{"id":3356,"date":"2007-01-18T22:37:55","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T03:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=330"},"modified":"2007-01-18T22:37:55","modified_gmt":"2007-01-19T03:37:55","slug":"sam-and-dave-the-very-best-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2007\/sam-and-dave-the-very-best-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam and Dave &#8211; The Very Best Of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/samdaveverybest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-920\" title=\"Sam and Dave -- The Very Best Of\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/samdaveverybest.jpg\" alt=\"Sam and Dave -- The Very Best Of\" width=\"500\" height=\"950\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Sam and Dave<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> The Very Best Of<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1995<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> CD<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 9<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 2006 &#8211; Christmas gift!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soulsvilleusa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Stax stuff<\/a>. When I was teenager I couldn&#8217;t get enough early soul music, and spent as much time listening to that as I did punk rock, arty stuff, and metal. Despite that, there are some big holes in my collection. Mary helped correct that by getting this Sam and Dave collection for me. &#8220;The Very Best Of&#8221; is, of course, excellent. Who in his right mind doesn&#8217;t like &#8220;Hold On! I&#8217;m A Comin'&#8221;? Other well-known classics include &#8220;Soul Man&#8221;, &#8220;Wrap It Up&#8221;, and my favorite &#8220;I Thank You.&#8221; ZZ Top also had a hit with &#8220;I Thank You.&#8221; It&#8217;s even one of my favorite ZZ Top songs, but they had to sleaze it up bit by replacing &#8220;me&#8221; in the lyrics a few times with &#8220;it.&#8221; For example:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>You didn&#8217;t have to squeeze <strong>me<\/strong> but you did<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And so on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Sam and Dave Title: The Very Best Of Year: 1995 Format: CD Rating (1-10): 9 Owner: Tracy Acquired: 2006 &#8211; Christmas gift! Keeper: Yes I love the Stax stuff. When I was teenager I couldn&#8217;t get enough early soul music, and spent as much time listening to that as I did punk rock, arty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[452,453,454],"tags":[518,604,46,921,949,976],"class_list":["post-3356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-record-collection","category-s","tag-518","tag-cd","tag-music","tag-rb","tag-sam-and-dave","tag-soul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356","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=3356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}