118: Meet Melody: No Ordinary Sound

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we dive into Melody Ellison’s world. While growing up in a busy home in 1960s Detroit, Melody is getting singing lessons and an education in civil rights activism. In her first Beforever book, Melody must gather up the courage to sing a solo in the wake of a national tragedy. Meet this aptly named American Girl and learn about the side characters whose voices sing in concert to make “no ordinary sound.”

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, this is Mary and before we get into the show
0:02.9	I just wanted to pop in and remind everyone that you can now pre-order our book
0:07.1	Dolls of our lives while we can't quit American girl
0:11.0	It's gonna be published on November 7th
0:13.2	But if you go to our website dolls of our lives pod.com
0:16.7	You'll see a tab for our book and that will bring you to a link where you can order our book
0:21.4	You can pre-order our book from any bookseller of your choice including local independent booksellers
0:26.6	Which we highly encourage. We'll also be recording an audiobook version of our book
0:31.2	And we're really excited to talk more about that as we work on it this summer
0:34.8	We're so so excited that this book will finally be available to all of you and that we can talk about it with you
0:40.7	And we really do appreciate all of your support in the show those of you who support our patreon and all the various ways that people show up for us
0:48.4	We're just so so grateful for it and we can't wait to share this with you. Thanks and now on to the show
0:56.6	Every once and see
1:09.1	Till earth
1:26.6	Okay, everyone while we are opening this episode with you know, just a randomly chosen clip of a person
1:37.9	We imagine was inspired by Melody singing lift every voice and sing at Bejella
1:44.6	Allison, how are you? How are you feeling about this moment in music?
1:49.0	I'm great. I'm very excited to talk about Melody
1:51.6	Allison and kind of the direct line from her to Beyonce to this day to the summer of 2023 when we get to talk about all this
2:00.2	We made it. Yes, I'm so excited and welcome everyone to all of our lives
2:04.6	This is the show where we live in the American girl series book by book. I'm Mary. I'm Allison and this is I'm so pumped to get into this new character
2:14.2	You know the last character we did was Mary Ellen and I'll just be candid like just speaking for me
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