OK, so we”re not quite at the start of things as yet. If we count back a year each day from Fi’s birthday on October 25th, we’d be posting the song for the year of her birth, 1975, on September 5th.
I’m actually starting the countdown from the 4th with a song from 1974. No, I know people born in October generally aren’t conceived the year before, however the song in question was too delicious to leave out. You’ll see tomorrow.
How did I choose the songs? Some chose themselves – special songs in our lives, from our courtship when we had a shared playlist, or songs that we loved together the year they came out. That plugged in a fair number of holes in my excel spreadsheet. A large number were found by googling the songs of that year and finding ones I vibed with, and I’ll be completely honest – some years aren’t filled in yet. Mainly those ones are since we had our daughter and traded out current music for kids’ songs that were recorded in earlier years, some of which you’ll see. We’ll have to see what happens when I get to those years – probably more frantic googling.
So that’s the plan. We’ve got a partially autobiographical and partially musicological playlist to work through. Sometimes both. In the meantime, the work hasn’t quite started yet so:
Fifty for Fifi 
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