{"id":3617,"date":"2019-09-07T17:49:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T17:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/09\/07\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-fred-neil\/"},"modified":"2019-09-07T17:49:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T17:49:53","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-fred-neil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/09\/07\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-fred-neil\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Fred Neil"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Fred<\/a>Remember Fred Neil?  One of the  luminaries of the '60s folk scene,  he didn't do much musically thereafter.  Neil is probably best remembered  for having penned 'Everybody's Talkin' which was made famous by Harry Nilsson as the theme of Midnight Cowboy<\/em>.  Here<\/a> is Neil's version. Nilsson's<\/a> rendition.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another of my Fred Neil favorites is "Other Side of  This Life."  Here<\/a> is Peter, Paul, and Mary's version.<\/span><\/p>\n

And it's been a long long time since I last enjoyed That's the Bag I'm In<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

I've Got a Secret.<\/a> YouTuber comment: "Why were the sixties so special and important? Fred Neil, for one." But why were they so special to us and not others? In part because we were raw, open to experience, and full of the painful & passionate intensity of youth.<\/span><\/p>\n

The reclusive Neil died in 2001 at the age of 64.  Biography here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember Fred Neil?  One of the  luminaries of the '60s folk scene,  he didn't do much musically thereafter.  Neil is probably best remembered  for having penned 'Everybody's Talkin' which was made famous by Harry Nilsson as the theme of Midnight Cowboy.  Here is Neil's version. Nilsson's rendition. Another of my Fred Neil favorites is "Other Side of  This Life."  Here is Peter, Paul, and … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Fred Neil”<\/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":[18,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-sixties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617","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=3617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}