Happy Anniversary

I don’t normally do personal posts, but… today is my 50th anniversary. Yep, I’ve been married to the same guy for fifty years. That’s a half a century. And yes, I am *that* old. LOL. So just for the fun of it, I’m going to spotlight some books and things that were around fifty years ago.

First, “The Reader’s Digest Condensed Books” was quite popular back then.

Revolution In the Air: Songs of Bob Dylan

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin

Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

The Odessa File by Frederick Forsythe

Once is Not Enough by Jacqueline Susanne

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart

The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene

Burr by Gore Vidal

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke

A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’Engle

I’m OK, You’re OK by Thomas Harris

Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution by Robert Atkins

The Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort

Top 100 songs of 1973:

“Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree”Tony Orlando and Dawn

“Bad, Bad Leroy Brown”Jim Croce

“Killing Me Softly with His Song”Roberta Flack

“Let’s Get It On”Marvin Gaye

“My Love”Paul McCartney & Wings

“Why Me”Kris Kristofferson

“Crocodile Rock”Elton John

“Will It Go Round in Circles”Billy Preston

“You’re So Vain”Carly Simon

“Touch Me in the Morning”Diana Ross

“The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia”Vicki Lawrence

“Playground in My Mind”Clint Holmes

“Brother Louie”Stories

“Delta Dawn”Helen Reddy

“Me and Mrs. Jones”Billy Paul

“Frankenstein”The Edgar Winter Group

“Drift Away”Dobie Gray

“Little Willy”Sweet

“You Are the Sunshine of My Life”Stevie Wonder

“Half-Breed”Cher

“That Lady”The Isley Brothers

“Pillow Talk”Sylvia Robinson

“We’re an American Band”Grand Funk Railroad

“Right Place Wrong Time”Dr. John

“Wildflower”Skylark

“Superstition”Stevie Wonder

“Loves Me Like a Rock”Paul Simon

“The Morning After”Maureen McGovern

“Rocky Mountain High”John Denver

“Stuck in the Middle with You”Stealers Wheel

“Shambala”Three Dog Night

“Love Train”The O’Jays

“I’m Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby”Barry White

“Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose”Tony Orlando and Dawn

“Keep on Truckin'”Eddie Kendricks

“Danny’s Song”Anne Murray

“Dancing in the Moonlight”King Harvest

“Monster Mash”Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett

“Natural High”Bloodstone

“Diamond Girl”Seals and Crofts

“Long Train Runnin'”The Doobie Brothers

“Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)”George Harrison

“If You Want Me to Stay”Sly & the Family Stone

“Daddy’s Home”Jermaine Jackson

“Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)”Gladys Knight & the Pips

“I’m Doin’ Fine Now”New York City

“Could It Be I’m Falling in Love”The Spinners

“Daniel”Elton John

“Midnight Train to Georgia”Gladys Knight & the Pips

“Smoke on the Water”Deep Purple

“The Cover of the Rolling Stone”Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show

“Behind Closed Doors”Charlie Rich

“Your Mama Don’t Dance”Loggins and Messina

“Feelin’ Stronger Every Day”Chicago

“The Cisco Kid”War

“Live and Let Die”Paul McCartney & Wings

“Oh, Babe, What Would You Say?”Hurricane Smith

“I Believe in You (You Believe in Me)”Johnnie Taylor

“Sing”The Carpenters

“Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I’ve Got)”The Four Tops

“Dueling Banjos”Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell

“Higher Ground”Stevie Wonder

“Here I Am (Come and Take Me)”Al Green

“My Maria”B.W. Stevenson

“Superfly”Curtis Mayfield

“Last Song”Edward Bear

“Get Down”Gilbert O’Sullivan

“Reelin’ in the Years”Steely Dan

“Hocus Pocus”Focus

“Yesterday Once More”The Carpenters

“Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”Bette Midler

“Clair”Gilbert O’Sullivan

“Do It Again”Steely Dan

“Kodachrome”Paul Simon

“Why Can’t We Live Together”Timmy Thomas

“Do You Wanna Dance?”Bette Midler

“So Very Hard to Go”Tower of Power

“Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu”Johnny Rivers

“Ramblin’ Man”The Allman Brothers Band

“Masterpiece”The Temptations

“Peaceful”Helen Reddy

“One of a Kind (Love Affair)”The Spinners

“Funny Face”Donna Fargo

“Funky Worm”Ohio Players

“Angie”The Rolling Stones

“Jambalaya (On the Bayou)”Blue Ridge Rangers

“Don’t Expect Me to Be Your Friend”Lobo

“Break Up to Make Up”The Stylistics

“Daisy a Day”Jud Strunk

“Also Sprach Zarathustra ()”Deodato

“Stir It Up”Johnny Nash

“Money”Pink Floyd

“Gypsy Man”War

“The World Is a Ghetto”

“Yes We Can Can”The Pointer Sisters

“Free Ride”The Edgar Winter Group

“Space Oddity”David Bowie

“It Never Rains in Southern California”Albert Hammond

“The Twelfth of Never”Donny Osmond

“Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone”The Temptations

Other things from 1973:

Average Income: $10580.80

Cost of gas: $0.36 per gallon

Movie Ticket: $1.77

Loaf of Bread: $0.27

Stamps: $0.08