{"id":9845,"date":"2025-04-01T06:12:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T10:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9845"},"modified":"2025-04-01T06:58:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T10:58:56","slug":"happy-bears-quick-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9845","title":{"rendered":"Happy Bears Quick Step"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Lost_Cove_Quick_Step.png\" width=\"900\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"audio_link\">mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Lost_Cove_Quick_Step.mp3\"><br \/>\nHappy Bears Quick Step &#8211; Click To Play  <\/a><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a story that I tell in my one-man-show: When I worked for Bobby Darin in Las Vegas, I would follow him around and ask questions on how to make it in the music business. One time I mentioned that I&#8217;s like to get in the movies. Bobby said &#8220;Well I&#8217;m having a hard enough time getting myself in the movies, but I&#8217;ll ask around and see what I can do.&#8221; About a week later he showed up with a script. He said &#8220;This is from Jackie Cooper.&#8221; I went &#8220;Wow, I remember him!&#8221; I looked at the first page and it was about a banjo player. &#8220;I&#8217;m a banjo player, I can do this!&#8221; Then I read the whole script and it was about a banjo player in Pettycoat Junction. I said &#8220;Oh Bobby I don&#8217;t think I can do this, I&#8217;m too much of a city kid.&#8221; Bobby said &#8220;You don&#8217;t want to turn down Jackie Cooper, you&#8217;ll never work in Hollywood!&#8221; You know what, I never have &#8230;.. but I&#8217;m still a banjo player. Here&#8217;s a little banjo instrumental I cooked up:<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;Happy Bears Quick Step&#8221;\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mp3: Happy Bears Quick Step &#8211; Click To Play Here&#8217;s a story that I tell in my one-man-show: When I worked for Bobby Darin in Las Vegas, I would follow him around and ask questions on how to make it in the music business. One time I mentioned that I&#8217;s like to get in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9845\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Bears Quick Step&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-array"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9845"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9852,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9845\/revisions\/9852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}