{"id":85,"date":"2015-11-29T14:44:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T14:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/monro_wp\/?p=85"},"modified":"2015-11-29T14:44:31","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T14:44:31","slug":"a-concert-starring-shirley-bassey-and-matt-monro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/mattmonro\/a-concert-starring-shirley-bassey-and-matt-monro\/","title":{"rendered":"A concert starring Shirley Bassey and Matt Monro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8-02-2010<\/p>\n<p>In 1963\/64 My ship was in Singapore and one evening I attended a concert starring Shirley Bassey and Matt Monro. It turned out to be a memorable evening.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the wonderful singing from both of them, it was the banter when they were on stage together that I remember best. They were almost a comedy double act. Shirley Bassey at one point almost tucking Matt under her arm. The audience were in &#8216;stitches&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I loved the mellowness of Matt&#8217;s voice, the way he sang seemed so effortless. As a serviceman myself I could understand the way he was. As Frank Sinatra said, he was a great singer who should have had more recognition in America than he actually got. He is sadly missed.<\/p>\n<p>david grantham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8-02-2010 In 1963\/64 My ship was in Singapore and one evening I attended a concert starring Shirley Bassey and Matt Monro. It turned out to be a memorable evening. Apart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-submissions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/mattmonro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/mattmonro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/mattmonro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/mattmonro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/mattmonro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/mattmonro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/mattmonro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/mattmonro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/mattmonro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/mattmonro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}