{"id":92011,"date":"2014-11-17T13:29:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T18:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=92011"},"modified":"2016-01-25T10:52:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T15:52:38","slug":"one-of-my-favorite-clips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=92011","title":{"rendered":"One Of My Favorite Clips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M58eoKaI2g0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nBobby Darin on <i>The Judy Garland Show<\/i>, singing &#8220;Michael Row Your Boat Ashore&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>My friends and I have memorized this entire performance. Every gesture, every hand-clap, every jaw-tighten, and, of course, the ferocious &#8220;MICHAEL&#8221; that closes it out. The random Poor Jud Is Dead set that you only see for 2 seconds just adds to the strange mythic power of it all. He&#8217;s so coiled and intense. He looks like he&#8217;s about to kill someone with his bare hands. Yet this is a spiritual. When he points and orders, &#8220;SING&#8221;, and then in comes the choir \u2026 well.  I&#8217;ll row my boat ashore, I&#8217;ll row it to Nova Scotia, big boy, I don&#8217;t care. One hand in a clenched fist. Expressing so much, holding even more back. The soprano SCREECHING in the background.<\/p>\n<p>I have seen this clip so many times I can&#8217;t even count, and it is now colored by the memory of all of my friends DOING Bobby Darin singing this song.  My friend Jackie, for example, holding a glass of white wine, with her perfectly made-up face and gorgeously coiffed hair, shouting &#8220;MICHAEL&#8221; in a guttural voice at some party, as we all die with laughter. <\/p>\n<p>So many memories bound up in one timeless performance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobby Darin on The Judy Garland Show, singing &#8220;Michael Row Your Boat Ashore&#8221;. My friends and I have memorized this entire performance. Every gesture, every hand-clap, every jaw-tighten, and, of course, the ferocious &#8220;MICHAEL&#8221; that closes it out. The random &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=92011\">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":[600,370],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92011"}],"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=92011"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92018,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92011\/revisions\/92018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}