{"id":242,"date":"2012-01-29T12:25:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T17:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2012-01-29T12:25:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T17:25:16","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-32-scratchy-45-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/01\/29\/my-musical-evolution-part-32-scratchy-45-days\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution &#8211; Part 32 Scratchy 45 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we&#8217;re back to the hits of the 70&#8217;s. I hope you enjoyed the side trip into classical. I also hope that I&#8217;m painting a good enough picture of the diversity of music in my early years. I think this diversity has not only been with me my entire life but has broadened significantly over time. At the moment, I think there are really only a few genres that I avoid. <em>The Gangsta Rap<\/em> stuff and the <em>Whiny Country Music<\/em> but even those are subsets of music that I still enjoy. I hope you like this stack of 7.<\/p>\n<p>Ahh, when Smokey sings,\u00a0I hear violins. Still no relation to the bear. Smokey Robinson &#8211; <em>Tears Of A Clown<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k2kxlZDOHeQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nitty Gritty Dirt Band &#8211; <em>Mr. Bojangles<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e-LVXR6rjXs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Andy Kim &#8211; <em>Rock Me Gently.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>I used to really like this song a lot. Can&#8217;t put my finger on why.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4F2TOjMFgrQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We used to watch Mac Davis&#8217; TV show. I don&#8217;t remember much about it except my favorite part was when he&#8217;d go to the audience to get subjects for songs that he&#8217;d make up on the spot. I did that myself many years later. My songs were more like Weird Al Yankovic songs. I&#8217;d take the subject supplied by firends and create a song about it to the tune of a popular or familiar song. I once did a mashup [before I ever heard of mashups] of the Beverly Hillbilly&#8217;s Theme and The Beatles Paperback Writer. Mac Davis &#8211;\u00a0<em>Baby Don&#8217;t Get Hooked\u00a0On Me<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mWEL0VjQii8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Carpenters &#8211;\u00a0<em>Sing<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O-hGn6CU2wQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nI was in Menard&#8217;s yesterday and <em>Love Rollercoaster<\/em> was on the overhead sound system. This was probably one of the first songs I remember talking about in school. There was all this buzz about the <em>scream<\/em>. Stories ranged from homicidal to paranormal. you can check it out for yourself at the 2:32 mark. Was a woman being stabbed? Of course in Menard&#8217;s I had to stop and listen for the scream. Thinking about it now, it might have been the scream you\u00a0hear when somebody is riding on a rollercoaster. The Ohio Players &#8211; <em>Love Rollercoaster<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/etebeZDt7Eo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know why this song suddenly made resurgance around this time but it did and of course it appealed to any boy in elemntary school. Benny Bell &#8211; <em>Shaving Cream<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G8ffkDf0ol4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we&#8217;re back to the hits of the 70&#8217;s. I hope you enjoyed the side trip into classical. I also hope that I&#8217;m painting a good enough picture of the diversity of music in my early years. I think this diversity has not only been with me my entire life but has broadened significantly over &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/01\/29\/my-musical-evolution-part-32-scratchy-45-days\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Musical Evolution &#8211; Part 32 Scratchy 45 Days&#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":[37,69,386,448,453,542,562,626],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-musical-evolution","tag-andy-kim","tag-benny-bell","tag-mac-davis","tag-nitty-gritty-dirt-band","tag-ohio-players","tag-scratchy-45-days","tag-smokey-robinson","tag-the-carpenters","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","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=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}