Pop This! Podcast Episode 284: Dreamgirls

Summary:   "We're getting the band back together." This week we continue our tour of musicals and music films with the hit movie Dreamgirls. Also discussed: fire ants, Diana Ross in Mahogany, and the book How To Do Nothing by Jenny Odell.     Show notes:

Jennifer Holliday "And I'm Telling You" 1982 Tony Awards (YouTube)

Mahogany (1975) | Romantic Drama Movie | Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams (YouTube)

The Real Dreamgirls - How Gils Groups Changed American Music (Smithsonian)

 

Recommendations: Andrea W.: City of Ghosts (TV, Netflix)

Andrea G.:  The Underground Railroad (TV, Amazon)

Lisa: How To Do Nothing by Jenny Odell (book)

 

Music credits:

"Good Times" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive  CC BY 3.0   Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed: "OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL

 

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Lisa Christiansen is a broadcaster, journalist and longtime metal head. Andrea Warner is a music critic, author and former horoscopes columnist.

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