{"id":7237,"date":"2012-10-02T18:46:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T22:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=7237"},"modified":"2012-10-02T18:46:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T22:46:07","slug":"r-i-p-r-b-greaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=7237","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. &#8211; R.B. Greaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2012\/z100212rip_rbgreaves.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">I just learned that <strong>R.B. Greaves<\/strong> passed away on <strong>September 27, 2012<\/strong> at the age of <strong>67<\/strong>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>R.B. Greaves<\/strong> was best known for his million selling hit, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WM1abTKsAhc&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>&#8220;Take a Letter Maria&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/a> which was released in <strong>1969<\/strong>.\u00a0 He followed up a year later with a cover of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=izvMbQpGDi0\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>&#8220;Always Something There to Remind Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a> which peaked at <strong>27<\/strong> on <strong>Billboard&#8217;s Hot 100<\/strong>.\u00a0 His cover of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6U_2UAgIOsY\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>&#8220;A Whiter Shade of Pale&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a> reached <strong>87<\/strong> the same year.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>&#8220;Take a Letter Maria&#8221;<\/strong> ended up selling <strong>over 2 million copies<\/strong> and was the <strong>first 45<\/strong> I ever bought.\u00a0 I loved that song (and still do) and every time I hear it, it takes me back to my childhood.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Our\u00a0 thoughts and prayers go out to <strong>R.B. Greaves<\/strong>, his family, friends and fans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just learned that R.B. Greaves passed away on September 27, 2012 at the age of 67.\u00a0 R.B. Greaves was<\/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":[64,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-rip","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237","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=7237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7238,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237\/revisions\/7238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}