{"id":9194,"date":"2012-11-24T16:15:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T16:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/24\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-fortune\/"},"modified":"2012-11-24T16:15:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T16:15:34","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/24\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-fortune\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carl Orff, Carmina Burana, O Fortuna<\/a> (With Latin and English).  Better performance<\/a> without lyrics.<\/span><\/p>\n

Joan Baez, There But For Fortune<\/a>.  The best rendition of a song written by Phil Ochs<\/a>.  Ochs' version<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

I agree with this analysis<\/a> of Ochs:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The short, triumphant, tragic career of Phil Ochs illustrates one of the harder lessons of American popular culture: that audiences are moved far more by mystery than by commitment. Of all the artists of the 1960s folk-music boom, only Bob Dylan understood that in his bones, and only Dylan became a superstar. Ochs, by contrast, was the bright class president of the Greenwich Village scene, reeling off powerful, didactic protest songs in an earnest tenor. He was direct and defiantly uncool, and it doomed him.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The Phil Ochs Movie: There But For Fortune<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carl Orff, Carmina Burana, O Fortuna (With Latin and English).  Better performance without lyrics. Joan Baez, There But For Fortune.  The best rendition of a song written by Phil Ochs.  Ochs' version. I agree with this analysis of Ochs: The short, triumphant, tragic career of Phil Ochs illustrates one of the harder lessons of American popular … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Fortune”<\/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-9194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9194","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=9194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}