{"id":6190,"date":"2016-09-24T17:59:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T17:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/09\/24\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-mariemariamary-2\/"},"modified":"2016-09-24T17:59:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T17:59:38","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-mariemariamary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/09\/24\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-mariemariamary-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Marie\/Maria\/Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beautiful names celebrated in song.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elvis Presley, Marie's the Name of His Latest Flame<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

George Harrison and friends, Absolutely Sweet Marie<\/a>.  By the way, this self-certified Dylanologist can attest that in the first line it is 'railroad GAUGE,' not 'railroad gate.'  'Gauge' is a measure of the width of the track; that's what our boy can't jump.  This one goes out to Marie Benson, from the summer of '65. Where are you tonight, sweet Marie?  <\/span><\/p>\n

Bachelors, Marie<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

R. B. Greaves, Take a Letter, Maria<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Placido Domingo, Ave Maria<\/a> (Schubert)<\/span><\/p>\n

Jimi Hendrix, The Wind Cries 'Mary'<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a>Association, Along Comes Mary<\/a>.  Back in '66 I didn't appreciate how good the lyrics are. <\/span><\/p>\n

And finally Mary takes Marty Robbins back after his tryst with the Devil Woman<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Beautiful names celebrated in song. Elvis Presley, Marie's the Name of His Latest Flame George Harrison and friends, Absolutely Sweet Marie.  By the way, this self-certified Dylanologist can attest that in the first line it is 'railroad GAUGE,' not 'railroad gate.'  'Gauge' is a measure of the width of the track; that's what our boy … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Marie\/Maria\/Mary”<\/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-6190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6190","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=6190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}