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Songs that make you feel good

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4.33.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this encore episode from 2011, Bob Boilen, Robin Hilton, and All Songs Considered listeners share the songs that lift them up, inspire them to whistle, dance in public and move on from hardship.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You know this song? Oh, I absolutely know this song. I don't know the

0:09.1

the Groucho Marx version. This is it.

0:38.0

I'm not going to play comedic songs necessarily though. It's one of the ideas of the show.

0:46.0

There's also the line about when her muscle starts relaxing down the hill comes

1:00.0

Andrew Jackson. Well, yeah, we were going to do funny songs than there are plenty of them.

1:07.5

Yeah, this is a reaction to a show we did which we got 8,000 responses for literally

1:12.4

which was songs to make you cry. And it turns out people cry more often with songs I think just

1:18.8

based on the response. It took a while to get as many stories about songs that make you feel good

1:23.8

but we've got some good ones. Let's kick off with the song that kicks off. There was a great

1:27.3

story from one of our listeners, right? Yeah, I'm just going to let him tell it but what I love about

1:31.9

his pick is that he's clearly telling it to us over the telephone while walking down a busy city

1:38.0

street as though he was so excited and couldn't wait to tell he couldn't wait to get home to tell

1:42.8

us right? He had to tell us while he's walking down the street. Nothing makes me as happy

1:47.9

consistently and makes me want to dance more than the Rolling Stones rocks off. As soon as that comes on

2:03.8

I hear you talking when I'm on the street. As soon as that comes on it immediately makes me want to

2:11.5

jump up and down wherever I am, even especially if I'm by myself. Makes me want to jump on the bed. Do

2:18.2

things that I'm way too old to do but never ceases to bring the immense joy. I don't know it's

2:26.7

the essence of bliss. I mean that song is bliss, pure bliss.

2:57.6

Sweet.

3:01.6

Where's the light where it's all?

3:05.0

Can you come around more?

3:08.4

Isn't it checking out for sure?

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