{"id":23769,"date":"2018-10-25T16:05:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T21:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=23769"},"modified":"2018-10-25T16:05:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T21:05:12","slug":"apparently-brian-j-favors-the-bizarre-hits-of-the-1970s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/25\/apparently-brian-j-favors-the-bizarre-hits-of-the-1970s\/","title":{"rendered":"Apparently, Brian J. Favors The Bizarre Hits Of The 1970s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one of the listicles that PJ Media is trying to become famous for, but here at MfBJN, it&#8217;s a quiz: <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/lifestyle\/the-10-most-bizarre-hits-of-the-70s\/\" target=\"_new\">The 10 Most Bizarre Hits of the \u201870s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How many does Brian J. have <em>on vinyl<\/em>?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Seasons in the Sun&#8221; by Terry Jacks<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Pop Muzik&#8221; by M<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Playground in my Mind&#8221; by Clint Holmes<\/li>\n<li><b>&#8220;<em>Star Wars<\/em> Theme \/ Cantina Band&#8221; by Meco<\/b> (on vinyl <em>and<\/em> CD)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;(You&#8217;re) Having My Baby&#8221; by Paul Anka and Odia Coates<\/li>\n<li><b>&#8220;A Fifth of Beethoven&#8221; by Walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band<\/b> (twice: once on the <em>Saturday Evening Fever<\/em> soundtrack and on the album of the same name, although it&#8217;s credited simply to the Walter Murphy Band there)<\/li>\n<li><b>&#8220;The Streak&#8221; by Ray Stevens<\/b> (also on the videocassette of his greatest hits)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Muskrat Love&#8221; by The Captain and Tennille<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Convoy&#8221; by C.W. McCall (although I might have this on an album or single, but it&#8217;s not what I listen to on the turntable, so I&#8217;m not sure)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Disco Duck&#8221; by Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I thought I did better because one of the entries mentions the Chipmunks&#8217; &#8220;Christmas Song&#8221; which I have on single and probably on a Chipmunks or Christmas album somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s 33%, or better than I do on <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/18\/the-classic-rock-coffee-album-cover-quiz-ii\/\" target=\"_new\">coffee house-based album cover quizzes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one of the listicles that PJ Media is trying to become famous for, but here at MfBJN, it&#8217;s a quiz: The 10 Most Bizarre Hits of the \u201870s. How many does Brian J. have on vinyl? &#8220;Seasons in the Sun&#8221; by Terry Jacks &#8220;Pop Muzik&#8221; by M &#8220;Playground in my Mind&#8221; by Clint Holmes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-quizzes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23769"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23772,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23769\/revisions\/23772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}