{"id":19812,"date":"2020-10-31T05:30:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T09:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=19812"},"modified":"2020-11-02T08:24:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T13:24:09","slug":"its-a-goolie-get-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/31\/its-a-goolie-get-together\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a Goolie Get-together!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19813\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/groovie_goolies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/groovie_goolies.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/groovie_goolies-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/groovie_goolies-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>A little over a year ago I was tapped to write liner notes for the first-ever reissue (on CD and vinyl) of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/31\/they-created-a-monster-the-story-of-the-munsters-1964-lp\/\"><i>The Munsters<\/i><\/a>, a cash-in album that\u2019s actually pretty good. That gig eventually led to me getting another assignment with a similar theme: the liner notes for <i>Groovie Goolies<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>As readers of a certain age may recall, <i>Groovie Goolies<\/i> was a Saturday morning animated series (we called \u2018em cartoons) that sought to latch on to not one but two crazes: renewed interest in \u201cclassic-era monster characters and the bubblegum music of The Archies. So <i>Groovie Goolies<\/i> featured plots \u2013 thin as they might be, since this was aimed at kids after all \u2013 built around songs. The characters would perform the tunes during a musical interlude. Silly, relatively inconsequential stuff to be sure, but the music was solid (so to speak) bubblegum pop very much in line with the pop of its era.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a bit of a story behind the creation of the music, and all of the personalities involved found success outside of <i>Groovie Goolies<\/i>. But rather than spoil all that, I\u2019ll simply suggest \u2013 <i>recommend<\/i>, even \u2013 that you pick up a copy of Real Gone Music\u2019s new <i>Groovie Goolies<\/i> reissue, and read my liner notes therein.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy Halloween!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By the way: If you&#8217;re in a Holiday mood, you might also enjoy reading about the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/17\/album-review-halloween-nuggets\/\"><em>Halloween Nuggets<\/em><\/a> boxed set and\/or the all-star <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/31\/its-a-mondo-zombie-boogaloo\/\"><em>Mondo Zombie Boogaloo<\/em><\/a> album featuring Los Straitjackets, Southern Culture on the Skids and The Fleshtones. Or hey: a reissue of<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/09\/album-review-zacherle-monster-mashscary-tales\/\"> some Zacherle stuff<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little over a year ago I was tapped to write liner notes for the first-ever reissue (on CD and vinyl) of The Munsters, a cash-in album that\u2019s actually pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,64],"tags":[4339,1796],"class_list":["post-19812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holiday","category-reissue","tag-groovie-goolies","tag-real-gone-music","cat-37-id","cat-64-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19814,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19812\/revisions\/19814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}