Guests: Broadway composer Charles Strouse Pat Cleveland, director, Alabama Freethought Association

Freethought Radio

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Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2009

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Pat Cleveland will talk about freethought activism in the Deep South, and the hosts will interview Emmy-, Grammy- and Tony-award winning composer Charles Strouse, now 80, and author of the memoir, Put on a Happy Face, about his unbelief, his civil rights experiences and his music. Strouse wrote the music for such Broadway musicals as "Annie," "Applause" and "Bye, Bye, Birdie."

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:19.5	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:26.1	It's easy if you try.
0:32.6	No hell below us.
0:39.3	Above us only sky
0:42.3	Imagine all the people
0:48.3	living for today.
0:59.0	Gray skies are gonna clear up, put on a happy face.
1:08.0	Brush off the clouds and cheer up, put on a happy face. Take off the clouds and cheer up.
1:13.0	Put on a happy face.
1:16.2	Take off the gloomy mascot tragedy.
1:18.2	It's not your style.
1:23.2	You look so good that you'll be glad you decided to smile.
1:25.2	Hello, all you happy heathens.
1:26.2	I'm Annie Laurie Galar.
1:29.9	And I'm Dan Barker., your happy, friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:34.8	And if you're wondering why you're listening to Dick Van Dyke sing Put on a Happy Face on Free Thought Radio,
1:38.8	we're happy to tell you and happy to announce that one of our two guests today will be the Broadway musical composer of that song and of many other classic Broadway hits.
1:44.6	That's from Bye Bye Birdie.
1:46.1	Charles Strauss, and he happens also to be a non-believer.
1:49.5	I just finished reading Charles Strauss's memoir.
1:52.0	It's called Put on a Happy Face, a Broadway memoir.
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