Dr. Feelgood Makes Another Housecall

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ALISON STEWART, host:

This is THE BRYANT PARK PROJECT from NPR News.

We bring you the news, some information, and today, music - new releases of some old chestnuts. I'm Alison Stewart.

LUKE BURBANK, host:

And I'm Luke Burbank.

It's Tuesday, October 16th. And, you know, four out of five doctors medically agree that this is all you need to get by.

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Ms. ARETHA FRANKLIN (Singer): (Singing) You're all I need to get by that as long as you got me, you know, baby, you know that you got me.

STEWART: I do hope you saved your pennies, because today, being released is a series of rare and unreleased tracks from Aretha Franklin, some recorded when she was just 21 years old. So we're going to tell you a little bit about that in our New Music Tuesday.

BURBANK: We get things all queued up before the show starts, and there's like pieces of tape that are flying out of people's computers you're hearing - most of it's annoying. Not this morning…

STEWART: Not this morning.

BURBANK: …when Aretha was blasting throughout the BPP bullpen.

Coming up on the show, speaking of music - yikes.

(Soundbite of laughter)

BURBANK: We're going to talk about an interview I did with the Icelandic band Sigur Ros. We put the video up on our Web site, and - well, an entire nation hates me. And I'm going to try to find out if that was my fault or the nation of Iceland's fault.

STEWART: We have a professional coming in…

BURBANK: Yes. Yes.

STEWART: …to coach you on music interviewing.

BURBANK: Yeah.

STEWART: We're also going to talk about Blog Action Day. I don't know if you know it or not, but yesterday was Blog Action Day. A bunch of bloggers got together and decided to talk about one topic. We'll find out if it worked. We'll also get to today's top stories from Rachel Martin in just a minute. But first, here is the BPP's Big Story.

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