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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 7 [1]

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Date: 2022-07-26

Here’s the hearing segment from CSPAN, to provide you with context, should you need any. [1:08]

The Twitter thread opened with this moving selection, Chariots of Fire, by recently-departed Evángelos “Vangelis” Papathanassíou. [3:34]

This piece is known nowadays as “the Benny Hill theme song”, and was a very popular request among people who hadn’t looked at the whole thread before replying (it was second). But it’s actually Yakety Sax, by saxophone legend Boots Randolph. He’s joined in this 1993 episode of Nashville Now by Chet Atkins on guitar, and Ray Stevens on piano and weird vocal effects. [2:34]

I Ran by A Flock of Seagulls was also a heavy request favorite. It didn’t appear in the original thread, but after a while, other people joining in downthread filled in some obvious omissions.

I don’t know where or when this performance took place. Often, I can find out from the YouTube comments, but the only thing I learned there in this case is that “THE 80S FUCKIN’ RULE”. [5:01]

I saw this in the thread as a request — not sure anyone made a video, but it’s so perfect. Bob Marley performs Running Away in Santa Barbara, 1979. [8:28]

Talking Heads perform Psycho Killer on The Old Gray Whistle Test TV show, 1978. Qu'est-ce que c'est, Senator? [5:24]

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the 70s, Brave Sir Robin was waaay ahead of Josh in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. [2:45]

I have no information at all on this live Martha Reeves and the Vandellas TV appearance, apart from the clues we can all see. Nowhere to Run was released in 1965, so that explains those Lurex lace stockings on the woman dancing. [2:47]

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band perform Born to Run in 1975 at the Hammersmith Odeon in London. I had forgotten that, in those days, they looked like a collection of people LARPing in entirely different games. This is worth watching just to see Clarence Clemmons play. [4:07]

Another Hammersmith Odeon/London performance, this time in 1979: Queen, with Josh’s plea, Don’t Stop Me Now. [4:11]

In Los Angeles in 1984, Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly perform Running Away, because in this collection, there’s room for any number of different songs with that same title. [5:43]

Pink Floyd, on the Wall Tour in 1980, perform Run Like Hell at Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London. The very on-topic pre-song remark, “He’s an old pig, but he’s still a big pig” made me choose this particular video. [8:04]

Ray Charles and The Raelettes perform Hit the Road, Jack in São Paulo, Brazil in 1963. If only Josh would keep going... [2:17]

I bet you didn’t think you’d see another performance today as quintessentially 80s as that one by A Flock of Seagulls. I don’t know what top-ten-countdown-type show this video is from, but it’s circa 1984 and they want to be really sure you know that. Matthew Wilder performs Break My Stride. [3:15]

Del Shannon performs Runaway in 1961. I’m not sure where but, gotta say, the tight circle of endlessly-bobbing dancers around whatever he’s standing on is a little creepy, like he should maybe distract them and escape during the Musitron break in the middle. [2:15]

In case just regular running away isn’t fast enough, Lenny Kravitz suggests the senator Fly Away, on the Chris Rock Show, 1998. [5:24]

For when poor Josh is Running On Empty, Jackson Browne offers this 1978 BBC performance, featuring the genius David Lindley over in the corner with the steel guitar in his lap. (Did you know that Jackson Browne’s actual first name is Clyde? The things we learn here at KTK!) [5:17]

Nina Simone wonders, “Sinnerman, where you gonna run to?” The answer’s not promising for Josh. I don’t know where the performance footage is from, nor do I know what the horrifying intercut video of Klansmen is from, but the latter is a pretty damn good fit. [5:27]

The Bee Gees offer the official Stayin’ Alive video, from 1977’s Saturday Night Fever. Geez, that’s all he was trying to do! Give a fascist a break! [4:09]

We’ll end with a very, very appropriate song from Hamilton, performed by the original cast: the “Reynolds Pamphlet” scene contains the short Never Gon’ Be President Now. If you would like a longer time to contemplate this idea, YouTube offers a one-hour loop of the 40-second meat of the song. [2:08]

Although we’ve had plenty of video, when I noticed a new Roy Zimmerman parody, I really had to post it. While not Hawley-specific, it does not disappoint. [1:36]

If you have a favorite Josh-Hawley-runs-away theme song, we’d love to hear it in the thread!

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