{"id":598,"date":"2007-11-18T13:21:28","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T19:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=598"},"modified":"2007-11-18T13:24:06","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T19:24:06","slug":"million-dollar-quartet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/18\/million-dollar-quartet\/","title":{"rendered":"Million Dollar Quartet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday night, Anon and I went to see the <strong>Million Dollar Quartet<\/strong>, a musical put on by the Village Theatre (a NW outfit, I think).  The setting was Sun Records on December 4, 1956 when a chance meeting\/recording of Elvis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis took place.  The actors\/musicians did a great job.  Carl and Jerry were particularly good.  The script worked its way through the beginnings of Rock &#8216;n Roll, religious feelings at the time about Rock &#8216;n Roll, the commercialization of Rock &#8216;n Roll, and of course the personalities of these four innovators.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image597\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/milliondollarqt.jpg\" alt=\"Million Dollar Quartet\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What I didn&#8217;t realize was that these four (and Roy Orbison) all came through Sun Records.  I only knew about Elvis.  Another thought that went through my head: I wonder if the piano setup has to be special for a Jerry Lee Lewis performance.  He pounded the hell out of that thing.<\/p>\n<p>If this musical comes to your town, you should go see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday night, Anon and I went to see the Million Dollar Quartet, a musical put on by the Village Theatre (a NW outfit, I think). The setting was Sun Records on December 4, 1956 when a chance meeting\/recording of Elvis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis took place. The actors\/musicians did a great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}