{"id":11066,"date":"2011-12-22T13:51:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T18:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=11066"},"modified":"2011-12-22T13:51:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T18:51:41","slug":"he-was-a-great-and-secret-man-ross-macmanus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/he-was-a-great-and-secret-man-ross-macmanus\/","title":{"rendered":"He Was A Great (and Secret) Man&#8230;Ross MacManus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I felt a pang of sadness on hearing of the death of <strong>Ross MacManus<\/strong>, who left us on either the 24th or 25th November (depending on which obituary you&#8217;re looking at). He started out as a jazz trumpeter, sang with the Joe Loss Orchestra in the 1950s and &#8217;60s, was father to <strong>Declan<\/strong>, and became something of an institution in the UK thanks to an advertisement for R Whites Lemonade, which ran on British telly for\u00a011 years.<\/p>\n<p>The ad features Ross on vocals and acting, while Declan sings backing vocals, three years before he re-named himself Elvis (along with the surname of one of Ross&#8217; pseudonyms &#8211; Day Costello). He repaid the favour by playing trumpet on &#8220;Out of Our Idiot&#8221; and &#8220;Mighty Like a Rose,&#8221; while an LP he made in 1972, <em>Elvis Presley&#8217;s Golden Hits Sung By Big Ross and the Memphis Sound<\/em>, was re-released in 2008 under the title of <em>Elvis&#8217;s Dad Sings Elvis<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And so, by way of tribute, here is his greatest hit.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hro4AdTYiTA?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I felt a pang of sadness on hearing of the death of Ross MacManus, who left us on either the 24th or 25th November (depending on which obituary you&#8217;re looking at). He started out as a jazz trumpeter, sang with the Joe Loss Orchestra in the 1950s and &#8217;60s, was father to Declan, and became <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/he-was-a-great-and-secret-man-ross-macmanus\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[10,170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11066"}],"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\/2204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}