{"id":125882,"date":"2018-02-11T22:45:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T21:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=125882"},"modified":"2018-02-11T22:45:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T21:45:33","slug":"dig-of-the-day-betty-moorer-%e2%80%8e-its-my-thing-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-betty-moorer-%e2%80%8e-its-my-thing-1967\/","title":{"rendered":"Dig Of The Day: Betty Moorer \u200e\u2013 It&#8217;s My Thing (1967)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eKbcimXpm8c\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today we have some quality vintage and rare r&#8217;n&#8217;b&#8217;  joint with soul from Alabama&#8217;s  <strong>Betty Moorer<\/strong>.. Like <strong>Sonny Boy Williamson II<\/strong> said &#8211; <em>When I mean soul, I mean soul<\/em>. She&#8217;s the founding member of 1957 R&#038;B vocal group, <strong>Betty Moorer and the Esquires<\/strong>. She released only two singles &#8211; <em>It&#8217;s My Thing<\/em> and <em>Speed Up<\/em> in 1967.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by <strong>Bill Sheppard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"125883\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-betty-moorer-%e2%80%8e-its-my-thing-1967\/betty-moorer-speed-up-wand\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/betty-moorer-speed-up-wand.jpg?fit=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"betty-moorer-speed-up-wand\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/betty-moorer-speed-up-wand.jpg?fit=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/betty-moorer-speed-up-wand.jpg?fit=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/betty-moorer-speed-up-wand.jpg?resize=400%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-125883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/betty-moorer-speed-up-wand.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/betty-moorer-speed-up-wand.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we have some quality vintage and rare r&#8217;n&#8217;b&#8217; joint with soul from Alabama&#8217;s Betty&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dig-of-the-day"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-wKm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}