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    The Best Song Podcast

    The Best Song Podcast

    The Best Song Podcast

    ratings:
    Length:
    71 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    Learn more about the 470-plus songs nominated in the first 90 years of the Academy Award for Best Original Song, as well as the songwriters and singers who made them popular ... or not so popular. New episodes every Monday!
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 71 episodes

    Title

    Episode 71: I Want to Be Wrinkly (2003)

    The Oscar nominees for 2003 featured a toe-tapping song from a groundbreaking animated ...

    53 minutes
    		May 06, 2024

    Episode 70: We’re Not the Dying Swan (2002)

    Eminem made history with his hit song "Lose Yourself," writing the first rap song to be...

    67 minutes
    		Apr 29, 2024

    Episode 69: You and Me Together (2001)

    Randy Newman was still winless in the Original Song Oscar category after seven losses, ...

    63 minutes
    		Apr 22, 2024

    Episode 68: The World Is Not My Playground (2000)

    Randy Newman was looking for his first Oscar win with his seventh songwriting nominatio...

    75 minutes
    		Apr 15, 2024

    Episode 67: They Just Want to Fart and Curse (1999)

    The five Oscar-nominated songs from 1999 were all worthy of winning the big award, incl...

    63 minutes
    		Apr 08, 2024

    Episode 66: A Kind and Steady Heart (1998)

    The year after the juggernaut Oscar-winning song "My Heart Will Go On," songwriters had...

    78 minutes
    		Apr 01, 2024

    Episode 65: Two Tickets Torn In Half (1997)

    The juggernaut song "My Heart Will Go On" was crowned an Oscar winner the second that T...

    66 minutes
    		Mar 25, 2024

    Episode 64: We Had It All (1996)

    Host Jeff Commings talks with songwriters Jud Friedman and Allan Rich about almost not ...

    102 minutes
    		Mar 18, 2024

    Episode 63: Sighs and Whispers (1995)

    The members of the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences spli...

    72 minutes
    		Mar 11, 2024

    Episode 62: Kings and Vagabonds (1994)

    Tim Rice returns to the show to offer a masterclass in songwriting as he talks about wr...

    84 minutes
    		Mar 04, 2024