Call your mom
5/5/202636 min
With Mother’s Day nearing, listeners share the songs that remind them of their moms and the deeply moving stories behind them.
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Note: A version of this episode originally ran in 2024
Featured artists and songs:
(00:00) Intro / “Stardust Memories” by Hoagey Carmichael
(01:52) Christina Aguilera: “Beautiful”
(06:06) Jeannie C. Riley: “Harper Valley P.T.A.”
(10:09) Kermit the Frog: “Rainbow Connection”
(13:50) Phyllis Hyman: “You Know How To Love Me”
(17:16) MILCK: “Oh, Mother”
(21:58) Christina Perri: “You Are My Sunshine”
(25:33) The Tokens: “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”
(29:16) Four Tops: “Reach Out I’ll Be There”
(33:43) Sweet Honey In The Rock: “Wanting Memories”
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Robin Hilton· Host0:23
This episode of All Songs Considered comes to you from the NPR Music podcast, your home for the best new songs of the week, interviews, whatever else we've got rolling around in our music brains, uh, including Alt Latino every Wednesday, and then of course, we have New Music Friday to close out every week. We've got Mother's Day coming up. It is May 10th this year, uh, so that got us just thinking about our moms and all the things that we got and learned from them, including music. So we asked listeners to tell us all about a song that reminds them of their mom, maybe one that their mom played for them or sang all the time. It's a question we've asked a, a handful of times over the years, and we always love hearing what our listeners have to share. We were absolutely inundated with song picks and stories this time. The, in fact, the song that we're listening to right now playing in the background, this is Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust. It was just one of the tracks that people mentioned, uh, and it's a beautiful song, so I wanted to play it. Uh, I am here with NPR Music's Mitra Arthur.