{"id":7887,"date":"2014-06-21T17:55:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T17:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/06\/21\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-gerry-goffin-and-casey-kasem\/"},"modified":"2014-06-21T17:55:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T17:55:55","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-gerry-goffin-and-casey-kasem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/06\/21\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-gerry-goffin-and-casey-kasem\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Gerry Goffin and Casey Kasem"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOFFIN-2-obit-master180\"<\/a>Two pop music notables died this last week, lyricist Gerry Goffin<\/a> and disc jockey Casey Kasem.  Both played key roles in delivering the Boomer 'soundtrack.'   Goffin, ex-husband of Carole King, died in Los Angeles on Wednesday at age 75.  Here are some of the tunes he co-wrote with King.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shirelles, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?<\/a>  The Shirelles' rendition, countlessly covered, has never been surpassed.<\/span><\/p>\n

This one goes out to (the shade of) Aristotle.  Little Eva, The Loco-Motion<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

Aretha Franklin, (You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Steve Lawrence, Go Away Little Girl<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Bobby Vee, Take Good Care of My Baby<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Chiffons, One Fine Day<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Drifters, Up on the Roof<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Animals, Don't Bring Me Down<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Barry Mann, Who Put the Bomp?<\/a> (Goffin had a hand in this, but not King, if I'm not mistaken.)<\/span><\/p>\n

On the other hand, Goffin had no hand in Crying in the Rain<\/a> which was written by King and Howard Greenfield.<\/span><\/p>\n

I must have heard Casey Kasem for the first time in the '60s over KRLA, Los Angeles.  Here<\/a> is his story.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Two pop music notables died this last week, lyricist Gerry Goffin and disc jockey Casey Kasem.  Both played key roles in delivering the Boomer 'soundtrack.'   Goffin, ex-husband of Carole King, died in Los Angeles on Wednesday at age 75.  Here are some of the tunes he co-wrote with King. Shirelles, Will You Still Love … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Gerry Goffin and Casey Kasem”<\/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-7887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887","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=7887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}