“Blame It on the Bossa Nova<\/a>” is a song written by Cynthia Weil (lyrics) and Barry Mann which was a 1963 hit single for Eydie Gorm\u00e9, reaching number 7 on the Hot 100 in Billboard in March 1963.<\/p>\n ‘Route 66’ actor George Maharis is dead<\/a> at 94.<\/p>\n Jack Kerouac in a letter from 17 January 1962: “Everybody is making money off my ideas, like those “Route 66″ TV producers, everybody except me . . . .” (Selected Letters<\/em>\u00a01957-1969, ed. Charters, Viking 1999, p. 326; see also p. 461 and pp. 301-302.)<\/p>\n Here<\/a>\u00a0is the Nelson Riddle theme music from the TV series.\u00a0 And\u00a0here<\/a> is part of an episode from the series which ran from 1960-1964.\u00a0 George Maharis bears a striking resemblance to Jack, wouldn’t you say? And notice Maharis is riding shotgun.\u00a0 Kerouac wasn’t a driver.\u00a0 Neal Cassady (The Dean Moriarty of OTR) was the driver. Neal at the wheel.\u00a0 One in the hand, four on the road:<\/p>\n Now dig\u00a0Bobby Troup<\/a>.\u00a0 Chuck Berry, the Rolling Stones, Dr. Feelgood<\/a>, \u00a0and others have covered the tune. How should we describe the good doctor’s performance? Energetic? Nay, manic<\/em>. Makes this old man want to hit the road, which he will be doing before too long. Every true American loves the open road. And if you don’t? Then you are not a true American. The version by Asleep at the Wheel<\/em>\u00a0is\u00a0especially good<\/a>.\u00a0 “Four on the road, one in the hand,” as Neal Cassady says somewhere.<\/p>\n Tina Turner died recently<\/a> at 83.\u00a0 Some of us remember her mainly in connection with the abusive Ike.<\/p>\n It’s Gonna Work Out Fine\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Enough death for one night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A re-post from 10 June 2023. Some busted links. May fix tomorrow, or not. Astrud Gilberto, the Girl from Ipanema, has passed on at age 83. The genre, Bossa Nova, was popular from the late ’50s to the mid-’60s. “Blame It on the Bossa Nova” is a song written by Cynthia Weil (lyrics) and Barry … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Obituaries”<\/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":[18,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14515","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=14515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14517,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14515\/revisions\/14517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Neal-at-the-wheel.jpg\")
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