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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 7/1/2025: 1978 Top 40 [1]

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Date: 2025-07-01

Maria Oakey Dewing: Poppies and Italian Mignonette (1891)

Good evening, Kibitzers! Many, many thanks to Chrislove for covering last Tuesday at KTK.

Okay, all done with New Jersey! I had to drive back and forth twice, and it was all pretty traumatic, but it will be a good thing once the grief of giving up our family’s all-our-lives home wears off. It’s complicated, but basically it’s the people and the times together that were of that place whose loss we are grieving. The building and the stuff are just proxies. Well, you are all smart people here and you already know that.

On to this week’s excitement, then! Today I got a Covid shot, so in two weeks I can go to my retirement party and perhaps not get sick. Thursday I go to my new dentist for the first time, and Friday is the last holiday that I will care about as a reason my office is closed.

And, I promise this is the last week I plan to do a fast KTK by slapping some top 40 hits on the page and calling it done. It was necessary today, though, trust me.

Last time, we looked at 1972, the spring I graduated from high school, so this time, we’ll do late April, 1978, to represent the spring I graduated from college.

Now, I did not in fact graduate in spring 1978. I graduated the previous year, but when I looked at the list for that time, there wasn’t all that much resonating with me. Honestly, I was kind of frantic then and not hanging out listening to music. (Some day I will tell you about the three days I stayed awake finishing my senior thesis. WHY was I born too early for word processing???)

In 1978, by contrast, I was hanging around New Haven waiting for my boyfriend to graduate. So I myself was quite relaxed! The night before his graduation, I stayed up all night reading Dracula (not a great choice for reading in the dead of night all alone! I was sitting up because the only way to get the curls I wanted in my white-girl hair was to put it all, wet, in tiny pincurls, using bobby pins. There’s no sleeping on that.)

And, in the weeks before graduation, we were hanging out a lot at Naples Pizza (RIP), which had a jukebox, so I was very plugged into the most popular songs. I was, and remain, quite attached to Dust in the Wind, because I love the minor-key tune. My boyfriend could not understand this because, he said, the lyrics are so depressing. Well, they kind of are, but I was ignoring them, okay?

My selection:

#1) Night Fever: Bee Gees [3:26]

#6) Dust in the Wind: Kansas [3:56]

#7) With a Little Luck: Wings [3:18]

#12) Running on Empty: Jackson Browne (with David Lindley — I love David Lindley) [4:56]

#19) Sweet Talkin’ Woman: Electric Light Orchestra [3:50]

#31) Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song): Billy Joel [3:41]

#36) Werewolves of London: Warren Zevon [3:29]

#46) Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad: Meat Loaf [5:10]

#70) Tumbling Dice: Linda Ronstadt [3:45]

#82) Baker Street: Gerry Rafferty [5:55]

#83) Follow You, Follow Me: Genesis [4:51]

#85) This one’s for jakedog: Cheeseburger in Paradise: Jimmy Buffett [3:33]

From the following week, ending April 29, a favorite of mine:

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