{"id":4627,"date":"2014-09-19T11:50:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T11:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/09\/19\/country-star-george-hamilton-iv-passed-away\/"},"modified":"2014-09-19T11:50:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T11:50:37","slug":"country-star-george-hamilton-iv-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/09\/19\/country-star-george-hamilton-iv-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Country star George Hamilton IV passed away.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"firstPar\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/30\/George_Hamilton_IV_crop.jpg\/220px-George_Hamilton_IV_crop.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>George Hamilton IV, a respected &#8216;Grand Ole Opry&#8217; star, has died at the age of    77 after suffering a heart attack. Hamilton grew up in North Carolina listening to Hank Williams but his first    success was as a pop singer, with the million-selling A Rose and a Baby Ruth    in 1956. He switched to singing country music in 1959 and joined the Opry a    year later after being signed to RCA Victor by the guitar maestro Chet    Atkins.    <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"thirdPar\">\n<p>He was soon racking up top 10 hits, including Before This Day Ends,Three Steps    to the Phone (Millions of Miles) and If You Don&#8217;t Know I Ain&#8217;t Gonna Tell    You.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fourthPar\">\n<p>His biggest hit came in 1963, with Abilene, a tribute to a Kansas town.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fifthPar\">\n<p>George Hamilton IV was always interested in recording songs by talented young    folk musicians and among the people whose music he recorded were Gordon    Lightfoot, Phil Ochs and John Hartford. &#8220;I just love the way that    George did all my songs,&#8221; said Lightfoot. Hamilton was popular in    Canada, where he had a television series and his 1967 version of Urge For    Going reportedly made him the first musician to record a song written by    Joni Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton&#8217;s final Top 40 country hit came in 1973 and he became more interested    in singing gospel music. But he remained interested in country music and    often gave backstage tours at the Opry.<\/p>\n<p>In the Nineties, he did some theatre work, playing the narrator in a    production of Pasty Cline The Musical for five years, including a run in    London&#8217;s West End.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Telegraph<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Hamilton IV, a respected &#8216;Grand Ole Opry&#8217; star, has died at the age of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}