This Wednesday on On Second Listen, we’re following familiar songs into some unfamiliar territory.
We’ll hear what happens when musicians borrow—not just a melody or a lyric, but sometimes a tiny piece of another recording that becomes the foundation for something entirely new. Along the way, we’ll encounter connections involving Steely Dan, Lou Reed, and others we’re going to leave undisclosed for now.
We’ll also do some traveling. A familiar song crosses from English into French; another takes us to Germany by a rather unexpected route; and a French classic makes the journey to America and comes back sounding remarkably different.
And we’ve been doing a little virtual traveling in the production lounge. (On Second Listen staff prefer the term “lounge” to “studio.”) This week includes an exclusive OSL edit of a song that has been multilingual before—but never, as far as we know, quite this multilingual. We’ll leave it at that.
In the second hour, we’ll give one legendary musician three very different pieces of familiar material and hear what he finds in each of them. Then we’ll finish with transformations: songs that end up a very long way from where they started.
That’s enough advance information. The fun is in hearing the connections emerge.
On Second Listen
Wednesdays, 10 a.m.–noon
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