{"id":9019,"date":"2013-02-02T18:24:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T18:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/02\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-literary-allusions\/"},"modified":"2013-02-02T18:24:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T18:24:59","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-literary-allusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/02\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-literary-allusions\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Literary Allusions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linda Ronstadt, 1967, Different Drum<\/a>.  Cf. Henry David Thoreau: "\u201cIf a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.  Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.\u201d \u2013 Henry David Thoreau, Walden<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Byrds, Turn, Turn, Turn<\/a>, 1965.  Lyrics almost verbatim from the Book Of Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8.  Pete Seeger did it first<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bob Dylan, 1965, Highway 61 Revisited<\/a>.  Genesis<\/em> 22.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fever Tree, The Sun Also Rises<\/a>.  A great song  by a great but forgotten '60s psychedelic  band. The title alludes to Hemingway's 1926 novel and to Ecclesiastes<\/em> 1: 1-5: <\/span><\/p>\n

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1<\/strong>The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.<\/a> 2<\/strong>Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.<\/a> 3<\/strong>What profit has a man of all his labor which he takes under the sun?<\/a> 4<\/strong>One generation passes away, and another generation comes: but the earth stays for ever.<\/a> 5<\/strong>The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to his place where he arose.<\/a> 6<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Jaynettes, 1963, Sally Go Round the Roses<\/a>.  Based on the nursery rhyme Ring a Ring o' Roses<\/a> (British)or "Ring Around the Rosie" (Stateside).<\/span><\/p>\n

Inez and Charlie Foxx, 1963, Mockingbird<\/a>.  An R & B version of the eponymous nursery rhyme<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Serendipity Singers, 1964, Don't Let the Rain Come Down<\/a>.  Based on ther nursery rhyme, There Was a Crooked Man<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Exercise for the reader.  Identify the Biblical references in the following Dylan songs: The Times They Are a'Changin'<\/a>, All Along the Watchtower<\/a>, When the Ship Comes In<\/a>, The Gates of Eden<\/a>. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Linda Ronstadt, 1967, Different Drum.  Cf. Henry David Thoreau: "\u201cIf a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.  Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.\u201d \u2013 Henry David Thoreau, Walden Byrds, Turn, Turn, Turn, 1965.  Lyrics almost verbatim … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Literary Allusions”<\/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":[167,719,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dylan","category-ecclesiastes","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9019","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=9019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}