{"id":6721,"date":"2016-01-16T17:48:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T17:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/01\/16\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-jimmy-elledge-and-some-other-one-hit-wonders-2\/"},"modified":"2016-01-16T17:48:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T17:48:50","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-jimmy-elledge-and-some-other-one-hit-wonders-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/01\/16\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-jimmy-elledge-and-some-other-one-hit-wonders-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Jimmy Elledge and Some Other One-Hit Wonders"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jimmy Elledge, Funny How Time Slips Away<\/a>.  Born January 8, 1943 in Nashville, Elledge died June 10, 2012 after complications following a stroke.  The song, written by Willie Nelson, made the #22 slot on Billboard Hot 100<\/a> in 1961, and sold over one million copies. Elledge never had another hit. As a YouTube commenter pointed out, that does sound like Floyd Cramer tickling the ivories.  A great song.  I always thought it was a female singing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rosie and the Originals, Angel Baby<\/a>, 1960.  Perfect for cruising Whittier Boulevard in your '57 Chevy on a Saturday Night.<\/span><\/p>\n

Claudine Clark, Party Lights<\/a>, 1962<\/span><\/p>\n

Contours, Do You Love Me?<\/a> 1962<\/span><\/p>\n

Norma Tanega<\/a>, Walkin' My Cat Named 'Dog,'<\/a> 1966.   A forgotten oldie if ever there was one.  If you remember this bit of vintage vinyl, one of the strangest songs of the '60s, I'll buy you a beer or a cat named 'dog.' One.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bruce Channel, Hey! Baby<\/a>, 1962<\/span><\/p>\n

Barbara George, I Know<\/a>, 1962<\/span><\/p>\n

And now a couple more forgotten one-hit wonders who get almost no play on the oldies stations which is exactly why you need Uncle Wild Bill's Saturday Night at the Oldies:<\/span><\/p>\n

Bob Luman, Let's Think About Livin'<\/a>  Trivia question: The song contains references to three contemporary songs.  Name them.  And how quaint the reference to the fellow with the switch-blade knife.
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Larry Finnegan, Dear One<\/a>, 1962 <\/span><\/p>\n

David Bowie?  Who's he?<\/span><\/p>\n

UPDATE 1\/17<\/strong>:  Dave B. tells me that I owe his wife Ronda a beer:
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Yeah she remembered that song from the opening riff.<\/span><\/div>\n
What a waste of a nice Gibson SG…<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

You are quite right, Dave: the girl is flailing at <\/span>a Gibson SG standard.  Clapton, a.k.a 'God,' played them before switching over to Fender Strats.  I wanted an SG back around '67 or '68 but they were too much in demand.  So I 'settled' for  a Gibson ES 335TD.  But then I did the dumbest thing I ever did<\/a> a few years later.
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Jimmy Elledge, Funny How Time Slips Away.  Born January 8, 1943 in Nashville, Elledge died June 10, 2012 after complications following a stroke.  The song, written by Willie Nelson, made the #22 slot on Billboard Hot 100 in 1961, and sold over one million copies. Elledge never had another hit. As a YouTube commenter pointed … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Jimmy Elledge and Some Other One-Hit Wonders”<\/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-6721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721","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=6721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}