{"id":220,"date":"2010-04-29T05:30:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T10:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=220"},"modified":"2010-04-29T05:30:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T10:30:43","slug":"happy-birthday-tommy-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/29\/happy-birthday-tommy-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday: Tommy James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singer\/guitarist <strong>Tommy James<\/strong> (most famous as leader of 60s pop group the <strong>Shondells<\/strong>) turns 63 today. During the 60s the Shondells racked up an impressive string of top 40 pop hits including \u201cHanky Panky,\u201d \u201cMony Mony,\u201d \u201cCrimson and Clover,\u201d \u201cI Think We\u2019re Alone Now\u201d and several others that people of a certain age will remember.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Collectors\u2019 Choice Music reissued four albums featuring James. In chronological order by original release date, they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>I Think We\u2019re Alone Now<\/em> (1967)<\/li>\n<li><em>Gettin\u2019 Together<\/em> (1967)<\/li>\n<li><em>Travelin\u2019<\/em> (1969)<\/li>\n<li><em>My Head, My Bed, &amp; My Red Guitar<\/em> (Tommy James solo album from 1972)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/tommy_james_2010_reissues.jpg\" height=\"110\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>James recently published his autobiography <em>Me, The Music and The Mob<\/em>, and that book is being made into a major motion picture. I will be doing an in-depth interview with Tommy James the week after next, so keep an eye out for a feature, coming soon.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday to Tommy James.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer\/guitarist Tommy James (most famous as leader of 60s pop group the Shondells) turns 63 today. During the 60s the Shondells racked up an impressive string of top 40 pop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","cat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","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=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}