{"id":9534,"date":"2012-07-21T17:33:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T17:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/21\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-youth-and-old-age\/"},"modified":"2012-07-21T17:33:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T17:33:22","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-youth-and-old-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/21\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-youth-and-old-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Youth and Old Age"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let's get off to a rousing start with The Who's famous generational anthem, aptly entitled My Generation<\/a>.  "Things they say seem so cold, I hope I die before I get old."  Rather on the sweeter side, Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys wonder what it'll be like when I Grow Up to be a Man<\/a>.  The same wonderful harmonies are also in evidence in this great Beach Boys cover of  I'm So Young<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Ricky Nelson, Young World<\/a>.  Sonny James, Young Love<\/a>.  Lovin Spoonful, Younger Girl<\/a>.  Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, Young Girl<\/a>.  Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Little Children<\/a>.  Janis Ian, Society's Child<\/a>.  Social commentary from a precocious 16 year old in '67.  Joan Baez sings Bob Dylan's, Forever Young<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the young become old . . .<\/span><\/p>\n

Bob Seger, Old Time Rock and Roll<\/a>. "Call me a relic, call me what you will\/Say I'm old-fashioned, say I'm over the hill\/Today's music ain't got the same soul\/ I like that that old time Rock and Roll." Neil Young, Old Man<\/a>.  Howlin' Wolf, Goin' Down Slow<\/a>.  "I've had my fun, if I don't get well no more."  Bob Dylan, Not Dark Yet <\/a>(but it's gettin' there). George Harrison, All Things Must Pass<\/a>.  Bob Dylan, See that My Grave is Kept Clean<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

R.I.P. Kitty Wells <\/a>(1919-2012), Making Believe <\/a>(1955). Heartaches by the Number<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let's get off to a rousing start with The Who's famous generational anthem, aptly entitled My Generation.  "Things they say seem so cold, I hope I die before I get old."  Rather on the sweeter side, Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys wonder what it'll be like when I Grow Up to be a Man.  … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Youth and Old Age”<\/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-9534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534","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=9534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}