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EPISODE · Jul 18, 2025 · 5 MIN

The Ballad of J. W. Hinckley

from Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet · host Frank Hudson for the Parlando Project

A topical song the LYL Band sang in 1980 about privilege and the attempted assassination of President Reagan. This is part of an atypical series I'm running this summer about some performances I've been a part of over the years. What the Parlando Project normally does is combine various other people's words (usually literary poetry) with original music in differing styles. We've done over 800 of those combinations, and you can hear any of them and read about our encounter with the words at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org

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