Even More Marketing - Entries in Theme Song Contest for NPR's "All Things Considered" Radio Program

National Public Radio's "All Things Considered", which was my favorite radio program even before they read my recent e-mail about parallels between the Iraq War and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, is conducting a contest to choose lyrics for their theme song. The music was written in 1973 and has remained lyricless and lonely since then.

Submissions can be sung or entered by e-mail. I did some of both.

Here's my own choice as my best entry because it shares some of my personal connection to the program. I sang this one into NPR's answering machine at 202-898-2395.

"As I drive home in

Rush hour traffic

All Things Considered

Keeps me sane."

Here's a link where you can hear the tune. As you can imagine, it's not very complicated.

http://www.npr.org/templates/dmg/popup.php?id=12677141&type=7&date=&au=1&pid=13140557&random=1000246567&guid=00091FB91A1306CE4BF507C561626364&uaType=WM,RM&aaType=RM,WM&upf=Win32&topicName=Opinion&subtopicName=Listeners&prgCode=ATC&hubId=-1&thingId=12677130&tableModifier=&mtype=WM

Here are two more entries of the more generic variety.

"N P R's

All Things Considered

News and Views

You Need to Know"

and

"All Things Considered

Every weekday

On National Public

Ra - di - o"

Let me know what you think. Do I have a chance?

For all you NPR fans, here's the link where you can enter the contest.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12677130

Look for the Submit Your Lyrics subhead.