{"id":422,"date":"2007-01-05T16:14:18","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T16:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=422"},"modified":"2007-01-05T16:14:18","modified_gmt":"2007-01-05T16:14:18","slug":"an-e-mail-exchange-of-musical-obscurities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"An e-mail exchange of musical obscurities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I sez, &#8220;&#8230;doubtless I SHOULD read the new book. I don&#8217;t seem much inclined to SHOULDs these days&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\nand Carolyn replies, &#8220;Nor SHOULD you&#8230; except for whiskey.  Whiskey you should do. (was listening to Hamza at lunchtime whence the synesthetic pun)&#8221;<br \/>\nFor those who don&#8217;t catch the latter reference, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/oook.info\/mp3\/Whiskey.mp3\">the bit she&#8217;s referring to<\/a>, from Hamza el Din&#8217;s first record (on Vanguard, about 1964)<br \/>\n&#8230;and the only possible response is another favorite musical quote, from the old Folkways Music of Afghanistan (Mrs. Parwin and Chorus &#8211;the real title is &#8220;A rose is blooming&#8221;, but I&#8217;ve always heard it as <a href=\"http:\/\/oook.info\/mp3\/JohnFonda.mp3\">&#8220;John Fonda, Whaddya Know?&#8221;<\/a>).<br \/>\nAnybody have any others in this realm of lyrical bogosity? Perhaps cousins to the form called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mondegreen\">Mondegreen<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I sez, &#8220;&#8230;doubtless I SHOULD read the new book. I don&#8217;t seem much inclined to SHOULDs these days&#8230;&#8221; and Carolyn replies, &#8220;Nor SHOULD you&#8230; except for whiskey. Whiskey you should do. (was listening to Hamza at lunchtime whence the synesthetic pun)&#8221; For those who don&#8217;t catch the latter reference, here&#8217;s the bit she&#8217;s referring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}