{"id":155,"date":"2025-05-17T16:38:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T16:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-help\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T16:38:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T16:38:40","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Help"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canned Heat, Help Me<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

"Help me consolate my weary mind." I love that 'consolate.' Alan 'Blind Owl' Wilson at his best.  I saw him and the boys at the Kaleidoscope<\/a> in Hollywood in 1968.  Wilson was a tortured soul and ended up a member of the 27 Club<\/a>. He quit the sublunary sphere on 3 September 1970.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aficionados of that time and place will want to read Canned Heat: The Twisted Tale of Blind Owl and the Bear<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beach Boys, Help Me, Rhonda<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Hank Williams, I Can't Help it If I'm Still in Love with You<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

Ringo Starr, With a Little Help from My Friends<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Elvis Presley, Can't Help Falling in Love<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Andrea Bocelli does a great live job<\/a> with it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Highwaymen, Help Me Make it Through the Night<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

While we have the Highwaymen cued up, let's enjoy Ghost Riders in the Sky<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Joni Mitchell, Help Me<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Hank Locklin, Please Help Me, I'm Falling<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Canned Heat, Help Me. "Help me consolate my weary mind." I love that 'consolate.' Alan 'Blind Owl' Wilson at his best.  I saw him and the boys at the Kaleidoscope in Hollywood in 1968.  Wilson was a tortured soul and ended up a member of the 27 Club. He quit the sublunary sphere on 3 September 1970. Aficionados of … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Help”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","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=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}