{"id":17062,"date":"2013-01-03T12:32:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T17:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=17062"},"modified":"2013-01-03T14:06:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T19:06:08","slug":"george-martin-produced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/george-martin-produced\/","title":{"rendered":"Excluding Records Featuring Members of The Beatles, What&#8217;s the Best Single Recording Birthday Boy George Martin Has Produced?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17063\" style=\"width: 388px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/georgeinamerica.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17063\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-17063  \" title=\"georgeinamerica\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/georgeinamerica.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/georgeinamerica.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/georgeinamerica-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">George and America Do Ringo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This post&#8217;s title pretty much asks all I want to ask: Excluding Beatles records, solo Beatles records, and for the sake of argument pre-Beatles records (eg, Goon Squad recordings), what&#8217;s the <strong>best single recording<\/strong> birthday boy <strong>George Martin<\/strong>, who turned 87 today, has produced? It doesn&#8217;t need to be an entire album; it can be a single song.<\/p>\n<p>Is it <strong>Cheap Trick<\/strong>&#8216;s <del>&#8220;Dream Police&#8221; (the song)<\/del> <em>All Shook Up<\/em>? Is it something by <strong>America<\/strong>? Is it <strong>Stackridge<\/strong>&#8216;s <a title=\"Stackridge, &quot;Pinafore Days&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ySh9MJHe74Q\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Pinafore Days&#8221;<\/a>? Unless something is slipping my mind it may be\u2014I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m typing this\u2014<strong>Jeff Beck<\/strong>&#8216;s groundbreaking fusion album, <em>Blow by Blow<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the seemingly tremendous gap between his work with the Beatles and any other record he produced after them, Happy Birthday! Your value as the Fifth Beatle far outweighed your contributions as the Fourth American.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post&#8217;s title pretty much asks all I want to ask: Excluding Beatles records, solo Beatles records, and for the sake of argument pre-Beatles records (eg, Goon Squad recordings), what&#8217;s the best single recording birthday boy George Martin, who turned 87 today, has produced? It doesn&#8217;t need to be an entire album; it can be <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/george-martin-produced\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[568,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17062"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}