Search for “slowed down to 33” (or similar), and you’ll find hundreds more examples of old 7-inch singles playing at 33rpm, rather than 45rpm. Why? Does music of a particular era or genre produce the best results? Does it help if the songs are already familiar? Does the listener’s age make a difference?Īs he turns 40 – perhaps he’s preoccupied with the idea of “slowing down time”? – radio producer Steve Urquhart tries to find out. and discovers some unexpected gems along the way. Steve Urquhart has been producing radio for around twenty years. He’s created short-form and long-form features for BBC Radio 4 (where he’s also a continuity announcer) as well as BBC Radio 3, KCRW’s Unfictional, and In The Dark (UK).
He’s won several awards for his pioneering work with National Prison Radio in the UK, and he teaches radio production skills. Instead, she appeals to Jolene’s sense of mercy: Steve is a composer, a pianist, and an occasional DJ.Apparently she also knows better than to raise the subject with him. The song is somewhat autobiographical, though the situation was nowhere near as dire as listeners might assume. In an interview with NPR, Parton recalled a red-haired bank teller who developed a big crush on her husband when she was a young bride:Īnd he just loved going to the bank because she paid him so much attention. It was kinda like a running joke between us - when I was saying, ‘Hell, you’re spending a lot of time at the bank. I don’t believe we’ve got that kind of money.’ So it’s really an innocent song all around, but sounds like a dreadful one.įor the record, the teller’s name wasn’t Jolene. Jolene was a pretty little girl who attended an early Parton concert. Parton was so taken with the child, and her unusual name, that she resolved to write a song about her. Wouldn’t it be wild if she grew up to be a bank teller? Yes, the kid had red hair and green eyes. In the original version, the irresistible chorus wherein the soon-to-be-spurned party invokes Jolene’s name again and again is plaintive and fierce. In the slow ass version, it’s plaintive and sad. Parton told NPR that women are “always threatened by other women, period.” The pain is the same, but the situation in much less straightforward, thanks to blurrier gender lines. Jolene’s prodigious feminine assets could also prove worrisome to a gay man whose bisexual lover’s eye is prone to wander. Or maybe the singer and his man live in a place where same sex unions are frowned on. Perhaps the singer’s man craves the comfort of a more socially acceptable domestic situation.
#More like jolene at 33 rpm skin
With ivory skin and eyes of emerald greenįrom crying when he calls your name, Joleneīut you don’t know what he means to me, Jolene Please don’t take him just because you can I’m begging of you please don’t take my man Or, as one waggish Youtube commenter succinctly put it, “Jolene better stay the hell away from Roy Orbison‘s man!” Or perhaps Jolene is one hot female-identified tomato, and as far as the singer’s man’s concerned, his pastor and his granny can go to hell! Jolene’s the only one for him.
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