{"id":70135,"date":"2016-02-05T02:21:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T07:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=70135"},"modified":"2016-02-05T02:21:15","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T07:21:15","slug":"joe-dowell-had-no-1-hit-with-wooden-heart-dies-at-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/02\/05\/joe-dowell-had-no-1-hit-with-wooden-heart-dies-at-76\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Dowell, had No. 1 hit with &#8216;Wooden Heart,&#8221; dies at 76"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65578\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65578\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled design\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK\u2014Joe Dowell, a singer briefly popular in the early 1960s who had a No. 1 hit with the ballad \u201cWooden Heart,\u201d has died. He was 76.<\/p>\n<p>Dowell died Thursday at a hospital in his longtime hometown of Bloomington, Illinois. His publicist and friend Johnny Vallis tells The Associated Press that Dowell suffered a heart attack last weekend and never recovered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWooden Heart\u201d already had been a hit for Elvis Presley in Europe when Dowell&#8217;s version was released. With its bouncy tempo and echoed vocal track, the song topped the Billboard chart in early September 1961. Dowell&#8217;s other songs included \u201cThe Bridge of Love\u201d and \u201cLittle Red Rented Rowboat.\u201d In subsequent years he recorded commercial voiceovers and gospel songs.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by a sister and two daughters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u2014Joe Dowell, a singer briefly popular in the early 1960s who had a No. 1 hit with the ballad &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,2],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-70135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-breaking","category-entertainment","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}