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Transcript: Siegel Airs Once-in-a-Blue-Moon View of Cultural Tides
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- June 28, 1996
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This Sunday, as happens every few years, a blue moon will arc over
the United States. Though a calendar and not celestial event, blue
moons have amassed cultural weight via the songwriting of Rodgers
and Hart.
LINDA WERTHEIMER, Host: This is All Things Considered. I'm Linda
Wertheimer.
ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: And I'm Robert Siegel.
[As `Blue Moon' instrumental plays in background] People have
been calling the moon blue for ages. And at least since heyday of
Tin Pan Alley, no rhyme has epitomized lyrical hack work more so than
a tune about a moon in June. So, it's noteworthy that the moon this
June will soon be blue in the skies over North ...