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Welcome to Timeless Songs · Timeless Songs with Eileen Ponich

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  SPEAKER_00: Why do some songs stay with us for a lifetime?
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's a melody that takes you back to another time.
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  SPEAKER_00: A lyric that suddenly says exactly what you're feeling.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or a singer who makes a song you've heard a hundred times feel brand new.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Eileen Ponich, a singer and lifelong lover of the Great American Songbook.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is Timeless Songs, where great songs live on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Each episode will go behind the music we love into the stories of the composers
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  SPEAKER_00: and lyricists who created it,
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  SPEAKER_00: the singers who made it unforgettable,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the little things in a lyric,
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  SPEAKER_00: melody, or arrangement that you might never have noticed before.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll talk about George Gershwin and Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, and Irving Berlin.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll listen more closely to singers like Ella Fitzgerald,
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  SPEAKER_00: Frank Sinatra,
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  SPEAKER_00: and Tony Bennett,
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  SPEAKER_00: and to all the wonderful artists who are keeping this music alive today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then we'll wander into Broadway and classic Hollywood,
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  SPEAKER_00: where so many of these songs First found their way into our lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: But mostly, Timeless Songs is about what happens when we really listen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because these old songs aren't easy in pieces.
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  SPEAKER_00: They can still make us laugh,
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  SPEAKER_00: ache, remember, hope, and sometimes understand our own lives a little better.
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  SPEAKER_00: Follow Timeless Songs wherever you listen to podcasts.
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  SPEAKER_00: And to receive news stories by email, subscribe free at timelesssongs.substack.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: You'll also find the link in the show notes.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Eileen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for listening.
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  SPEAKER_00: And until next time, with a song in my heart.