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Planet Money Records Vol. 2: The Negotiation

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4.33.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Our friends at Planet Money are trying something we thought All Songs listeners might find as fascinating as we do: They're trying to start their own record label to release a single song. It's a song about inflation, recorded in 1975... and never released until now.

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Bob Boyland from All Songs Considered.

0:02.0

We're prepping our year-end lists and podcasts.

0:04.7

Keep an eye on the NPR site for our listener poll,

0:07.8

so you can chime in about your favorite songs

0:10.3

and your favorite albums.

0:12.0

Last week, I shared something with you

0:14.4

from NPR's Planet Money, and I thought it was really cool.

0:17.5

It's about a cassette they received

0:19.3

that sparked them to start a record label.

0:22.2

Last week we played part one.

0:23.7

Here's the Planet Money team with part two.

0:26.6

This is Planet Money from NPR.

0:30.4

We got our hands on this old song a few months ago called

0:36.1

Inflation by this band in Baton Rouge called

0:39.4

Sugar Daddy and the Gumbo Roo.

0:41.6

They recorded it in 1975, but it was never released.

0:45.8

And we liked it. So we decided to resurrect it.

0:49.2

Inflation is in the nation and it's about to put us all away.

0:56.9

This is part two of a series.

0:58.8

If you haven't listened to part one, here's what you need to know.

1:01.6

Everyone from the old band went on to have good careers

1:03.6

in the music industry.

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