{"id":9341,"date":"2012-09-22T18:11:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T18:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/22\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-forgotten-folkies-2\/"},"modified":"2012-09-22T18:11:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T18:11:08","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-forgotten-folkies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/22\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-forgotten-folkies-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Forgotten Folkies"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Highwaymen<\/a> were a 'collegiate folk ' outfit that had a big hit in 1961 with Michael Row the Boat Ashore.<\/a>  Listening to it now after many years, I had forgotten how beautiful it is.  1962 brought them their second hit, Cotton Fields<\/a>.  The tune is a Leadbelly<\/a> cover and has been covered in its turn by the Springfields<\/a>, Creedence Clearwater Revival<\/a>, the Beach Boys<\/a>, and others.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Springfields were how Dusty Springfield got her start.  Silver Threads and Golden Needles<\/a> is another great tune they did.  It is a Wanda Jackson<\/a> cover and was covered in its turn by Linda Ronstadt<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

And while we're on the topic of implements of sewing, we can't go wrong with Jackie De Shannon's Needles and Pins<\/a> (1963).<\/span><\/p>\n

If you remember Joe and Eddie<\/a>, There's a Meetin' Here Tonight<\/a>, I'll buy you a bowl of menudo at Tres Banderas<\/em> cantina, Apache Junction, Arizona. Meet me there in an hour. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Highwaymen were a 'collegiate folk ' outfit that had a big hit in 1961 with Michael Row the Boat Ashore.  Listening to it now after many years, I had forgotten how beautiful it is.  1962 brought them their second hit, Cotton Fields.  The tune is a Leadbelly cover and has been covered in its turn … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Forgotten Folkies”<\/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-9341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9341","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=9341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}