{"id":237,"date":"2006-07-30T22:09:33","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T03:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=237"},"modified":"2006-07-30T22:09:33","modified_gmt":"2006-07-31T03:09:33","slug":"various-artists-band-aid-do-they-know-its-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/various-artists-band-aid-do-they-know-its-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Various Artists (Band Aid) &#8212; Do They Know It&#8217;s Christmas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1190\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1190\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1190\" title=\"Various Artists (Band Aid) -- Do They Know It's Christmas?\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/variousknowitschristmas.jpg\" alt=\"Various Artists (Band Aid) -- Do They Know Its Christmas?\" width=\"500\" height=\"1000\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Various Artists (Band Aid) -- Do They Know It&#39;s Christmas?<\/p><\/div>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Various Artists<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Do They Know It&#8217;s Christmas?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1984<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 10<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy \/ Mary &#8211; both had copies<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 1984 &#8211; Dunno where<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Do They Know It&#8217;s Christmas?&#8221; was a famous single with all the proceeds intended to assist famine relief in Ethiopia. The cast of performers in Band Aid is pretty much a who&#8217;s who of British pop at the time, with a few Americans thrown in the mix. Wikipedia has <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Do_They_Know_It's_Christmas%3F\">the full list of artists<\/a>, along with a lot more info. I like the song well enough, but I rate it a 10 because of its intended purpose and how successful it was. And all of that can be credited to Bob Geldolf&#8217;s drive, and impressive project management skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Various Artists Title: Do They Know It&#8217;s Christmas? Year: 1984 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 10 Owner: Tracy \/ Mary &#8211; both had copies Acquired: 1984 &#8211; Dunno where Keeper: Yes &#8220;Do They Know It&#8217;s Christmas?&#8221; was a famous single with all the proceeds intended to assist famine relief in Ethiopia. The cast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[452,453,458],"tags":[508,47,1033],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-record-collection","category-various","tag-508","tag-christmas","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}