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Episode 52: I Just Wanna Cheer (1984)

Episode 52: I Just Wanna Cheer (1984)

FromThe Best Song Podcast


Episode 52: I Just Wanna Cheer (1984)

FromThe Best Song Podcast

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Length:
112 minutes
Released:
Dec 25, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Dean Pitchford returns to The Best Song Podcast to talk about bringing the 1984 movie Footloose to the big screen, and finding the best collaborators to write the songs from the hit soundtrack. That includes working with Kenny Loggins, who wrote and recorded the title song under very interesting circumstances. Host Jeff Commings talks with Pitchford about that Oscar-nominated song as well as "Let's Hear It for the Boy" and working with Deniece Williams. The lives of many of the nominated songs after the Academy Awards were tainted by lawsuits, but others were boosted by new lives on the Broadway stage.
Released:
Dec 25, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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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!