{"id":2361,"date":"2015-09-30T08:30:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T13:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keenerpodcast.com\/?p=2361"},"modified":"2015-09-29T12:31:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T17:31:15","slug":"a-little-ditty-in-the-nick-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=2361","title":{"rendered":"A Little Ditty In The Nick Of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Mellencamp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2362\" src=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Mellencamp.jpg\" alt=\"Mellencamp\" width=\"275\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Mellencamp.jpg 275w, https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Mellencamp-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a>By Bob Berry<\/p>\n<p>I guess the music business can be like going to a casino. If you&#8217;re gonna hit, you may as well hit big.<\/p>\n<p>At least that&#8217;s the way it worked for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mellencamp.com\/\"><strong>John (Cougar) Mellencamp<\/strong><\/a>, 24 years ago this week.<\/p>\n<p>Mellencamp, who was in need of a hit, and a big one at that, got just that when his little ditty about &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/detail.php?id=3829\"><strong>Jack and Diane<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; and the album <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Fool\"><strong><em>American Fool<\/em> <\/strong><\/a>both hit Number One; saving his record deal, and launching a career that placed him in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockhall.com\/inductees\/john-mellencamp\/\"><strong>Rock and Roll Hall of Fame<\/strong><\/a> in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Mellencamp - Jack &amp; Diane\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h04CH9YZcpI?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>John Mellencamp, who along with Willie Nelson and Neil Young, was one of the founders of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmaid.org\/\"><strong>Farm Aid<\/strong><\/a>. The 30th Anniversary concert was held two weeks ago, highlighted by a a great set by Mr. Mellencamp. We at Keener 13 applaud his efforts, and thought you would enjoy his performance.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Mellencamp - Farm Aid 2015 (Complete Set)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rek6H44f61I?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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bob Berry I guess the music business can be like going to a casino. If you&#8217;re gonna hit, you may as well hit big. At least that&#8217;s the way it worked for John (Cougar) Mellencamp, 24 years ago this week. Mellencamp, who was in need of a hit, and a big one at that, got just that when his little ditty about &#8220;Jack and Diane&#8221; and the album American Fool both hit Number One; saving his record deal, and launching a career that placed him in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008. John Mellencamp, who along&#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":[519,522,523,520,518,524,521],"class_list":["post-2361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob-berry","category-keener","tag-american-fool","tag-farm-aid","tag-farm-aid-2015","tag-jack-and-diane","tag-john-mellencamp","tag-number-one-songs-of-1982","tag-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-inducees","wpcat-160-id","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361","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=2361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2363,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions\/2363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}