{"id":93,"date":"2006-08-02T15:39:06","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T13:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oh-la-la.nl\/?p=93"},"modified":"2006-08-02T15:39:43","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T13:39:43","slug":"americans-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oh-la-la.nl\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"Americans in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-right: .5em; margin-bottom: .5em; float: left;\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.oh-la-la.nl\/images\/Eartha-Kitt.jpg\" alt=\"Radio Oh La La\" \/><\/div>\n<p>There is quite a long tradition of Americans singing in French, which includes the likes of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eartha_Kitt\">Eartha&nbsp;Kitt<\/a> (posing here), <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nat_King_Cole\">Nat&nbsp;King&nbsp;Cole<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blossom_Dearie\">Blossom&nbsp;Dearie<\/a>. Then there&#8217;s also more recent numbers by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/April_March\">April&nbsp;March<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nanette_Workman\">Nanette&nbsp;Workman<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dee_Dee_Bridgewater\">Dee&nbsp;Dee&nbsp;Bridgewater<\/a>. Some of then sang phonetically, some of them fumbled along in French and others actually took lessons.<\/p>\n<p>You guess it &#8211; all these artists can be heard on <strong>Radio Oh la la<\/strong>. I&#8217;m always looking for more, especially from the 50s and 60s, so if you have any tips, let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is quite a long tradition of Americans singing in French, which includes the likes of Eartha&nbsp;Kitt (posing here), Nat&nbsp;King&nbsp;Cole and Blossom&nbsp;Dearie. Then there&#8217;s also more recent numbers by April&nbsp;March, Nanette&nbsp;Workman and Dee&nbsp;Dee&nbsp;Bridgewater. Some of then sang phonetically, some of them fumbled along in French and others actually took lessons. You guess it &#8211; all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-la-la.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-la-la.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-la-la.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-la-la.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-la-la.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-la-la.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-la-la.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-la-la.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-la-la.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}