{"id":5913,"date":"2015-01-15T10:11:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T15:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/?p=5913"},"modified":"2015-01-15T10:11:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T15:11:17","slug":"harry-connick-jr-and-keith-urban-duet-on-beverly-hillbillies-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/2015\/01\/harry-connick-jr-and-keith-urban-duet-on-beverly-hillbillies-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Connick Jr. and Keith Urban Duet on &#8220;Beverly Hillbillies&#8221; Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/121\/2015\/01\/AmerIdolHillbillies.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/121\/2015\/01\/AmerIdolHillbillies-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"AmerIdolHillbillies\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5914\"><\/a>Last night\u2019s \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d included an accordion player, a banjo player, yodeling, and Harry Connick Jr. and Keith Urban dueting on the \u201cBeverly Hillbillies\u201d theme song.  In other words, I was in entertainment heaven.  The duet made me smile so I\u2019m posting it here just for fun.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/znkxXKTdYNE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s the full audition of bluegrass musician Ellen Petersen, who got Harry and Keith thinking along those lines.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oojo0mHqjAg?list=PL8x9Zx_hMDsY0JxPkuM2uaoKPZBP8er6i\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(<em>Photo above property of 19 TV Ltd, Fremantle Media North America, and Fox<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night\u2019s \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d included an accordion player, a banjo player, yodeling, and Harry Connick Jr. and Keith Urban dueting on the \u201cBeverly Hillbillies\u201d theme song. 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