{"id":6214,"date":"2016-09-17T17:54:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T17:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/09\/17\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-fred-neil-2\/"},"modified":"2016-09-17T17:54:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T17:54:02","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-fred-neil-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/09\/17\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-fred-neil-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Fred Neil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"><br \/><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb0937b2bc970d-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fredneilbleeckermacdougal\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb0937b2bc970d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb0937b2bc970d-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Fredneilbleeckermacdougal\" \/><\/a>Remember Fred Neil?&#0160; One of the&#0160; luminaries of the &#39;60s folk scene,&#0160; he didn&#39;t do much musically thereafter.&#0160;&#0160;Neil is probably best&#0160;remembered &#0160;for having penned &#39;Everybody&#39;s Talkin&#39; which was made famous by Harry Nilsson as the theme of&#0160;<em>Midnight Cowboy<\/em>.&#0160; <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M-Ql1284QLw&amp;feature=related\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"> is Neil&#39;s version. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2AzEY6ZqkuE\">Nilsson&#39;s<\/a> rendition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Another of my Fred Neil favorites is &quot;Other Side of &#0160;This Life.&quot;&#0160; <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NAxgAI_lmWg\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"> is Peter, Paul, and Mary&#39;s version.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">And it&#39;s been a long long time since I last enjoyed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1h58d9lHeOs\">That&#39;s the Bag I&#39;m In<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">The reclusive Neil died in 2001 at the age of 64.&#0160; Biography <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicianguide.com\/biographies\/1608003663\/Fred-Neil.html\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Fred Neil?&#0160; One of the&#0160; luminaries of the &#39;60s folk scene,&#0160; he didn&#39;t do much musically thereafter.&#0160;&#0160;Neil is probably best&#0160;remembered &#0160;for having penned &#39;Everybody&#39;s Talkin&#39; which was made famous by Harry Nilsson as the theme of&#0160;Midnight Cowboy.&#0160; Here is Neil&#39;s version. Nilsson&#39;s rendition. Another of my Fred Neil favorites is &quot;Other Side of &#0160;This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/09\/17\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-fred-neil-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday Night at the Oldies: Fred Neil&#8221;<\/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":[18,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-sixties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214","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=6214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}