{"id":1835,"date":"2008-12-01T09:42:07","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T14:42:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-28T13:39:15","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T13:39:15","slug":"rip-mike-terry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip-mike-terry\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Mike Terry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/Earth250x250.swf\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/Earth250x250.swf\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>One of my favorite elements of the classic Motown sound has always been the baritone saxophone. The man responsible for those distinct, swinging lines, <strong>Mike Terry<\/strong>, has died.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was in 1963, with Heatwave and You Lost the Sweetest Boy, that the sound of Terry&#8217;s baritone started bursting out of young America&#8217;s transistor radios. Restricted by the production team of Lamont Dozier and Eddie and Brian Holland to short interludes before the final chorus, usually no more than eight bars long, he made the most of his opportunity with a heated approach that was short on melodic invention but long on rhythmic drive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Incidentally, the <em>Guardian<\/em> obit says he died Oct. 30, which I assume is a typo and should read &#8220;November 30.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite elements of the classic Motown sound has always been the baritone saxophone. The man responsible for those distinct, swinging lines, Mike Terry, has died. It was in 1963, with Heatwave and You Lost the Sweetest Boy, that the sound of Terry&#8217;s baritone started bursting out of young America&#8217;s transistor radios. Restricted <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip-mike-terry\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835"}],"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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}