Ray Butterworth's favourite YouTube posts

Music:

Instrumental solos:

• The Messiah Will Come Again — Roy Buchanan. (Skips intro voice-over.)
• Watermelon In Easter Hay — Frank Zappa (Puts me to sleep (in a nice way).) (Skips intro voice-over.)

Cross genre:

• Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (3rd Movement) — Tina S (Style: electric guitar solo).
• Comfortably Numb — Luther Wright and the Wrongs (Style: bluegrass).
• Amazing Grace — The Blind Boys of Alabama (Tune: House of the Rising Sun).
• Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World — Israel Kamakawiwoʻole (his funeral).
• Hurt — Johnny Cash (dying, he claims this NIN industiral rock song as his own).
• Haleluye — Daniel Kahn (What Cohen would have written) (See also Yiddish lyrics and English translation).

Great versions:

• Hallelujah — k.d. lang (She claims this Leonard Cohen song as her own).
• Unchained Melody — Elvis Presley (dying, somewhat incoherent, and then he does this).

Video:

• Marcus Pincus, The Tailor (Watch through the closing credits for secondary joke.) (Brief "strong language" in punch line.)
• Pentatonic Scale — Bobby McFerrin (Demonstration of how music is hardwired into the human brain.)
• Seven Chances (chase scene) Buster Keaton (Amazing chase scene, with no modern special effects.)
• AI (1966) Peter Tork (Demonstrates frustration dealing with an AI.)