{"id":842,"date":"2026-02-09T16:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/?p=842"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:31:14","slug":"mm-1969-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/2026\/02\/09\/mm-1969-4\/","title":{"rendered":"MM 1969"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"357\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/02\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-843\" style=\"width:433px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/02\/image.png 357w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/02\/image-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/02\/image-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Which way you going billy - Poppy Family ,lyric\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o7BUB2wmBkw?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>;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Which Way You Goin&#8217; Billy?&#8221; is a song by the Canadian band\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Poppy_Family\">the Poppy Family<\/a>. First released as a single in 1969, it features on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Which_Way_You_Goin%27_Billy%3F_(album)\">the album of the same name<\/a>\u00a0(1969) and was a chart-topping hit in Canada and Ireland. It was also a significant hit in other parts of the world, reaching number two on both the US\u00a0<em>Cash Box<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u00a0pop charts.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The song was written by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Terry_Jacks\">Terry Jacks<\/a>\u00a0and the lead vocal is performed by his wife\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Susan_Jacks\">Susan Jacks<\/a>. The singer asks her husband Billy where he&#8217;s going, knowing that he is leaving her. She pledges she&#8217;ll still love him and stay his wife.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The single&#8217;s B-side is a cover of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jody_Reynolds\">Jody Reynolds<\/a>&#8216; 1958 hit &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Endless_Sleep\">Endless Sleep<\/a>&#8221; and is sung by Terry Jacks.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>; &#8220;Which Way You Goin&#8217; Billy?&#8221; is a song by the Canadian band\u00a0the Poppy Family. First released as a single in 1969, it features on\u00a0the album of the same name\u00a0(1969) and was a chart-topping hit in Canada and Ireland. It was also a significant hit in other parts of the world, reaching number two on [&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-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","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=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}