{"id":22722,"date":"2010-02-15T13:59:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T18:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=22722"},"modified":"2010-02-15T17:04:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T22:04:11","slug":"when-i-was-a-lad-the-official-planet-waves-theme-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/when-i-was-a-lad-the-official-planet-waves-theme-music\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;When I Was a Lad&#8217; &#8212; the official Planet Waves theme music"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22723\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22723\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/610-pinafore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22723\" title=\"610-pinafore\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/610-pinafore.jpg?resize=610%2C405&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/610-pinafore.jpg?w=610&amp;ssl=1 610w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/610-pinafore.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22723\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clip from the Boston Museum events calendar, 1879, for a United States production of H.M.S. Pinafore. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t mentioned in a while that Planet Waves has official theme music. All Gilbert &amp; Sullivan songs are titled by their first line; this is called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetwaves.fm\/planetwaves-theme\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>When I Was a Lad<\/strong><\/a>.&#8221; The song is sung by Sir Joseph Porter, from the Victorian-era light opera, H.M.S. Pinafore; it is basically his resume, the story of how he became first lord of the admiralty (and based on a real life guy named Smith). This particular recording is a recent New York production of the play; I will add recording details in a little while. This particular track includes a prelude, called &#8220;I Am The Monarch of the Sea,&#8221; also about the fictional Sir Joseph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t mentioned in a while that Planet Waves has official theme music. All Gilbert &amp; Sullivan songs are titled by their first line; this is called &#8220;When I Was a Lad.&#8221; The song is sung by Sir Joseph Porter, from the Victorian-era light opera, H.M.S. Pinafore; it is basically his resume, the story of &#8230; <a title=\"&#8216;When I Was a Lad&#8217; &#8212; the official Planet Waves theme music\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/when-i-was-a-lad-the-official-planet-waves-theme-music\/\" aria-label=\"More on &#8216;When I Was a Lad&#8217; &#8212; the official Planet Waves theme music\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}