{"id":65596,"date":"2019-06-15T06:25:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T10:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=65596"},"modified":"2019-06-21T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T18:27:00","slug":"grammy-awards-and-country-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/uncategorized\/2019\/06\/grammy-awards-and-country-hits\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammy Awards And Country Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He was just 10 when he performed on the radio for the first time.\u00a0 He was captivated by music, and was a talented performer.\u00a0 He dropped out of school at 16, and shortly after joined the U.S. Marine Corps.<\/p>\n<p>He was known as &#8216;El Bebop Kid&#8217;, and released two songs in Spanish&#8230;Elvis&#8217; &#8216;Don&#8217;t be Cruel&#8217; and Harry Belafonte&#8217;s &#8216;Jamaica Farewell&#8217;.\u00a0 \u00a0In 1958 he changed his name to Freddy Fender.<\/p>\n<p>In 1959 he recorded, &#8216;Wasted Days and Wasted Nights&#8217;, but it wasn&#8217;t until he remade that single 15 years later that the song became a top hit.\u00a0 Fender won three Grammy Awards during the course of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Join me next Saturday, June 22 at 9:20, for more with Freddy Fender!<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Norgate and Saturday mornings&#8230; with you on CKNX since 2007!<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ay5ciplY4Pg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was just 10 when he performed on the radio for the first time.\u00a0 He was captivated by music, and was a talented performer.\u00a0 He dropped out of school at 16, and shortly after joined the U.S. Marine Corps. He was known as &#8216;El Bebop Kid&#8217;, and released two songs in Spanish&#8230;Elvis&#8217; &#8216;Don&#8217;t be Cruel&#8217;","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 15:56:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/uncategorized\/2019\/06\/grammy-awards-and-country-hits\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65597,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65596\/revisions\/65597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}