Guest: Susan Loesser

Freethought Radio

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Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2012

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

We devote this entire show to the life and work of the freethinking songwriter Frank Loesser, who wrote Guys and Dolls, "Heart and Soul," How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, "Baby, It's Cold Outside," "What Are You Doing New Years," and many other songs. We talk with his daughter Susan Loesser, who wrote a memoir about her father called A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls In His Life.

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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.
0:27.6	No hell below us Above us
0:39.3	Above us only sky
0:41.3	Imagine
0:45.3	all the people
0:47.3	living for today
0:53.3	Yeah Living for today
0:58.3	Heart and soul I've been in love with you
1:01.9	Heart and soul
1:04.6	The way you're going to do
1:08.1	Manally
1:10.4	Because you held me tight.
1:14.6	Help me tight.
1:16.6	I'm Dan Barker.
1:18.6	I'm Annie Larry Galler.
1:20.6	I'm Annie Larry Galler.
1:22.6	And whether you believe in a soul or not, you have to love that song, heart and soul.
1:28.9	Today on our interview, we're going to be talking with Susan Lesser, who is the daughter of the composer of that song, Frank Lesser.
1:37.9	And Free Thought Radio, as you know, if you listen regularly, is the production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:46.0	This show is being broadcast on April the 14th, 2012, and is produced from the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin.
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