{"id":2665,"date":"2010-04-05T17:09:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T21:09:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-05T18:07:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T18:07:38","slug":"thrifty-music-vol-20-4-i-am-the-last-man-standing-with-chuck-woolery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/thrifty-music-vol-20-4-i-am-the-last-man-standing-with-chuck-woolery\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrifty Music, Vol. 20.4:  I Am the Last Man Standing with Chuck Woolery!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/chuck_woolery_headshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/chuck_woolery_headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/Chuck_Woolery-Soft_Velvet_Love.mp3\">Chuck Woolery, &#8220;Soft Velvet Love&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still on track to make 20 Thrifty Music posts in 40 days &#8212; and today&#8217;s post allows me to both fulfill my Thrifty Music Anniversary Pledge <em>and<\/em> be counted as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/last-man-standing-actors-who-first-gained-at-least-a-modicum-of-professional-success-as-a-musician\">Last Man Standing on the topic of show biz personalities who got their start as rockers<\/a>.  Why?  Because today&#8217;s thrifty score is a late-&#8217;60s single by <strong>Chuck Woolery<\/strong> &#8212; yes, <em>that<\/em> Chuck Woolery &#8212; who traveled from his home in Kentucky to the hills of Hollyweird to find fame and fortune as a rock star before he settled into his role as host of innumerable teevee game shows.<\/p>\n<p>Chuck actually scored a top 40 hit in, I think, 1967, with his band, <strong>The Avant Garde<\/strong>, entitled &#8220;Naturally Stoned&#8221; &#8212; but this slab of cheese was released after The Avant Garde called it quits.  I originally meant to post it as a 100% gag, but I&#8217;ve grown to appreciate the Lee Greenwood-esque over-the-top-ness of it, so I offer it to you as a mere 75% gag.  In any case, enjoy!  And please note:<\/p>\n<p>I AM THE LAST MAN STANDING!<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Woolery, &#8220;Soft Velvet Love&#8221; Still on track to make 20 Thrifty Music posts in 40 days &#8212; and today&#8217;s post allows me to both fulfill my Thrifty Music Anniversary Pledge and be counted as the Last Man Standing on the topic of show biz personalities who got their start as rockers. Why? Because today&#8217;s <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/thrifty-music-vol-20-4-i-am-the-last-man-standing-with-chuck-woolery\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}