Celine Dion—“My Heart Will Go On”

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4.7 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Rob explores legendary Canadian vocalist Celine Dion’s blockbuster hit “My Heart Will Go On” by discussing her illustrious career, the sheer force she brings to every song, and the unapologetic attitude with which she approaches her music. This episode was originally produced as a Music and Talk show available exclusively on Spotify. Find the full song on Spotify or wherever you get your music. Host: Rob Harvilla Guest: Leslie Gray Streeter Producers: Isaac Lee and Justin Sayles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Rob. Very quick note that we will not have an episode next week, Wednesday, November 10th, 2021, but we will return on the 17th and rumble on from there. Just one week off. We'll see you in a couple weeks. Okay, thanks.
0:20.8	Quick show of hands.
0:21.9	How many of you lovely people out there basically learned about sex and love
0:26.3	and the eternal gender divide betwixt sex and love from this woman?
0:36.1	It is the late 70s, early 80s, and you're stuffed into the back seat. I've got a loan right now.
0:42.8	It is the late 70s, early 80s, and you're stuffed into the back seat, possibly the infant car seat of your father's Camero or your father's Thunderbird or your father's wood-paneled station
0:49.2	wagon.
0:49.7	Let's make it the station wagon.
0:50.9	Your father is compensating for the embarrassment of driving a wood-paneled
0:55.9	station wagon by blasting meatloafs Paradise by the dashboard light at incredible volume.
1:02.1	Do you love me? Will you love me forever? Do you need me? Will you never leave me? Will
1:09.3	you make me so happy for the rest of my life? Will you take me
1:12.8	away? Will you make me away? Do you let me? Meet Space Loaf, two words. Born Marvin Leidae and Dallas in
1:20.7	1947, Reborn as an operatic rock and roll superstar with the release of his 1977 breakthrough album,
1:29.1	Bad Out of Hell.
1:30.8	Heard of it.
1:36.6	Before we go any further, do you love me?
1:38.8	Will you love me forever?
1:41.3	43 million copies of Bad Out of Hell sold worldwide. That's a low estimate, not a recent estimate.
1:49.6	That is one copy of Bad Out of Hell for every man, woman, and child living in Algeria.
1:57.2	You got to work up to blasting this album in your Camaro or Thunderbird or station wagon.
2:02.5	Maybe you start with Steely Dan, my old school.
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