{"id":344,"date":"2006-01-19T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-19T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/?p=344"},"modified":"2010-03-22T16:15:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T16:15:57","slug":"wilson-pickett-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/2006\/01\/19\/wilson-pickett-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson Pickett RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soulexpressradio.com\/picket1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soulexpressradio.com\/picket1.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <strong><span style=\"font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;\">Wilson &#8220;The Wicked&#8221; Pickett RIP<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today we lost one of the greatest soul singers of the 1960s.  Pickett&#8217;s career began with The Falcons in 1962 with &#8220;I Found A Love&#8221;, a song that made the R&B; top 10, while stalling at #75 on the pop lists.  He was signed to Atlantic Records and in 1965 made musical history with the release of &#8220;In The Midnight Hour&#8221;.  His career never stalled until the early &#8217;70s when he left Atlantic for RCA.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson Pickett died today of a heart attack at the age of 64.<\/p>\n<p>We will remember some of Pickett&#8217;s early great records tonight on the Night Prowl Show.<\/p>\n<p>-MTC<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilson &#8220;The Wicked&#8221; Pickett RIP Today we lost one of the greatest soul singers of the 1960s. Pickett&#8217;s career began with The Falcons in 1962 with &#8220;I Found A Love&#8221;, a song that made the R&#038;B; top 10, while stalling at #75 on the pop lists. He was signed to Atlantic Records and in 1965 [&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-344","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\/344","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=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}