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Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia

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Music, Music History, Music Commentary

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Barbra Streisand: star of stage and screen. Oscar-winner, film director and TV producer. Culture warrior and meme generator. Yes, all that—but don’t get it twisted: Barbra’s legend rests in her catalog of hit songs—and that voice. Even as culture vultures consume her recent doorstop of a memoir My Name Is Barbra, what’s getting overlooked are Streisand’s awesome musical benchmarks, especially on the Billboard charts. All of those records Taylor Swift has been setting on the album chart, and Billie Eilish on the Grammys? Babs got there first. At a time when rock was ascendant and showtunes were on the wane, Streisand set her own pop agenda, scoring brassy hits that weren’t trendy but topped the charts anyway. She became a pop star, Broadway legend and box-office commander practically simultaneously. Join Chris Molanphy as he tells the story of the original Queen of All Media and explains how she racked up all those hits your mom loved (be honest, you know them too) and made “memories, like the corners of [your] mind.” Trust us: It’ll be like buttah. Podcast production by Kevin Bendis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.0	Hey there, Hit Parade listeners, what you're about to hear is part one of this episode.
0:47.0	Part two will arrive in your podcast feed at the end of the month.
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1:12.0	Plus, Hit Parade, the bridge,
1:14.4	our bonus episodes, with guest interviews,
1:17.4	deeper dives on our episode topics,
1:19.9	and pop chart trivia.
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1:49.4	Hight. Welcome to Hip Parade, a podcast of Pop Chart History from Slate magazine about the hits from
1:55.8	Coast to Coast. I'm Chris Malanfi, Chart Analysts, pop critic, and writer of Slate's Why
2:01.5	is the Song Number One series on today's show.
2:05.0	Back in 2010, this disco house single by a Canadian American duo who called themselves duck sauce, reached the top of
2:16.7	Billboard's Club Songs chart. The song's title was taken from its only
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