Planet Money Records Vol. 1: Earnest Jackson

Planet Money

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🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

We try to start a real record label. Just to put one song out there. It's a song about inflation, recorded in 1975... and never released. Until now.

(This episode is part one of a series)

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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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