July 31, 2023 (Song #2039): T-3*:  Speaking of the Carpenters… “For All We Know”* sung by the Carpenters and written in 1970 by Fred Karlin, Robb Wilson (Robb Royer) and Arthur James (Jimmy Griffin). 

T-3 makes me realize how nuts it was to think that I could pick only 60 songs to celebrate my 60th birthday and that, of course, there are an infinite number of songs in the universe that can give me goosebumps (many of which I forget until I hear them again).  I am a little bit horrified to realize that I would have left the Carpenters out of my T-60 countdown altogether if their license plate at the Oakdale Theater hadn’t popped up in my memory while writing yesterday’s post.  Their records were on constant rotation in the Sherman living room at 10 Lone Pine Lane and I could’ve picked any one of their songs to highlight, but I chose this one because I love the instrumentation and the choral “la”s (and I haven’t featured it as a Sing Daily “Song of the Day” yet*).

In addition to all the songs and musicians I know I’ve left out, I am aware that there are also unborn and hidden songs that will give me brain joy once they enter my consciousness, which is why I love turning on the radio when I get in the car (I listen to WFUV 90.7 when I want something with lyrics and WSHU 90.1 when I’m in the mood for classical music).  I get a little thrill out of sensing my mood change as the first notes make their way out of the car stereo and into my brain.

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*Thanks to my Staples friend and fellow-Orphenian Robin Perry Rothman for requesting this song a few years ago; I was so happy to find it in my spreadsheet of 2500+ songs among the group of  650 songs that I haven’t posted yet. Thanks, Robin! Xo

P.S. Happy Belated Birthday to Alison Fisher and Amy Kateri Laurino who celebrated on Saturday. Xoxo