{"id":1231,"date":"2014-08-22T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slowsuburbandeath.com\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2014-08-22T09:00:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T16:00:17","slug":"funksoul-friday-tune-on-and-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/?p=1231","title":{"rendered":"Funk\/Soul Friday tune:  On and On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gladys Knight &amp; the Pips - On and On (Live Performance) Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ORrlUJTLxlw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The second record I ever bought was a song by Glady Knight and the Pips.\u00a0 I wanted to have that soulful voice of hers along with my own set of backup singers.\u00a0<!--more--> Without becoming too covetous, being a semi-good Catholic and all, I opted instead to get my Gladys on by purchasing all of her records, from vinyl to tape to CD.<\/p>\n<p>Gladys Knight liked to weave in all different sort of funk\/soul feel in her music, but &#8220;On and On&#8221; is a particular favorite.\u00a0 This is a foot stomping song that gladly departed from the more commercial vibe of &#8220;Midnight Train to Georgia&#8221;.\u00a0 The difference in style is evidenced in her more street fashion, hair and that get down dance of hers.\u00a0 I tried to imitate it once, clumsily stepping on a classmate&#8217;s toe in the process.<\/p>\n<p>This is an odd Soul Train video as Ms. Knight decides to stop lip synching towards the end of the song.\u00a0 I bet she just wanted to hear herself sing, just the way the rest of us do.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Friday!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">(c) Slow Suburban Death.\u00a0 All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second record I ever bought was a song by Glady Knight and the Pips.\u00a0 I wanted to have that soulful voice of hers along<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/?p=1231\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Funk\/Soul Friday tune:  On and On<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,13,33],"tags":[144],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}