{"id":1512,"date":"2014-09-08T08:58:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T16:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2024-11-15T14:35:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T22:35:44","slug":"music-friday-special-music-monday-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-special-music-monday-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Friday &#8211; Special Music Monday Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-special-music-monday-edition\/\" data-text=\"Music Friday &#038;%238211; Special Music Monday Edition\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>Since I was off the grid and I missed last Music Friday, here&#8217;s your Music Monday. \u00a0Actually isn&#8217;t every day music day?<\/p>\n<p>Since we are all seekers to one degree or another, I thought it appropriate to feature <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Seekers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Seekers<\/a> as our guests today. \u00a0Humans of my vintage may remember The Seekers, as they had a few hit songs back in the mid to late 1960&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>This is maybe the most recognizable song done by the group, since it charted at #1 in the UK and #4 in the US in 1965, a song written by Tom Springfield who was the brother of Dusty Springfield:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MsgXbSUMzR4\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Finally, another Tom Springfield compostion which charted at #20 that same year:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PSxwqBJLU8A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Final note: \u00a0The Seekers were Australian, not British. \u00a0So, as they say down under, &#8220;Good on ya!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Since I was off the grid and I missed last Music Friday, here&#8217;s your Music Monday. \u00a0Actually isn&#8217;t every day music day? Since we are all seekers to one degree or another, I thought it appropriate to feature The Seekers as our guests today&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/2454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}