{"id":300,"date":"2006-05-19T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/?p=300"},"modified":"2010-03-22T16:08:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T16:08:54","slug":"harlem-week-of-52206","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/2006\/05\/19\/harlem-week-of-52206\/","title":{"rendered":"HARLEM: Week Of 5\/22\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbblues.org\/artists\/LigginsJoeAnd\/image.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sbblues.org\/artists\/LigginsJoeAnd\/image.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#000099;\">Harlem<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><em><span style=\"color:#993399;\">presents<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#000099;\"><strong>Joe Liggins<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#000099;\"><strong>&#038;<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#000099;\"><strong>Jimmy Liggins<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;color:#993399;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;color:#993399;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;color:#993399;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;color:#993399;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;color:#993399;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;color:#993399;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pianist\/singer Joe Liggins and younger brother, guitarist\/singer Jimmy Liggins didn&#8217;t record together. They each had impressive and hit laden careers apart. Joe made history with &#8220;The Honeydripper&#8221; which sat at #1 on the R&B; charts for over 10 weeks in 1945, while Jimmy&#8217;s biggest R&B; hit was &#8220;Drunk&#8221; in 1953. This week, Matt The Cat focuses on both brothers, who contributed greatly to the R&B; scene of the late 40s and early 50s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueheartarchive.com\/publicityphotos\/Jimmy%20Liggins.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blueheartarchive.com\/publicityphotos\/Jimmy%20Liggins.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;color:#993399;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><span style=\"color:#3333ff;\"><u>Harlem Airs On The 50s on 5:<\/u><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#993399;\">Monday, 5\/22 @ 1pm EST<br \/>Tuesday, 523 @ 9pm PST &#8211; Midnight EST<br \/>Friday, 5\/26 @ 6pm EST<br \/>Sunday, 5\/28 @ 11am EST<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harlem presents Joe Liggins &#038; Jimmy Liggins Pianist\/singer Joe Liggins and younger brother, guitarist\/singer Jimmy Liggins didn&#8217;t record together. They each had impressive and hit laden careers apart. Joe made history with &#8220;The Honeydripper&#8221; which sat at #1 on the R&#038;B; charts for over 10 weeks in 1945, while Jimmy&#8217;s biggest R&#038;B; hit was &#8220;Drunk&#8221; [&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-300","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\/300","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=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}