{"id":8598,"date":"2013-07-27T19:38:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T19:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/27\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-j-j-cale-and-some-songs-from-the-summer-of-63\/"},"modified":"2013-07-27T19:38:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T19:38:01","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-j-j-cale-and-some-songs-from-the-summer-of-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/27\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-j-j-cale-and-some-songs-from-the-summer-of-63\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: J. J. Cale and Some Songs from the Summer of ’63"},"content":{"rendered":"

J. J. Cale has died<\/a> at the age of 74.  Better known to musicians than to the general public, Cale was the writer behind such songs as Eric Clapton's After Midnight<\/a> and Lynyrd Synyrd's Call Me the Breeze<\/a>.  Here he is on Mama Don't<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The summer of 1963 — 50 years ago! — featured  an amazing number of great tunes in several different genres.  Here is a sample from the Billboard Top 100.<\/span><\/p>\n

Country Crossover<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Dave Dudley, Six Days on the Road<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Bobby Bare, Detroit City<\/a>.  I don't reckon Bobby be a pinin' for DEE-troit these days.  Can't get no PO- lice protection.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lonnie Mack, Memphis.<\/a>  Mighty fine guitar slingin.' <\/span><\/p>\n

Johnny Cash, Ring of Fire<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

George Hamilton IV, Abilene<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Surf Music<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Jan and Dean, Surf City<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Hot Rods<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Beach Boys, Shutdown<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Folk\/Protest\/Social Commentary<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Peter, Paul, and Mary, Blowin' in the Wind<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Trini Lopez, If I Had a Hammer<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

New Christy Minstrels, Green, Green<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Romantic\/Torch<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Brenda Lee, Losing You<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Barbara Lewis, Hello Stranger<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Ruby and the Romantics, Our Day Will Come<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Bobby Vinton, Blue on Blue<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Black Girl Groups<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Orlons, Not Me<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Shirelles, Foolish Little Girl<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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

Crystals, Da Doo Ron Ron<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Solo Black Artists<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Doris Troy, Just One Look<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Inez Foxx, Mockingbird<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Sam Cooke, Another Saturday Night<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

White Boy Groups<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Randy and the Rainbows, Denise<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Dovells, You Can't Sit Down<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Four Seasons, Candy Girl <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Solo White Artists<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Bobby Darin, 18 Yellow Roses<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Wayne Newton, Danke Schoen<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Elvis Presley, Devil in Disguise<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Those were just some of the songs from that summer of '63, the summer before the JFK assassination.  It was a hopeful time, race relations were on the mend.  But then everything fell apart and here we are 50 years later in the midst of serious national decline with a incompetent race-baiting leftist occupying the White House. <\/span> <\/p>\n

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J. J. Cale has died at the age of 74.  Better known to musicians than to the general public, Cale was the writer behind such songs as Eric Clapton's After Midnight and Lynyrd Synyrd's Call Me the Breeze.  Here he is on Mama Don't. The summer of 1963 — 50 years ago! — featured  an amazing … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: J. J. Cale and Some Songs from the Summer of ’63”<\/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":[18,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-sixties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598","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=8598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}