{"id":5787,"date":"2013-08-18T11:39:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T11:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=5787"},"modified":"2013-08-18T11:39:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T11:39:59","slug":"mama-dont-allow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/mama-dont-allow\/","title":{"rendered":"Mama don&#039;t allow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norm&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/normblog.typepad.com\/normblog\/2013\/08\/the-momma-n-daddy-collection-131.html\" target=\"_blank\">latest entry<\/a> in his Mommy and Daddy collection of songs is JJ Cale&#8217;s version of &#8220;<em>Now, Mama don&#8217;t allow no guitar playing round here<\/em>&#8220;.\u00a0\u00a0 The version of this song that I first recall hearing was that of The Limeliters, who do not refer (as Cale does) to &#8220;<em><strong>My<\/strong> Mama<\/em>&#8220;.\u00a0\u00a0 So, I&#8217;d always understood the song to be about boarding-house owners, rather than natural-born mothers, and hence a fine metaphor for the suffocating nanny culture that was the US of the 1950s.\u00a0 I cannot find their version online.<br \/>\nOf course, a mention of The Slightly Fabulous Limeliters would be\u00a0incomplete without a reference to their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SIaRyaQw4N0\" target=\"_blank\">song<\/a> about Harry Pollitt, long-time General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norm&#8217;s latest entry in his Mommy and Daddy collection of songs is JJ Cale&#8217;s version of &#8220;Now, Mama don&#8217;t allow no guitar playing round here&#8220;.\u00a0\u00a0 The version of this song that I first recall hearing was that of The Limeliters, who do not refer (as Cale does) to &#8220;My Mama&#8220;.\u00a0\u00a0 So, I&#8217;d always understood the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communism","category-culture","category-music","p1","y2013","m08","d18","h11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}