{"id":5388,"date":"2012-10-12T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5388"},"modified":"2012-10-11T20:29:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T01:29:31","slug":"and-now-for-a-change-of-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5388","title":{"rendered":"And now, for a change of pace."},"content":{"rendered":"

However the debate went, simply be glad you were not in this picture.
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Billy May and his orchestra<\/a>. No, not Billy Mays<\/a>. Sent me by my dear old friend and confidant Mlle Jenny.<\/p>\n

Billy May is responsible for a good deal of music you know and probably don’t realize. The theme from the Green Hornet, Batman, many others were arranged or written or re-arranged by him, and he was involved with Nelson Riddle and a lot of the other big names in the business. <\/p>\n

The picture of Billy dressed like a rhumba dancer flinging confetti on a woman who is apparently trying to run away is very possibly, as Jenny says, the most surreal album cover of all time. Possibly more so than “Pardon me, I didn’t knit that for you”<\/a> <\/p>\n

What’s with the dog, anyway? and why, oh why, is he barefoot? and didn’t they have hairpieces then? Billy should have stuck to the business of music, and stayed away from cameras. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

However the debate went, simply be glad you were not in this picture. Billy May and his orchestra. No, not Billy Mays. Sent me by my dear old friend and confidant Mlle Jenny. Billy May is responsible for a good deal of music you know and probably don’t realize. The theme from the Green Hornet, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}