{"id":306,"date":"2007-08-19T23:39:57","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T06:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=306"},"modified":"2007-08-20T07:50:38","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T14:50:38","slug":"rip-mark-marush-saxophonist-for-wailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Mark Marush, saxophonist for Wailers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m exhausted from two days of the LOUIE FEST.   I met a lot of old friends, and new friends, including many I&#8217;ve first met via the web.     When I get more time, I&#8217;ll be posting more photos, and possibly even some video links.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/pix-2007\/wailers-marush.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Marush, saxophonist for Wailers\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The sad news of the event was hearing that <strong>Mark Marush<\/strong>, the original saxophone player of <strong>the Wailers<\/strong>, passed away recently.   I don&#8217;t have a lot of information about his death, or even what he&#8217;s been doing all these years, but I&#8217;ve been told that he died in Aberdeen, Washington.<\/p>\n<p>I never had a chance to interview him, unfortunately.  He was the original sax player on the 1961 version of THE SONG by <strong>Rockin&#8217; Robin Roberts<\/strong> and <strong>the Wailers<\/strong>, which was a major influence on <strong>The Kingsmen<\/strong> and <strong>Paul Revere &#038; the Raiders<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>By all means, if you have any Mark Marush memories, please feel free to leave comments on this blog as means of remembering him.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m exhausted from two days of the LOUIE FEST. I met a lot of old friends, and new friends, including many I&#8217;ve first met via the web. When I get more time,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","category-pacific-northwest","category-wailers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}