{"id":9180,"date":"2012-12-01T17:19:19","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T17:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/01\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-1956\/"},"modified":"2012-12-01T17:19:19","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T17:19:19","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-1956","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/01\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-1956\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: 1956"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mickey "Guitar" Baker<\/a> died this last week at age 87.  He is perhaps best known as one half of the Mickey and Sylvia duo whose Love is Strange<\/a> was a hit in 1956.  Also from '56:<\/span><\/p>\n

Johnny Cash, I Walk the Line<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Gogi Grant, The Wayward Wind<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Elvis Presley, Love Me Tender<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Doris Day, Que Sera Sera<\/a>.  It was a different world, muchachos<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Big Joe Turner, Corrine, Corrina<\/a>.  I don't remember hearing this in '56.  Hell, I was only six years old. I remember the tune from the 1960 cover<\/a> by Ray Peterson.  Youtuber comments, which in general are the worst in the whole of cyberspace,  on this one are good.  There is a lovely version by Bob Dylan on his second album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan<\/em>, under the slightly different name, Corrina, Corrina<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mickey "Guitar" Baker died this last week at age 87.  He is perhaps best known as one half of the Mickey and Sylvia duo whose Love is Strange was a hit in 1956.  Also from '56: Johnny Cash, I Walk the Line Gogi Grant, The Wayward Wind Elvis Presley, Love Me Tender Doris Day, Que … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: 1956”<\/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-9180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180","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=9180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}