Jukebox heroes

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Our latest New York Icons segment is about Midtown Manhattan’s Brill Building era, when songwriters like Carole King, Ellie Greenwich and Cynthia Weil churned out hit after hit for artists like The Shirelles, The Crystals and Little Eva. And producer Evan Chung investigates the strange story of a song from that era about a craze that was most definitely not a craze, “Mugmates.”

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0:00.0	from PRX.
0:06.4	Today on Studio 360,
0:08.7	to me, I almost didn't think of it as a publishing company.
0:11.2	When I looked back at it now, it's like a school.
0:13.1	It was a great school for songwriters.
0:15.7	The Manhattan Songwriting Factory that produced so much 1960s pop.
0:20.6	The atmosphere was just so conducive
0:22.3	to writing songs.
0:24.2	The Brill Building, the latest in our series
0:26.6	on New York icons.
0:32.5	Plus?
0:34.6	For the newest craze in the teenage world
0:38.5	Is a mug martis and hers
0:41.5	A weird forgotten song
0:43.8	From the Brill Building era
0:45.1	And we'll do what everyone does
0:48.9	We'll both be mug mates
0:51.5	Exactly why does somebody try to start a fad of teenagers owning matching coffee mugs?
0:58.6	That's ahead on Studio 360 right after this.
1:06.1	This is Studio 360. I'm Curtis. I'm Curtis. And I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. This first level of garden. This is Studio 360. I'm Kurt Aniston, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
1:13.1	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden. I like to have the roasted chicken base. Very well done.
1:19.1	Editing is all about timing. I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
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