{"id":1423,"date":"2012-10-28T12:30:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T17:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keenerpodcast.com\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2012-10-28T12:39:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T17:39:21","slug":"wayne-fontana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=1423","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Fontana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Wayne-Fontana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1424\" title=\"Wayne Fontana\" src=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Wayne-Fontana-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Wayne-Fontana-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Wayne-Fontana-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Wayne-Fontana.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Happy birthday to Glyn Geoffrey Ellis, born on this date, 28 October 1945, in Manchester, Lancashire. You know him as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wayne_Fontana\" target=\"_blank\">Wayne Fontana<\/a>, a name that was inspired by Elvis&#8217; drummer, D.J. Fontana. It was a coincidence that he was signed to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fontana_Records\" target=\"_blank\">Fontana Records<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His biggest hit with his band <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Mindbenders\" target=\"_blank\">The Mindbenders<\/a> was &#8220;The Game Of Love&#8221; which <a href=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/guides\/650317W.html\" target=\"_blank\">peaked at number 4<\/a> on the WKNR Music Guide in March of 1965. The Mindbenders <a href=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/guides\/660516W.html\" target=\"_blank\">charted again<\/a> on Keener in The Spring of 1966 with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Groovy_Kind_of_Love\" target=\"_blank\">Groovy Kind of Love<\/a>&#8220;. By then, Wayne Fontana had left the band in pursuit of a solo career.<\/p>\n<p>After his share of ups and downs, Wayne Fontana <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waynefontana.com\" target=\"_blank\">continues to tour<\/a> in both the UK and the US.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/youtu.be\/0pLZwUSDtYU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy birthday to Glyn Geoffrey Ellis, born on this date, 28 October 1945, in Manchester, Lancashire. You know him as Wayne Fontana, a name that was inspired by Elvis&#8217; drummer, D.J. Fontana. It was a coincidence that he was signed to Fontana Records. His biggest hit with his band The Mindbenders was &#8220;The Game Of Love&#8221; which peaked at number 4 on the WKNR Music Guide in March of 1965. The Mindbenders charted again on Keener in The Spring of 1966 with &#8220;Groovy Kind of Love&#8220;. By then, Wayne Fontana had left the band in pursuit of a solo career&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keener","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}