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Guest DJ Project: Bret McKenzie

Series: KCRW's Guest DJ Project
From: KCRW
Length: 00:11:02

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Bretmckenzie_small Bret McKenzie may be best known as one half of the musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, but lately he’s getting a lot of attention for his work as music supervisor on the new Muppets movie. He shares the songs that shaped him as a teenager and laid the groundwork for his hilariously quirky, and funky style – from James Brown and Harry Nilsson to Leonard Cohen. Bret just announced that a Flight of the Conchords movie might be in the making and The Muppets is out now.

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Tracks
1 - You Give A Little Love - Paul Williams
2 - Papa's Got A Brand New Bag - James Brown
3 - Think About Your Troubles - Harry Nilsson
4 - Sweet City Woman - The Stampeders
5 - Tower Of Song - Leonard Cohen

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Piece Description

Bret McKenzie may be best known as one half of the musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, but lately he’s getting a lot of attention for his work as music supervisor on the new Muppets movie. He shares the songs that shaped him as a teenager and laid the groundwork for his hilariously quirky, and funky style – from James Brown and Harry Nilsson to Leonard Cohen. Bret just announced that a Flight of the Conchords movie might be in the making and The Muppets is out now.

For More: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1235366/

Tracks
1 - You Give A Little Love - Paul Williams
2 - Papa's Got A Brand New Bag - James Brown
3 - Think About Your Troubles - Harry Nilsson
4 - Sweet City Woman - The Stampeders
5 - Tower Of Song - Leonard Cohen

Transcript

Dan Wilcox: Hey, this is Dan Wilcox from KCRW and I have the extreme pleasure of sitting here with Bret McKenzie who is one half of the musical comedy duo Flight of The Concords and music supervisor for the recent Muppets movie. Music is obviously a huge part of his work, so we are very curious as to see what songs have inspired him over the years and today we are going to be playing excerpts of some of them as part of KCRW's Guest DJ Project. Welcome Bret.

Bret McKenzie: Very nice to be here.

DW: Excellent.

BM: It's a pleasure.

DW: Excellent. So what have you brought for us?

BM: The first song is by one of my favorite songwriters Paul Williams, who sort of famously co-wrote "Rainbow Connection". But he also did this movie called Bugsy Malone. It's called "You Give a Little Love" and it's the final song in the movie.
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Host: Dan Wilcox

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