Something Very Alluring About Bobby At Jack & Jackie’s Wedding. Idk If It Was The Summer Tan Or The

Ya know what….what songs would you want on a Kennedy series? 👀👀

i’m gonna cry this is one of the best asks i’ve ever received. thankyouthankyouthankyou for giving me the chance to do this 😭 here we go!

well we gotta start with the golden one here! and that’s lost at sea by lana del rey.

i imagine this song in the opening intro for some reason — either this song specifically or a grander, more orchestral version of lost at sea. and have it be a recurring sort of background theme (like a subdued, instrumental score, a variation of lost at sea) that plays during significant scenes of the family. i also imagine it playing during an emotional young jack scene. either during the war or shortly after. the song has such a haunting, nostalgic tone to it. lana’s voice carries a simple yet emotive touch to it while the melody has so much going on underneath. it’s like a forgotten song, a whole history, shimmering deep beneath the ocean.

two. in the aeroplane over the sea by neutral milk hotel.

this song would be playing in the beginning of an episode during the late 60s. we see a little boy with a beatles-inspired hair cut running around, either in a park, or a garden, or in jackie’s new york apartment. we see the back of his frame first but then we slowly realize who it is as the camera pans over to his face. he’s causing an absolute delightful chaos. it’s a happy scene, sweet and idyllic and hopeful. looking at the world through a child’s eyes. young john’s eyes, specifically. but there’s almost a sad tinge to it, for what the lyrics foreshadow and for what we the audience know of his future.

three. the end by the doors.

i found this song watching a murder at the end of the world and it makes me emotional every time i listen to it. it was released in 1967 and so i imagine it playing in bobby’s last episode. right when he’s walking down to give his speech and he’s talking to his aides and friends for the last time, shaking hands, asking about the food, giving his last smiles. or in the final scene as we go on to the end credits after it happens :/

four. rocket man by elton john

definitely like a…. s5 teddy kennedy song.

five. my reverie by larry clinton & his orchestra

i remember reading somewhere that this was one of jfk’s favorite songs. so definitely have this playing during the war years. maybe while jack is writing to joe or maybe while joe is living real life masters of the air and dancing with english women. or better yet, this song beneath a subtle, sweet scene of inga arvad and jack!

six. video killed the radio star by the buggles.

i can very vividly imagine this playing during a segment of teddy’s struggles during his failing presidential campaign 😭😭 he was going THROUGH it. him and everyone else around him. then the music would die down in the middle of the episode and it would get very serious and then the final scene of that episode would him be bombing that one question in a video interview (wink wink):”why do you wanna be president?”

seven. out of time by the rolling stones .

jackie choosing to have FUN herself while onassis is out being his miserable, cheating self.

eight. a sunday kind of love by etta james .

okay this one is sweet but kind of angsty at the same time. i imagine it playing during a montage of jack and jackie returning from their honeymoon, settling into their georgetown home. they’re truly acting like the brand new married couple that they are. we see jackie writing thank you notes for the wedding gifts. they both have opinions about the furniture and they’re wondering if the living room color is the right shade. jackie wants to bring in dining chairs specifically brought in from france. they’re both going out on late-afternoon strolls whilst gossiping about the neighbors and the congressmen. we see them running and going, in and out the house, a unit. one night, they go to a restaurant with bobby and ethel. we see bobby give jack an appraising look that jack dutifully ignores. jack is obviously indulging this honeymoon ‘act’ for a little while longer and we can see him enjoying it and believing it and almost, almost trusting it. letting himself go. but we see him start to get inexplicably frustrated. he snipes suddenly at jackie when she tries to help him out of bed. he starts to leave breakfast earlier than usual. he begins reading the newspaper instead of listening to what jackie has to say. he only hums along and sighs whenever jackie won’t let him focus on whatever he’s reading. we see jackie ask him if he wants to go take a walk with her. he says he’s too busy while rummaging between documents, doesn’t even look at her. the distancing starts with these little things, little details, that jackie ever the observer immediately catches onto but tries to ignore. until one night, after having set the table, jack doesn’t come in on time. minutes, hours pass. jackie goes to bed, concern and suspicion etched all over her face. we know what’s running through her mind. she turns off the light. the other side of the bed remains empty. and yes, this song is playing the entire time throughout the entire montage until it fades. the sunday kind of love jackie had hoped for fading as well. her reality sets in heavily.

nine. the diplomat’s son by vampire weekend.

IDGAF. idgaf if this was released ten years too late. this is a john f kennedy junior song through and through and i would want it played on #my kennedy series!

ten. hallelujah (i love her so) by stevie wonder.

an ethelbobby song 😭❤️ during their very first years of marriage. hell, maybe even during their courting days + them going out to dances my shaylas

eleven. soar (main title theme) from masters of the air

okay this doesn’t count really but i just wanted to say that something like this during joe jr’s last flight :( and we get flashes of scenes of him throughout the show. until it all ends in one big white flash or seeing his face, knowing something’s wrong before it all goes black.

twelve. september song by ella fitzgerald.

this one is a cover of an older song that jack used to sing before dinner accompanied by the piano playing of his mother :( i imagine this one playing during jack’s last summer with his family in hyannis. also am i the only who finds the fact that jack sang these lyrics as a young man a little haunting though? (oh the days dwindle down to a precious few / september, november / and these few precious days, i’d spend with you)

thirteen. someone to watch over me by ella fitzgerald, london symphony orchestra.

a period-accurate bobbyjackie anthem! the lyrics are so scrumptious guys. need this playing after they both attend the theater and it’s like. drizzling or something idk. sue me! it’s late and the streets are nearly empty. bobby accompanies jackie back to her apartment bc it’s late and they both chatter ab the play and etc etc over a warm cup of tea in quiet, hushed voices. quiet, hushed laughter. or it could also be playing after a late-night soirée during the white house years when bobby walks her back to her room or in an episode of their winter ski trip :((

call me monica lewinsky cause oh. oh jack. jack you beautiful specimen.

James Dean, February 8, 1931 - September 30, 1955.

During the making of George Stevens’s Giant (1956).

Rose Quartz redraw

idc what anyone says he was just as hot as any of the beatles. arguably hotter depend on the year

Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy on their wedding day, June 17, 1950.

(colorized by me!)

Her gaiety and enthusiasm picked him up whenever he was down, and her ease with the social amenities filled the gaps that his own reticence occasioned. Above all, she showered him with affection and support, and he needed that. As the seventh child and the third son, following in the wake of two acknowledged “golden boys” like Joe and John, he had never felt for very long that he belonged anywhere. That was what all his striving for personal excellence was about. But now Ethel was there, always there, telling him that he had nothing to prove to her.

When I Think of Bobby by Warren Rogers

Photo by Jacques Lowe

The thing about it ─ and this was told to me by a member of the family, and I think it was important ─ is that Bobby always had a terrible inferiority complex. He just couldn’t live up to his brothers. And he was caught in the middle there, I don’t think he got as much attention as the other kids. Therefore, he was always shy and always unsure of himself. Ethel was the one that changed him and gave him complete loyalty and ego building and whatever. She devoted her whole life to him. Whatever she did was always for Bobby. So, of all the wives I know, she was the least competitive when it came to her husband. She was 110 percent. She would be the one who would get mad… She read everything, and she used to get mad at people that Bobby wouldn’t even have time to get mad at. And, Bobby, naturally, being in politics, was more sophisticated than Ethel about his enemies. But boy, Ethel never forgot and she was tough… I just felt that she ─ and someone said this, and I think it was a very lovely thing ─ they said that she never could get over the fact that she was married to him. It was the greatest thing that ever happened to her. He was very devoted to her. I remember a couple of times he would whisper to me, “Go over and talk to Ethel; make her happy, cheer her up, or something.” He was always conscious of her. And it was a very, very interesting ─ I would call it a beautiful relationship.

─ Art Buchwald

RFK Oral History Interview