{"id":4837,"date":"2011-10-28T20:26:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T01:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=4837"},"modified":"2011-10-28T20:26:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T01:26:41","slug":"friday-night-music-getting-obscure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=4837","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night Music, getting obscure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank God for the power of Google. Periodically it has occurred  to me to put up this song, but usually when I&#8217;m away from my computer. I always liked it, but I could never remember either the title of the song or the name of the band, though the lyrics (&#8220;the world is, a bad place,\u2026 a terrible place to live\u2026.Oh, but I don&#8217;t wanna die&#8221;) have stuck with me. A great song by a group called <em>Marmalade<\/em>, who I suspected faded into oblivion right after this song dropped off the charts. Actually, according to the entry on Wikipedia they had some other hits, mostly in Great Britain, including a cover of <em>Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da<\/em> and there&#8217;s a video of the group from a few years ago, apparently bereft of any of the original members, lip-syncing this very song. This video is of the genuine article, so far as I can ascertain. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R5NdcWGrnjw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now if I could only find a video of <em>Dr West&#8217;s Medicine Show and Junk Band <\/em>singing <em>The Eggplant that ate Chicago<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank God for the power of Google. Periodically it has occurred to me to put up this song, but usually when I&#8217;m away from my computer. I always liked it, but I could never remember either the title of the song or the name of the band, though the lyrics (&#8220;the world is, a bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4838,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837\/revisions\/4838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}