{"id":5703,"date":"2011-01-31T11:01:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T19:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=5703"},"modified":"2011-01-31T11:01:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T19:01:27","slug":"r-i-p-john-barry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/r-i-p-john-barry\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P., John Barry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"426\" height=\"345\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xYQ7dxwRkUM?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"426\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xYQ7dxwRkUM?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nComposer of far too many good soundtracks and title tunes to name (<em>Goldfinger<\/em> ought to suffice), <strong>John Barry<\/strong>&#8216;s music defined the sound of the Sixties, in a large extent &#8212; and nobody wrote for <strong>Shirley Bassey<\/strong>&#8216;s thermonuclear vocal cords so effectively. His passing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-admin\/post-new.php\" target=\"_blank\">leaves a considerable legacy<\/a>, one which <strong>ABC News<\/strong> didn&#8217;t need to erroneously inflate this morning by crediting him with the <strong>James Bond<\/strong> theme, immortal handiwork of the otherwise forgotten <strong>Monty Norman<\/strong>. Back in college, <!--more-->when I was running the soundboard for a quartet of one-act plays (which was probably one too many), I used Barry&#8217;s theme from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0060358\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Dutchman<\/em><\/a> to set the mood for <strong>Harold Pinter<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>The Room<\/em>. The director liked it &#8230; and so did a number of audience members, much to my gratification. At least we can console ourselves with a playlist that runs the gamut from <em>A (View to a Kill)<\/em> to <em>Z(ulu)<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Composer of far too many good soundtracks and title tunes to name (Goldfinger ought to suffice), John Barry&#8216;s music defined the sound of the Sixties, in a large extent &#8212; and nobody wrote for Shirley Bassey&#8216;s thermonuclear vocal cords so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/r-i-p-john-barry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5704,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703\/revisions\/5704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}