{"id":5321,"date":"2017-08-19T17:56:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T17:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/08\/19\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-the-king-dead-forty-years\/"},"modified":"2017-08-19T17:56:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T17:56:17","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-the-king-dead-forty-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/08\/19\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-the-king-dead-forty-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: ‘The King’ Dead Forty Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elvis Presley died on 16 August 1977, 40 years ago. We can't let this weekend pass without a few tunes in commemoration.<\/span><\/p>\n

First a couple of 'Italian' numbers modeled, respectively, on O Sole Mio<\/a> and Torna a Surriento<\/a>: <\/span><\/p>\n

It's Now or Never<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Surrender<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Continuing in the romantic vein:<\/span><\/p>\n

Can't Help Falling in Love<\/a>.  A version<\/a> by Andrea Bocelli. A woman for a heterosexual man is the highest finite object. The trick is to avoid idolatry and maintain custody of the heart<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

A Gospel number:<\/span><\/p>\n

Amazing Grace<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

From the spiritual to the secular:<\/span><\/p>\n

Little Sister<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Marie's the Name of his Latest Flame<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Devil in Disguise<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

And then there was hokey stuff like this reflecting his time in the Army in Germany:<\/span><\/p>\n

Wooden Heart<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Can't leave out the overdone and hyperromantic:<\/span><\/p>\n

The Wonder of You<\/a>. (Per mia moglie<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>\n

Out of time. Next stop: Judge Jeannine.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elvis Presley died on 16 August 1977, 40 years ago. We can't let this weekend pass without a few tunes in commemoration. First a couple of 'Italian' numbers modeled, respectively, on O Sole Mio and Torna a Surriento:  It's Now or Never Surrender Continuing in the romantic vein: Can't Help Falling in Love.  A version … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: ‘The King’ Dead Forty Years”<\/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":[196,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americana","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5321","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=5321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}