{"id":6091,"date":"2016-10-29T17:50:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T17:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/10\/29\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-clowns-before-they-were-creepy-and-violent\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T17:50:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T17:50:34","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-clowns-before-they-were-creepy-and-violent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/10\/29\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-clowns-before-they-were-creepy-and-violent\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Clowns Before They Were Creepy and Violent"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Seinfeld<\/a>Being hung up on the '60s, there is and will be only one clown for me, Bozo the Clown<\/em>.  After Bozo I had no truck with clowns.  I'm a serious man.  But I can relate to this segment<\/a> from the Seinfeld<\/em> episode, "The Fire."  It is one of the funniest in the whole series.  But I suppose you had to be there.  In the '60s I mean.  With Bozo.  The<\/em> Clown.  Now some songs featuring clowns.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Roy Orbison, In Dreams<\/a>. "A candy-colored clown they call the sandman . . . ."  <\/span><\/p>\n

James Darren, Goodbye Cruel World<\/a>.  "I'm off to join the circus, gonna be a broken-hearted clown." <\/span><\/p>\n

Frank Sinatra, Send in the Clowns<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Everly Bros., Cathy's Clown<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Burl Ives, A Little Bitty Tear<\/a>.  A little bitty tear let me down, spoiled my act as a clown\/ I had it made up not make a frown, but a little bitty tear let me down.<\/span><\/p>\n

Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, The Tears of a Clown<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Kinks, Death of a Clown<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Harry Nilsson, 1941<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being hung up on the '60s, there is and will be only one clown for me, Bozo the Clown.  After Bozo I had no truck with clowns.  I'm a serious man.  But I can relate to this segment from the Seinfeld episode, "The Fire."  It is one of the funniest in the whole series.  But … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Clowns Before They Were Creepy and Violent”<\/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-6091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091","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=6091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}