{"id":3539,"date":"2019-10-19T16:35:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T16:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/10\/19\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-route-66\/"},"modified":"2019-10-19T16:35:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T16:35:45","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-route-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/10\/19\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-route-66\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Route 66"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Route<\/a>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> 1957-1969, ed. Charters, Viking 1999, p. 326; see also p. 461 and pp. 301-302.)  <\/span><\/p>\n

Here<\/a> is the Nelson Riddle theme music from the TV series.  And here<\/a> is part of an episode from the series which ran from 1960-1964.  George Maharis bears a striking resemblance to Jack, wouldn't you say? And notice Maharis is riding shotgun.  Kerouac wasn't a driver.  Neal Cassady was the driver.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Now dig Bobby Troup<\/a>.  Chuck Berry, the Rolling Stones<\/a>, Dr. Feelgood<\/a>,  and others have covered the tune. The version by Asleep at the Wheel<\/em> is especially good<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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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 1957-1969, ed. Charters, Viking 1999, p. 326; see also p. 461 and pp. 301-302.)  Here is the Nelson Riddle theme music from the TV series.  … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Route 66”<\/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":[202,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kerouac-and-friends","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539","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=3539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}