{"id":510,"date":"2024-10-12T18:49:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T18:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/12\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-cats\/"},"modified":"2024-10-12T18:49:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T18:49:25","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/12\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Loving Spoonful,&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P4p7prURvIk\">Nashville Cats<\/a>, 1966. They&#39;s playin&#39; since they&#39;s babies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Harry Chapin,&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HlECRynhqsk\">Cat&#39;s in the Cradle<\/a>.&#0160;For you fathers out there. Bond with your son when he&#39;s five. Wait till he&#39;s 50 and he won&#39;t give you the time of day. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Harry Chapin was a major talent who died young.&#0160; Here is his great&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c5dwksSbD34\">Taxi<\/a>. We Boomers are damned lucky to have the greatest popular music soundtrack of any American generation.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NQqyN2DnZH4\">What Happened to Harry Chapin?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Tokens,&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OQlByoPdG6c\">The Lion Sleeps Tonight<\/a>, 1961&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Bent Fabric, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-eTHNaBbRYw\">Alley Cat<\/a>, 1962. Bent fabric can be said to have a kink &#0160;in it. Therefore,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Kinks,&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2rOjt2h1Gr8\">Phenomenal Cat<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Norma Tanega,&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SPZVrmJ2HH8\">Walkin&#39; My Cat Named &#39;Dog.&#39;<\/a>&#0160;The queen of the one-hit wonders?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Mongo Santamaria,&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CQ2XNmPYPeQ\">El Pussycat<\/a>. If you remember this one, I&#39;ll buy you a pussy<em>hat<\/em> and a watermelon. While we have Mongo Santamaria cued up, here is his rather better-known&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zJuX-JJ8WF0\">Watermelon Man.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">To be precise, it is not <em>his<\/em>&#0160; inasmuch as it was written by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_QkGAaYtXA0\">Herbie Hancock<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">More cat songs next week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02c8d3c02174200c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hurricane CATegories\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c02c8d3c02174200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02c8d3c02174200c-800wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Hurricane CATegories\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loving Spoonful,&#0160;Nashville Cats, 1966. They&#39;s playin&#39; since they&#39;s babies. Harry Chapin,&#0160;Cat&#39;s in the Cradle.&#0160;For you fathers out there. Bond with your son when he&#39;s five. Wait till he&#39;s 50 and he won&#39;t give you the time of day. Harry Chapin was a major talent who died young.&#0160; Here is his great&#0160;Taxi. We Boomers are damned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/12\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-cats\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday Night at the Oldies: Cats&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","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\/510","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=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}