{"id":6543,"date":"2016-04-02T17:42:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T17:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/04\/02\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-foolish-songs-for-the-day-after-april-fools-day\/"},"modified":"2016-04-02T17:42:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T17:42:12","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-foolish-songs-for-the-day-after-april-fools-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/04\/02\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-foolish-songs-for-the-day-after-april-fools-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: ‘Foolish’ Songs for the Day after April Fool’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I may be a day late and a dollar short, but here for your auditory amusement are some tunes in celebration or bemoanment of human folly the chief instance of which is romantic love.  Who has never been played for a fool by a charming member of the opposite sex?  Old age is the sovereign cure for romantic folly and I sincerely recommend it to the young and foolish.  Take care to get there.
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Elvis Presley, A Fool Such as I<\/a><\/span>
Ricky Nelson, Poor Little Fool<\/a>.  Those "carefree devil eyes" will do it every time.  <\/span>
Brenda Lee, Fool #1<\/a><\/span>
The Shirelles, Foolish Little Girl<\/a><\/span>
Ricky Nelson, Fools Rush In<\/a>.  "Fools rush in\/Where wise men never go\/But wise men never fall in love\/So how are they to know?" <\/span>
Sam Cooke, Fool's Paradise<\/a>. Sage advice.  <\/span>
Elvin Bishop, Fooled Around and Fell in Love<\/a><\/span>
Kingston Trio, Some Fool Made a Soldier of Me<\/a><\/span>
Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Fool<\/a><\/span>
Tony Bennett and Bill Evans, My Foolish Heart<\/a><\/span>
Bill Evans, Foolish Heart
<\/a>Lesley Gore, She's a Fool
<\/a>Paul McCartney, The Fool on the Hill<\/a><\/span>
Aretha Franklin, Chain of Fools<\/a><\/span>
Connie Francis, Everybody's Somebody's Fool<\/a><\/span>
Grateful Dead, Ship of Fools<\/a><\/span>
Frank Sinatra, I'm a Fool to Want You<\/a> 
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I may be a day late and a dollar short, but here for your auditory amusement are some tunes in celebration or bemoanment of human folly the chief instance of which is romantic love.  Who has never been played for a fool by a charming member of the opposite sex?  Old age is the sovereign … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: ‘Foolish’ Songs for the Day after April Fool’s Day”<\/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-6543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6543","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=6543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}