{"id":22079,"date":"2016-04-10T06:25:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T10:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=22079"},"modified":"2016-10-22T19:22:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T23:22:51","slug":"that-thing-you-do-the-secret-gene-pitney-connection-for-a-number-of-reaso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=22079","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;That Thing You Do&#8221;&#8230; The Secret Gene Pitney Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;That Thing You Do&#8221;&#8230; The Secret Gene Pitney Connection <\/p>\n<p>For a number of reasons, this is one of my favorite movies, but did you know that &#8220;Mr. Downtown&#8221;, and the fictional character that sings it, Freddie Fredrickson, is based on Gene Pitney and his &#8220;Town Without Pity&#8221;? <\/p>\n<p>Hear; Gene Pitney &#8220;Town Without Pity&#8221;&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A7BRraVMZzc\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A7BRraVMZzc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hear; Freddy Fredrickson&#8217;s &#8220;Mr. Downtown&#8221;&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eqzkWSz1Onk\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eqzkWSz1Onk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way, the Norelco cameras were all from History For Hire, LA&#8217;s top prop shop for cameras. There are lipstick cameras under the lenses, and LCD displays in the viewfinder hole. -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/990309041006645\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/That-Thing-You-Do...-The-Secret-Gene-Pitney-Connection-For-a-number-of-reaso\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/990309041006645\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;That Thing You Do&#8221;&#8230; The Secret Gene Pitney Connection For a number of reasons, this is one of my favorite movies, but did you know that &#8220;Mr. Downtown&#8221;, and the fictional character that sings it, Freddie Fredrickson, is based on Gene Pitney and his &#8220;Town Without Pity&#8221;? Hear; Gene Pitney &#8220;Town Without Pity&#8221;&#8230; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A7BRraVMZzc Hear; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cameras","category-eras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}