Let’s Hear It For The Summer Playlist

Notes from America with Kai Wright

WNYC Studios

News Commentary, Politics, History, News

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🗓️ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Host Kai Wright checks in with producer Regina de Heer about our summer playlist. Hear the contributions from listeners, and some folks on our team, about their songs of the summer and why they chose it. Stream our Summer Playlist on Spotify here. And keep the song submissions coming by sending us your own summer song recommendations. Record a voice memo with your name, location and the story or memory you associated with your song then email it as an attachment to [email protected] to have your song included in the playlist — and our next update.

Companion listening for this episode:

Let Us Take You on an Pop Escapade (7/21/2022)

Joy. Freedom. Resilience. We kick off a summer playlist project with selections from the Black women who have defined pop.

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0:00.0	I'm joined by our producer Regina Dihir, hey Regina.
0:11.0	Hi Kai.
0:12.0	Okay so a few weeks ago we started this project that you've been overseeing and we asked listeners
0:17.7	to send us the song that they're like really feeling this summer and to tell us a little
0:22.2	something about it and we're making a playlist out of the months about a five but really
0:27.2	the point is to hear everybody's story behind their summer jam and I guess we weren't
0:33.1	super clear about that fact because we got a lot of different kind of stuff right?
0:37.6	Yes, lots of different stuff.
0:39.8	We had a listener Todd who sent us a list of 11 different songs to add to the band.
0:45.6	Come on Todd, come on.
0:46.9	They're great songs likeville withers lovely day and summer time by DJ Jazzy Jeff and
0:58.7	the fresh print.
1:09.2	Great summer songs but he didn't include the story behind them and that's what we've
1:14.6	been looking for.
1:15.7	So before I next check in on the playlist, please send us your song choice but also the
1:21.4	story behind why you chose it.
1:23.6	Take us back to the memory and make sure you include your first name and location so we
1:27.6	can give you a shout out.
1:29.2	Great so remember story plus song send it to the email it's anxiety at wnyc.org and Regina
1:39.0	so what else what else have you heard?
1:41.0	Well, we've gotten a lot of different women in pop songs and a lot of really good feel
1:46.9	good songs which is great to hear from our listeners.
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