{"id":226,"date":"2007-02-07T02:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T02:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/?p=226"},"modified":"2010-03-22T16:00:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T16:00:37","slug":"frankie-laine-dead-at-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/2007\/02\/07\/frankie-laine-dead-at-93\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankie Laine: Dead At 93"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 204, 0);font-size:130%;\">Frankie Laine<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 204, 0);font-size:130%;\">1913 &#8211; 2007<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ec1.images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/B00005J95C.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 200px; text-align: center;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ec1.images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/B00005J95C.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 0);\">Iconic crooner, Frankie Laine passed away on Tuesday, February 6, 2007 at the age of 93. His death has been blamed on complications from a recent hip replacement surgery. Laine&#8217;s career took off at the tail end of 1946, when Mercury Records released &#8220;That&#8217;s My Desire&#8221;. This song would become a must for 1950s vocal groups to know and master. Versions by Hadda Brooks, Dion and The Belmonts, The Channels and The Flamingos still sound great today, as does Frankie Laine&#8217;s. He had several number one records in the late 40s, into the 1950s, including &#8220;Mule Train&#8221; and &#8220;The Cry Of The Wild Goose&#8221;. He left Mercury for Mitch Miller and Columbia Records. &#8220;The Moonlight Gambler&#8221;, &#8220;Hey Joe&#8221;, &#8220;Jezebel&#8221; and other great hits would follow. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 0);\">Laine had a voice that was so versatile, he could sing ballads, jazz, R&B; and pop. He sang with such power and passion, that I would place him right next to Johnny Ray and Elvis Presley as a singer and entertainer. Even though he had largely been retired and inactive since the mid 1980s, his loss in the music world will most surely be felt. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 0);\">Yes, he was 93, but it&#8217;s still very sad to see another great star of the 1950s pass on. Frankie&#8217;s up in heaven now chasing &#8220;That Lucky Ol&#8217; Sun&#8221;, while the rest of us are left down here with just his memory and his records to enjoy.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 0);\">-Matt The Cat<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frankie Laine 1913 &#8211; 2007 Iconic crooner, Frankie Laine passed away on Tuesday, February 6, 2007 at the age of 93. His death has been blamed on complications from a recent hip replacement surgery. Laine&#8217;s career took off at the tail end of 1946, when Mercury Records released &#8220;That&#8217;s My Desire&#8221;. This song would become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-r-i-p"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","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=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}