{"id":9036,"date":"2013-01-26T17:07:45","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T17:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/26\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-letters-and-the-like\/"},"modified":"2013-01-26T17:07:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T17:07:45","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-letters-and-the-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/26\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-letters-and-the-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Letters and the Like"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boxtops, 1967, The Letter<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

R. B. Greaves,  Take a Letter, Maria<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Ketty Lester, 1962, Love Letters<\/a>, with images from David Lynch's Blue Velvet<\/em>. If you think the Lynch twist spoils a beautiful song, here it is straight<\/a>.  Often covered, never surpassed.  E.P.'s version<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elvis Presley, 1962, Return to Sender<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Benny Goodman, Airmail Special<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Marvelettes, 1961, Please, Mr. Postman<\/a>.  The summer of '69 found me delivering mail out of the Vermont Avenue Station, Hollywood 29.  One day two girls came up to me and started singing this song.  Something this U. S. Male<\/a> won't forget.<\/span><\/p>\n

Roosevelt Sykes, Mailbox Blues<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Bob Dylan, Take a Message to Mary<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Donovan, Epistle to Dippy<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Don Gibson, The Last Letter<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Jean Shepard and Ferlin Husky, A Dear John Letter<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Beatles, P. S. I Love You<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Paul McCartney, I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boxtops, 1967, The Letter R. B. Greaves,  Take a Letter, Maria Ketty Lester, 1962, Love Letters, with images from David Lynch's Blue Velvet. If you think the Lynch twist spoils a beautiful song, here it is straight.  Often covered, never surpassed.  E.P.'s version. Elvis Presley, 1962, Return to Sender Benny Goodman, Airmail Special The Marvelettes, … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Letters and the Like”<\/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-9036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036","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=9036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}