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Music's Lost History Song Edition The Taylor Swift Style Breakup Song From 1968 · Arroe Collins Music's Lost History

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  Speaker 1: Collins!
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  Speaker 2: Music's lost history. The stories that made you move.
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  Speaker 1: Your soundtrack on fire.
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  Speaker 2: Music's lost history. Name the song before Every song has
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  Speaker 2: a story. Every story links the generations. ChatGPT, Alexa, and Siri,
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  Speaker 2: they're just AI. We lived it. Do you know the name?
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  Speaker 2: What songs do you sing?
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  Speaker 1: Music's lost history. Name the song before we do.
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  Speaker 2: Aerocar Hey, welcome back to Music's Lost History, the song edition. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this is one of those songs that's kind of rare
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  Speaker 2: in the way of sharing a story that was actually
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  Speaker 2: created not only in the studio, but outside. The year
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  Speaker 2: was 1968. The song was penned out by a man
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  Speaker 2: who still admits that he had a passionate but complicated
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  Speaker 2: relationship with one of the most successful singer-songwriters of the
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  Speaker 2: folk rock movement. And we're not talking Bob Dylan or
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  Speaker 2: John Denver. As the relationship was falling apart, Stephen pretty
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  Speaker 2: much pulled off what is looked upon as being a
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  Speaker 2: modern-day Taylor Swift. He wrote about the relationship and its breakup.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about 1968 here. In fact, he told those
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  Speaker 2: closest to his heart that he was going to write
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  Speaker 2: a seven-minute song about the entire ordeal. It was anything
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  Speaker 2: but an instant hit. Stephen says its creation came from
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  Speaker 2: multiple journals and ultimately it was up to him to
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  Speaker 2: figure out a way to glue this monkey together. How
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  Speaker 2: cold was this? Really not that much, because the girl
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  Speaker 2: it was written about actually told Stephen to stay in
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  Speaker 2: the studio until you're done.
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  Speaker 1: Back, back, we're coming back. Music's lost history. Name the
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  Speaker 1: song before we do. Arrow Collins is coming back.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, coming up next, why did this classic rocker put
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  Speaker 2: focus on one woman's blue eyes? Welcome back. Why did
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  Speaker 2: this classic rocker put focus on a woman's blue eyes?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it wasn't a California surfer tune. What was
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  Speaker 2: up with this? Well, it was a breakup tune about
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  Speaker 2: an authentic blue-eyed girl. Stephen didn't want a breakup. He
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  Speaker 2: assumed this song would keep them together. Oh, that's such
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  Speaker 2: a guy thing. Oh, my God. The girl looked him
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  Speaker 2: right into the eyes and said, Stephen, Stephen, it's a
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  Speaker 2: nice song, but this is not going to bring me back.
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  Speaker 2: The album version runs at about seven minutes, 30 seconds,
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  Speaker 2: while radio listeners only got four and a half minutes
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  Speaker 2: of love falling apart. And then it happened. Woodstock. The
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  Speaker 2: band opened up their set with Sweet Judy Blue Eyes,
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  Speaker 2: and the effects on the people? It was priceless. The
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  Speaker 2: band was no longer seen as those new guys on
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  Speaker 2: the block. Crosby, Stills, and Nash were now a musical
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  Speaker 2: force totally connected to a new generation of record buyers
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  Speaker 2: and concert ticket collectors. Sweet Judy Blue Eyes from Crosby, Stills,
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  Speaker 2: and Nash. I'm Arrow, and that's Music's Lost History.