{"id":90631,"date":"2014-10-09T06:18:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T10:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=90631"},"modified":"2024-08-21T07:27:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T11:27:45","slug":"where-troubles-melt-like-lemon-drops-1959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=90631","title":{"rendered":"Where Troubles Melt Like Lemon Drops, 1959"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OcFm_yoslKs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Gene Vincent, performing &#8220;Over the Rainbow&#8221; on the Town Hall Party, 1959. That&#8217;s the great James Burton on guitar. When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=69813\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charley and I went to see James Burton last year<\/a>, he played a completely instrumental version of the song, and it was breathtaking. You could have heard a pin drop in that small club. I didn&#8217;t realize then that it was a callback to this moment in time, the rockabilly moment, when such strange things were possible. There is something so poignant to me about Gene Vincent&#8217;s version. He was a sex-pot, the guy who gave us &#8220;Be Bop a Lu La&#8221; (and my personal favorite, &#8220;She She Sheila&#8221;), he was the classic rockabilly star, with the greased-up pompadour and the focus on young love and sex and emotion. And here he is singing a song originally sung by a 12-year-old girl, and totally making it his own. There&#8217;s a sweetness coursing around that stage, the smiles all those guys &#8211; all guys &#8211; throw one another, a sweet and simple pleasure in their own performance, in the sounds they are making, in the moment they are creating together. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gene Vincent, performing &#8220;Over the Rainbow&#8221; on the Town Hall Party, 1959. That&#8217;s the great James Burton on guitar. When Charley and I went to see James Burton last year, he played a completely instrumental version of the song, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=90631\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[2716],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193825,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90631\/revisions\/193825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}