{"id":2875,"date":"2010-07-31T03:23:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T07:23:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-03-26T23:45:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T03:45:45","slug":"songs-that-can-t-be-screwed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/songs-that-can-t-be-screwed-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs That Can&#8217;t Be Screwed Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OgFFDEljqLw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nWhile researching some performances by the briefly reunited McGuinn, Clark &amp; Hillman I stumbled across this cover of &#8220;Almost Saturday Night&#8221; by <strong>Gene Clark<\/strong> and <strong>Carla Olson<\/strong>. As some of you know, I feel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/stop_look_listen_the_hollies_the_byrds\" target=\"_blank\">The Byrds are one of the most difficult decent &#8217;60s bands for me to like<\/a> (although I tend to like the Gene Clark-sang jangly hits best). As some of you also know, I don&#8217;t readily tune into country music. I do, however, love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/rock-town-hall-belatedly-announces-the-s\" target=\"blank\">Creedence Clearwater Revival<\/a> and indentify with sufferers of Fogerty Syndrome. This laid-back country cover of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/john-fogerty-eponymously\" target=\"_blank\">solo Fogerty<\/a> song I discovered through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/prime_dave_edmunds_77_81\">Dave Edmunds<\/a>&#8216; balls-to-the-wall cover is very good despite all the hazards, for me, that went into its making. That suggests that the song may be impossible to screw up. I think it&#8217;s a combination of the comforting chord progressions, the harmony lines, and the identifiable themes expressed in the lyrics. Have you ever heard a bad cover of &#8220;Almost Saturday Night?&#8221; Could you imagine one?<\/p>\n<p><em>Are there other songs you can think of that can&#8217;t be screwed up, no matter who covers them and in what style they are covered?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While researching some performances by the briefly reunited McGuinn, Clark &amp; Hillman I stumbled across this cover of &#8220;Almost Saturday Night&#8221; by Gene Clark and Carla Olson. As some of you know, I feel The Byrds are one of the most difficult decent &#8217;60s bands for me to like (although I tend to like the <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/songs-that-can-t-be-screwed-up\/' 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":[62,271,298,299,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875"}],"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=2875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}