Episode 65: Two Tickets Torn In Half (1997) - Listen - The Best

Episode 65: Two Tickets Torn In Half (1997)

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The juggernaut song "My Heart Will Go On" was crowned an Oscar winner the second that Titanic made its theatrical debut, but the other four songs nominated with it for the 1997 Original Song Oscar were no duds. Host Jeff Commings brings you the stories behind these songs, and the songwriters who created them.

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