{"id":2319,"date":"2015-09-20T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keenerpodcast.com\/?p=2319"},"modified":"2015-09-19T15:42:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T20:42:23","slug":"sunday-brunch-with-the-commodores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=2319","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Brunch With The Commodores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Commorodes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2320\" src=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Commorodes.jpg\" alt=\"Commorodes\" width=\"290\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Commorodes.jpg 290w, https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Commorodes-150x117.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a>By Bob Berry<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of the great lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m easy as Sunday Morning&#8230;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Lionel Richie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsfreak.com\/l\/lionel+richie\/easy_20083851.html\"><strong>wrote it<\/strong><\/a>, and he and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/commodores-mn0000766094\"><strong>The Commodores<\/strong><\/a> took a song about breaking up, &#8220;Easy&#8221;, to Top 5 in the late spring of 1977. It&#8217;s a beautiful song, sung, like their other smash ballads, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B4dl6JSf-bc\"><strong>Three Times A Lady<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aqS6LoBa_nQ&amp;list=RDaqS6LoBa_nQ\"><strong>Still<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;, so effortlessly, so wonderfully.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ll venture a guess that one reason Lionel Richie is sometimes overlooked as a great singer, is the simple fact that he made it seem so <em>easy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday Brunch is served, on Keener 13.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Commodores &quot;Easy&quot; 1978 (Reelin&#039; In The Years Archives)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mDxQJN_WKNE?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 It&#8217;s one of the great lyrics. &#8220;I&#8217;m easy as Sunday Morning&#8230;&#8221;. Lionel Richie wrote it, and he and The Commodores took a song about breaking up, &#8220;Easy&#8221;, to Top 5 in the late spring of 1977. It&#8217;s a beautiful song, sung, like their other smash ballads, &#8220;Three Times A Lady&#8221; and &#8220;Still&#8220;, so effortlessly, so wonderfully. And I&#8217;ll venture a guess that one reason Lionel Richie is sometimes overlooked as a great singer, is the simple fact that he made it seem so easy. Sunday Brunch is served, on Keener 13. &nbsp;<\/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":[475,478,474,477,452,473,476],"class_list":["post-2319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob-berry","category-keener","tag-easy","tag-great-lyrics","tag-lionel-richie","tag-still","tag-sunday-brunch-music","tag-the-commodores","tag-three-times-a-lady","wpcat-160-id","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319","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=2319"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2324,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions\/2324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}