{"id":5740,"date":"2017-02-25T17:55:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T17:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/02\/25\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-ten-from-the-billboard-top-100-from-25-february-1967\/"},"modified":"2017-02-25T17:55:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T17:55:27","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-ten-from-the-billboard-top-100-from-25-february-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/02\/25\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-ten-from-the-billboard-top-100-from-25-february-1967\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Ten from the Billboard Top 100 from 25 February 1967"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Seekers, Georgy Girl<\/a>. Chart position: #5  The Australian group's first hit (1965) was I'll Never Find Another You<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sonny and Cher, The Beat Goes On<\/a>. Chart position: #6. Inane lyrics. "The teeny bopper is our new born king."<\/span><\/p>\n

Spencer Davis Group, Gimme Some Lovin<\/a>. Charted at #7. Captures the Dionysian drive of R & R. Check out this 1983 version<\/a>! <\/span><\/p>\n

Cannonball Adderley, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy<\/a>. Chart position: #11<\/span><\/p>\n

Lefte Bank, Pretty Ballerina<\/a>. Chart position: #15. The year before, Walk Away Renee<\/a>. How sweet the illusions and transports of romantic love that wash over the souls of the young and not-so-young.<\/span><\/p>\n

Buffalo Springfield, For What It's Worth<\/a>. Charted at #25.  "Paranoia strikes deep!" <\/span><\/p>\n

Mamas and Papas, Dedicated to the One I Love<\/a>. Chart position: #57. Outstanding, but doesn't get the length of the Shirelles' original<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Simon and Garfunkel, 59th Street Bridge Song<\/a>. Chart position: #69. "Slow down, you're movin' too fast!"<\/span><\/p>\n

Beatles, Strawberry Fields Forever<\/a>. Chart position: #83.<\/span><\/p>\n

James Carr, The Dark End of the Street<\/a>. Chart position: #98. Great song. Better known is Linda Ronstadt's version<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Seekers, Georgy Girl. Chart position: #5  The Australian group's first hit (1965) was I'll Never Find Another You. Sonny and Cher, The Beat Goes On. Chart position: #6. Inane lyrics. "The teeny bopper is our new born king." Spencer Davis Group, Gimme Some Lovin. Charted at #7. Captures the Dionysian drive of R & … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Ten from the Billboard Top 100 from 25 February 1967”<\/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-5740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5740","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=5740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}