{"id":5506,"date":"2017-05-20T17:23:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T17:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/20\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-strange-songs\/"},"modified":"2017-05-20T17:23:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T17:23:06","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-strange-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/20\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-strange-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: ‘Strange’ Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

In three categories:  Rock, Religion, Romanticism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cream, Strange Brew<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Doors, People are Strange<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Doors, Strange Days<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Mickey and Sylvia, Love is Strange<\/a>, 1956<\/span><\/p>\n

Stanley Bros., Rank Strangers<\/a>. Utterly deplorable.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eva Cassidy, Wayfaring Stranger<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Johnny Cash, Wayfaring Stranger<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Frank Sinatra, Strangers in the Night<\/a>  To be is to do (Socrates).  To do is to be (Sartre). Do be do be do (Sinatra).<\/span><\/p>\n

Barbara Lewis, Hello Stranger<\/a>, 1963. 1963 was arguably the best of the '60s years for pop compositions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Emmylou Harris, Hello Stranger<\/a>. Same title, different song.  This one goes out to Mary Kay F-D. Remember the Fall of 1980, Mary Kay? <\/span><\/p>\n

Get up, rounder\/Let a working girl lie down\/ You are rounder\/And you are all out and down.<\/span><\/p>\n

Carter Family version<\/a> from 1939.<\/span><\/p>\n

Acker Bilk, Stranger on the Shore<\/a>. A memorable '60s instrumental.  More here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In three categories:  Rock, Religion, Romanticism. Cream, Strange Brew Doors, People are Strange Doors, Strange Days Mickey and Sylvia, Love is Strange, 1956 Stanley Bros., Rank Strangers. Utterly deplorable. Eva Cassidy, Wayfaring Stranger Johnny Cash, Wayfaring Stranger Frank Sinatra, Strangers in the Night  To be is to do (Socrates).  To do is to be (Sartre). … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: ‘Strange’ Songs”<\/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-5506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506","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=5506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}