{"id":567,"date":"2012-12-26T19:49:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T23:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/?p=567"},"modified":"2012-12-26T19:49:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T23:49:32","slug":"jimmy-mccracklin-rb-legend-dies-at-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/2012\/12\/26\/jimmy-mccracklin-rb-legend-dies-at-91\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy McCracklin, R&#038;B Legend Dies at 91"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">JIMMY McCRACKLIN<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/2012\/12\/26\/jimmy-mccracklin-rb-legend-dies-at-91\/jimmy-mccracklin\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-568\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-568\" alt=\"Jimmy McCracklin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Jimmy-McCracklin-211x300.jpg\" width=\"169\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Jimmy-McCracklin-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Jimmy-McCracklin.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">JIMMY McCRACKLIN passed away on Thurs, December 20th at the age of 91. He made history in 1958 with his HUGE crossover success of &#8220;The Walk&#8221; for Checker (hit #7 pop and #5 R&amp;B). In 1961, he hit #2 R&amp;B with &#8220;Just Got To Know&#8221; and scored many hits for the Imperial label in the mid-1960s. Personally, I&#8217;m a big fan of the singles he cut for Minit Records, like &#8220;Get Together&#8221; and &#8220;Dog.&#8221; McCracklin was an influential cat and R&amp;B music has lost a legend. I&#8217;m only sorry I didn&#8217;t find out about this until now. So dig on some REAL vintage R&amp;B as we remember JIMMY McCRACKLIN.<\/span><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YT9z_UObm6M\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B8jd-_-A554\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R&#038;B singer Jimmy McCracklin dies at 91.<\/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-567","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\/567","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=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}