{"id":6407,"date":"2016-05-28T18:18:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T18:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/05\/28\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-did-johnny-mercer-ever-write-songs-like-these\/"},"modified":"2016-05-28T18:18:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T18:18:18","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-did-johnny-mercer-ever-write-songs-like-these","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/05\/28\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-did-johnny-mercer-ever-write-songs-like-these\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Did Johnny Mercer Ever Write Songs Like These?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just Like a Woman<\/a>, Cutting Edge take.  Blonde on Blonde version<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Take a Train to Cry<\/a>, Cutting Edge take.  Perhaps you prefer Mercer's  On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Visions of Johanna<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Desolation Row<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Dylan can, and has, written the sorts of conventional, schmaltzy songs that Mercer, Berlin, and the other contributors to the Great American Songbook wrote.  But could they have written songs like the above? And they are only a small sample.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is partial justification of last week's claim that Dylan is America's greatest writer of popular songs.  Bar none.  Might there be some generational chauvinism at work here?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just Like a Woman, Cutting Edge take.  Blonde on Blonde version. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Take a Train to Cry, Cutting Edge take.  Perhaps you prefer Mercer's  On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe. Visions of Johanna It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall Desolation Row … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Did Johnny Mercer Ever Write Songs Like These?”<\/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":[196,167,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americana","category-dylan","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407","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=6407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}