{"id":23606,"date":"2020-05-26T09:53:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T13:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=23606"},"modified":"2020-05-27T00:57:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T04:57:15","slug":"last-man-standing-props","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-props\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: Props"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a simple one and may be a brief one. I can think of only a few songs that meet my criteria but I\u2019m counting on the Hall to know more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I need <strong>songs that give props to other singers<\/strong>. This is <em>not<\/em> the mere mention of someone\u2019s name. And <em>it\u2019s gotta be more than one name<\/em>. You\u2019ll know what I\u2019m looking for when you listen to this song. Multiple singers and songs are specified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THE BROTHERS TWO - Boogaloo (Soul) Party [Crimson 1011] 1968\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NQ25SXcNRuQ?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m starting off with this one because I think it will be unknown to many people. And because it\u2019s a killer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <strong>Joel Whitburn<\/strong>\u2019s <em>Top Pop Singles 1955-2002<\/em>, this song didn\u2019t chart. I can\u2019t find out much about <strong>The Brothers Two<\/strong>. This was released on Crimson Records, a Philly label whose biggest hit (I\u2019d guess) was <strong>The Soul Survivors<\/strong>\u2019 \u201cExpressway To Your Heart.\u201d I can\u2019t recall if it was a local hit in Philly, and I\u2019d just be guessing as to where or when I got the single.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>EPG<\/strong>, what do you know about this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As with all Last Man Standing threads, don&#8217;t bogart this thread! <em>Please limit yourself to one entry per post.<\/em> In other words, if you&#8217;ve for 15 songs in mind, post them one at a time, ideally one after every other participant thinks he or she has drained the last entry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Man Standing starts now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a simple one and may be a brief one. I can think of only a few songs that meet my criteria but I\u2019m counting on the Hall to know more. I need songs that give props to other singers. This is not the mere mention of someone\u2019s name. And it\u2019s gotta be more <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-props\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23606"}],"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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}