Songs Of The Summer With 'Morning Becomes Eclectic'

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🗓️ 3 September 2021

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Sam talks to Novena Carmél and Anthony Valadez, hosts of KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic, about their end of summer song picks and the best albums of the year so far. They talk about how listening to music changed during the pandemic and why any floor can be a dance floor. Want to hear more of this year's best music? Check out all the songs from the episode in this playlist.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, this is Sansa Daddy. This week on the show, our favorite end of summer songs
0:06.6	with our friends at Member Station KCRW. All right, let's start the show.
0:13.5	Hey y'all, you're listening to It's Been A Minute from NPR. So I haven't been inside of an NPR
0:18.8	office since mid-March 2020. It has been work from home only for me, which means I have my radio
0:27.4	on in the house all day, every day. And a show I listen to almost every morning when I'm working
0:34.5	is Morning Becomes Aclectic. Good morning to you, Anthony Valadez.
0:39.2	Novina Carmel, how are you feeling? I'm feeling like butterflies in the sky. I can go twice as high.
0:46.2	KCRW describes Morning Becomes Aclectic as their signature music program featuring new releases,
0:52.5	live performances and artist interviews. But for me, MBE above everything else is just a really good
0:58.8	music show that plays a little bit of everything and is always surprising you. In the best ways,
1:04.8	I will never forget, one morning, Novina and Anthony, they played this really obscure song
1:10.9	from this legendary gospel group called The Clark Sisters. I forget which song of theirs y'all
1:17.1	played. I thought I'd heard every song I've ever made and y'all played some song where they're
1:22.0	just singing y'all for a few minutes. Y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all.
1:38.9	Once I realized how good it was and what I was getting, I helped with joy so loudly that my
1:43.9	dog jumped. If the two of you had to describe the vibe of the music on MBE in like just three words,
1:52.4	what were those words to be? No man, you put us on a spot. I would say community,
1:59.2	positive and soulful. I like that. Novina. Magic of the moment. Oh okay, I support it, I'll take it.
2:06.6	Oh, those little, what are they called particles don't count? Oh yes, yeah okay. Today, Novina and Anthony
2:14.4	are going to talk about some musical magic of the moment. They share their picks for song of the
2:19.0	summer, any summer, and they tell me their favorite albums of the year so far. We'll also talk
2:25.4	about how the pandemic has changed music a lot. It is an all music episode for this holiday weekend.
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