{"id":364,"date":"2009-09-22T14:31:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T19:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/?p=364"},"modified":"2009-09-22T14:31:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T19:31:47","slug":"ollie-oakley-on-zither-banjo-1910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"Ollie Oakley on zither banjo, 1910"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: left; text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zither-banjo.org\/pages\/oakleymain.htm\">Ollie Oakley<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zither-banjo.org\/pages\/oakleymain.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/misc\/OllieOakley-MarchDeConcert\/OllieOakley.jpg\" alt=\"Ollie Oakley\" align=\"top\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1910 Zonophone recording:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/misc\/OllieOakley-MarchDeConcert\/OllieOakley-MarcheDeConcert.mp3\" title=\"March de Concert\" artist=\"Ollie Oakley\" class=\"htrack\" style=\"\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/misc\/OllieOakley.jpg\" alt=\"Ollie Oakley\" style=\"display:none; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" \/>Marche de Concert (MP3)<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Arguably the greatest and certainly the most popular banjoist of all time, Olly Oakley is a fascinating and controversial figure who even today has the power to arouse devotion and hostility amongst players and followers of the banjo. The son of a Midlands jeweller, Oakley decided on the banjo at the age of twelve after hearing the pioneering Bohee brothers in concert. During a career stretching over thirty-five years he made more than five hundred recordings, toured widely throughout Britain and abroad, formed a highly successful concert party as well as a banjo quartet and a dance band, and was, as far as the circumstantial evidence suggests, a key figure in the development of the zither banjo. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/misc\/OllieOakley-MarchDeConcert\/OllieOakley-MarchDeConcert.pdf\" title=\"sheet music for Ollie Oakley 'Marche de Concert'\" \/>Sheet music (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All this stuff is via folks on the <a href=\"http:\/\/classic-banjo.ning.com\/forum\/topics\/marche-de-concert-olly-oakley\">classic banjo group on Ning<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ollie Oakley 1910 Zonophone recording: Marche de Concert (MP3) Arguably the greatest and certainly the most popular banjoist of all time, Olly Oakley is a fascinating and controversial figure who even today has the power to arouse devotion and hostility amongst players and followers of the banjo. The son of a Midlands jeweller, Oakley decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}