{"id":8177,"date":"2014-01-25T16:57:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T16:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/01\/25\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-british-invasion-the-ds\/"},"modified":"2014-01-25T16:57:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T16:57:12","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-british-invasion-the-ds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/01\/25\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-british-invasion-the-ds\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: British Invasion, the Ds"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"British<\/a>Last time I left out one of the Cs, Petula Clark. A major omission, mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa<\/em>.  Here's 1964's Downtown<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

From the sweet to the Dionysian hard core of rock and roll, Spencer Davis, Gimme Some Lovin<\/a>.  A great driving song.  Try not to pound a hole in the dashboard.<\/span><\/p>\n

And from there to the folk strains of Donovan, Catch the Wind<\/a>.  Colours<\/a>.  Here is a dumbassed YouTube comment:  "The singing style, the guitar style, even the cap: everything here screams, 'Dylan impersonator!'" You may as well argue that Dylan was a Woody Guthrie impersonator. Though not on Dylan's level, Donovan was a major ingredient in the flavor of the fabulous and far-off 'sixties.<\/span><\/p>\n

Colours<\/a> duet with Joan Baez at Newport Folk Festival.   Here<\/a>'s another great duet version of Catch the Wind<\/em>: Joan and Mimi Baez. Season of the Witch<\/a>.  Drifting psychedelic . . . .<\/span><\/p>\n

And then there was the Dave Clark Five, Glad All Over<\/a>.   A little plastic . . . .  'Plastic' is '60s slang for fake, less than authentic, artificial.  Here<\/a> is a glossary of '60s slang.  Not entirely accurate, but pretty good.
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Last time I left out one of the Cs, Petula Clark. A major omission, mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.  Here's 1964's Downtown. From the sweet to the Dionysian hard core of rock and roll, Spencer Davis, Gimme Some Lovin.  A great driving song.  Try not to pound a hole in the dashboard. And … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: British Invasion, the Ds”<\/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-8177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8177","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=8177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}