{"id":421,"date":"2021-02-19T13:30:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T13:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/?p=421"},"modified":"2021-03-15T14:07:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T14:07:04","slug":"the-crooner-chronicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"The Crooner Chronicles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve long been a fan of the classic swing, jazz and ballad vocalists of the past.   It&#8217;s a style of singing I&#8217;ve ventured into at times &#8211; but not so much in recent years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One particularly cold, bleak, lockdown Sunday in February, I decided to try and dust the cobwebs this side of my singing.  I also thought if I record and share the results it adds a bit of edge and motivation to the proceedings.  I&#8217;ve added some links below so that you can take a look\/listen and see what you think, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll carry on with this and add some videos over time.  It&#8217;s great vocal practice for breath control, pitching, phrasing etc.  and I get to sing some great old songs.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Crooner Chronicles\" width=\"470\" height=\"264\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLxQ3HVjZQ8XpF0w_g87SVmreRCQP3MO-X\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Crooner Chronicles by Martin Smith\" width=\"470\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F1211157154&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=470&#038;maxheight=750&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/283555343977\/143115470983580\/\" target=\"_blank\">Crooner Chronicles on Facebook<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/dj72pb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sign-up for email updates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long been a fan of the classic swing, jazz and ballad vocalists of the past. It&#8217;s a style of singing I&#8217;ve ventured into at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[40,2,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/snip1.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}