Calendar Girl

Hello. from the frozen east coast.  It's pretty cold and in fact the bay here is frozen over.  It happens just not too often.

Saturday 9: Calendar Girl (1960)

    You might be interested to know that the surname Sedaka is from the Hebrew Tzedakah which is charity.

Unfamiliar with this week's tune?  Hear it here.

1) How will you keep track of your days/weeks in 2025? Do you have a desk planner? A wall calendar? A pocket planner? Do you use the app on your phone?

I use none of those and never have.   My life doesn't have much going on at all and so I don't need a planner really.

2) Consider your typical week. Which day tends to be your busiest?

 Friday morning and afternoon.

3) This week's artist, Neil Sedaka, is one of pop music's most prolific singer-songwriters, but his first love was classical music. He was so good that he trained at Julliard and won the accolade, "Best New York High School Pianist." Recall one of your passions from your high school years.

  I was passionate about almost everything at that age!

4) Elton John has always enjoyed Sedaka's music and in the 1970s, when Elton was one of the world's top stars, he requested a meeting. If you had the power to contact and then meet anyone in the world, who would you choose?    

There are so many people... none of them famous, most of them bloggers.     

 

5) Sedaka appeared as the musical guest during the second season of Saturday Night Live. What's the most recent show you watched on TV? Was it live, from your dvr, or did you stream it?

I streamed a movie 

6) His daughter Dara sings on TV and radio commercials. What advertising jingle sticks in your head?

 Oscar Mayer.  Mayer is my mother's maiden name.. Meyer, Mayer and Moyer are all the same name usually changed at Ellis Island.   

7) In 1960, when "Calendar Girl" was popular, To Kill a Mockingbird was first published. Have you read it?   No, it didn't interest me.  

8) Also in 1960, John F. Kennedy, Jr. was baptized in the Georgetown University Chapel. His godparents were Charles and Martha Bartlett, the couple who introduced his famous parents. Do you have any godchildren?

No .

9) Random question -- Which did you enjoy more: the last week of 2024 or the first week of 2025?

Both were just dandy.