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Rumble Strip

That Song

Rumble Strip

Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip

Places & Travel, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2013

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

A show about songs and stories about songs. Shame, heartbreak, love, summer camp.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Rumbel Strip, Vermont. I'm Erica Heilman. This show is called That Song. This is what played in my in high school.

0:15.0

This is what played in my head when I walked in the halls at school.

0:20.0

This is what played in my head when I walked in the halls at school, thinking about a skinny boy called Mike.

0:27.0

Mike was the only boy I knew who carried a cloth, handkerchief to blow his nose with.

0:32.0

Mike was also a madrigal singer and he had that

0:36.5

charisma that madrigal singers have. I never told anyone I listened to this song but total eclipse of the heart

0:46.0

captured how I felt about Mike Mike didn't like me and the song which is a

0:52.1

sad song when I heard it in my head at school it made me feel

0:56.3

even sadder which I guess is what I wanted.

0:59.4

I need you more than ever and if you only hold me time.

1:07.0

This is an hour of songs and stories about songs.

1:11.0

You'll hear about. This is an hour of songs and stories about songs.

1:14.0

You'll hear about sack races, summer camp, love, lost and found.

1:18.0

There's some meatloaf in this hour.

1:21.0

There's brave singing and humming. There's blood, there are guitar solos. It's an hour of

1:26.8

music you're sure to love and hate, and I encourage you to dance. Welcome.

1:33.0

I really need it tonight.

1:35.0

Forever's gonna start tonight.

1:37.0

Forever's gonna start to know.

1:42.0

I went to a camp called Singing Eagle Lodge so obviously we did a lot of

1:47.2

singing we sang after every lunch and every dinner and we made up a lot of songs every time we went on a trip, a canoe trip or a mountain trip, we made up a song to depict the trip.

2:02.0

And everybody in the camp learned those songs and sang them after meals.

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