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Songs of Remembrance: Their dad liked Three Dog Night's 'Joy To The World'

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Two sisters from Nashville, Tenn., remember their father David Hardee, who died of COVID-19 in March.

LEILA FADEL, HOST:

NPR is remembering some of the 1 million people lost to COVID in the U.S. And we're doing that through the music they loved. Our series Songs of Remembrance includes two sisters from Nashville who share stories about their father.

KATHERINE ALEXANDER: I'm Katherine Alexander.

DANIELLE HARDEE: I'm Danielle Hardee. And David Hardee was my father.

(SOUNDBITE OF THREE DOG NIGHT SONG, "JOY TO THE WORLD")

HARDEE: One of my father's favorite songs was "Joy To The World" by Three Dog Night.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "JOY TO THE WORLD")

DANNY HUTTON: (Singing) Jeremiah was a bullfrog, was a good friend of mine.

HARDEE: That song always reminds me of him because he would just bebop around the house and love to sing, and so he would just belt out, Jeremiah was a bullfrog.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "JOY TO THE WORLD")

HUTTON: (Singing) Singin' joy to the world, all the boys and girls, now.

HARDEE: He was an attorney². He had a small practice that he built from the ground up. That's what he did his entire life. And he absolutely loved it.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "JOY TO THE WORLD")

HUTTON: (Singing) I'm a high night flier and a rainbow rider, a straight-shooting son of a gun.

ALEXANDER: My dad was just so much fun to be around - you know, worked hard and played hard. Somewhere along the line, he developed an affinity³ for kazoos, and so kazoos became a fun, wacky kind of tradition for our family, whether it was Christmas with the kazoos playing "Silent Night" or if we'd bring somebody home, like a fiancé, we - everybody would greet him with kazoos. So it kind of became this just running joke of the family.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

DAVID HARDEE: (Vocalizing "Jimmy Crack Corn" on kazoo).

HARDEE: We loved our dad so much. And he could totally charm⁴ a room and was very, very charismatic and just kind of captured⁵ that spirit of happiness and life.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "JOY TO THE WORLD")

THREE DOG NIGHT: (Singing) Joy to the world, all the boys and girls.

FADEL: Danielle Hardee and Katherine Alexander. Their father, David Hardee, died of COVID in March of 2021.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "JOY TO THE WORLD")

THREE DOG NIGHT: (Singing) Joy to the world, all the boys and girls.

1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 attorney   

n.（业务或法律事务上的）代理人，辩护律师

参考例句：

• He acted as attorney for me.他充当我的律师。
• The attorney for the union accused the Mayor of playing politics.工会的律师谴责市长在这次罢工中耍阴谋。

3 affinity   

n.亲和力，密切关系

参考例句：

• I felt a great affinity with the people of the Highlands.我被苏格兰高地人民深深地吸引。
• It's important that you share an affinity with your husband.和丈夫有共同的爱好是十分重要的。

4 charm   

vt.使着迷，使陶醉；n.招人喜欢之处，魅力

参考例句：

• With all imperfections the short play has a real charm.尽管有不少缺欠，这出小戏仍颇具魅力。
• He could resist her charm no longer.他再也抗拒不住她的魅力。

5 captured   

俘获( capture的过去式和过去分词 )； 夺取； 夺得； 引起（注意、想像、兴趣）

参考例句：

• Allied troops captured over 300 enemy soldiers. 盟军俘虏了300多名敌方士兵。
• Most of the rebels were captured and disarmed. 大部分叛乱分子被俘获并解除了武装。