Planet Money Records Vol. 1: Earnest Jackson
Planet Money
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4.6 • 30.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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This is part one of the Planet Money Records series. Here's part two and part three.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Planet Money from NPR. |
| 0:06.8 | So the other day we got this cassette tape in the mail, dusty, old, and someone had written |
| 0:14.1 | a word on this cassette that we are very interested in. |
| 0:18.5 | The word inflation. |
| 0:21.0 | So we put it in a cassette player and... |
| 0:35.2 | A cool one about inflation. |
| 0:38.8 | And it's so good, right? |
| 0:55.2 | A little giant, funky, kind of mighty. |
| 1:01.9 | Inflation is in the nation. |
| 1:02.9 | I can see a depression coming on. |
| 1:05.1 | We honestly got a little obsessed with this song we first got it. |
| 1:09.0 | And the song that we think is pretty good was never released. |
| 1:12.6 | So we had to know what the story was behind it. |
| 1:16.2 | So we started calling up everyone who was on it. |
| 1:18.8 | And the more we looked into this song, the more we got sucked in and all tangled up in |
| 1:24.8 | the music industry. |
| 1:26.4 | This song was recorded 47 years ago in 1975 when inflation was 9%. |
| 1:35.4 | About the same as now. |
| 1:36.5 | The band that recorded this song was called Sugar Daddy and the Gumbo Roo. |
| 1:41.7 | Yeah, Sugar Daddy and the Gumbo Roo. |
| 1:45.7 | This is the singer, Ernest Jackson. |
| 1:48.2 | You see, it takes a lot of ingredients to make a good gumbo. |
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