{"id":5268,"date":"2011-01-12T15:18:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T19:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=5268"},"modified":"2011-01-12T15:18:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T19:18:33","slug":"was-it-regional-or-was-it-syndicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/was-it-regional-or-was-it-syndicated\/","title":{"rendered":"Was It Regional or Was It Syndicated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EUVO39zqKLg?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I just learned from <strong>General Slocum<\/strong>, whose band <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/young-and-innocent-days-baby-flamehead\/\" target=\"_blank\">Baby Flamehead<\/a><\/strong> did this killer version of the <em>Action News<\/em> theme, that this legendary theme song WE (ie, Philadelphians) grew up with was actually the theme for the syndicated <em>Action News<\/em> crew. In other words, what we thought was OUR MUSIC was, in fact, not. And same went for those in other <em>Action News<\/em> markets when Baby Flamehead toured and played that long-considered &#8220;regional&#8221; favorite in other regions! Shocking!<\/p>\n<p>This reminds me, when I was a kid I thought all those <em>Breakfast With The Beatles<\/em>-type shows were cooked up by some huge Beatles fan in my backyard. A few years later I would learn this was not the case. The same\u00a0went for all those <em>Creature Double Feature<\/em>-type shows on Saturday morning UHF television stations, right? On the other hand, I always knew Dr. Demento&#8217;s show was syndicated.<\/p>\n<p><em>What musical treasures of your past actually were regional treasures and what treasures, did you later learn, were syndicated?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just learned from General Slocum, whose band Baby Flamehead did this killer version of the Action News theme, that this legendary theme song WE (ie, Philadelphians) grew up with was actually the theme for the syndicated Action News crew. In other words, what we thought was OUR MUSIC was, in fact, not. And same <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/was-it-regional-or-was-it-syndicated\/' 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":[29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268"}],"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=5268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}