{"id":1811,"date":"2012-01-06T20:24:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T00:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puppeteers.org\/?post_type=puppet_news&#038;p=1811"},"modified":"2013-05-15T22:38:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T02:38:04","slug":"robert-dickey-singer-of-im-your-puppet-passes-away-at-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/2012\/01\/06\/robert-dickey-singer-of-im-your-puppet-passes-away-at-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Dickey, Singer of &#8220;I&#8217;m Your Puppet&#8221; Passes Away at 72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not exactly puppetry news&#8230; \u00a0but who hasn&#8217;t gotten a mix-tape or a playlist from a friend with at least a reference to this song &#8211; whether it be a cover or the original. \u00a0Robert Dickey, was the orginal Bobby Purify of the duo James and Bobby Purify. \u00a0The two saw their greatest success with the single &#8220;I&#8217;m You&#8217;re Puppet&#8221; which reached the pop Top 10 in 1966. \u00a0Robert passed away on December 29, 2011 in Tallahasse, FL. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/05\/arts\/music\/robert-dickey-im-your-puppet-singer-is-dead-at-72.html\">\u00a0The NY Times includes this note<\/a> about the song:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hated it,\u201d he said of the song, which he noted had originally been intended as a B-side. Recalling the grueling recording session that produced \u201cI\u2019m Your Puppet,\u201d he explained, \u201cI sang it for 23 hours straight; that\u2019s why I hate it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We hear ya Robert&#8230; \u00a0but let&#8217;s just give it one last listen.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/youtu.be\/IpQWbvYbeZE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not exactly puppetry news&#8230; \u00a0but who hasn&#8217;t gotten a mix-tape or a playlist from a friend with at least a reference to this song &#8211; whether it be a cover or the original. \u00a0Robert Dickey, was the orginal Bobby Purify of the duo James and Bobby Purify. \u00a0The two saw their greatest success with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"page.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1013],"tags":[638],"class_list":{"0":"post-1811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-puppet-headlines","8":"tag-music","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacquiparledesign.com\/pofa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}