{"id":784,"date":"2025-09-01T15:49:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/?p=784"},"modified":"2025-09-01T15:49:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:49:51","slug":"mm-1960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/2025\/09\/01\/mm-1960\/","title":{"rendered":"MM &#8211; 1960"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;<strong>Chain Gang<\/strong>&#8221; is a song by American singer-songwriter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sam_Cooke\">Sam Cooke<\/a>, released as a single on July 26, 1960.<\/p>\n\n\n\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=\"Sam Cooke  - Working On A Chain Gang\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f5lYNgCVwFo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>This was Cooke&#8217;s second-biggest American hit, his first hit single for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RCA_Victor\">RCA Victor<\/a>\u00a0after leaving\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keen_Records\">Keen Records<\/a>\u00a0earlier in 1959, and was also his first top 10 hit since &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/You_Send_Me\">You Send Me<\/a>&#8221; from 1957, and his second-biggest pop single. The song was inspired after a chance meeting with an actual\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chain_gang\">chain gang<\/a>\u00a0of prisoners on a highway, seen while Cooke was on tour.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Have a safe and happy Labor Day!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Chain Gang&#8221; is a song by American singer-songwriter\u00a0Sam Cooke, released as a single on July 26, 1960. This was Cooke&#8217;s second-biggest American hit, his first hit single for\u00a0RCA Victor\u00a0after leaving\u00a0Keen Records\u00a0earlier in 1959, and was also his first top 10 hit since &#8220;You Send Me&#8221; from 1957, and his second-biggest pop single. The song was [&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-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","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=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}