{"id":1808,"date":"2015-12-22T13:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erikveldkamp.nl\/wordpress\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2015-12-22T13:01:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T13:01:33","slug":"al-hirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/erikveldkamp.nl\/wordpress\/?p=1808","title":{"rendered":"Al Hirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Alois Maxwell &#8220;Al&#8221; Hirt<\/b> (November 7, 1922 \u2013 April 27, 1999) was an American trumpeter and bandleader.\u00a0He is best remembered for his million-selling recordings of &#8220;Java&#8221; and the accompanying album <i>Honey in the Horn<\/i> (1963), and for the theme song to <i>The Green Hornet<\/i>. His nicknames included &#8220;Jumbo&#8221; and &#8220;The Round Mound of Sound&#8221;.<span style=\"font-size: 10.8333px;\">\u00a0<\/span>Colin Escott, an author of musician biographies, wrote that RCA Victor Records, for which Hirt had recorded most of his best-selling recordings and for which he had spent much of his professional recording career, had dubbed him with another moniker: &#8220;The King.&#8221; Hirt was inducted into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in November 2009.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Al_Hirt\" target=\"_blank\">more info<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"758\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C1noJ3Tdq6c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nfYFEPQ-gY0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"758\" height=\"569\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GYxl2FT-6LM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"758\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=RDv3hVtlSl7RQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alois Maxwell &#8220;Al&#8221; Hirt (November 7, 1922 \u2013 April 27, 1999) was an American trumpeter and bandleader.\u00a0He is best remembered for his million-selling recordings of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/erikveldkamp.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/erikveldkamp.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/erikveldkamp.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erikveldkamp.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erikveldkamp.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/erikveldkamp.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"http:\/\/erikveldkamp.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erikveldkamp.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/erikveldkamp.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erikveldkamp.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/erikveldkamp.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}