{"id":12500,"date":"2009-08-01T21:05:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T21:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/01\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-the-dream-theme\/"},"modified":"2009-08-01T21:05:42","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T21:05:42","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-the-dream-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/01\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-the-dream-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: The Dream Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">In the late &#39;50s the sexual revolution was right around the corner, but hadn&#39;t yet arrived.&#0160; So those late &#39;50s dudes did more dreaming than doing.&#0160; The dream theme is well explored in these &#39;classics&#39;:&#0160; <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XnLIXNWK8CY\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Dream Lover<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> (Bobby Darin, 1959), <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TAWYSgJiu8k\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Dreamin&#39;<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> (Johnny Burnett, 1960), <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jhmfwj928BE\"><font face=\"Georgia\">In Dreams<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> (Roy Orbison), <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E4CQy33GDJ8&amp;feature=fvw\"><font face=\"Georgia\">In Dreams<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> (Orbison, live version), <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9fW7MoINvQc\"><font face=\"Georgia\">All I Have to Do is Dream<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> (Everly Brothers, 1959).<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Sentimentality and schmaltz, you complain?&#0160; I won&#39;t deny it, but surely it is to be preferred to the crudity and soullessness and outright malevolence of much of what came later.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the late &#39;50s the sexual revolution was right around the corner, but hadn&#39;t yet arrived.&#0160; So those late &#39;50s dudes did more dreaming than doing.&#0160; The dream theme is well explored in these &#39;classics&#39;:&#0160; Dream Lover (Bobby Darin, 1959), Dreamin&#39; (Johnny Burnett, 1960), In Dreams (Roy Orbison), In Dreams (Orbison, live version), All I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/01\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-the-dream-theme\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday Night at the Oldies: The Dream Theme&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12500","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=12500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}