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The Best Song Podcast

By: Jeff Commings
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  • Summary

  • 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!
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Episodes
  • Episode 73: I’m Just a Weary Pilgrim (2005)

    Episode 73: I’m Just a Weary Pilgrim (2005)
    May 20 2024

    Only three songs were nominated by the Academy's music branch from 2005, perhaps signaling that the quality of songs was going downward sharply. But, maybe this marked just a blip in the movie music industry. Take a listen to the nominated songs and why the Academy only picked three in 2005.
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    44 mins
  • Episode 72: Laugh In Your Loneliness (2004)

    Episode 72: Laugh In Your Loneliness (2004)
    May 13 2024

    Andrew Lloyd Webber finally got the movie version of The Phantom of the Opera into movie theaters, and got an Oscar nomination for putting an original song into the film. The other nominees for the 2004 Original Song Oscar included two songs not performed in English, the first time that had happened. But, more memorable about the year was who performed the majority of the songs at the Oscar ceremony. Learn all about it on this episode!
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    56 mins
  • Episode 71: I Want to Be Wrinkly (2003)

    Episode 71: I Want to Be Wrinkly (2003)
    May 6 2024

    The Oscar nominees for 2003 featured a toe-tapping song from a groundbreaking animated movie, a sincere love song from a very funny mockumentary, and a song that closed out one of the most popular trilogies of all time. Two songs from the Civil War drama Cold Mountain were also in the mix, written by Sting and Elvis Costello. A year removed from the Oscar-winning "Lose Yourself," none of these songs were commercial hits, but they still made a big impact for their movies.
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    53 mins
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