Sharing the Playlists of our lives… Barry Guryan My favorite music has not changed since my years at Penn. We all had the unique treat of experiencing the sounds and cultural impact of both the Beatles and all the artists of Soul music while in their prime. I still remember seeing The Four Tops and The Temptations perform in person at Skimmer Weekend. I was also lucky enough to be in the audience at The Ed Sullivan Show on the night that Paul McCartney introduced “Yesterday”. Our music, like the events of our time-- truly historic in every way. Larry Miller Here is my playlist, it's heavily weighted to oldies and a little weird now that I look at it. 1. Gary US bonds: Quarter to 3 2. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles; Tracks of My Tears 3. Rolling Stones: Satisfaction, Honkey-tonk Women, Play with Fire, Sympathy for the Devil 4. Beatles: Norwegian Wood, When I'm 64(74) 5. Troggs; Wild Thing 6. Wild Cherry: Play That Funky Music 7. Elton John:: Philadelphia Freedom, Tiny Dancer 8. BeeGees: Staying Alive, Night Fever 9. Eric Clapton and Cream: Sunshine of Your Love. Layla 10. Fleetwood Mac::Go your own way 11. Donna Summer: I Will Always Love You 12. Creedence Clearwater: Up Around the Bend, Senator's Son 13. Ode to Joy 14. Righteous Brothers: You've Lost That Loving Feeling 15. Eagles: Life in the Fast Lane, Hotel California 16. Spencer Davis Group: Gimme Some Lovin 17. Doors Light My Fire 18. Doobie Brothers: Listen to the Music, What a Fool Believes 19. Marvin Gaye: Let's Get tt On 20. James Brown: I Got You, Get on Up 21. Sly and the Family Stone: Everyday People, Everybody is a Star: 22. Joe Cocker: Delta Lady Feelin Alright 23. The Left Banke: Just Walk Away Renee 24. Question Mark and the Mysterians: 96 Tears I'll stop here. Mia Argentieri Love all the oldies from the 60's. Frank Sinatra and The Beatles are my favorites. Don't have a play list. Bobbi Penneys Susselman Laufer Mana Jethro Tull Voce Ventu Moishes Bagel Gypsy Kings 825 Miso Abbu Shimsha 856- New Age 863 Reggae 871 Pop Latino 874 Trocale 875 Musica Urbana MOISHES BAGEL performs Klezmer and Celtic music, both extraordinarily well. I actually cannot write my story about them, as it must be in verbal form. I can only say they are amazing. Only 1-2 of the 5 are Jewish, including a classically-trained pianist. We had thought they were a bagel shop when we heard them perform on the Isle of Mann. Ditto for Voce Ventu, a harmonically-trained fantastic group, singing in Corsican (a mixture of French and Italian) and based in Corsica, where we were part of a crowd trying, unsuccessfully, to gain entrance to one of their sold-out concerts. Their music sounds very much influenced by Gregorian chants. We are very fortunate to have YouTube, in addition to CDs, so we may continue to enjoy their very unique music. Connie Bille Music - Bob Marley - Legend, Songs of Freedom, Bob Dylan - The Times They Are a-Changin' Beatles - Abbey Road Ron Kriss As for music, you touched a nerve. I am humming some song most of my waking hours. I have a very varied taste. Some of it is very conventional, but aside from that, I have over 400 CDs of modern Hebrew music. Some of it, like Shlomo Carlebach, is liturgical (modern liturgical -- I have no taste for the old, conventional cantorial music), but most is just modern Hebrew music that I've been collecting all my life, going back to cassettes and vinyl. So, Here's a playlist: Supremes Shirelles Neil Diamond Linda Ronstadt Leslie Gore Sarah Brightman Beatles (early Beatles) Johnny Mathis Four Seasons Old Broadway - Rodgers & Hammerstein, Bye Bye Birdie, Do Re Mi, Annie Get Your Gun, etc. Andrea Bocelli Carole King Jim Croce Harry Chapin (I could go on...) And for the Hebrew stuff: Arik Einstein Chava Alberstein Dudu Fisher Tzvika Pik Shlomo Carlebach Neshama Carlebach (his daughter) Rivka Zohar Parvarim Sarit Hadad Ofra Haza Nahal Troupe Yehoram Gaon I'm not into opera, but love Carmen. In Classical, love New World Symphony. And then there's Csardas, also love. Julie Karet ….On our 7+ hours drive to Lake Tahoe I wished I could be playing “my” music at that moment-- When my iphone died in the fall, my music wasn’t restored so no tunes on the trip up. The good news is that our son in Tahoe figured it all out and even synced our phones with the car’s audio system for the trip back. I played a lot of my old music all the way home! Talk about feeling nostalgic! Here are some of my playlist favorites: Everything by Bob Dylan, starting with Lay Lady Lay, All I Really Want To Do, Blowin’ in the Wind, and Nashville Skyline Everything by Janis Joplin starting with Piece of My Heart, Mercedes Benz, Piece of My Heart. and Try Just a Little Bit Harder Everything by Bonnie Raitt starting with Love Me Like A Man, Dimming of the Day, Gnaw-in’ on It, Thing Called Love, Longing in their Hearts, Rolling Stones: I Can’t Get Know Satisfaction, Let’s Spend the Night Together Adele: Rolling in the Deep John Prine – Illegal Smile Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Right in Time Aretha Franklin – Respect Bryan Adams – I Wanna Be Your Underwear and You’re Still Beautiful to Me on album "18 ‘Til I Die" Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run Rusted Root – Drum Trip JJ Cale - Brown Dirt Melissa Etheridge: Come to My Window Susan Tedeshi: Ain’t Nobody’s Business, It Hurts Me Too Ruthie Foster: Walk On Johnny Cash: The Long Black Veil Slaid Cleaves: Broke Down Richard Thompson: 1952 Black Vincent Lightning, I Feel So Good The Waterboys: When Will We Be Married Guy Davis: Ain’t No Blues Man, Meet me where the River Turns and many more - Jerry Jeff Walker, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings Laurel Seneca I love so many songs from our Penn years but the two which definitely make me smile and feel happy are: Martha and the Vandellas "Dancin' in the Street" and the Drifters "Under the Boardwalk." I’ve been trying to think of a song that captures the essence of the parties we attended as undergraduates when the music was loud, the beer covered the floor, and there was an awful lot going on in the upper reaches of the fraternity houses - not that we were ever there! At last, I heard a song on an oldies station, and I suggest it for our compilation: The Doors - "Light my Fire." Frank Boka Here’s my play list, lots of songs; My duwop songs didn’t even make the list. Beatles- Let it be, Here comes the Sun Rolling Stones - Get off of my Cloud, Let’s spend the night together Beach Boys - Surfin USA, Wouldn’t it be nice Simon and Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson, Bridge over Troubled Waters Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline, Red, Red Wine Willie Nelson - On the Road again, Blue Skies Ray Charles - Georgia on my mind Bob Seaver and the Silver Bullet Band - Old time Rock and Roll Frank Sinatra - New York, New York Tony Bennett - I left my heart in San Francisco Beethoven’s 9th Symphony Carolyn Marcus Jacobs “A Case of “Arrested Development” Although I will listen to classical, soft jazz, soft rock and Broadway show tunes, I very often go right back to what was on vinyl on the turntable in my dorm room in Hill Hall or Spruce Hall. To this day, this music very often forms the background as I'm reading or going about household chores. Over the years, although I’ve progressed from that over-used vinyl to cassette to CD to Spotify to “Alexa, please play”, I will still go back, time and again, to music by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, both as a wildly-popular duo and long after they separated. I’ve always loved Art Garfunkel’s gorgeous, soulful tenor voice and continued to follow his career through his solo albums. Even more, I remain in awe of Paul Simon’s talent and creativity, his thinking-person’s lyrics and his exploration of ethnic rhythms. Over the years, I’ve bought (I think) every one of his albums as well. So, the technology has progressed since the mid-sixties, but the love for this music has not! Phyllis Ettinger Rodbell My taste was not out of the ordinary. My albums were the usual: the Beatles, the Motown crowd, the mamas and the papas, beach boys, and Barbra Streisand. The unique part was that Sidney and I joined my parents at the academy of Music to hear classical music before we went to the fraternity party. What a contrast. And we both still love classical to this day. Janet Oberlander Simon -- I love to listen to: 60's music Broadway Music of Leonard Cohen Beatles Classical Beach boys Folk When I cook I listen to Broadway, Beatles or Beach Boys. My husband and I love the music of the 60's. In fact we had a 50th anniversary party in 2019 and we requested the DJ to play largely 60's music. It was such a fun night of dancing! Lee Gordon "The '68er Doth Protest Too Much -- The Meaningful Sounds of the 60's" "Just to make sure that all 60's cultural and political bases are covered, these ten songs with their poignant and relevant lyrics reflect what many of us '68ers were feeling as we rolled from our innocence in our freshman and sophomore years into our junior and senior years, where we steadfastly questioned unreasonable authority.” The Sound of Silence -- Simon and Garfunkel (1964/65) Satisfaction -- Rolling Stones (1965) Eve of Destruction -- Barry McGuire (1965) I Ain't Marching Anymore -- Phil Ochs (1965) I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag -- Country Joe and the Fish (1965) Yesterday -- The Beatles (1966) California Dreamin' -- The Mamas & the Papas (1966) Light My Fire -- The Doors (1967) White Rabbit -- Jefferson Airplane (1967) Waist Deep in the Big Muddy -- Pete Seeger (1967) “What a difference these anthems made in the lives of so many 68ers!" Ted Pollard • Beatles – Let it Be • Beatles – Sgt.