{"id":2686,"date":"2010-04-15T10:51:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T14:51:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-15T10:51:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T10:51:14","slug":"last-man-standing-rock-n-roll-songs-mentioning-specific-blends-of-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-rock-n-roll-songs-mentioning-specific-blends-of-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: Rock ‘n Roll Songs Mentioning Specific Blends of Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I enjoy hearing rock ‘n roll songs mentioning specific blends of tea<\/em>. Such references always bring a smile to my face, in part for reminding me of The Rutles<\/strong> and in part for reminding me of a Rutles-inspired band in which I once played. We got a lot of mileage out of tea references, probably too much – and for that reason I’ll refrain from suggesting any songs I was involved in writing and performing with this long-forgotten side project.<\/p>\n

Driving to work this morning I turned up the volume on a favorite late-’60s anthem, of sorts, only to hear a specific blend of tea reference that I’d never noticed before. I wqn’t tell you what song it was now, and I’ll only play that card if no one else lists it and I see a chance to win this whole ball of wax. Who among us will be the last man (or woman, it goes without saying) standing to list a rock ‘n roll<\/strong> song mentioning a specific<\/strong> blend of tea? Remember, it’s got to be a rock ‘n roll (or closely related) song (ie, no pre-rock ‘n roll Noel Coward number) and it’s got to cite a specific blend of tea. For instance, this legendary tea anthem, The Kinks<\/strong>‘ “Have a Cuppa Tea,” does NOT qualify because it does not cite a specific blend of tea. I checked to see whether “Rosie Lea” was a blend, but it turns out it’s Cockney rhyming slang for “tea.”
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Because there may be so few options in this Last Man Standing competition, I’ll leave it to you to kick off the opening salvo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I enjoy hearing rock ‘n roll songs mentioning specific blends of tea. Such references always bring a smile to my face, in part for reminding me of The Rutles and in part for reminding me of a Rutles-inspired band in which I once played. We got a lot of mileage out of tea references, probably […]<\/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\/2686"}],"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=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}