{"id":12782,"date":"2009-02-28T18:48:37","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T18:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/28\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-is-that-all-there-is\/"},"modified":"2009-02-28T18:48:37","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T18:48:37","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-is-that-all-there-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/28\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-is-that-all-there-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Is That All There Is?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"firstinpost\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3VscVP_Gt_s\"><font face=\"Georgia\">This strange Peggy Lee number<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> is a candidate for the office of philosophically deepest popular song. If memory serves, it made the charts Stateside in the late 1960&#39;s. But it is the sort of song one would have expected to hear in a cabaret in Berlin in the decadent 1920&#39;s. &#39;Ockham&#39; tells me that it is a <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Is_That_All_There_Is%3F\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Leiber and Stoller composition<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">, and indeed it is. Surprising, given the other songs they wrote. It smacks of Weill-Brecht more than of Leiber-Stoller. <\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"firstinpost\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Fpn_xu81ySo&amp;feature=related\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Bette Midler&#39;s version.<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"firstinpost\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Nihilism was never so pleasantly packaged.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This strange Peggy Lee number is a candidate for the office of philosophically deepest popular song. If memory serves, it made the charts Stateside in the late 1960&#39;s. But it is the sort of song one would have expected to hear in a cabaret in Berlin in the decadent 1920&#39;s. &#39;Ockham&#39; tells me that it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/28\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-is-that-all-there-is\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday Night at the Oldies: Is That All There Is?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12782","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=12782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}