Hey, that's not the Brian Larrow Show theme.

It's a much older song than that.

I'll tell you why in a minute.

Let's listen to a little.

Oh I wish I had someone to love me.

Someone to call me their own.

I wish I had someone to live with.

I'm tired.

I'm tired of living.

So that was a snippet of Alice Lee's rendition

of Prisoner's song, one of the three winning submissions in last year's

Public Songs Project, a project of WNYC's, all of it.

Every year a few thousand pieces of art and music enter the U.S. public domain, and the Public

Song Project invites listeners to explore this trove of material and give an old work a new creative

life.

Alice Lee's musical adaptation of Vernon Del Hart's The Prisoner's song

is as good an example as any of how ingenious and imaginative the results can be.

We'll learn more about all of its public song project.

Now back for a second year, including how you can enter

with Simon Close, all of it producer,

who used to be a Brian Laire show producer. Now he's up to the, you know, onto better things.

Hi Simon, so glad you could join us on the air.

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