{"id":30086,"date":"2020-04-02T08:42:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T12:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=30086"},"modified":"2020-04-02T08:42:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T12:42:02","slug":"rip-adam-schlesinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=30086","title":{"rendered":"RIP Adam Schlesinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/04\/01\/entertainment\/adam-schlesinger-dead\/index.html\">Adam Schlesinger<\/a>, the co-founder of pop-rock band Fountains of Wayne and an Oscar-nominated songwriter, has died from complications related to coronavirus. He was 52. <\/p>\n<p>...<\/p>\n<p>Schlesinger's band, which was co-founded with Chris Collingwood, was best known for its 2003 hit \"Stacy's Mom,\" a humorous track about a young boy who has a crush on his friend's mother. The song was nominated for a Grammy Award.<\/p>\n<p>But Schlesinger had success before that as a songwriter. He co-wrote the title track to the 1996 Tom Hanks film \"That Thing You Do,\" and received Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for his work.<br \/>\nAfter success with Fountains of Wayne, Schlesinger continued to branch out, earning Tony nominations for his work on the musical \"Cry-Baby\" and numerous Emmy nominations for other work, which included collaborations with Stephen Colbert and \"Sesame Street.\" <\/p>\n<p>He won an Emmy last year for a song he co-wrote for CW's \"Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,\" a show for which he wrote more than 100 songs and earned several nominations over the years. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Schlesinger, the co-founder of pop-rock band Fountains of Wayne and an Oscar-nominated songwriter, has died from complications related to coronavirus. He was 52. ... Schlesinger's band, which was co-founded with Chris Collingwood, was best known for its 2003 hit \"Stacy's Mom,\" a humorous track about a young boy who has a crush on his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30086","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=30086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30087,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30086\/revisions\/30087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}