{"id":10780,"date":"2011-04-09T17:57:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T17:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/09\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-the-marvelettes\/"},"modified":"2011-04-09T17:57:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T17:57:54","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-the-marvelettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/09\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-the-marvelettes\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: The Marvelettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">In the calendrical &#39;60s, before the &#39;60s became the cultural &#39;60s,* there was a lot of great music from girl groups like the Marvelettes.&#0160; I spent the summer of &#39;69 delivering mail out of the Vermont Avenue station, Hollywood 29, California.&#0160; One day out on the route two black girls approached this U. S. male singing the Marvelettes&#39; tune, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_dVt11UZ0uA\" target=\"_self\">Please Mr. Postman.<\/a>&#0160; &#0160;Ah, yes.&#0160; Ever dial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WxtMbeQiXsI&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_self\">Beechwood 4-5789<\/a>?&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7DjmP03mTG0\" target=\"_self\">Playboy.<\/a>&#0160;&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OVsW_6AomOQ&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_self\">Don&#39;t Mess With Bill.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">*I reckon the cultural &#39;60s to have begun&#0160;on 22 November 1963 with the assasination of JFK and to have ended&#0160;on 30 April 1975 with the fall of Saigon.&#0160; Your reckoning may vary.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the calendrical &#39;60s, before the &#39;60s became the cultural &#39;60s,* there was a lot of great music from girl groups like the Marvelettes.&#0160; I spent the summer of &#39;69 delivering mail out of the Vermont Avenue station, Hollywood 29, California.&#0160; One day out on the route two black girls approached this U. S. male &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/09\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-the-marvelettes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday Night at the Oldies: The Marvelettes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,18,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-music","category-sixties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}