Hit Parade: Killing Me Softly Edition Part 2

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🗓️ 1 April 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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The early ’70s was a great time for R&B queens on the charts: Roberta Flack. Dionne Warwick. Patti LaBelle. Chaka Khan. They had come through the ’60s—Dionne as a smooth pop-and-B star, Patti as a girl-group frontwoman, Roberta as a cabaret pianist—and found themselves in a new decade with limitless possibilities. Flack turned folk songs into chart-topping, Grammy-winning R&B. Warwick shifted from Brill Building pop to Philly soul. LaBelle threw her insane voice at rock, funk and glam. And a relative newcomer, Rufus frontwoman Chaka Khan, followed in their footsteps, commanding the band and converting to disco, then electro. By the ’80s, all four women were ready for a major chart victory lap. Join host Chris Molanphy as he traces four parallel careers that expanded the definition of soul from the ’60s through the ’80s and beyond. These soul sisters, flow sisters, bold sisters…killed us softly, walked on by and were, finally, every woman. Podcast production by Kevin Bendis. Host Chris Molanphy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A brand new movie from the Paw Patrol is ready to launch.
0:03.8	Did he say launch?
0:04.8	No, I said launch.
0:07.8	This October, we got superpowers.
0:10.0	Awesome.
0:11.0	Prepare for a movie event so enormous.
0:13.0	Go right in with the big does now.
0:15.0	You'll need to see it on the biggest screen possible.
0:19.0	We're going to need a new name for ourselves.
0:20.5	How about the Paw Patrol?
0:22.0	Paw Patrol.
0:23.0	We're just a little bit extra.
0:24.5	Paw Patrol, the Mighty Movie, it's the first this weekend.
0:27.5	Only in cinema, September 13, book tickets now.
0:30.0	It's happening.
0:31.0	They've all overheard.
0:32.0	All I wanted was a little low-key mook delivery.
0:34.5	Me and my brother.
0:35.5	But Mum's piped in with her.
0:36.5	Oh, I'm in.
0:37.5	Failure fish in a Diet Coke, no ice.
0:39.5	And Dad's muscled in with his.
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