{"id":9997,"date":"2012-01-21T17:35:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T17:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/01\/21\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-remembering-johnny-otis-and-etta-james\/"},"modified":"2012-01-21T17:35:24","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T17:35:24","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-remembering-johnny-otis-and-etta-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/01\/21\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-remembering-johnny-otis-and-etta-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies:  Remembering Johnny Otis and Etta James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Both passed on this last week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/20\/arts\/music\/johnny-otis-musician-dies-at-90.html\" target=\"_self\">Otis at 90<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/21\/arts\/music\/etta-james-singer-dies-at-73.html?_r=1&amp;src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB\" target=\"_self\">James at 73<\/a>.&#0160; Johnny Otis&#39; signature number is of course &quot;Willy and the Hand Jive.&quot;&#0160; In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TEeeGMpM_Nk\" target=\"_self\">this curious clip<\/a>, we are first treated to a late &#39;50 car commercial which should stir up memories in Los Angelenos of a certain age and then to a performance&#0160; by Otis and his band with the hand jive itself illustrated by a trio of meaty mamas.&#0160; I always thought that Otis was a very light-skinned black man.&#0160; But in real life he rejoiced under the name Veliotes and was pure Greek.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Etta James&#39; signature number is of course <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LsSS9VcMidA\" target=\"_self\">At Last<\/a>.&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lMjaVkxnLpg\" target=\"_self\">Her version<\/a> of &quot;The Very Thought of You&quot; compares favorably with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TY1dg_3HgNg\" target=\"_self\">Billie Holliday&#39;s<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both passed on this last week Otis at 90, James at 73.&#0160; Johnny Otis&#39; signature number is of course &quot;Willy and the Hand Jive.&quot;&#0160; In this curious clip, we are first treated to a late &#39;50 car commercial which should stir up memories in Los Angelenos of a certain age and then to a performance&#0160; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/01\/21\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-remembering-johnny-otis-and-etta-james\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday Night at the Oldies:  Remembering Johnny Otis and Etta James&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9997","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=9997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}