{"id":1518,"date":"2018-02-06T12:11:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T19:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2018-02-06T12:11:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T19:11:53","slug":"tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=1518","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=1513\">A couple weeks ago<\/a>, I posted a video of &#8216;Tico, Tico&#8217; that I liked. Since then, I&#8217;ve run across some more performances of it that I like. The first one is by Paco de Lucia. He gets pretty fast with his fingers on this. I used to have an LP or two of his. I&#8217;m not sure what the short bits that follow his performance are.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HIXLC5SRC7w\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another version that&#8217;s pretty fun &#8211; it&#8217;s by Liberace. He gets some incredible speed in his performance.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oPAe_uHERy4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Liberace was one of the more flamboyant performers I remember from my youth. I remember Bugs Bunny did a Liberace impression once or twice. Given his over-the-top wardrobe, I wonder if he had the same problem with the IRS that Diana Ross had &#8211; they were going to disallow the deductions she took for her stage outfits, but she demonstrated that most of them she couldn&#8217;t wear offstage &#8211; they wouldn&#8217;t allow her to sit down. He couldn&#8217;t make the same argument, since he performed sitting down.<\/p>\n<p>Here he is performing &#8216;Malaguena&#8217; and mugging with Sammy Davis, Jr.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pn7ImsFM13k\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s another version of Malaguena, this time from Chet Atkins.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WUN9yYU6HAI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago, I posted a video of &#8216;Tico, Tico&#8217; that I liked. Since then, I&#8217;ve run across some more performances of it that I like. The first one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}