{"id":28565,"date":"2019-12-02T10:36:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=28565"},"modified":"2019-12-02T10:36:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T15:36:08","slug":"rip-irving-burgie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=28565","title":{"rendered":"RIP Irving Burgie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Burgie.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Burgie-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Burgie-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Burgie-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Burgie-400x265.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Burgie.jpg 415w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn, N.Y.&#8211;Irving Burgie, a singer, composer and lyricist whose songs were immortalized by Harry Belafonte during the calypso craze of the 1950s, died here Friday. He was 95.<\/p>\n<p>Known professionally as Lord Burgess, Burgie was at his height in 1956 when he wrote eight of the 11 tracks on Belafonte\u2019s celebrated album \u201cCalypso.\u201d One of the biggest hits from the album was \u201cDay-O\u201d (\u201cThe Banana Boat Song\u201d), based on a Jamaican folk song. Burgie and William Attaway wrote the lyrics for the version sung by Belafonte.<\/p>\n<p>MSTies may remember that Tom Servo sang the song during a host segment in episode K13- SST DEATH FLIGHT, while Joel Crow and Gypsy played limbo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/01\/arts\/music\/irving-burgie-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times has the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to Tim for the heads up.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p>Brooklyn, N.Y.&#8211;Irving Burgie, a singer, composer and lyricist whose songs were immortalized by Harry Belafonte during the calypso craze of the 1950s, died here Friday. He was 95.<\/p>\n<p>Known professionally as Lord Burgess, Burgie was at his height in 1956 when he wrote eight of the 11 tracks on Belafonte\u2019s celebrated album [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rip","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}