{"id":4231,"date":"2018-09-15T17:48:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T17:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/15\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-cats-2\/"},"modified":"2018-09-15T17:48:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T17:48:51","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-cats-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/15\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-cats-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before we get on to tonight's feature presentation, a little tribute to John McCain. Here he is in Bomb Iran<\/a>. But the old neocon needs a history lesson. The Regents<\/a> did it first, in 1961, before the Beach Boys<\/a> covered it in '65. The Regents in their dotage, live<\/a>. "I tried Peggy Sue<\/a>, but I knew she wouldn't do."<\/span><\/p>\n

……………………….<\/span><\/p>\n

Loving Spoonful, Nashville Cats<\/a>, 1966. They's playin' since they's babies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Harry Chapin, Cat's in the Cradle<\/a>. For you fathers out there. Bond with your son when he's five. Wait till he's 50 and he won't give you the time of day. Harry Chapin was a major talent who died young.  Here is his great Taxi<\/a>. We Boomers are damned lucky to have the greatest popular music soundtrack.<\/span><\/p>\n

What Happened to Harry Chapin?<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Tokens, The Lion Sleeps Tonight<\/a>, 1961 <\/span><\/p>\n

Bent Fabric, Alley Cat<\/a>, 1962. Bent fabric can be said to have a kink  in it. Therefore,<\/span><\/p>\n

Kinks, Phenomenal Cat<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Tom Jones, What's New Pussycat?<\/a> 1965. <\/span><\/p>\n

Norma Tanega, Walkin' My Cat Named 'Dog.'<\/a> The queen of the one-hit wonders?<\/span><\/p>\n

Mongo Santamaria, El Pussycat<\/a>. If you remember this one, I'll buy you a pussyhat and a watermelon. While we have Mongo Santamaria cued up, here is his rather better-known Watermelon Man<\/a>, muchachos.<\/span><\/p>\n

Buck Owens, Tiger by the tail<\/a>. This one goes out to Kathy P.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stray Cats, Stray Cat Strut<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Sue Thompson, Paper Tiger<\/a>, 1965. This one's for Barack "Red Line" Obama.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elton John, Honky Cat<\/a>, 1972<\/span><\/p>\n

Robert Petway, Catfish Blues<\/a>, 1941.  An influential song in the history of the blues.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Rooftop Singers, Tom Cat<\/a>.  From those far-off and fabulous hootenanny days. <\/span><\/p>\n

UPDATE (9\/16). <\/span><\/p>\n

Mendocino Joe wisely recommends Ring-Tail Tom<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

UPDATE (9\/17),<\/span><\/p>\n

Monterey Tom, displaying good taste, as usual, reminds me of Laura Nyro's Tom Cat Goodbye<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before we get on to tonight's feature presentation, a little tribute to John McCain. Here he is in Bomb Iran. But the old neocon needs a history lesson. The Regents did it first, in 1961, before the Beach Boys covered it in '65. The Regents in their dotage, live. "I tried Peggy Sue, but I … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Cats”<\/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":[104,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231","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=4231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}