{"id":236,"date":"2007-01-07T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-07T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/?p=236"},"modified":"2010-03-22T16:02:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T16:02:31","slug":"harlem-week-of-1807-clyde-mcphatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/2007\/01\/07\/harlem-week-of-1807-clyde-mcphatter\/","title":{"rendered":"Harlem: Week Of 1\/8\/07 &#8211; Clyde McPhatter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artistdirect.com\/Images\/artd\/amg\/music\/bio\/466667_clydemc_200x200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artistdirect.com\/Images\/artd\/amg\/music\/bio\/466667_clydemc_200x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">&#8220;Clyde McPhatter&#8217;s high tenor takes off like a guided missile. It soars higher and higher until it hits its target&#8230;dead center and explodes&#8230;blowin&#8217; you mind&#8221;<br \/>-Matt The Cat<br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;\"><strong>CLYDE McPHATTER <\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;\"><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#6600cc;\">Clyde McPhatter should be remembered as one of the most influential of the early &#8217;50s R&B; singers. His sweet, angelic tenor was first put to gospel singing, but in 1950, it turned to secular music when Clyde joined Billy Ward &#038; The Dominoes. After scoring numerous hits with The Dominoes, McPhatter left to form his OWN group, The Drifters. Depression, alcoholism and the changing sound of R&B; would eventually ruin his career and his life, but this week HARLEM remembers one of the true great, CLYDE McPHATTER.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#3333ff;\"><u>HARLEM airs on the 50s on 5:<\/u><br \/><span style=\"color:#333399;\">Monday 1\/8 @ 1pm over NYC<br \/>Tuesday 1\/9 @ 9pm PST &#8211; midnight EST<br \/>Friday 2\/12 @ 6pm EST<br \/>Sunday 2\/14 @ 11am over Boston <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"color:#3333ff;\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Clyde McPhatter&#8217;s high tenor takes off like a guided missile. It soars higher and higher until it hits its target&#8230;dead center and explodes&#8230;blowin&#8217; you mind&#8221;-Matt The CatCLYDE McPHATTER Clyde McPhatter should be remembered as one of the most influential of the early &#8217;50s R&#038;B; singers. His sweet, angelic tenor was first put to gospel singing, [&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-236","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\/236","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=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}