, yundimusic.com)
 

A fantastic Chinese pianist, also known as Li Yundi. 		     
   Glenn Gould (Wikipedia)
 

Gould (1932-1982) had incredible technique. 		     

   Valentina Lisitsa (valentinalisitsa.com, ValentinaLisitsa–YouTube username)
 
           

   Vladimir Horowitz
 

Horowitz is widely considered one of the best pianists of the 20th century. 		     

   Jean-Frederic Neuburger
 

Neuburger is a great young French pianist. 		     

   Ivo Pogorelic
 

Pogorelic is a famous Serbian pianist. 		     

   Tzvi Erez
 

The videos show close-ups of the hands and the music is outstanding! Erez, an Israeli, is one of my favorite pianists. 		     

   Midori
 
     

Piano child prodigies . . .
Chelsea Dock
Chelsea Guo
Jady Wei
Aimi Kobayashi
Rachel Su
Aurelia Shimkus
   

Other
Lord Vinheteiro
  I found this video on Facebook. It is by Lord Vinheteiro, a Brazilian, whose real name is Fabricio Andre Bernard di Paolo. He was trained on classical piano and lives in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In this video he plays snippets of various composers through the years.
 
Evolution of Music 		   

Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
 

This beautiful song was originally written by Funkadelic's George Clinton and guitarist Eddie Hazel. According to legend, Clinton told Hazel to play as if he has just learned that his mother has died. After several years Michael Hampton joined the group also on guitar. Eventually Hazel left and Hampton (known as "Kidd Funkadelic") was lead guitar. They both did incredible things with this song, including having Lili Haydn play violin on one video. Some of these videos are not great quality but the performances are outstanding!

Technical Difficulties
 

This great song was written by guitarist Paul Gilbert of Racer X. My favorite versions of it are by 2Cellos.
2Cellos (an iconoclastic, Croatian virtuoso cello duo)
 
Thunderstruck

This performance reminds me of Marty McFly playing guitar in "Back to the Future"!
This is a cover of the AC/DC song.
Jake Shimabukuro (jakeshimabukuro.com)
 
While My Guitar
Gently Weeps 		   
Duo 4 by 6 (guitar & violin)
 
Vivaldi
Summer III 		   
  A little girl gives coins go a street musician
and gets the best surprise in return. 		 
 
Street Musicans 		   
Ian & Sylvia (a favorite 60s duo)
 

A 2011 interview 		 
Gangnam Style
 
     
   Ted Yoder (on Hammered Dulcimer)
 
     

Adiemus – I love this New Age piece by composer/conductor Karl Jenkins. The vocals are used as instruments, with the words made up by Jenkins.
See Adiemus Unofficial Website, The Adiemus Singers, Adiemus Profile, and Adiemus - Wikipedia for more.
Recorded performances
  Miriam Stockley

Original recording
1995 		Karen Melis

Night of the Proms
2001
 Various choruses
   
As background music
 
Anastasia
Volochkova
The Alchemist M
– Indy Parkour
Delta Commercial
(French) 		   
  More . . .
 
What's Goin' On
Performed by an international cast of artists.
 
Stand By Me
Recorded by artists all around the world, from the award-winning documentary, Playing For Change: Peace Through Music.
 
Bobby McFerrin
Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale at the 2009 World Science Festival.
 
Somewhere Over
the Rainbow
Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwo'ole was a Hawaiian musician who passed away in 1997.
 
Video Games Live
This is the trailer for the first video game concert tour, featuring the music of Christopher Tin and other game composers.
See the website for more.
 
Tico Tico
Cecilia Siqueira (Uruguay) and Fernando Lima (Brasil) play a really incredible guitar duet at the 2009 Brazilian Music Institute.

Rainbow
Connection
Kermit the Frog sings from The Muppet Movie

Various songs
Harmonica virtuoso Buddy Greene plays at Carnegie Hall

Hey Paula
Paul & Paula - see them (Ray Hildebrand & Jill Jackson) in a more recent performance.

James Brown
James Brown's incredible performance of Please, Please, Please at the T.A.M.I. show in 1964

Lindsey Stirling
She plays the Leonard Cohen song in a New York subway station
music

  House M.D. (2004-2012) was one of my favorite TV shows and it has some great music (including the theme song), particularly in the closing scenes of many episodes. Whoever is in charge of music for the show does an excellent job of matching existing music to drama. These are some of the songs I have enjoyed.

Hugh Laurie, the British actor who plays Dr. Gregory House with a pretty good American accent ("I just do the best that I can, gets tough at the end of a long day."), can also play comedy and was in a hilarious series in England in the 80s, Blackadder. Laurie actually performs some of the songs below on piano.

 

 
The Down Low
- Maggot Brain by Funkadelic (Eddie Hazel on guitar) -
Just after they tell a drug dealer (really an undercover cop) he is dying this mournful song begins to play, and at the same time the drug raid he was working on goes down. This is one of the most powerful endings I have ever seen to a show. When I watch this clip, the way the guitar seems to work around the story it almost appears the music was written for the episode. (The song was released in 1971.)
 
Wilson's Heart
- Passing Afternoon by Iron & Wine (Samuel Beam) -
This is one of the heaviest House M.D. stories (perhaps one of the heaviest TV shows) I have ever seen involving Amber's death in an eposide where House and Amber (who is Wilson's girlfriend and also a doctor and played by Anne Dudek) are involved in a serious bus accident that results in the failure of her major organs. The video begins with House and Amber in a dream sequence experienced by House in a coma, then continues as House awakens and several loose ends are wrapped up, including Thirteen learning that she has Huntington's Disease, and Wilson finding Amber's note explaining her "absence."
 
Black Hole

- A Whiter Shade of Pale by Hugh Laurie (House) -
Laurie, who is actually a musician, plays a Hammond B-3 organ given to him by his colleague and roomate Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard). (I love the Leslie speaker!)
 
All In

- Hymn To Freedom, Hugh Laurie (House) plays the Oscar Pederson song -
A 6-year-old boy is dying of the same ailment that killed a 73-year-old woman twelve years before. House is obsessed with solving it this time.
 
Unfaithful
- Cuddy's Serenade, Hugh Laurie (House) plays his own composition -
A priest who runs a homeless shelter is having a multitude of symptoms and becomes a patient of House. The episode ends with Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) wanting to invite House to the baby naming ceremony for her daughter.
 
Saviors
- Georgia on my Mind, Hugh Laurie (House) -
An environmental activist is treated by House's team for a variety of symptoms, which end up having a natural cause. At the end of the episode Chase (Jesse Spencer) proposes to Cameron (Jennifer Morrison). In the final scene, the deceased intern, Amber, in one of her many appearances, returns to haunt House one more time.
 
Autopsy

- Beautiful by Elvis Costello -
House stops the hallucinations of a very brave young girl with terminal cancer.
 
Clueless
- Love and Happiness by Al Green -
The patient has a breathing attack during rough sex. After the diagnostic team treats him for a number of things, including food allergies and lupus, with no results, House is sure it's heavy metal poisoning, and all signs point to the wife. The video begins with Cameron paying off a losing bet to House. Wilson is staying with House until he can get his own apartment, but House is not sure he wants him to leave because he enjoys his cooking.
 
Spin
- None of Us Are Free by Solomon Burke -
A bicycle racer, idol to thousands, uses blood-doping to improve performance. In the closing scenes Cameron is dreaming about an ex-flame, her late-husband's best man, and House is accessing the psychotherapy records of his ex-girlfriend and current colleague, Stacy (Sela Ward).
 
Don't Ever Change
- Waiting on a Friend by The Rolling Stones -
House solves the kidney problem of a former music producer who had recently converted to Hasidic Judaism and collapsed at her wedding. This conversion defies House's philosophy that people cannot change. On the video he makes a tongue-in-cheek jab at Thirteen (Olivia Wilde) who is bisexual.
 
Cane and Able
- Gravity by John Mayer -
A seven-year-old boy is born with 2 sets of DNA because he was the product of "In Vitro Fertilization" that created twins that merged in his body. When his lesser twin awakens he thinks aliens have invaded his body.
 
No More
Mr. Nice Guy
- You Keep Me Hangin' On by The Supremes -
A subplot in this episode is the battle between House and Amber for the companionship of Wilson, who is House's best friend and Amber's boyfriend. Their disagreement gets pretty intense and is referred to by Cuddy as a "custody battle."
 
Top Secret
- Superfly by Curtis Mayfield -
House diagnoses the condition of an ex-marine after his 2nd tour of duty in Iraq. As the episode ends House and Cuddy are in their usual confrontation with sexual overtones. In the closing scene he encounters Chase and Cameron making out in a storage closet.
 
The Greater Good
- Brand New Day by Joshua Radin -
A renowned cancer researcher is House's patient. The episode ends with Taub and his wife discussing having children, Forman (Omar Epps) and Thirteen living together after working out some things, and Wilson taking the first step in dealing with the death of his girlfriend by finally washing her coffee mug.
 
Both Sides Now
- As Tears Go By by The Rolling Stones -
The episode begins with the team treating a man who has alien hand syndrome, an ailment that makes him lose control of his actions. At the end of the episode Chase and Cameron are getting married, and House has finally accepted that he has a drug problem and checks himself into a psychiatric hospital.
 
5 to 9
- Shine On by Eric Bibb -
The episode is about a day in the life of hospital director Cuddy. Besides having a sick child at home and an employee who is ripping off the hospital to deal drugs, she is negotiating a new contract for the hospital with the insurance company and she wants a 12% increase. They offer 4%, then come up to 8% which she refuses, but at the end of the episode they finally agree to her 12%.
 
Words and Deeds
- Season of the Witch by Donovan -
The main story in this episode is a firefighter who has heart attacks because he has unrequited love for a female colleague, and the only way to stop these attacks is to "restart" his brain. The episode ends with House in jail for contempt of court for walking out on the hearing about his illegal drug acquisitions, which he has continued to receive while he is in jail.
 
Control
- Baba O'Riley by The Who -
There are 2 main stories in this episode. House's patient is a 32-year-old CEO of a cosmetics company who needs a heart transplant because she has the eating disorder bulimia and has been taking ipecac to throw up, which has destroyed her heart. The other story is the new chairman of the board at the hospital (a wealthy donor) and House do not like each other.
 
Acceptance 		- Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley -
A death row inmate starts seeing hallucinations of people he killed and passes out. House is sent to the prison as a consult and manages to get him transfered to Princeton-Plainsboro hospital, where it is discovered that for years the inmate has had a tumor that randomly dumps adrenalin into his system causing his violent behavior. The tumor is removed surgically and he is sent back to death row. Cameron has to tell a patient who came in for a routine physical exam that she is dying. In the last scene House is erasing the whiteboard that lists the 5 stages of death: DENIAL, ANGER, BARGAINING, DEPRESSION, ACCEPTANCE.
 
Games
- Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum -
House's patient is a punk rocker whose brain appears to have been destroyed by drugs. It turns out he has measles, which they can cure with steroids. House has fired two of the doctors trying out for his team, Amber and Thirteen, but in the last scene Cuddy intervenes.
 
DNR
- What A Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong -
Legendary jazz musician John Henry Giles has previously been diagnosed with ALS, a deadly disease. House disagrees and cures him.

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