{"id":428,"date":"2023-10-03T23:33:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T23:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/?p=428"},"modified":"2023-10-03T23:33:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T23:33:46","slug":"tuesdays-tunes-previously-known-as-music-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/2023\/10\/03\/tuesdays-tunes-previously-known-as-music-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday&#8217;s Tunes [previously known as Music Monday]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lay, Lady, Lay\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cijlz5JsCLA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>&#8220;Lay Lady Lay&#8221;, is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Song\">song<\/a>\u00a0written by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Dylan\">Bob Dylan<\/a>\u00a0and originally released in 1969 on his\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nashville_Skyline\">Nashville Skyline<\/a><\/em>\u00a0album. \u00a0Like many of the tracks on the album, Dylan sings the song in a low croon, rather than in the high nasal singing style associated with his earlier (and eventually later) recordings. \u00a0The song has become a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Standard_(music)\">standard<\/a>\u00a0and has been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cover_version\">covered<\/a>\u00a0by numerous bands and artists over the years.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>&#8220;Lay Lady Lay&#8221; was originally written for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soundtrack\">soundtrack<\/a>\u00a0of the movie\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Midnight_Cowboy\">Midnight Cowboy<\/a><\/em>\u00a0but wasn&#8217;t submitted in time to be included in the finished film.<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joel_Whitburn\">  Joel Whitburn<\/a>\u00a0said instead that the song was &#8220;written for his wife Sarah Lowndes&#8221;. \u00a0In a 1971 interview for which transcripts were auctioned in 2020, Dylan said the song was written for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barbra_Streisand\">Barbra Streisand<\/a>, with Streisand later adding that Dylan wanted to sing a duet with her.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lay Lady Lay&#8221;, is a\u00a0song\u00a0written by\u00a0Bob Dylan\u00a0and originally released in 1969 on his\u00a0Nashville Skyline\u00a0album. \u00a0Like many of the tracks on the album, Dylan sings the song in a low croon, rather than in the high nasal singing style associated with his earlier (and eventually later) recordings. \u00a0The song has become a\u00a0standard\u00a0and has been\u00a0covered\u00a0by numerous bands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}