{"id":8856,"date":"2011-08-22T23:30:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T03:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=8856"},"modified":"2011-08-22T23:31:29","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T03:31:29","slug":"rock-%e2%80%98n-roll-lyricist-jerry-lieber-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-%e2%80%98n-roll-lyricist-jerry-lieber-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock \u2018n Roll Lyricist Jerry Lieber Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VKfQSsmrUk0?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>This is probably not news to any rock &#8216;n roll lover who didn&#8217;t spend the day frollicking in the wilds of Maine until 10:30 pm today, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2011%2F08%2F23%2Farts%2Fmusic%2Fjerry-leiber-rock-n-roll-lyricist-dies-at-78.html%3F_r%3D1%26hp&amp;h=bAQDcFr-aAQAEirjmKLtGzbWtN8gUJ8Kif8lpJLV6fxmG3A\" target=\"_blank\">I just read<\/a> that rock &#8216;n roll lyricist extraordinaire <strong>Jerry Lieber<\/strong> died at 78. If you don&#8217;t know the works of Lieber and Stoller, it&#8217;s time you do. The <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2011%2F08%2F23%2Farts%2Fmusic%2Fjerry-leiber-rock-n-roll-lyricist-dies-at-78.html%3F_r%3D1%26hp&amp;h=bAQDcFr-aAQAEirjmKLtGzbWtN8gUJ8Kif8lpJLV6fxmG3A\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/em>&#8216; piece I just read has a good recap of their highpoints. Check out The Drifters&#8217; &#8220;Spanish Harlem,&#8221; which stopped me in my chewing of a bean burrito when I heard it playing over the speakers in a healthy, <em>hippified<\/em> diner set in an old-time pharmacy in Camden, Maine. Like Lenny Bruce says\u00a0in my favorite bit of his, &#8220;Equality&#8221;: &#8220;It&#8217;s so <em>pretty<\/em>, man&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0I had to stop and simply cherish the beauty of that song. That&#8217;s the Sound of the City that I so miss in too much rock &#8216;n roll from the &#8217;70s forward, with rare exceptions like some regional punk rock from my high school days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is probably not news to any rock &#8216;n roll lover who didn&#8217;t spend the day frollicking in the wilds of Maine until 10:30 pm today, but I just read that rock &#8216;n roll lyricist extraordinaire Jerry Lieber died at 78. If you don&#8217;t know the works of Lieber and Stoller, it&#8217;s time you do. <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-%e2%80%98n-roll-lyricist-jerry-lieber-dead\/' 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":[170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856"}],"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=8856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}