{"id":5485,"date":"2017-05-27T17:59:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T17:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/27\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-amateur-nite\/"},"modified":"2017-05-27T17:59:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T17:59:42","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-amateur-nite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/27\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-amateur-nite\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Amateur Nite"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a lot of unsung talent out there  in the Land of YouTube.  Check out the 'classic' covers by this cutie who goes by the name of Sayaka Alessandra:<\/span><\/p>\n

Dream Lover<\/a>.  Che bella ragazza! Bobby Darin's original<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then He Kissed Me<\/a>. The Crystals' original<\/a> with the famous Phil Spector 'wall of sound.'  The Beach Boys' Then I Kissed Her<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just One Look<\/a>. The Doris Troy original<\/a>. Yet another great tune from '63.<\/span><\/p>\n

The lass is also a competent guitar player:<\/span><\/p>\n

The Wanderer<\/a>. A creditable version of the feminist anthem. Dion DiMucci's original<\/a>. It takes a wop to sing this song right.<\/span><\/p>\n

A Teenager in Love<\/a>. Dion and the Belmonts' original<\/a>. They guy has amazing staying power. He still<\/a> looks and sounds good at 70+.  I Wonder Why<\/a> (2004). Wop, wop, wop, wop, wopwopwop. Is that why they call it 'do wop'?<\/span><\/p>\n

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There is a lot of unsung talent out there  in the Land of YouTube.  Check out the 'classic' covers by this cutie who goes by the name of Sayaka Alessandra: Dream Lover.  Che bella ragazza! Bobby Darin's original. Then He Kissed Me. The Crystals' original with the famous Phil Spector 'wall of sound.'  The Beach … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Amateur Nite”<\/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-5485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485","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=5485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}