{"id":1887,"date":"2008-07-14T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2015-07-03T10:48:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T14:48:33","slug":"rock-your-baby-to-the-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1887","title":{"rendered":"Rock Your Baby to the Boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/SHuxPkQ_GZI\/AAAAAAAABYE\/l_tl59PklMU\/s1600-h\/z071408rock_boat.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222963073857296786\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/SHuxPkQ_GZI\/AAAAAAAABYE\/l_tl59PklMU\/s400\/z071408rock_boat.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From <a style=\"color: #cc0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=arxhW1RgDDo\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;\">George McCrae&#8217;s<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family: arial;\">&#8220;Rock Your Baby&#8221;<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> we move to<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;\"> The Hues Corporation<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> and their hit <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family: arial;\">&#8220;Rock the Boat.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Hues Corporation<\/span> consisted of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">St. Clair Lee, Flemming Williams,<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Ann Kelley<\/span>. The trio formed in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1969<\/span>, but it wasn&#8217;t until <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;Rock the Boat&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">July<\/span> of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1974<\/span> that they scored their one and only <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">top 100 hit<\/span>. And what a hit it was &#8212; shooting all the way to<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> #1<\/span>. Unfortunately, they were never able to repeat their success and the band broke up in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1978<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Here are a few bits of trivia:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify; font-family: arial;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Hues Corporation<\/span> originally wanted to call themselves <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Hughes Corporation<\/span> but their record company nixed the idea feeling that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Howard Hughes<\/span> might take exception to the name. They settled on <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Hues Corporation<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;Rock the Boat&#8221;<\/span> hit <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">number 1<\/span> on <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Billboard&#8217;s Hot 100<\/span> the week of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">July 6, 1974<\/span>. [Yeah. 34 years ago. Yeesh.] Guess what song followed it to take the number one spot? <a style=\"color: #cc0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=arxhW1RgDDo\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">George McRae&#8217;s &#8220;Rock Your Baby.&#8221;<\/span><\/a> We just can&#8217;t get away from that song!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From George McCrae&#8217;s &#8220;Rock Your Baby&#8221; we move to The Hues Corporation and their hit &#8220;Rock the Boat.&#8221; The Hues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12914,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions\/12914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}