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🗓️ 6 September 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the most notorious podcast |
0:04.5 | I'm Eric Rivenes of all the questions that I get asked the most frequently |
0:10.6 | asked has to do with the theme music. What is it called? Who wrote it and where |
0:17.2 | can I listen to the song in its entirety? I know I've answered this question once or |
0:24.2 | twice before the podcast but it's been a while I know too. So here goes again. |
0:29.5 | The most notorious theme song is called the executioner's rag and it was |
0:36.0 | written by a really great guy named Todd Purley who lives in New Orleans and |
0:41.7 | when I was starting this podcast back at the end of 2015 my gosh it's already |
0:48.4 | been almost four years huh. And looking for a theme song I knew I wanted |
0:54.3 | something that sounded dark and I wanted something ragtime. So I remember |
1:01.0 | searching on YouTube for a ragtime piece and a minor key and this came up. The |
1:09.6 | executioner's rag I watched Todd perform it and you can as well just type in |
1:16.3 | executioner's rag on YouTube Todd Purley P-E-R-L-E-Y and you can see him his |
1:25.0 | nimble fingers performing the song on the piano and I was just blown away by the |
1:32.2 | atmosphere that this song created and I thought gosh that's it that's why I |
1:38.6 | want to start every episode with a bit of this and I contacted Todd who was a |
1:45.9 | very very generous guy. He said you can use the beginning of the song to start |
1:51.8 | your show and I've been eternally grateful ever since and I'm always very |
1:57.8 | happy to point people to to his performance on YouTube. Now, however he has not |
2:03.3 | ever released his professional recording to the world. I have suggested to him |
2:13.3 | that he released it on iTunes, Spotify, but he is a person who freely admits |
2:19.8 | that he is not a friend of technology. Let's just put it that way. So listen to |
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