{"id":14594,"date":"2015-01-22T23:16:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T23:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/protoslacker-star-spangled-banner-jose\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T18:18:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T01:18:49","slug":"protoslacker-star-spangled-banner-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/protoslacker-star-spangled-banner-jose\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8IVqIVKNrug?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=opaque\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/protoslacker.tumblr.com\/post\/108857609869\/star-spangled-banner-jose-feliciano-story-and\">protoslacker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1 class=\"yt\" id=\"watch-headline-title\">Star Spangled Banner &#8211; Jose Feliciano (story and 1968 video)<\/h1>\n<p><a class=\"yt-uix-sessionlink     spf-link  g-hovercard\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCr8cOYxkxaG_NOjQMd6D_CQ\">Jose Feliciano<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m 59 and goofy. I was 13 in 1968 and I\u2019m sure I was goofy then. <\/p>\n<p>In 1968 I might have known who The Doors were, but I certainly knew who Jose Feliciano from his rendition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hjc-kKBq9_Q\">Light My Fire<\/a>\u00a0on the radio. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Radio then basically meant AM radio with a Top 20 format. The shift to FM radio dominance was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FM_broadcasting_in_the_United_States\">sesimic<\/a>. It seemed to happen quickly, but actually took quite a while for enough people to have FM receivers. Even in the early 1970\u2019s when I was in high school \u00a0near Pittsburgh, the free-format station was an AM \u201csundowner\u201d station, which meant we had about an hour after school to hear new music on the radio.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I watched the 1968 Democratic National Convention on TV with great interest. I had an early bed time and TV watching at our house was restricted. So thinking back, I realize my intense interest in seeing the Convention coverage resulted from exceptional forbearance from my mother.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/georgiabyrd1208\/1968-democratic-convention\/\">Here\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0a great Pinterest board of the 1968 Convention. \u00a0On the board is a photo of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/471822498432000952\/\">Aretha Franklin <\/a>singing The Star Spangled Banner. It\u2019s hard to express the emotional intensity watching on TV at age 13. And how sinister Chicago mayor Richard Daley \u00a0looked to me when the camera shot for his reaction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ju5qgxHKwHQ\">This 2-minute clip <\/a>from a documentary film, <em>American Revolution 2<\/em>, by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mike_Gray\">Mike Gray<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Howard_Alk\">Howard Alk<\/a> captures some of the awe the 1968 Convention evoked. Towards the end of the clip the crowd can be heard chanting: \u201cPeace Now.\u201d \u00a0I heard that message then.<\/p>\n<p>Who is allowed to sing The National Anthem? was contested then in ways that might seem silly now. But the rifts in society exposed are all too familiar today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p6rXyvzfOsc\">Bonus<\/a>, a trailer for \u00a0Gray and Alk\u2019s 1971 film <em>The Death of Fred Hampton<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\">(<span>Source:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>protoslacker: Star Spangled Banner &#8211; Jose Feliciano (story and 1968 video) Jose Feliciano I\u2019m 59 and goofy. I was 13 in 1968 and I\u2019m sure I was goofy then. In 1968 I might have known who The Doors were, but I certainly knew who Jose Feliciano from his rendition of Light My Fire\u00a0on the radio. 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