{"id":218,"date":"2007-03-16T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/?p=218"},"modified":"2010-03-22T16:00:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T16:00:04","slug":"harlem-week-of-31907-the-checkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/2007\/03\/16\/harlem-week-of-31907-the-checkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Harlem: Week Of 3\/19\/07 &#8211; The Checkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;\"><strong>The <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;\"><strong>Checkers<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dustygroove.com\/images\/products\/c\/checkers~~~_checkmate_101b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dustygroove.com\/images\/products\/c\/checkers~~~_checkmate_101b.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color:#cc33cc;\">The Checkers formed at the end of 1951, when Charlie White and Bill Brown left The Dominoes. Get it! They left the Dominoes and formed THE CHECKERS. Yeah well, they picked up a few other guys and they were off recording for King Records. After 3 years together and no hits, they called it quits. But what they left behind is a treasure trove of 1950s rhythm and blues. Get the story behind the Checkers and some of their greatest recordings on this week&#8217;s HARLEM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#3333ff;\"><strong><u>Harlem Airs on The 50s on 5:<\/u><br \/><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#33ccff;\">Monday 3\/19 @ 1pm EST<br \/>Tuesday 3\/20 @ 9pm PST &#8211; Midnight EST<br \/>Friday 3\/23 @ 6pm EST<br \/>Sunday 3\/25 @ 11am EST<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>-MTC<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/www.dustygroove.com\/images\/products\/c\/checkers~~~_checkmate_101b.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http:\/\/www.dustygroove.com\/prip\/9\/6\/377769i.htm&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;h=349&amp;w=351&amp;sz=46&amp;tbnid=T9i2X8pNzRj90M:&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;tbnh=115&amp;tbnw=116&amp;hl=en&amp;start=9&amp;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Dthe%2Bcheckers%2Bking%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Checkers The Checkers formed at the end of 1951, when Charlie White and Bill Brown left The Dominoes. Get it! They left the Dominoes and formed THE CHECKERS. Yeah well, they picked up a few other guys and they were off recording for King Records. After 3 years together and no hits, they called [&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-218","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\/218","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=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}