Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - Music Trivia: Welcome to Hit Parade—The Bridge
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2018
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Think you know music? Hit Parade, the pop-chart history podcast from Slate, is rolling out a new feature. Every month, the show will test a listener contestant in a special mini episode called The Bridge. Host Chris Molanphy will invite one person onto the show to play some music trivia, and contestants have the opportunity to turn the tables on him: They’ll get a chance to try to stump Molanphy, a music journalist for the last 25 years, with their own trivia question. If you want to play along at home and quiz yourself, listen to the first episode of The Bridge here. If you’d like to be a contestant on an upcoming show, sign up for a Slate Plus membership, and then enter as a contestant here. You can also enter if you’re already a Slate Plus member. Email: hitparade@slate.com Podcast production by T. J. Raphael
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening AdFree on Amazon Music. |
| 0:06.7 | Hello, and thanks for joining us. |
| 0:09.4 | I'm Chris Malanfi, host of Hit Parade, a monthly podcast of Pop Chart History from Slate magazine |
| 0:15.6 | about the hits from coast to coast. |
| 0:18.4 | So, what are we doing here? |
| 0:20.5 | I am not here today with a new full episode. That |
| 0:24.6 | will come in a few weeks. But starting today, we're going to be checking in with you a bit more |
| 0:30.1 | in the Hip Raid feed. Welcome to our new mini episode, The Bridge. In this short mid-month episode, I'll reflect on our previous show. |
| 0:40.2 | I'll be joined by a contestant to answer some music trivia, and you'll get some clues about |
| 0:46.3 | what's to come in our next full episode. |
| 0:49.4 | So, in our last full episode of Hit Parade, we focused on Madonna. |
| 1:04.0 | Our feedback was generally positive, which I think reflects how affectionate many of us are toward Madonna, all these decades later. |
| 1:12.7 | In fact, if I got any pushback, it's from listeners who wanted to hear more Madonna. |
| 1:18.0 | Where were more of her 80s hits? |
| 1:20.2 | Where was her remake of American Pie? |
| 1:22.7 | Or her James Bond theme to die another day? |
| 1:26.1 | First off, I do not regret leaving off that misbegotten |
| 1:29.5 | remake of American Pie, and I suspect even Madge herself wants to forget that movie |
| 1:35.2 | the next best thing. But the challenge with an artist, frankly, a pop legend, like Madonna, |
| 1:42.3 | is knowing what to leave out. That's why I made that comparison to the |
| 1:46.7 | Beatles in that episode. Madonna is at that level, at least in terms of depth of catalog. |
| 1:53.3 | In fact, Madonna has recorded more albums than the Fab Four did, and she has lasted as a recording |
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