NPR Transcript - Listeners Pick Their Summer Songs
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Listeners Pick Their Summer Songs
6 August 2009
NPR: All Things Considered
(Soundbite of music)
MADELEINE BRAND, host:
This summer, we’ve been talking with musicians about their favorite songs of summer. We also asked you to send us your memories about the one tune that pops into your head when the days get hot and lazy.
We received a ton of great stories, and we’ve picked a few of them for the air. Here are two listeners with their memories about singing summer songs out long.
(Soundbite of song, “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town”)
Mr. EDDIE VEDDER (Vocalist, Pearl Jam): (Singing) I seem to recognize your face.
Mr. ERIC LOCKSTINE(ph): My name’s Eric Lockstine from Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. And my favorite pick for my summer song is “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town” by Pearl Jam.
(Soundbite of song, “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town”)
Mr. VEDDER: (Singing) Cannot find the candle of thought to light your name.
Mr. LOCKSTINE: I was listening to it while mowing the lawn at my parents’ property. I had a cassette tape when I was a kid. And we didn’t have a lot of money, so this was, like, one of the one tapes that I had was this album. So I would listen to the album in its entirety. And then right around the time that “Elderly Woman,” that song came on, I was just about getting finished with the lawn, and that’s a song that, as a young teenage boy, you could – it was fairly in my range. So I could attempt to sing it, and nobody would overhear me over the lawnmower.
If you can imagine a 13-year-old skinny little boy singing, you know, at the top of his lungs, pushing this lawnmower, but, you know, hopefully you couldn’t hear him.
(Soundbite of laughter)
(Soundbite of song, “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town”)
Mr. VEDDER: (Singing) And here I am. Hearts and thoughts, they fade away.
BRAND: What happens when you hear the song now?
Mr. LOCKSTINE: I do think of Sunday afternoons, freshly cut grass, you know? It’s usually warm, so I’m ready to get my lemonade or my drink of water after I’m finished with my weekly chore. So it’s always that summer, cut grass kind of feel.
(Soundbite of song, “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town”)
Mr. VEDDER: (Singing) Hearts and thoughts, they fade, fade away.
(Soundbite of song, “Sweet Caroline”)
Mr. NEIL DIAMOND (Singer): (Singing) Where it began…
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[Veddernarian deleted Neil Diamond section below - Non PJ]MELISSA BLOCK, host:
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6 August 2009
NPR: All Things Considered
(Soundbite of music)
MADELEINE BRAND, host:
This summer, we’ve been talking with musicians about their favorite songs of summer. We also asked you to send us your memories about the one tune that pops into your head when the days get hot and lazy.
We received a ton of great stories, and we’ve picked a few of them for the air. Here are two listeners with their memories about singing summer songs out long.
(Soundbite of song, “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town”)
Mr. EDDIE VEDDER (Vocalist, Pearl Jam): (Singing) I seem to recognize your face.
Mr. ERIC LOCKSTINE(ph): My name’s Eric Lockstine from Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. And my favorite pick for my summer song is “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town” by Pearl Jam.
(Soundbite of song, “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town”)
Mr. VEDDER: (Singing) Cannot find the candle of thought to light your name.
Mr. LOCKSTINE: I was listening to it while mowing the lawn at my parents’ property. I had a cassette tape when I was a kid. And we didn’t have a lot of money, so this was, like, one of the one tapes that I had was this album. So I would listen to the album in its entirety. And then right around the time that “Elderly Woman,” that song came on, I was just about getting finished with the lawn, and that’s a song that, as a young teenage boy, you could – it was fairly in my range. So I could attempt to sing it, and nobody would overhear me over the lawnmower.
If you can imagine a 13-year-old skinny little boy singing, you know, at the top of his lungs, pushing this lawnmower, but, you know, hopefully you couldn’t hear him.
(Soundbite of laughter)
(Soundbite of song, “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town”)
Mr. VEDDER: (Singing) And here I am. Hearts and thoughts, they fade away.
BRAND: What happens when you hear the song now?
Mr. LOCKSTINE: I do think of Sunday afternoons, freshly cut grass, you know? It’s usually warm, so I’m ready to get my lemonade or my drink of water after I’m finished with my weekly chore. So it’s always that summer, cut grass kind of feel.
(Soundbite of song, “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town”)
Mr. VEDDER: (Singing) Hearts and thoughts, they fade, fade away.
(Soundbite of song, “Sweet Caroline”)
Mr. NEIL DIAMOND (Singer): (Singing) Where it began…
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[Veddernarian deleted Neil Diamond section below - Non PJ]MELISSA BLOCK, host:
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You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News.
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