{"id":10503,"date":"2011-11-28T11:57:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T16:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=10503"},"modified":"2011-11-28T11:58:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T16:58:08","slug":"she-was-a-great-woman-andrea-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/she-was-a-great-woman-andrea-true\/","title":{"rendered":"She Was a Great Woman&#8230;Andrea True"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RlJGrIyt-X8?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>There are certain songs, like &#8217;em or loathe &#8217;em, that have the ability to transport you back to the time when they were popular.\u00a0 For me, even though, as Elton John says, &#8220;I was just a kid,&#8221; and a kid who felt obliged to hate disco reflexively, one of those songs is the timeless &#8220;More More More&#8221; by <strong>Andrea True Connection<\/strong>.\u00a0Thus, when I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/obituaries\/andrea-true-porn-star-who-recorded-disco-hit-dies-at-68\/2011\/11\/26\/gIQAJ4Wh2N_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">read last week that she had died<\/a>, I felt a real pang of sadness.\u00a0Like most everyone else at this point, I think, I knew the basics of her story&#8211;porn actress turned disco diva turned one-hit wonder&#8211;but reading about her life and her aspirations was more poignant than I would have expected.\u00a0Anyway, there you have it.<\/p>\n<p>I also want to know if anyone else (or everyone else) associates this song with the similarly memorable &#8220;Fly Robin Fly&#8221; by Silver Connection.\u00a0My assumption is that they must have been hits simultaneously, but I haven&#8217;t checked on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are certain songs, like &#8217;em or loathe &#8217;em, that have the ability to transport you back to the time when they were popular.\u00a0 For me, even though, as Elton John says, &#8220;I was just a kid,&#8221; and a kid who felt obliged to hate disco reflexively, one of those songs is the timeless &#8220;More <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/she-was-a-great-woman-andrea-true\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342,16],"tags":[546,548,170,547],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}