{"id":12180,"date":"2023-09-08T07:07:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T11:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=12180"},"modified":"2024-08-28T10:48:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T14:48:36","slug":"friday-vid-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2023\/09\/08\/friday-vid-94\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Vid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A special playlist to come later today.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"NEW * Love Is Alive - Gary Wright {Stereo} 1976\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CN_-BFeRrrU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Love is Alive&#8221; &#8211; Gary Wright<br \/>\nMr. Wright died this week. Contrary to popular belief, he was not a one-hit-wonder: he had three songs that cracked the top 20. By every measure except for one, this was his biggest hit. Like &#8220;Dream Weaver,&#8221; it peaked at #2 on the Hot 100. It remained on the chart seven weeks longer than &#8220;Dream Weaver,&#8221; and finished #9 in the 1976 year-end countdown to #37 for &#8220;Dream Weaver.&#8221; It&#8217;s also a much better song.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8220;Dream Weaver&#8221; got a second life when it was used in <em>Wayne&#8217;s World<\/em> and that&#8217;s what people remember.<\/p>\n<p>RIP to Gary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special playlist to come later today. &#8220;Love is Alive&#8221; &#8211; Gary Wright Mr. Wright died this week. Contrary to popular belief, he was not a one-hit-wonder: he had three songs that cracked the top 20. By every measure except for one, this was his biggest hit. Like &#8220;Dream Weaver,&#8221; it peaked at #2 on the Hot 100. It remained on the chart seven weeks longer than &#8220;Dream Weaver,&#8221; and finished #9 in the 1976 year-end countdown to #37 for &#8220;Dream Weaver.&#8221; It&#8217;s also a much better song. But &#8220;Dream Weaver&#8221; got a second life when it was used in Wayne&#8217;s World and that&#8217;s what people remember. RIP to Gary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-12180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12181,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12180\/revisions\/12181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}