{"id":420,"date":"2008-11-10T11:02:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T15:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keenerpodcast.com\/?p=420"},"modified":"2009-05-05T17:29:34","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T21:29:34","slug":"miriam-makebas-one-hit-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"Miriam Makeba&#8217;s One Hit Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/makeba.gif\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 5px 0 0;\"  \/><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20081110\/ap_on_re_af\/eu_obit_makeba;_ylt=Av7CNMCJoTfTme2Gf_zpch4EtbAF\">Miriam Makeba<\/a> earned international notoriety more for her political involvement than for her music, but in 1967, her recording about &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Pygqt0uwnuc\">Pata Pata<\/a>&#8220;, a South African dance loosely translated as &#8220;Touch Touch&#8221; had a 5 week run on the WKNR Music Guide, <a href=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/guides\/671102W.html\">peaking at number 9<\/a>. Her husbands included trumpeter <a href=\"http:\/\/music.yahoo.com\/ar-257128-bio---Hugh-Masekela\">Hugh Masekela<\/a>, and later black activist Stokely Carmichael, and she worked with a diverse cadre of artists from Harry Belafonte and Dizzy Gillespie to Paul Simon. Makeba died November 10th of a heart attack after collapsing on stage at the end of a benefit concert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miriam Makeba earned international notoriety more for her political involvement than for her music, but in 1967, her recording about &#8220;Pata Pata&#8220;, a South African dance loosely translated as &#8220;Touch Touch&#8221; had a 5 week run on the WKNR Music Guide, peaking at number 9. Her husbands included trumpeter Hugh Masekela, and later black activist Stokely Carmichael, and she worked with a diverse cadre of artists from Harry Belafonte and Dizzy Gillespie to Paul Simon. Makeba died November 10th of a heart attack after collapsing on stage at the end of a benefit concert.<\/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-420","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\/420","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=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}