{"id":970,"date":"2009-07-20T14:16:03","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T14:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/07\/songs-im-embarrassed-to-like.html"},"modified":"2009-07-20T14:16:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T14:16:03","slug":"songs-im-embarrassed-to-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/07\/songs-im-embarrassed-to-like.html","title":{"rendered":"Songs I&#8217;m Embarrassed to Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/imgs\/john-denver.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"john-denver.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/128\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/07\/john-denver-thumb-200x293-6478.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"293\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/a><\/span>There are some songs I secretly play when I&#8217;m alone that I know would mark me as a) unsophisticated  b) sappy and c) old.<br \/>\nBut I love them nonetheless, perhaps because they entered my brain at an impressionable moment, perhaps because I have lousy taste but perhaps because the rest of the world hasn&#8217;t caught up with their awesomeness.  Do you have songs like that?<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s my list. I&#8217;ve never before admitted my affection for these, so be gentle.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rocky Mountain High by John Denver<\/li>\n<li>Ring of Fire, version by Olivia Newton John<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll Always Love You, Dolly Parton version<\/li>\n<li>Happy Together by the Turtles<\/li>\n<li>Delta Dawn by Helen Reddy<\/li>\n<li>The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia by Vicki Lawrence<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re the One That I Want from Grease (Olivia Newton John and John Travolta)<\/li>\n<li>Dark Lady by Cher<\/li>\n<li>Anything by Renaissance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/imgs\/Olivia.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Olivia.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/128\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/07\/Olivia-thumb-200x280-6480.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"280\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/a><\/span>Pretty embarrassing, eh?<br \/>\nInterestingly, there are some bands that would have been embarrassing, say, ten years ago but which are now kinda cool.  Queen, Elton John and Billy Joel, for instance.<br \/>\nWhat are your &#8220;Songs I&#8217;m Embarrassed to Like&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some songs I secretly play when I&#8217;m alone that I know would mark me as a) unsophisticated b) sappy and c) old. 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