{"id":1869,"date":"2008-12-27T12:22:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T17:22:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-27T12:22:09","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T12:22:09","slug":"last-man-standing-lemgsongus-interruptus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-lemgsongus-interruptus\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: <em>Songus Interruptus<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<div><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Clash<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Wrong &#8217;em Boyo,&#8221; from <em>London Calling<\/em>, begins as if the band is going to cover the chestnut <a href=\"http:\/\/prewarblues.org\/2005\/03\/stagger-lee-told-billy\/\">&#8220;Stagger Lee.&#8221;<\/a> Then the band breaks down and Joe Strummer instructs the band to &#8220;start all over again,&#8221; at which point, as we all know, the band breaks into another cover, &#8220;Wrong &#8217;em Boyo,&#8221; by a Jamaican band, <strong>The Rulers<\/strong>. <\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9LEaIyud1XY?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>The first time I spun <em>London Calling<\/em> this instance of <em>songus interruptus<\/em> was quite a thrill. In the following years it would be a gimmick I could usually do without. Little did I know until just now, however, that the original version by The Rulers had the same outbreak of <em>songus interruptus<\/em>!<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c174S63tWRg?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>So there&#8217;s a head start in this Last Man Standing, which I hope has more than the <strong>Motown<\/strong> song I have in mind. Well-known live television performances may also be considered, but live shows that only you may have seen among us, may not. Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Clash&#8216;s &#8220;Wrong &#8217;em Boyo,&#8221; from London Calling, begins as if the band is going to cover the chestnut &#8220;Stagger Lee.&#8221; Then the band breaks down and Joe Strummer instructs the band to &#8220;start all over again,&#8221; at which point, as we all know, the band breaks into another cover, &#8220;Wrong &#8217;em Boyo,&#8221; by a <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-lemgsongus-interruptus\/' 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":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869"}],"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=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}