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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 6/17/2025: 1972 Top 40 [1]
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Date: 2025-06-17
Alhed Maria Larsen: Flowers in a Window of Sunshine (1903)
Good evening, Kibitzers!
What I’ve been up to, in addition to retiring at the end of the month and trying to wedge in different medical appointments, is selling my parents’ house in New Jersey. It was important that we do this, so that Thinking Fella can feel confident about where I really live now, but also, because what else were we going to do with it?
Obviously, the issue (always the issue, right?) was the stuff in the house. No one had time to deal with it, so there it all sat. By very good luck, it so happened that one of my brother’s grade-school friends is a realtor in the area now, and it was killing him that the house was sitting there when he knew he could sell it. So he called my brother, and after a few conversations, met all of his objections, and mine.
So now, we have a buyer and we have until the end of this month to get stuff out of the house. Yes, that would be the same two weeks which are my last at work, and the same two weeks which are the end of my brother’s first month at a new job. It is super inconvenient, and yet, we NEED to do this, so we are doing it.
AND SO, I am happy to say that Chrislove has agreed to guest-host KTK next Tuesday, the 24th, while I am likely in transit or working or something other than writing a diary. Yay!!! Thank you, Chrislove!
ALL of these developments, at this time of year, are giving me POWERFUL end-of-school vibes! Last week, I was sent skittering down Memory Lane by a conversation we had in KTK, and landed sort of randomly in October, 1967. But now, I must spend my next couple of KTKs in the Top 40 at the end of high school and at the end of college, respectively.
Return with me now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, specifically, the week ending May 6, 1972. Here we go:
#1) The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face: Roberta Flack [3:16]
#3) Betcha by Golly, Wow: The Stylistics [2:51]
#5) Day Dreaming: Aretha Franklin [2:54]
#6) A Horse With No Name: America [3:57]
#7) I’ll Take You There: The Staple Singers [3:22]
#8) Doctor My Eyes: Jackson Browne (with David Lindley) [4:19]
#13) Vincent: Don McLean [3:57]
#18) Suavecito: Malo (There’s a lot of lead-in talk, but I thought it was kind of interesting. The song starts at 1:00, if you want to skip to it.) [5:23]
#19) Morning Has Broken: Cat Stevens [3:12]
#22) Heart of Gold: Neil Young [3:42]
#23) Tumbling Dice: The Rolling Stones [4:15]
#25) Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard: Paul Simon (This is the only song I couldn’t find some kind of contemporaneous performance for, but this one is pretty good. It’s from his 2007 win of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Music, and features Stevie Wonder.) [3:44]
#80) Rocket Man: Elton John (This one is not in the top 40, but charted as new that week.) [4:24]
I have a couple of present-day things to share. This woman did a lot of video “shorts” in the Yam’s previous term — she’s a kindergarten teacher known as @mrs.frazzled on YouTube, and she does pretend dialogs with administration figures that are bitterly funny in that “we wouldn’t put up with this from a kid” way. Here, she deals with the meltdown after a failed “perade”. [1:24]
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