{"id":11244,"date":"2010-10-09T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/09\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-two-sorts-of-one-hit-wonders-2\/"},"modified":"2010-10-09T19:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T19:41:00","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-two-sorts-of-one-hit-wonders-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/09\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-two-sorts-of-one-hit-wonders-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Two Sorts of One-Hit Wonders"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are one-hit wonders whose hits have endured and one hit wonders whose hits have pretty much sunk into oblivion, which is why you need me to prowl the musty mausoleum of moldy oldies for these moth-eaten memories.   Norma Tanega<\/a> and her  Walkin' My Cat Named Dog<\/a> belong to the latter category.  If you remember this curious tune from 1966  I'll buy you a beer.  An example of a one-hit wonder whose hit gets plenty of play is Curtis Lee's Pretty Little Angel Eyes.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Land of a Thousand Dances<\/a> was Cannibal and the Head Hunters' one hit.  Its obscurity lies perhaps midway between the Tanega and Lee efforts.  This one goes out to my old friend Tom Coleman whose hometown is Whittier, California.  He most likely listened to this song some Saturday night while cruising Whittier Blvd, or else while enroute to a dance at the El Monte Stadium<\/a>.  "Be there or be square."<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are one-hit wonders whose hits have endured and one hit wonders whose hits have pretty much sunk into oblivion, which is why you need me to prowl the musty mausoleum of moldy oldies for these moth-eaten memories.   Norma Tanega and her  Walkin' My Cat Named Dog belong to the latter category.  If you remember this curious tune from … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Two Sorts of One-Hit Wonders”<\/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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11244","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=11244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}