One of my favorite cabaret performers is a gent named Mark Nadler who, in non-COVID times, tours the country performing. Sometimes, as in the video below, he has a small band with him. Often, it's just him and a piano. Either way, he's a great entertainer.
Our video today is a show he did on PBS back in 2015 and the theme of the show was the year 1961 — which, not coincidentally, is the year Mr. Nadler was born. But it was also a year in which a surprising number of great songs were born and his show was filled with them. What's embedded below will have a special resonance with you if you're familiar with a lot of the music but it should please anyone.
I am here offering you three choices, one being to not watch it at all. I do not recommend this but you're free to do as you wish and you won't hurt my feelings one bit. Well, maybe one bit.
Secondly: I have set this video embed so it starts 40 minutes and 32 seconds in, thereby giving you the last sixteen-or-so minutes of his show. In those minutes, he performs one of the strongest pieces of cabaret material I have ever witnessed. If you were to ever perform on a stage in front of a live audience, you would pray to have a "closer" this good…and again, it will help if you know the music of '61 somewhat.
Or you have a third option, which is watch the whole show which runs close to 57 minutes. To accomplish this, click on this link. It's all good but if you don't have the 57 minutes, just click below and enjoy the last sixteen. The guy is really good…