The Journey Begins

Billboard Top 100: 1965-1975

1965

1. "Wooly Bully" Sam the Sham and The Pharaohs



2. "I Can't Help Myself" The Four Tops
3. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" The Rolling Stones



4. "You Were On My Mind" The We Five



5. "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" The Righteous Brothers

1966

1 "Ballad of the Green Berets" SSgt. Barry Sadler
2 "Cherish" The Association



3 "(You're My) Soul and Inspiration" The Righteous Brothers
4 "Reach Out I'll Be There" The Four Tops
5 "96 Tears" ? & the Mysterians

1967

1 "To Sir, with Love" Lulu



2 "The Letter" The Box Tops
3 "Ode to Billie Joe" Bobbie Gentry
4 "Windy" The Association



5 "I'm a Believer" The Monkees

1968

1 "Hey Jude" The Beatles
2 "Love is Blue" Paul Mauriat



3 "Honey" Bobby Goldsboro
4 "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" Otis Redding
5 "People Got to Be Free" The Rascals

1969

1 "Sugar, Sugar" The Archies
2 "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" The 5th Dimension



3 "I Can't Get Next to You" The Temptations
4 "Honky Tonk Women" The Rolling Stones
5 "Everyday People" Sly & the Family Stone

1970

1 "Bridge over Troubled Water" Simon & Garfunkel
2 "(They Long to Be) Close to You" The Carpenters
3 "American Woman" The Guess Who
4 "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" B.J. Thomas
5 "War" Edwin Starr

1971

1 "Joy to the World" Three Dog Night
2 "Maggie May" Rod Stewart
3 "It's Too Late" Carole King



4 "One Bad Apple" The Osmonds
5 "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" Bee Gees

1972

1 "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" Roberta Flack
2 "Alone Again (Naturally)" Gilbert O'Sullivan



3 "American Pie" Don McLean
4 "Without You" Harry Nilsson
5 "The Candy Man" Sammy Davis, Jr.

1973

1 "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" Tony Orlando and Dawn
2 "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" Jim Croce


3 "Killing Me Softly with His Song" Roberta Flack
4 "Let's Get It On" Marvin Gaye
5 "My Love" Paul McCartney & Wings

1974

1 "The Way We Were" Barbra Streisand
2 "Seasons in the Sun" Terry Jacks
3 "Love's Theme" Love Unlimited Orchestra



4 "Come and Get Your Love" Redbone
5 "Dancing Machine" The Jackson 5

1975

1 "Love Will Keep Us Together" Captain & Tennille
2 "Rhinestone Cowboy" Glen Campbell
3 "Philadelphia Freedom" Elton John
4 "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" Freddy Fender
5 "My Eyes Adored You" Frankie Valli

Square by Square

D2

Alice goes through her mirror into D2. Alice leaves the house and talks to the flowers in the garden. She meets the Red Queen and learns about looking-glass world as the red Queen describes each square she will have to pass through in order to become a Queen.

Characters: Alice, Flowers, Red Queen

Locations: Looking-glass house, Path, Garden, Hill

D3

Alice jumps over BROOK1 and finds herself on a train with a number of creatures.

" ...by railway..."

- The Red Queen

Characters: Alice, Guard, Paperman, Goat, Beetle, Horse, Gnat

Location: Train

D4

The train jumps over BROOK2 and Alice finds herself under a tree with the Gnat. After he disappears, she moves on through the Wood Where Things Have No Names, where she meets the fawn. After the fawn leaves her alone in a field, she continues on through the Wood until she runs into Tweedledum and Tweedledee. After they are attacked by the monstrous crow, Alice runs away through the wood until she runs into the White Queen. 

" ...belongs to Tweedledum and Tweedledee."

- The Red Queen

Characters: Alice, Gnat, Fawn, Tweedledum, Tweedledee, Red King, Crow, White Queen

Locations: Under a tree, Field, W.W.T.H.N.N., Sunny field, Tweedlewood

D5

Alice jumps over BROOK3 with the White Queen and finds herself in a small dark shop with a Sheep. After the Sheep hands her a pair of knitting needles, she begins rowing the two down a river. After they find themselves back at the shop, Alice buys and egg, and in the process of fetching it finds herself in a wood.

" ...mostly water."

- The Red Queen

Characters: Alice, White Queen, Sheep

Locations: River bank, Shop, River, Shop

D6

While making her way though the dark shop/wood, Alice steps over BROOK4. The egg she is seeking grows larger and larger until it becomes Humpty Dumpty. When he dismisses her, Alice moves on and witnesses a number of soldiers running through the wood before she runs into the White King in an open place by a road. Haigha runs to tell them the Lion and the Unicorn are fighting again. The White King, Alice, and Haigha run to town to see the fight.

" ...belongs to Humpty Dumpty."

- The Red Queen

Characters: Alice, Humpty Dumpty, White King, Haigha, Hatta, Unicorn, Lion

Locations: Humpty's wood, Open place, Road, Town

D7

When the Lion and the Unicorn are drummed out of town, Alice leaps over BROOK5 in fright. She is then checked by the Red Knight, and the White Knight shortly after. After the White Knight wins the duel, he leads her through the wood to D8. 

" ...mostly forest."

- The Red Queen

Characters: Alice, Red Knight, White Knight

Locations: Forrest's forest

D8

After waving good-bye to the White Knight, Alice runs down the hill and leaps over BROOK6. She finds herself on a soft lawn with a crown on her head, and finds the Red and White Queens to either side of her. After the Queens fall asleep, she finds herself before an arched doorway labeled, "Queen Alice." When she finally gets through the door, she finds herself in a hall full of all manner of creatures. She sits with the Red and White Queens, who force her to make a speech. After her speech,  something happens, and in the chaos she shakes the Red Queen, who turns into a kitten. 

Characters: Alice, Red Queen, White Queen, Creature, Frog, Pudding, et al.

Locations: Lawn, Queen Alice door, Hall

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Long-beaked Creatures

Frog

Frog has a great deal of dignity, this comes off as a good deal of attitude in a few lines such as, "I speaks english don't I?", yet he is also quite melancholy feeling limited and held back by his old body. Frog fixates on smaller details such as chipping paint that other characters may not even notice, perhaps due to size or being lost in his past . Frog may be observing that not only his body is aging and falling apart but other things around him are. He would rather wallow in self-pity and focus on things falling apart than pay close enough attention to hold a conversation with Alice since her vibrancy, youth and curiosity provide an interruption from Frog's melancholy fixations. The voice and physicality may be linked to Eeyore from winnie the pooh.....and instead of long sighs they become a low croak or ribbit.

The White King

A chess piece King can only move one square at a time. In beginning of the book the White King speaks to never being able to keep up with the queen (This can be looked at as his physical clumsiness and weakness as well as his not speaking up for himself or asserting power in the marriage, with the children, or in the kingdom). The king in chess usually stays in the back to be protected by others since he cannot really attack or defend himself. Thus the character too is quite helpless. The White King is a very nervous sort. He has a poor constitution, and is easily overwhelmed. He may become faint and pale when he is faced with situations that call on him to take any kind of small action (which is really quite rare). In fact the king really has no duties so he comes up with sort of lists for himself to feign responsibility. He writes frequently of things going on around him --when alice first encounters the White King he mentions all his horses and men, but two messengers (Haar and Hatta) have been sent (presumably to aid Humptey Dumptey but we know according to the nursery rhyme that these attempt were to no avail). The statistics he comes up with are most likely made to sound like he knows what is going on. Meanwhile he pays little attention to the more immediate conversations or dangers in his path. Instead he constantly calls out orders (whether anyone there is in any position to follow them or not).

                            

He is clumsy, soft-spoken, pretends to be of importance, and never manages to quite take action or get things done. He often gets himself into precarious situations where his meager attempts to get away from conflict do little--when the lion and the unicorn are fighting he seems pleased with his role as spectator and ruler, distanced from the conflict. But when things begin to get more violent he rapidly becomes quite nervous and worried.  Overwhelmed by the escalation of violence and tension he ends up sitting between the massive creates and utters shakily perhaps quietly about town. In attempts to find purpose for himself the White King comes up with silly, ridiculous lists. He is a push-over (the queen literally pushes him over to get to their children in the book) who fits quite well into the Looking-glass world.