{"id":166,"date":"2007-11-01T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/?p=166"},"modified":"2010-03-22T15:54:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:54:18","slug":"harlem-week-of-11507-percy-mayfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/2007\/11\/01\/harlem-week-of-11507-percy-mayfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Harlem: Week Of 11\/5\/07 &#8211; Percy Mayfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\"><em><span style=\"color:#cc33cc;\">This week Harlem celebrates the great poet laureate of the blues&#8230;<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:180%;color:#6600cc;\"><strong>PERCY MAYFIELD<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/images.music.com\/images\/dmc\/person\/percy_mayfield\/1\/images\/bio.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.music.com\/images\/dmc\/person\/percy_mayfield\/1\/images\/bio.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"><span style=\"color:#cc33cc;\">This amazingly underrated singer\/songwriter poured his heart and soul into every recording he made. His blues was one of pain and loss and the likes of Percy Mayfield have not been seen since his death in 1984. This week Harlem goes deep into Mayfield&#8217;s early &#8217;50s output for LA based Specialty Records. His first record for Specialty went to #1 on the R&B; charts back in late 1950. You&#8217;ll hear that and so much more from this influential rhythm and blues singer, this week on Harlem.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"><span style=\"color:#cc33cc;\"><br \/><strong><span style=\"color:#3333ff;\">Harlem airs on the 50s on 5:<\/span><\/strong><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color:#000099;\">Monday afternoon 11\/5 @ 1pm EST<br \/>Tuesday night 11\/6 @ 9pm PST &#038; Midnight EST<br \/>Friday evening 11\/9 @ 6pm<br \/>Sunday morning 11\/11 @ 11am<\/span> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Harlem celebrates the great poet laureate of the blues&#8230; PERCY MAYFIELD This amazingly underrated singer\/songwriter poured his heart and soul into every recording he made. His blues was one of pain and loss and the likes of Percy Mayfield have not been seen since his death in 1984. This week Harlem goes deep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harlem","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}