{"id":4272,"date":"2018-09-01T17:46:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T17:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/01\/the-brown-eyed-girls\/"},"modified":"2018-09-01T17:46:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T17:46:09","slug":"the-brown-eyed-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/01\/the-brown-eyed-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: The Brown-Eyed Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Summer subsides once again into the sweetness of September. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Judy Collins,&#0160;<em>Cravings: How I Conquered Food<\/em>, Doubleday 2017, pp. 112-113:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">. . . and writing&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9NfYFtRm2N0\">Albert Grossmann<\/a>&#0160;that no, I did not want to join a trio of women he was bent on calling the Brown-Eyed Girls. He had put Peter, Paul and Mary together, telling me that I was the fallback choice if Mary hadn&#39;t worked out. Albert saw how I was struggling and didn&#39;t think I could make it on my own, hence the trio idea. It was to be me, Judy Henske and Jo Mapes. He told me he would get me brown contacts, his idea of a joke &#8212; Henske had brown eyes and Mapes and I would have to get brown contacts. I had agreed hastily &#8212; after all, he had made Peter, Paul and Mary into an international franchise. Now I changed my yes to a no. I would go it on my own, no matter what. I was going to do it my way or die trying.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Way to go, Judy. You pulled it off and beat your addictions as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Judy Collins,&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A7Xm30heHms\">Both Sides Now<\/a>. &#0160;Wonderful. My favorite version, however, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oSTEU3S_otE\">that<\/a>&#0160;of Dave van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Judy Collins,&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4Jn90y9H9S4\">Someday Soon<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Judy Collins,&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AtteRD5bBNQ\">Amazing Grace<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c022ad367bb00200c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Henske\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c022ad367bb00200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c022ad367bb00200c-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Henske\" \/><\/a>Judy Henske,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RxC4HZNxjYU\">&#0160;High Flying Bird<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Judy Henske,&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Am4LzRePqbA\">Any Day Now<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Judy Henske,&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TA5fUKkyNZE\">Till the Real Thing Comes Along<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Jo Mapes,&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mWNAs9uKzBI\">You Were on My Mind<\/a>. Beautiful, but takes a little getting used to if you are coming at it from the&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=29uNvGHsRlc\">We Five hit version<\/a>. Ian and Sylvia have a&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=miEX5knHUDg\">great version<\/a>.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Jo Mapes,&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FG29VoaCdag\">No One to Talk My Troubles To<\/a>&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Bonus cut: Iris Dement and friends, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1RIn-ov1yJM\">Will the Circle be Unbroken<\/a>. Wow.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer subsides once again into the sweetness of September. Judy Collins,&#0160;Cravings: How I Conquered Food, Doubleday 2017, pp. 112-113: . . . and writing&#0160;Albert Grossmann&#0160;that no, I did not want to join a trio of women he was bent on calling the Brown-Eyed Girls. He had put Peter, Paul and Mary together, telling me that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/01\/the-brown-eyed-girls\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday Night at the Oldies: The Brown-Eyed Girls&#8221;<\/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":[200,18,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bohemianism","category-music","category-sixties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272","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=4272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}