{"id":9,"date":"2006-02-17T19:11:41","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T19:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frankenstein.com\/blahg\/?p=6"},"modified":"2026-05-03T23:15:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:15:56","slug":"the-poppy-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/frankenstein.com\/blahg\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"The Poppy Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blahg\/images\/PoppyFamily.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/> You know that there are people out there who don&#8217;t like The Poppy Family. Crazy but it is true.<\/p>\n<p>This nugget is the B-side to their hit single Which Way You Going Billy? which according to All Music Guide sold over 2 million copies. You won&#8217;t find it on the &#8220;A Good Thing Lost&#8221; CD compilation. Terry Jacks did not write the tune, Jody Reynolds and Dolores Nance take that credit. I only have one Poppy album, &#8220;Which Way You Goin&#8230;&#8221; and though that title track is the A-side, the B-side isn&#8217;t on that album either.<\/p>\n<p>I found the 80s Susan Jacks album &#8220;Ghosts&#8221;, produced by Terry, recently so look forward to some cuts from that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blahg\/music\/Endless_Sleep.mp3\">The Poppy Family &#8211; Endless Sleep<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know that there are people out there who don&#8217;t like The Poppy Family. Crazy but it is true. This nugget is the B-side to their hit single Which Way You Going Billy? which according to All Music Guide sold over 2 million copies. You won&#8217;t find it on the &#8220;A Good Thing Lost&#8221; CD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/frankenstein.com\/blahg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/frankenstein.com\/blahg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/frankenstein.com\/blahg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frankenstein.com\/blahg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frankenstein.com\/blahg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/frankenstein.com\/blahg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"http:\/\/frankenstein.com\/blahg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frankenstein.com\/blahg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/frankenstein.com\/blahg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frankenstein.com\/blahg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frankenstein.com\/blahg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}