{"id":5253,"date":"2017-09-09T17:57:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T17:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/09\/09\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-the-forgotten-and-underplayed\/"},"modified":"2017-09-09T17:57:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T17:57:18","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-the-forgotten-and-underplayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/09\/09\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-the-forgotten-and-underplayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: The Forgotten and Underplayed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Betty Everett, You're No Good<\/a>, 1963.  More soulful than the 1975 Linda Ronstadt version.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Ikettes, I'm Blue<\/a>, 1962. <\/span><\/p>\n

Lee Dorsey, Ya Ya<\/a>, 1961.  Simplicity itself. Three chords. I-IV-V progression. No bridge.<\/span><\/p>\n

Paul Anka, A Steel Guitar and a Glass of Wine<\/a>, 1962.<\/span><\/p>\n

Carole King, Crying in the Rain<\/a>, 1963.  The earnest girl-feeling of young Carole makes it better than the Everly Bros.' more polished and better executed version<\/a>.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Don Gibson, Sea of a Heartbreak<\/a>.  A crossover hit from 1961.  It's a crime for the oldies stations to ignore this great song.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ketty Lester, Love Letters<\/a>, 1961.  Gets some play, but not enough.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Betty Everett, You're No Good, 1963.  More soulful than the 1975 Linda Ronstadt version. The Ikettes, I'm Blue, 1962.  Lee Dorsey, Ya Ya, 1961.  Simplicity itself. Three chords. I-IV-V progression. No bridge. Paul Anka, A Steel Guitar and a Glass of Wine, 1962. Carole King, Crying in the Rain, 1963.  The earnest girl-feeling of young Carole makes it better … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: The Forgotten and Underplayed”<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253","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=5253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}