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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 1/28/2025: Dawning on You [1]
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Date: 2025-01-28
Gottfrid Kallstenius: Northern Lights (1915)
Good evening, Kibitzers!
I hope everyone is well, or at least, better than yesterday. Zen Trainer, please check in if you are well enough today to be reading this!
Here in the Boston area, it’s no longer relentlessly biting cold like last week, but it is on-and-off that cold, and on-and-off snowing or raining, according to the temperature. No big snow events, just showers sometimes, but that’s fine — I’m grateful to have precipitation. I apologize to Thinking Fella for hogging all the snow.
I felt like collecting some songs this week. I had been listening to a playlist that has some good ones about morning, so that’s the theme I’ve picked. Not all morning songs are cheerful, and that is very understandable to a not-a-morning-person such as myself. But a lot of them are, and the others are still good songs. (I am aware that it’s not a very cheerful time in history unless you’re a Nazi, but we all need a little time to not brood about that.)
There are really quite a few morning songs, once you start thinking about it — I’ve got a list of runners-up bigger than the list in the diary. So if I have missed your favorite, by all means, please share it in the comments. As usual, I’ve tried to find live performances, and succeeded with all but one.
The Rascals: A Beautiful Morning (NBC TV show Kraft Music Hall, 1968). [2:33]
Ziggy Marley: Three Little Birds (White House Easter Egg Roll, 2009). [2:56]
Fleetwood Mac: Monday Morning (live in Tokyo, December 1977, from the Japanese Rumours concert DVD). [3:46]
Richie Havens: Morning Morning (audio only — album Mixed Bag, 1966). [2:21]
Kris Kristofferson with Foo Fighters: Sunday Morning Coming Down (CBS TV special I Walk the Line: A Night for Johnny Cash, November 2005). [4:11]
Cat Stevens: Morning Has Broken (Unidentified Dutch TV appearance, 1972, recovered by current Dutch music station 192TV.) [3:17]
Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds: Good Mornin’ (movie Singin’ in the Rain, 1952). [3:25]
Oliver: Good Morning Starshine (another recovery by Dutch music station 192TV, of a 1969 performance). Gotta love the shirt with the self-fabric tie. [3:35]
Ray Charles: Oh, What a Beautiful Morning (song from Oklahoma; performance from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, 1993.) [4:55]
Joni Mitchell: Chelsea Morning (from a long-thought-lost concert videotaped by NET (predecessor to PBS) at Southern Illinois University, shown locally in Chicago on WTTW Channel 11 as an episode of The Sounds Of Summer – Mississippi River Festival). You can see all the recovered footage here, including an Arlo Guthrie performance and intro by Steve Allen. [2:59]
Paul Simon and Stephen Colbert: The 59th Street Bridge Song (The Late Show, May 2017.) With parody lyrics appropriate to the beginning of the a Trump “administration”. Apparently, Paul Simon does in fact hate the song. [3:05]
Sting with Stevie Wonder: Brand New Day (Sting’s 60th Birthday Concert, Beacon Theater, New York, 2011). [5:39]
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