{"id":9590,"date":"2012-06-30T19:13:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T19:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/30\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-anti-drug-songs-2\/"},"modified":"2012-06-30T19:13:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T19:13:52","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-anti-drug-songs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/30\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-anti-drug-songs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: (Anti-)Drug Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buffy Sainte-Marie, Cod'ine<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Hoyt Axton, The Pusher<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Dave Van Ronk, Cocaine Blues<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

Velvet Underground, Heroin<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Warren Zevon, Carmelita<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Harry 'The Hipster' Gibson, Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs Murphy's Ovaltine? <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Dubiously classified as drug songs<\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Peter, Paul, and Mary, Puff the Magic Dragon<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Doors, The Crystal Ship<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Tim Hardin, Red Balloon<\/a>.  Volume is poor, so try the Small Faces version<\/a>.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Donovan, Mellow Yellow<\/a>.  Supposedly about cigarettes filled with dried banana peels.  I tried one of these mellow yellow joints  in Hollywood, Cal, in '67.  It had no psychoactive effect I could discern.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beatles, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds<\/a>.  Supposedly about LSD.<\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buffy Sainte-Marie, Cod'ine Hoyt Axton, The Pusher Dave Van Ronk, Cocaine Blues  Velvet Underground, Heroin Warren Zevon, Carmelita Harry 'The Hipster' Gibson, Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs Murphy's Ovaltine? Dubiously classified as drug songs: Peter, Paul, and Mary, Puff the Magic Dragon Doors, The Crystal Ship Tim Hardin, Red Balloon.  Volume is poor, so … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: (Anti-)Drug Songs”<\/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-9590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9590","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=9590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}