{"id":18743,"date":"2016-12-20T23:43:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T23:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18743"},"modified":"2016-12-20T23:43:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T23:43:33","slug":"here-it-is-the-greatest-song-ever-recorded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18743","title":{"rendered":"Here it is: the greatest song ever recorded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Beatles - Hey Jude\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A_MjCqQoLLA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A friend and former colleague of mine and I have engaged in a bit of social media repartee regarding the greatest song ever recorded.<\/p>\n<p>Jim and I disagree. He is pitching &#8220;Stairway to Heaven&#8221; by Led Zeppelin. My verdict is where it has been since I first heard this song. &#8220;Hey Jude,&#8221; the 7-minute 11-second classic by The Beatles has my vote for the greatest song ever recorded.<\/p>\n<p>How do I know that it is? It just is.<\/p>\n<p>I long have argued that a song&#8217;s impact on the listener can be measured by this simple metric: Do you know where you were the first time you heard it?<\/p>\n<p>I remember where I was the moment I first heard The Beatles singing this classic. Members of my family and some of my best friends have heard this: It was late summer 1968. I had just returned to my barracks at Fort Lewis, Wash., where I was spending a few weeks undergoing U.S. Army basic training. I turned on my transistor radio, put it on my bunk and then I heard the closing refrain this song I&#8217;d never before heard. It goes on seemingly forever: &#8220;nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, naaah &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Who in the world is that? Then the DJ told me as the song wound to\u00a0its close, &#8220;And that&#8217;s the latest from The Beatles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jim, to his great credit, said he couldn&#8217;t remember where he first heard &#8220;Stairway to Heaven.&#8221; I applaud his honesty.<\/p>\n<p>I get that such judgments are strictly subjective. &#8220;Stairway&#8221; is a great song. Led Zeppelin is a great rock band. Neither the song, nor the band, are the greatest.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my\u00a0opinion and I&#8217;m sticking with it.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend and former colleague of mine and I have engaged in a bit of social media repartee regarding the greatest song ever recorded. Jim and I disagree. He is pitching &#8220;Stairway to Heaven&#8221; by Led Zeppelin. My verdict is where it has been since I first heard this song. &#8220;Hey Jude,&#8221; the 7-minute 11-second &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18743\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Here it is: the greatest song ever recorded<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2115,6784,6785,4749,5041],"class_list":["post-18743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-hey-jude","tag-led-zeppelin","tag-stairway-to-heaven","tag-the-beatles","tag-us-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18744,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18743\/revisions\/18744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}