{"id":354,"date":"2012-02-19T11:54:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T16:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=354"},"modified":"2012-02-19T11:54:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T16:54:03","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-42-scratchy-45-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/02\/19\/my-musical-evolution-part-42-scratchy-45-days\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution &#8211; Part 42 Scratchy 45 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we got older, radio began to grow as an influence on me and my sisters. That influence was gently exerted on my mother and her colleciton of scratchy 45&#8217;s evolved to include our musical tastes. I was responsible for brining <em>Shaving Cream<\/em> and <em>The Streak<\/em> into the house. My sister Barbara brought us the <em>Bay City Rollers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Bay City Rollers &#8211; <em>Saturday Night<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/InZprV1cmBU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nHarry Nilsson &#8211; <em>Everybody&#8217;s Talkin&#8217; At Me<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2AzEY6ZqkuE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nI can definately feel my influence here. C.W. McCall &#8211; <em>Convoy<\/em>. Decades later this guy would find his way back into the <em>Ecclectic Collection<\/em> with a new name, <em>Mannheim Steamroller<\/em>. I know!<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j3VN54M1OXA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe 5th Dimension &#8211; <em>Wedding Bell Blues<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IkMhWQgkZ8c?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe Ides Of March &#8211; <em>Vehicle<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jHx1P29fOHA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe New Seekers &#8211; <em>I&#8217;d Like To Teach The World To Sing<\/em> What? Cocoa-cola didn&#8217;t write this?<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8jr9hPbYmBo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nOrleans &#8211; <em>Still The One<\/em> I remember ABC used this song to launch their fall line up one year.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SbH_sDyWZqo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we got older, radio began to grow as an influence on me and my sisters. That influence was gently exerted on my mother and her colleciton of scratchy 45&#8217;s evolved to include our musical tastes. I was responsible for brining Shaving Cream and The Streak into the house. My sister Barbara brought us the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/02\/19\/my-musical-evolution-part-42-scratchy-45-days\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Musical Evolution &#8211; Part 42 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":[116,285,456,542,610,618,650,664],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-musical-evolution","tag-c-w-mccall","tag-harry-nilsson","tag-orleans","tag-scratchy-45-days","tag-the-5th-dimension","tag-the-bay-city-rollers","tag-the-ides-of-march","tag-the-new-seekers","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","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=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}