{"id":2285,"date":"2021-12-18T17:30:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T17:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/12\/18\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-women-and-girls-2\/"},"modified":"2021-12-18T17:30:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T17:30:38","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-women-and-girls-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/12\/18\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-women-and-girls-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Women and Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where would we be without them? Languishing in the sphere of the merely possible. On the other hand, "Pretty girls make graves." (Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bums<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>\n

Roy Orbison, Pretty Woman<\/a>. Mercy! See how many of the sidemen you can identify. A great song that blends the the tender & romantic with the thrustingly Dionysian.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bob Dylan, Just Like a Woman<\/a>. I won't say anything, lest I gush, my romanticism loosened by a delicious blend of tequila and Campari.  The polished Blonde on Blonde<\/em> version<\/a>. Van Morrison pays tribute here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bob Dylan, Girl from the North Country<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Van Morrison, Brown Eyed Girl<\/a>. This one goes out to Kathy H.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aretha Franklin, Natural Woman<\/a>. Written by Carole King. Her version<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rolling Stone, Honky Tonk Woman<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Santana, Black Magic Woman<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Eric Clapton, Have You Ever Loved a Woman?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Ray Charles, I Got a Woman<\/a>, 1954<\/span><\/p>\n

Peter and Gordon, Woman<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

Elvis Presley, Santa Lucia<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Andrea Bocelli, Ave Maria<\/a> (Franz Schubert)<\/span><\/p>\n

And many more . . . .<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where would we be without them? Languishing in the sphere of the merely possible. On the other hand, "Pretty girls make graves." (Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bums) Roy Orbison, Pretty Woman. Mercy! See how many of the sidemen you can identify. A great song that blends the the tender & romantic with the thrustingly Dionysian. Bob … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Women and Girls”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","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=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}