{"id":5701,"date":"2017-03-11T17:33:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T17:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/03\/11\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-street-songs\/"},"modified":"2017-03-11T17:33:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T17:33:13","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-street-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/03\/11\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-street-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Street Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rolling Stones, Street Fighting Man<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Gerry Rafferty, Baker Street<\/a>. From the far-off and fabulous summer of '78. <\/span><\/p>\n

Bob Dylan, Positively 4th Street<\/a>. This isn't Dylan, but a creditable cover. Johnny Rivers' version<\/a>, endorsed by Dylan in his Chronicles<\/em>, vol. I.<\/span><\/p>\n

Simon and Garfunkel, 59th Street Bridge Song<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Martha and the Vandellas, Dancing in the Street<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Buck Owens, Streets of Bakersfield<\/a>. This one goes out to Jean H.<\/span><\/p>\n

And now a couple from the Great American Songbook<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Dean Martin, On the Street Where You Live<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Rod Stewart, On the Sunny Side of the Street<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

You guessed it:<\/span><\/p>\n

James Carr, The Dark End of the Street<\/a>. Eva Cassidy's effort<\/a>. Ry Cooder's inimitable instrumental version<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Johnny Cash, Streets of Laredo<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Bob Seger, Main Street<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Patsy Cline, Lonely Street<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Patsy Cline, "Today I passed you on the street<\/a> . . . ."<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/a>On This Date 31 Years Ago and 50 Years Ago: Jim Fixx and Bob Dylan<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rolling Stones, Street Fighting Man Gerry Rafferty, Baker Street. From the far-off and fabulous summer of '78.  Bob Dylan, Positively 4th Street. This isn't Dylan, but a creditable cover. Johnny Rivers' version, endorsed by Dylan in his Chronicles, vol. I. Simon and Garfunkel, 59th Street Bridge Song Martha and the Vandellas, Dancing in the Street … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Street 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-5701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701","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=5701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}