{"id":76,"date":"2009-02-27T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/?p=76"},"modified":"2010-03-22T15:29:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:29:48","slug":"the-dixie-cups-win-we-want-richard-to-open-that-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/2009\/02\/27\/the-dixie-cups-win-we-want-richard-to-open-that-door\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dixie Cups Win &#038; We Want Richard To Open That Door!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color:#3333ff;\">The Dixie Cups Win Friday Night Cat Fight<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#3333ff;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i25.tinypic.com\/dcg2ub.jpg\"><span style=\"color:#3333ff;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 291px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i25.tinypic.com\/dcg2ub.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/a><strong><span style=\"color:#3333ff;\"> &#8220;Jock-A-Mo&#8221; vs. &#8220;Iko Iko&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#3333ff;\">The Dixie Cups &#8220;Iko Iko&#8221; &#8211; 68 Votes<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#3333ff;\">Sugar Boy Crawford &#8220;Jock-A-Mo&#8221; &#8211; 56 Votes<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#3333ff;\"><strong>Sugar Boy put up some great numbers with his original 1953 version of the song, but the Dixie Cups&#8217; 1965 Top Pop 20 rendition of the song took the prize.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#3333ff;\">This week, we have our very first FOUR-WAY Friday Night Cat Fight with the classic R&B; tune, &#8220;Open The Door, Richard&#8221;. Listen to the entire Cat Fight Podcast before casting your vote for either Jack McVea, Dusty Fletcher, Count Basie &#038; His Orch. or Louis Jordan. I played these songs a lot back in my XM Radio days, but I never opened the song up to a popularity vote like this, so I&#8217;m very interested in the results.<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\"><strong>Friday Night Cat Fight On The Web!<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to my weekly email newsletter, &#8220;Prowlin&#8217; With Matt The Cat&#8221; at the bottom of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/\">MattTheCat.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dixie Cups Win Friday Night Cat Fight &#8220;Jock-A-Mo&#8221; vs. &#8220;Iko Iko&#8221; The Dixie Cups &#8220;Iko Iko&#8221; &#8211; 68 Votes Sugar Boy Crawford &#8220;Jock-A-Mo&#8221; &#8211; 56 Votes Sugar Boy put up some great numbers with his original 1953 version of the song, but the Dixie Cups&#8217; 1965 Top Pop 20 rendition of the song took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-night-cat-fight-radio-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","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=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}