{"id":1518,"date":"2015-11-30T02:27:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T10:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2015-11-30T02:27:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T10:27:26","slug":"give-that-special-someone-some-rare-ross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/11\/30\/give-that-special-someone-some-rare-ross\/","title":{"rendered":"Give that special someone some rare Ross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time for the first of <strong><em>Billy&#8217;s Holiday Gift Giving Suggestions<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 For the next few weeks, I will be suggesting items which would make great gifts for you and yours.\u00a0 Our first suggestion is something both old and new.\u00a0 When the film of <strong><em>The Wiz<\/em><\/strong> came out at the end of 1979, most critics felt it was lacking.\u00a0 But nobody had any problems with the vocal performance of <strong>Miss Ross<\/strong>.\u00a0 The musical generated a two-LP soundtrack, but what many people don&#8217;t know is that <strong>Diane <\/strong>also recorded most of the songs from the show for a solo album.\u00a0 When the film tanked, the solo was scrapped and forgotten.\u00a0 The new television version helped revive interest in Ross&#8217; renditions, so you can now buy <strong><em>Diana Ross Sings Songs from The Wiz<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 The bad news is that the recording is only being sold as a digital download &#8211; which is ironic, since Miss Ross is still trying to figure out where to insert the crank from her <em>Victrola <\/em>into an MP3 player.<\/p>\n<p>Every year, <em>Broadway Cares\/Equity Fights AIDS <\/em>releases additions to their <strong><em>Broadway Legends<\/em><\/strong> ornament collection.\u00a0 This year, <strong>Barbra Streisand <\/strong>joins the previously-released renderings of <strong>Liza Minnelli<\/strong>, <strong>Julie Andrews <\/strong>and <strong>Gwen Verdon<\/strong>.\u00a0 Not only is it a great gift, but it helps a great cause.\u00a0 Check them out at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BroadwayCares.org\" target=\"filth\">BroadwayCares.org<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for the first of Billy&#8217;s Holiday Gift Giving Suggestions.\u00a0 For the next few weeks, I will be suggesting items which would make great gifts for you and yours.\u00a0 Our first suggestion is something both old and new.\u00a0 When the film of The Wiz came out at the end of 1979, most critics felt it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}