{"id":1728,"date":"2008-10-08T09:37:13","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T13:37:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-10T22:29:21","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T22:29:21","slug":"battle-royale-best-recording-by-a-profes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-best-recording-by-a-profes\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle Royale: Best Recording by a Professional Athlete"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/tonyc.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Until <strong>Townsman Diskojoe<\/strong> mentioned it, I&#8217;m not sure that I knew former Boston Red Sox hope and tragic hero <strong>Tony Conigliaro<\/strong> had a singing career. I immediately sought out an example of his recorded works and found this, &#8220;When You Take More Than You Give&#8221;, a totally respectable slice of &#8217;60s dinner theater pop. This song wouldn&#8217;t be out of place on one of HVB&#8217;s <strong>Thrifty Music<\/strong> hauls. Check it out!<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6C5lvFaw-8M?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I think this calls for a Battle Royale: <em>Can you find a recording by a <strong>professional athlete<\/strong> that tops this record by Tony C?<\/em> The likes of <strong>Garth Brooks<\/strong>, who has taken batting practice in spring training, do not count! The recordings of Rock Town Hall members who played in their phavorite team&#8217;s Phantasy Camp also do not count! If possible, please post links to any decent track you might find. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until Townsman Diskojoe mentioned it, I&#8217;m not sure that I knew former Boston Red Sox hope and tragic hero Tony Conigliaro had a singing career. I immediately sought out an example of his recorded works and found this, &#8220;When You Take More Than You Give&#8221;, a totally respectable slice of &#8217;60s dinner theater pop. This <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-best-recording-by-a-profes\/' 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":[42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728"}],"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=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}