{"id":3932,"date":"2018-10-05T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=3932"},"modified":"2018-10-05T08:00:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T12:00:56","slug":"music-oldies-but-goodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=3932","title":{"rendered":"Music: Oldies But Goodies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Charissa Roberson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Imagine that you are spinning the radio dial as you hit an \u201coldies\u201d station\u2014that breed of music America jammed to from the 1950s-70s. \u00a0Get an earful of classic rock guitars humming of summer nights and neon lights to R&amp;B drumbeats that make you want to tap your hand against the steering wheel. \u00a0You\u2019d hear iconic singers harmonizing with brass instruments and dazzling guitar and keyboard solos\u2014just as excellent live as on record. In the best songs, lyrics were as memorable as melodies. \u00a0Kansas\u2019 rock ballad inspired listeners with its call to \u201cCarry On, My Wayward Son\u201d (1975), while The Temptations\u2019 soulful hit romanced sweethearts with \u201cMy Girl\u201d (1965). Parties still kick their heels up to The Isley Brothers\u2019 \u201cShout\u201d (1959) or dance to Elvis Presley\u2019s \u201cJailhouse Rock\u201d (1957). \u00a0Queen transformed stadium crowds forever with their unforgettable refrain \u201cWe Will Rock You\u201d (1977), and David Bowie crooned of those \u201cGolden Years\u201d (1975) where nothing could go wrong. You don\u2019t have to have grown up in the sixties to remember those feelings. Let that oldies station play\u2014and let it take you back.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Charissa Roberson Imagine that you are spinning the radio dial as you hit an \u201coldies\u201d station\u2014that breed of music America jammed to from the 1950s-70s. \u00a0Get an earful of classic rock guitars humming of summer nights and neon lights to R&amp;B drumbeats that make you want to tap your hand against the steering&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}