{"id":2540,"date":"2021-07-10T17:57:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T17:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/07\/10\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-musical-duos\/"},"modified":"2021-07-10T17:57:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T17:57:19","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-musical-duos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/07\/10\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-musical-duos\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Musical Duos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday night, time to punch the clock and pour yourself a stiff one. Me, I'm drinking a  Jack and Coke. How about you?<\/span><\/p>\n

Mickey and Sylvia, Love is Strange<\/a>, 1956<\/span><\/p>\n

Nino Tempo and April, Deep Purple<\/a>, 1963. The lyrics are pure sweet kitsch. But what's wrong with a little kitsch and sentimentality? Up yours, Theodor Adorno.<\/span><\/p>\n

Everly Brothers, When Will I be Loved?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Righteous Brothers, Little Latin Lupe Lu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Simon and Garfunkel, I am a Rock<\/a>.  I have my books and my poetry to protect me!<\/span><\/p>\n

Ike and Tina Turner, It's Gonna Work Out Fine<\/a>, 1961. I went to see the preacher man.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sonny and Cher, I Got You, Babe<\/a>, 1965.  Don't let them say you hair's too long!<\/span><\/p>\n

Jan and Dean, Dead Man's Curve<\/a>, 1963. Walk not back from Dead Man's Curve.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, Foggy Mountain Breakdown<\/a>, 1949. This one goes out to Hillary Clinton.<\/span><\/p>\n

Peter and Gordon, I Go to Pieces<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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

Chad and Jeremy, Yesterday's Gone<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Doc Holliday and Johnny Ringo, Last Tango<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday night, time to punch the clock and pour yourself a stiff one. Me, I'm drinking a  Jack and Coke. How about you? Mickey and Sylvia, Love is Strange, 1956 Nino Tempo and April, Deep Purple, 1963. The lyrics are pure sweet kitsch. But what's wrong with a little kitsch and sentimentality? Up yours, Theodor … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Musical Duos”<\/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-2540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540","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=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}