GUEST: SONDRA K. GORNEY
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2010
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Secular songwriter and secular billboards
Brother, can you spare a buck? This week we talk about secular songwriter Jay Gorney, who wrote the music to the famous and influential Depression-era song, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" (with atheist lyricist Yip Harburg). Our guest is Jay Gorney's widow, the actress Sondra K. Gorney, who wrote a biography about her nonbelieving husband. We'll also catch up with this week's exciting FFRF actions, legal challenges, and billboards in Atlanta, Oklahoma, and elsewhere around the country.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:19.0 | Imagine there's no heaven |
| 0:21.6 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us |
| 0:39.3 | Only sky |
| 0:41.3 | Imagine |
| 0:44.3 | all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today |
| 0:53.3 | Happy birthday, U.S. Constitution. |
| 0:59.6 | Yesterday, Constitution Day, September 17th, was the 223rd birth date of our entirely godless and secular constitution. |
| 1:11.4 | I'm Annie Laurie Geller, and welcome to Freethought Radio. |
| 1:14.1 | And I'm your friendly neighborhood atheist, Dan Barker. |
| 1:17.3 | This is the weekend of September 18 and 19, 2010. |
| 1:21.7 | Freethought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:27.1 | a national organization of atheists and agnostics, |
| 1:29.7 | working to keep state and church separate. |
| 1:32.3 | And we're having our convention at the end of October, |
| 1:34.9 | so sign up now at ffrf.org. |
| 1:38.2 | Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming from the progressive talk, |
| 1:41.9 | the Mike 92.1, Madison, Wisconsin, airing also in Atlanta, Anchorage, Grand Rapids, and Monterey. |
| 1:49.0 | Our guest on the second half of today's show will be Sandra K. Gorney. She's an actress. She also had a long career as a public relations executive. |
| 1:58.9 | She's the widow of Jay Gorney, the composer of songs, such |
| 2:02.4 | as Brother Can You Spare a Dime, in which he teamed up with the atheist lyricist, Yip Harburg. |
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