{"id":252,"date":"2015-02-20T01:58:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T06:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2017-06-15T12:23:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T16:23:15","slug":"ill-be-okay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;ll be okay&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(This is the second of two posts following the same idea, which is; wow, I can\u2019t believe the guy who wrote this song also wrote that song which is so different from this song. The first post is <a title=\"Yusipka: Get Your Kicks\" href=\"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/?p=249\" target=\"_blank\">just below<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 1959, a trio of high schoolers calling themselves The Fleetwoods managed to get two songs into the Billboard&#8217;s Top 100. The first of these, &#8220;<a title=\"YouTube: Come Softly To Me by The Fleetwoods\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/nIivzJ90M0s\" target=\"_blank\">Come Softly To Me<\/a>,&#8221; they wrote themselves (<a title=\"Wikipedia: Come Softly To Me\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Come_Softly_to_Me\" target=\"_blank\">recorded part of it themselves<\/a> as well and btw that thing in the song that sounds like a tambourine is actually a set of keys Gary Troxel is shaking to keep time in what the singers thought was only to be a home recorded demo, but in fact became part of the released song). Their other charting song, &#8220;Mr. Blue,&#8221; was written by a guy named Dewayne L. Blackwell.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_9ceb6uzG3I\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thirty-one years later, in 1990, Blackwell wrote another hit, this one quite different and not for a bunch of teenagers, but for a major country music star;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mvCgSqPZ4EM\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So yes, <em>wow, I can\u2019t believe the guy who wrote this song also wrote<\/em> blah blah blah.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a title=\"Chapala.com: Dewayne Blackwell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chapala.com\/chapala\/ojo2005\/dewayne.html\" target=\"_blank\">a nice article<\/a> about Blackwell. I didn&#8217;t realize until I read it that his younger brother Ron wrote &#8220;<a title=\"YouTube: Little Red Riding Hood by Sam the Sham\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/xwNP9HOFvwQ\" target=\"_blank\">Little Red Riding Hood<\/a>&#8221; (recorded by Sam the Sham and The Pharoahs) and was killed just as it started to chart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This is the second of two posts following the same idea, which is; wow, I can\u2019t believe the guy who wrote this song also wrote that song which is so different from this song. The first post is just below) In 1959, a trio of high schoolers calling themselves The Fleetwoods managed to get two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Q4T3-44","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":249,"url":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/?p=249","url_meta":{"origin":252,"position":0},"title":"Get your kicks","author":"Kevin Steel","date":"February 20, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"(This is the first of two posts following the same idea, which is; wow, I can't believe the guy who wrote this song also wrote that song which is so different from this song. 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