{"id":1952,"date":"2015-07-14T18:23:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T23:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keenerpodcast.com\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2015-07-14T18:53:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T23:53:18","slug":"r-i-p-ernie-maresca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=1952","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Ernie Maresca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/B2-head-shot-Crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1835\" src=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/B2-head-shot-Crop.jpg\" alt=\"Bob Berruy\" width=\"115\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>By Bob Berry<\/p>\n<p>The great songwriter Ernie Maresca, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.noise11.com\/news\/r-i-p-ernie-maresca-runaround-sue-composer-1938-2015-20150713\">who wrote many of Dion DiMucci&#8217;s hits<\/a><\/strong>, including the #1 smash&#8221;Runaround Sue&#8221;, has passed. Mr. Maresca, who also had a solo hit in 1962 with &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p6k3BEU1aQM\"><strong>Shout, Shout (Knock Yourself Out)<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; was 78 and had resided in South Florida.<ins> <\/ins><\/p>\n<p>Ernie and Dion&#8217;s music largely pre-dated the Keener years, but their legacy, which also included &#8220;The Wanderer&#8221;, &#8220;Lovers Who Wander&#8221; And &#8220;Donna The Prima Donna&#8221;; is unmistakably part of the soundtrack of the &#8220;Keener Generation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Which is another way of saying that those beautifully produced street-corner harmonies, the <em>soul-stew<\/em> of their hometown, The Bronx in New York City, was flat-out GREAT rock and roll music.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Ernie-M.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1964 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Ernie-M.jpg\" alt=\"Ernie M\" width=\"269\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Ernie-M.jpg 269w, https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Ernie-M-150x104.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>R.I.P., Ernie. Thanks to you, and to Dion, for the music.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4WeuX7eZs3k<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UL6YxbI8ASo<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dion - Runaround Sue (HD)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ID-jsd0HGZs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bob Berry The great songwriter Ernie Maresca, who wrote many of Dion DiMucci&#8217;s hits, including the #1 smash&#8221;Runaround Sue&#8221;, has passed. Mr. Maresca, who also had a solo hit in 1962 with &#8220;Shout, Shout (Knock Yourself Out)&#8221; was 78 and had resided in South Florida. Ernie and Dion&#8217;s music largely pre-dated the Keener years, but their legacy, which also included &#8220;The Wanderer&#8221;, &#8220;Lovers Who Wander&#8221; And &#8220;Donna The Prima Donna&#8221;; is unmistakably part of the soundtrack of the &#8220;Keener Generation&#8221;. Which is another way of saying that those beautifully produced street-corner harmonies, the soul-stew of their hometown, The Bronx&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,2],"tags":[184,187,189,185,186,188],"class_list":["post-1952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob-berry","category-keener","tag-dion","tag-donna-the-prima-donna","tag-lovers-who-wander","tag-r-i-p-ernie-maresca","tag-runaround-sue","tag-the-wanderer","wpcat-160-id","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952","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=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1965,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions\/1965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}