{"id":14883,"date":"2003-05-05T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-05T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/05\/composer-george-wyle-passed-away-2\/"},"modified":"2003-05-05T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-05T11:41:00","slug":"composer-george-wyle-passed-away-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/05\/composer-george-wyle-passed-away-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Composer George Wyle Passed Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/05\/04\/obit.wyle.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">George Wyle, perhaps best known as the composer of &ldquo;The Ballad Of Gilligan&rsquo;s Island,&rdquo; died<\/a> at the age of 87 yesterday.  Most of his work was before my time, but Wyle &ldquo;also wrote the Christmas classic &lsquo;The Most Wonderful Time of the Year&rsquo; and more than 400 other songs.&rdquo;  Asked about the popularity of his TV theme compared to his other work, Wyle said &ldquo;America doesn&rsquo;t want great music themes, just something it can remember.&rdquo;  Looking at things in that perspective, he was definitely an unqualified success.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-200243191?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Wyle, perhaps best known as the composer of &ldquo;The Ballad Of Gilligan&rsquo;s Island,&rdquo; died at the age of 87 yesterday. Most of his work was before my time, but Wyle &ldquo;also wrote the Christmas classic &lsquo;The Most Wonderful Time of the Year&rsquo; and more than 400 other songs.&rdquo; Asked about the popularity of his &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/05\/composer-george-wyle-passed-away-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Composer George Wyle Passed Away&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[118],"class_list":["post-14883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}