{"id":29357,"date":"2019-09-20T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=29357"},"modified":"2019-09-20T11:49:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T15:49:02","slug":"smoke-it-the-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=29357","title":{"rendered":"Smoke It: The Pot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let's listen to Gene Marshall!<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" title=\"Smoke It: The Pot - Gene Marshall\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_RCEUaKcjP9Y\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/RCEUaKcjP9Y\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RCEUaKcjP9Y\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT1M48S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2013-12-15T19:17:07Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_RCEUaKcjP9Y\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/RCEUaKcjP9Y\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Smoke It: The Pot - Gene Marshall<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/RCEUaKcjP9Y\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/RCEUaKcjP9Y\/0.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke It: The Pot - Gene Marshall\" width=\"640\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"One of the best song poems featuring the one and only Gene Marshall (aka Gene Merlino), perhaps my choice as the best pure singer of all of the performers who are in the upper echelon of the song-poem world. You can see and hear more from Gene in the amazing PBS documentary Off the Charts: the Song Poem Story, check it out! I do not own the rights to this song or image, use is for educational purposes only.\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>This is one of the many 'song-poem' tunes he recorded. The song-poem scheme is basically a vanity-press operation that targets aspiring lyricists. People send their lyrics, along with a couple hundred dollars, to a music company. The lyrics get paired with original (but not great) music and the finished song is recorded and pressed - sometimes as a single, sometimes in a compilation with other song-poems. The compilation is more cost-efficient for the music company, and less satisfying to the lyricist - win\/win! The aspiring lyricist eventually receives a stack of worthless records to deal with.<\/p>\n<p>You're welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let's listen to Gene Marshall! This is one of the many 'song-poem' tunes he recorded. The song-poem scheme is basically a vanity-press operation that targets aspiring lyricists. People send their lyrics, along with a couple hundred dollars, to a music company. The lyrics get paired with original (but not great) music and the finished song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29359,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29357\/revisions\/29359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}