{"id":1325,"date":"2016-07-08T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2016-07-07T10:04:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T09:04:49","slug":"song-of-the-week-living-for-the-city-by-ramsey-lewis-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=1325","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Living for the City&#8221; by Ramsey Lewis &#038; Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;Living for the City&#8221; by Ramsey Lewis &amp; Band:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/moKL_NP-4bw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What do you do when you take on one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rc0XEw4m-3w\" target=\"_blank\">Stevie Wonder&#8217;s best and most famous songs<\/a>? For three minutes you play it pretty straight, piano following the vocal line of the original, doing some nice loud-quiet-loud (like Ramsey Lewis had been listening to the Pixies in 1990, too? probably not, but maybe, but nah, but still).\u00a0 Then you bring out the jazz and let rip.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=55X-Qm1MF9c\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s another of his versions<\/a>; Ramsey Lewis plays an electric piano on this one and his a bit more of a soul-disco feel to it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22Living%20for%20the%20City%22%20by%20Ramsey%20Lewis%20%26%20Band\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it. This is &#8220;Living for the City&#8221; by Ramsey Lewis &amp; Band: What do you do when you take on one of Stevie Wonder&#8217;s best and most famous songs? 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