{"id":136,"date":"2012-01-15T12:44:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T17:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=136"},"modified":"2012-01-15T12:44:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T17:44:23","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-14-the-osmond-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/01\/15\/my-musical-evolution-part-14-the-osmond-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution &#8211; Part 14 The Osmond Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Osmond. What a strange sounding name. Osmond. It sounds made up like Engelbert Humperdinck. As odd as that name sounds, in the 1970&#8217;s, it was a household name. Mom&#8217;s <em>Scratchy 45s<\/em> had plently of Osmond Brothers records. We watched <em>The Donny And Marie Show. <\/em>Was it a simpler time? Were we more innocent? What would the world be like today if Donny had taken the stage with his nickname <em>Ozzie Osmond.<\/em> Would he have bitten the heads off of stuff? Who can say?<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s jump into our Osmond stack and see what happens. Here&#8217;s <em>Yo-Yo<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j2ubbk5C8DU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>One Bad Apple <\/em>I vaguely remember The Osmund brothers and the Jackson 5 each having their own Saturday morning cartoon. Maybe I dreamt it but this was the theme song.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3J-VdWlbAXE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>Go Away Little Girl. <\/em>When I was in first grade, I used to hold hands on the playground with a little red headed girl named Laurie. She may not remember, but this was our song. It seems funny to think about forty years later. The song says that he wasn&#8217;t supposed to be with her because he was already dating somebody else. In my mind the <em>I&#8217;m not supposed to be alone with you<\/em> was me recognizing that I was only in first grade and should be thinking about dodgeball and not dating.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tRVwpBns5R4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>Down By The Lazy River<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/91H47sxm-Wo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>Puppy Love<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N8NAKBr1g50?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>Too Young<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FCVb2Vvby2I?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>I&#8217;m Leaving It All Up To You<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RRLhHE--BxU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nOK That last one wasn&#8217;t really The Osmund Brothers but I threw it in to finish off our segment on Osmunds. Andy Williams pops up again. Interesting. I admit, <em>The Donny And Marie Show<\/em> probably had some influence on <em>My Musical Evolution.<\/em> I can remember my family watching it but apart from the ice skaters and the <em>Little Bit Country, Little Bit Rock &#8216;n Roll <\/em>section, I can&#8217;t remember much about it. I did think that Marie Osmund was pretty hot back then. She still is I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osmond. What a strange sounding name. Osmond. It sounds made up like Engelbert Humperdinck. As odd as that name sounds, in the 1970&#8217;s, it was a household name. Mom&#8217;s Scratchy 45s had plently of Osmond Brothers records. We watched The Donny And Marie Show. Was it a simpler time? Were we more innocent? What would &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/01\/15\/my-musical-evolution-part-14-the-osmond-brothers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Musical Evolution &#8211; Part 14 The Osmond Brothers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[392,542,665],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-musical-evolution","tag-marie-osmond","tag-scratchy-45-days","tag-the-osmond-brothers","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}