{"id":2263,"date":"2010-12-12T20:09:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T04:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2010-12-12T20:09:05","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T04:09:05","slug":"how_moody_became_famous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2010\/12\/how_moody_became_famous\/","title":{"rendered":"How Moody Became Famous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought that we had come to the end of the current <i>Rifftides<\/i> series of James Moody entries until I heard from a reader who wondered why she had never heard Moody&#8217;s &#8220;I&#8217;m in the Mood for Love.&#8221; That is a puzzle, given the record&#8217;s ubiquity, but if even one person has the pleasure of hearing it for the first time, how can we refuse? Here is Moody&#8217;s 1949 recording with the Swedish All-Stars, followed by King Pleasure (Clarence Beeks) in 1952 singing Eddie Jefferson&#8217;s lyric set to Moody&#8217;s solo. Blossom Dearie sings the bridge originally improvised by pianist Thore Swaneberg. I&#8217;m glad our reader asked. This is a good way to start the week.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"440\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/R2TRWADezgE?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/R2TRWADezgE?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"440\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SlbqU78833Q?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SlbqU78833Q?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought that we had come to the end of the current Rifftides series of James Moody entries until I heard from a reader who wondered why she had never heard Moody&#8217;s &#8220;I&#8217;m in the Mood for Love.&#8221; That is a puzzle, given the record&#8217;s ubiquity, but if even one person has the pleasure of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}