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746: This Is Just Some Songs

Prologue

Sean Cole guest hosts.

Track One: Just Be Good to Me

As a kid, Nichole Perkins always liked a very specific type of song.

Track Three: The End of the Road

Producer Chana Joffe-Walt really loves the slideshows that schools display at end-of-the-year parent assemblies. A lot.

Track Four: What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?

A lot of music discovery happens when we are kids.

Track Five: I Talk in Tunes

We had a song made just for you.

741: The Weight of Words

Act Two: Daddy Lessons

Parents try to shape who we are in their own image. Producer Neil Drumming spoke to Adam Mansbach, who tried to make his daughter fall in love with hip-hop.

Act One: How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall?

Producer Ben Calhoun investigates a daily mystery—a daily musical mystery. (15 minutes)

Act Three: It Had to Be YouTube

For the last five years or so, Johnny Dark has kept up a very specific, unusual, and labor intensive daily practice.