{"id":11425,"date":"2010-07-31T13:22:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T13:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/31\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-mimi\/"},"modified":"2010-07-31T13:22:29","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T13:22:29","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-mimi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/31\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-mimi\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Mimi Fari\u00f1a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c013485e5c2c9970c-pi\" style=\"FLOAT: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mimi Farina\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c013485e5c2c9970c \" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c013485e5c2c9970c-320wi\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> Let&#39;s not forget Joan Baez&#39;s sister, Mimi (1945-2001).&#0160; Interestingly, the girls&#39; father is the noted physicist <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_Baez\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Albert Baez<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> (1912-2007).&#0160; I remember a physics teacher in high school&#0160; showing us an instructional film made by one Albert Baez.&#0160; We were surprised to hear that he was Joan&#39;s father.&#0160; We hadn&#39;t heard of him, but we sure had heard of her.&#0160; This was around 1965.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Joan and Mimi&#0160;sing a <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/il.youtube.com\/watch?v=XxgpCfaXaAU\"><font face=\"Georgia\">lovely version<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> of Donovan&#39;s &quot;Catch the Wind.&quot;&#0160; Speaking of Donovan, <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/il.youtube.com\/watch?v=GqnLYsvRwtM&amp;feature=related\"><font face=\"Georgia\">here<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> he and Joan collaborate on another unforgettable &#39;sixties tune, &quot;Colours.&quot;&#0160; Finally, Mimi, her husband Richard, and Pete Seeger in <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/il.youtube.com\/watch?v=08epso8yRBQ&amp;feature=related\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Pack Up Your Sorrows.<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#39;s not forget Joan Baez&#39;s sister, Mimi (1945-2001).&#0160; Interestingly, the girls&#39; father is the noted physicist Albert Baez (1912-2007).&#0160; I remember a physics teacher in high school&#0160; showing us an instructional film made by one Albert Baez.&#0160; We were surprised to hear that he was Joan&#39;s father.&#0160; We hadn&#39;t heard of him, but we sure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/31\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-mimi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday Night at the Oldies: Mimi Fari\u00f1a&#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":[18,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-sixties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11425","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=11425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}