421 - Various Artists - The Best of the Girl Groups - Stephanie Simbari
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EPISODE SUMMARY:
Placing a value on an entire genre of music isn't easy. Even if its peak only lasted a few years over a generation ago, how can you measure the importance and influence of a style of singing and songwriting that created countless hits and launched the careers of artists like Cher and Diana Ross, let alone fully be able to determine its emotional worth? Actor and writer Stephanie Simbari would argue that the sound of the so-called American "girl groups" of the 1950s and 1960s ranks far higher than may often be considered. After all, its raw femininity and ability to be strong yet vulnerable are so clearly manifested in her, it's no surprise she is at the helm of the wildly popular wellness podcast That's So Retrograde as well as appearing in such films 2013's Coldwater and 2017's Lady-Like.
SHOW NOTES:
00:15 – Intro
08:30 – An American artform
12:20 – How to make some ladies
14:30 – The baddest of boys
27:15 – A girl named Falcon
46:15 – A tunnel or a crab shack bathroom
55:00 – You don’t have to fuck everybody
57:45 – Facts!
1:00:00 – Your own worst enemy
1:05:00 –Virgin mistakes
1:09:30 – Outro
ALBUM STREAM - THE BEST OF THE GIRL GROUPS:
NEW ARTIST INFLUENCED BY THE GIRL GROUPS OF THE 60s:
“I Am America” by Shea Diamond