{"id":560,"date":"2012-11-08T12:01:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T16:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/?p=560"},"modified":"2012-11-08T12:03:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T16:03:55","slug":"cleve-duncan-of-the-penguins-passes-at-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/2012\/11\/08\/cleve-duncan-of-the-penguins-passes-at-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleve Duncan of The Penguins Passes at 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">CLEVE DUNCAN R.I.P.<\/span> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Cleve Duncan of The Penguins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/CleveDuncan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"200\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One of the most distinctive voices in 1950s doo wop and vocal group R&amp;B passed away on November 7th. Cleve Duncan was the lead singer of The Penguins and sang lead on &#8220;Earth Angel,&#8221; one of the most important early roc k n&#8217; roll records, because it crossed over from the R&amp;B charts to the pop charts and established rock n&#8217; roll as a viable form of pop music. Duncan was 77.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I interviewed Cleve back in 2006 and you can listen to it on my interviews below.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cleve was a kind and soft-spoken kind of guy and rock n&#8217; roll and rhythm &amp; blues wouldn&#8217;t have been the same without him. His sweet voice will be missed.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleve Duncan of The Penguins passes away at 77 on November 7, 2012.  Listen to Matt The Cat&#8217;s 2006 interview with Cleve Duncan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview","category-r-i-p"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","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=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}