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9:30 Coffee Break: 'All right' Songs

by Jill Riley and Sean McPherson

April 03, 2015

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The gopher from 'Caddyshack'
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Verbal crutches: Everybody's got 'em. They're those little words or phrases we all use when we're thinking of what to say, or transitioning from one thought to the next. Common verbal crutches include "um", "OK", "so" and "like."

As Sean McPherson has been getting more and more experience filling in as a host on The Current, he's been realizing his verbal crutch is the phrase, "All right." It's a good transitional expression, although Sean is becoming aware that he says it a lot.

But Sean is being a good sport about it — because it turns out there are a lot of songs with the expression "all right" in them.

So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs that contain the phrase "all right" do you want to hear? Send us your requests. And if you'd like to share what your verbal crutch is, that's cool, too.

Songs Played


Stevie Wonder - "Uptight Everything's Alright"
Supergrass - "Alright"
Joe Cocker - "Feeling Alright"
Elvis Presley - "That's All Right"
Free - "All Right Now"
Bob Dylan - "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"
Kenny Loggins - "I'm Alright"

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