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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 and all the artists of music while in their prime. I still seeing The and perform in person at Skimmer Weekend. I also lucky enough to be in the audience at The Show on the night that Paul McCartney introduced “”.

Our music, like the events of our time-- truly historic in every way.

Larry Miller

Here is my playlist, it's heavily weighted to and a little weird now that I look at it.

1. Gary US bonds: Quarter to 3 2. and ; Tracks of My Tears 3. Rolling Stones: Satisfaction, Honkey-tonk Women, Play with Fire, Sympathy for the 4. Beatles: Norwegian Wood, When I'm 64(74) 5. Troggs; Wild Thing 6. Wild Cherry: Play That Funky Music 7. Elton :: Freedom, Tiny Dancer 8. BeeGees: Staying Alive, 9. Clapton and Cream: Sunshine of Your . 10. Mac:: 11. : Always Love You 12. Creedence Clearwater: Around the Bend, Senator's Son 13. Ode to Joy 14. Righteous : You've Lost That Loving Feeling 15. : in the Fast Lane, Hotel 16. Group: Gimme Some Lovin 17. Doors 18. Doobie Brothers: Listen to the Music, 19. : Let's Get tt On 20. Brown: , Get on Up 21. : People, : 22. : Delta Lady Feelin Alright 23. : Just Walk Away Renee 24. Question Mark and the Mysterians:

I'll stop here.

Mia Argentieri

Love all the oldies from the 60's. Frank and The Beatles are my favorites. Don't have a play list.

Bobbi Penneys Susselman Laufer

Mana Jethro Tull Voce Ventu Moishes Bagel Kings 825 Miso Abbu Shimsha

856- 863 871 Pop Latino 874 Trocale 875 Musica Urbana

MOISHES BAGEL performs Klezmer and , 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, 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 . 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 - Legend, of Freedom, - They Are a-Changin' Beatles -

Ron Kriss

As for music, you touched a nerve. I humming some 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 Leslie Gore Beatles (early Beatles) Four Seasons Old - Rodgers & Hammerstein, Bye Bye Birdie, , Annie Get Your Gun, etc. 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 Nahal Troupe Yehoram Gaon

I'm not into , but love Carmen. In Classical, love New World Symphony. And then there's Csardas, also love.

Julie Karet

….On our 7+ hours drive to 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 , All I Really Want To Do, Blowin’ in the Wind, and Skyline

Everything by starting with , Mercedes Benz, Piece of My Heart. and Try Just Harder

Everything by starting with Love Like A Man, Dimming of the Day, Gnaw-in’ on It, Thing Called Love, ,

Rolling Stones: I Can’t Get Know Satisfaction, Let’s Spend the Night Together

Adele:

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 "18 ‘Til I Die"

Bruce Springsteen –

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

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 Man, Meet me where the River Turns and many more - Jerry Jeff Walker, ,

Laurel Seneca

I love so many songs from our Penn years but the two which definitely make me smile and feel happy are: "Dancin' in the Street" and "."

I’ve been trying to 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! , I heard a song on an oldies station, and I suggest it for our compilation: - "Light my Fire."

Frank Boka

Here’s my play list, lots of songs; My duwop songs didn’t even make the list. Beatles- , Here comes Rolling Stones - Get off of my , 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 - , Red, Red Wine Willie Nelson - again, Blue Skies Charles - on my mind Bob Seaver and the Silver Bullet - Old time - , New York - I left my heart in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony

Carolyn Marcus Jacobs “A Case of “Arrested Development” Although I will listen to classical, soft , 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 to “Alexa, please play”, I will still go back, time and again, to music by and , both as a wildly-popular duo and long after they separated. I’ve always loved Art Garfunkel’s gorgeous, soulful voice and continued to follow his career through his solo . Even more, I remain in awe of Paul Simon’s talent and creativity, his thinking-person’s lyrics and his exploration of ethnic . 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 crowd, the mamas and the papas, beach boys, and Barbra . The unique part was that Sidney and I joined my parents at the academy of Music to hear 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

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 -- Simon and Garfunkel (1964/65)

Satisfaction -- Rolling Stones (1965)

Eve of Destruction -- Barry McGuire (1965)

I Ain't Marching Anymore -- (1965)

I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag -- (1965)

Yesterday -- The Beatles (1966)

California Dreamin' -- The Mamas & the Papas (1966)

Light My Fire -- The Doors (1967)

White Rabbit -- (1967)

Waist Deep in the Big Muddy -- (1967)

“What a difference these anthems made in the lives of so many 68ers!"

Ted Pollard • Beatles – Let it Be • Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band • – • – The • Creedence Clearwater Revival – Moon Rising • – You Make Loving Fun • – • John – Imagine • – I Love Rock N’ Roll • John Cougar Mellencamp – Rockin in the U.S.A. • – • – Stairway to Heaven • – Sweet Home • – Blitzkrieg Bop • Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar • Rolling Stones – Angie • Rolling Stones - Shattered • Spin Doctors – Jimmy Olsen’s Blues • – Who Are You

Diane McClure Holsenbeck This list is greatly abbreviated, believe it or not, and in random order, with reasons for each selection.

LARK ASCENDING by (Included by both Penn and me when a few years ago we asked one another to independently make a list of “ post mortem “music.)

SO WHAT by (Straying from Juilliard’s pre-college protocol in 2001, our daughter shocked a few when she played this Jazz piece on her french horn as part of her senior recital.)

HEBREW CHORUS from Verdi’s Nobucco (This might lure even the most opera adverse.)

Bobby McFerrin as conductor and vocalist of J.S. Bach’s First movement BMV 1041 (YES! Bobby McFerrin of “ DON’T WORRY, BE HAPPY” fame)

Air of “THE HARMONIOUS BLACKSMITH” by Handel (This appears on Penn’s list and in Charles Dicken’s “ Great Expectations “ as Pip’s nickname.)

THE SUPREMES by them playing on the jute box when I walked into Dirty Drug.

J.S. Bach’s Keyboard concerto No. 1 in D Minor BWV 1052 (This got me through 911 in NYC with its qualities of urgency and healing.)

FIGHT ON FOR PENN & THE RED and the BLUE (The Best man in our wedding, Martin Griffin, Penn C’55, who was Editor of The DP, and Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Yale told us and all Yalies that the best songs in the Ivy League all came from Penn.)

EL PRESO NUMERO NUEVE (I waited years before recorded a song in her father’s native tongue.)

MEDLEY OF CHRISTMAS are by the matchless Joseph Jennings of Chanticleer (My favorite carol of the century)

HARD HEADED by Cat Stevens on (I played this in the car driving the country route from Virginia after a visit to my mother.)

KOBYET best ever Russian Basso Profundo (First heard in in 2000 when the average life expectancy of a Russian male was only 52.)

C’EST SI BON by (*wait for the French to turn to English - fabulous! Be ready to laugh.)

HALLELUJAH BY Leonard Cohen played by Sheku, an inspiring cellist who won the BBC Young Musician (Competition in 2016 at the 17 and also was the first black winner.)

“ DOCK OF THE BAY” by (“Our song” from our first date when Penn played the LP as a way of telling me about himself, including heading to OCS at Newport where he was in the same unit as our classmate, Randy Elkins, a week after graduation from Yale.)

IN THE MOOD by (A piece I learned to love as much as my parents did.)

WACHET auf ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 played by Yo Ma, Chris Thile, and Edgar Meyer (AND at our 50th dinner at The Barnes.)

CUCURRUCUCU PALOMA by Veloso Caetano (I listened to this on a Get Well Mix after a complicated fracture put me in the hospital for 10 days in Lausanne.)

NOCTURNE NO.1 in B Flat Minor, opus 9 no.1 played by Maria Joao Pires (A selection often played as an encore at ’s Virtuosos series as a Bonne Nuit. I played this several times a week in 2020.)

ROLL ME UP AND SMOKE ME WHEN I’M GONE “Willie Nelson and (It’s on my “post-mortem list…maybe with a followup of Bobby McGee sung by Janis Joplin)

Michael Crow: In terms of musical interests…

When I was a kid, I wanted to learn some method of musical enjoyment. I only got as far as using my stereo and records - the was beyond my ability. More recently I have graduated to CDs and online music.

Listening was as far as I got. When a kid and into high school, I recall listening to the rock and roll of the day, but was particularly attracted to such as Kingston Trio, Chad Mitchell Trio (which I didn’t know until – included for a time), Peter, Paul &Mary – and others.

Though I grew up in Texas, I never became as enthralled with Country & Western music as many Texans do. Though I have always liked Willie Nelson.

At Penn, I became more interested in a variety of the of the time: Beatles, Rolling Stones, Simon & Garfunkel, , Ike & , , , Nancy Wilson, Frank Sinatra and of course Doug Clark & the Hot Nuts, and others. I often listened to music from the Don Shirley Trio “Water Boy”, etc. – and still do from time to time.

Then in the seventies – I developed an appreciation of classical music (especially Vivaldi, Bach, Beethoven among others). One of my favorite pieces of music is Grieg’s Piano Concerto.

But I still enjoy some of the music from the sixties – and seventies. I still like listening to the Beatles & Rolling Stones. And I managed to see in a couple of times (once with the help of Joe Rascoff). And from the seventies – Carole King; ; ; Crosby, Still, Nash & Young – individually and together.

In other words, my musical tastes are all part of a .

And apparently, I got left behind by the music of the and later.

Karen Whitestone Carr - This is the 50th reunion Playlist PENN ’68 REUNION SONGS

• Celebration: Kool and the Gang • We are Family: • Shout: Isley Bros • : Beatles • Respect: • How Sweet it is: Marvin Gaye • I heard it through the Grapevine: and the Pips • My Girl: Temptations • Tracks of my Tears: Smokey Robinson • Natural Woman: Aretha Franklin • : Smokey Robinson • When a Man loves a Woman: • In the Midnight Hour: • Wouldn’t it be Nice: Beach Boys • : • You can’t always get what you want: Rolling Stones • Satisfaction: Rolling Stones • All Night Long: Lionel Ritchie • : Martha and the Vandellas • Ain’t Nothing like the Real Thing: Marvin Gaye and • You don’t Own Me: • Monday, Monday: Mamas and Papas • California Dreaming: Mamas and Papas • Gloria: Laura • Nights in : Moody Blues • Total Eclipse of the Sun: • : Simon and Garfunkel • Hungry Eyes: • : Drifters • : Pointer Sisters • What’s love got to do it: Tina Turner • Simply the Best: Tina Turner • Will you love me tomorrow: Shirelles • Can’t Help Falling in Love (When fools in): Elvis • In the Still of the Night: The Satins • The Time of my Life: Joe Cotton and • The Letter: • : • : • The Dock of the Bay: Otis Redding • I got you, Babe: Sonny and • You Keep me Hangin’ On: Supremes • Ninety Six Tears: The Mysterians • Sugar Shack: • Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch: Four Tops • of Mine: Isley Brothers • : Beach Boys • Second that Emotion: Smokey Robinson • House of the Rising Sun : Animals • You really got a hold on me: Smokey Robinson and the Miracles • Reach Out: 4 Tops • Learning to Fly: • I’m on Fire: Springsteen: • : Creedence Clearwater • How Deep is your Love: BeeGees • Light my Fire: The Doors • When a Man loves a Woman: Percy Sledge • Maggie May: • Girls just want to have fun: • Dancin’ in the Dark: Springsteen • Then I kissed her: Beach Boys • Return to Sender: Elvis • Cracklin’ Rose: Neil Diamond • We’ve got : • Old Time Rock and Roll: Bob Seger • Forever Young: Rod Stewart • My Girl: Temptations • : Beatles • I want to know what love is: Foreigner • : Jackson • Nothings gonna Stop us now: Starship • : • : Elvis • Stand By Me: • : Ronettes • It’s the Same Old Song: Four Tops • : Supremes • of the : Cascades • : Supremes • : Supremes • Born to be Wild: Steppenwolf • Fortunate Son: Creedence Clearwater • Against the Wind: Bob Seger • Night Moves: Bob Seger • Baby I need your lovin’: Four Tops * • Locomotion: • Don’t Worry Baby: Beach Boys • Sitting on the Dock of the Bay: • Crying: • Soul and Inspiration: Righteous Bros • Mrs. Robinson: Simon and Garfunkle • Sweet Caroline: Neil Diamond • Do you love me: Contours • Dreams: Fleetwood Mac • Mamma Mia: Abba • : Abba • : Police • What becomes of the Broken Heart: • Margaritaville: Jimmy Buffett • Saturday night: • Sundown: • Slow Dancing: • Heat Wave: Martha and the Vandellas • Rhythm of the Rain: Cascades • Billie Jean: Michael Jackson • What a Feeling: • Funkytown: Lipps Inc. • I’m Telling you now: and the Dreamers • : • Louie, Louie: • Love Train: O’Jays • : Sam and the Pharaohs • Crazy: • Can’t Fight this Feeling: Reo Speedwagon • The Power of Love: Hughie Lewis • Flame: Bangles • Heaven is a place on earth: • Dedicated to I Love: Shirelles • Down Under: • Sailing: • Coming Around Again: Carly Simon • I’ll Make Love to you: Boyz II Men • Do Wah Diddy: Mann • Green Onions: Booker T and the MGs • Cathy’s Clown: Everly Bros • Under the Boardwalk: Drifters • : • Last Dance: Donna Summer • : • Walk on By: Dianne • Eyes: • Steve Wynwood: • Dreams: Fleetwood Mac • Inferno: