{"id":7831,"date":"2026-08-16T10:14:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T17:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=7831"},"modified":"2026-08-16T10:14:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T17:14:33","slug":"a-thing-that-might-have-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2026\/08\/a-thing-that-might-have-been\/","title":{"rendered":"A thing that might have been"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1958, the vocal jazz\/pop band The Hi-Lo&#8217;s were riding high. Having released their first album in 1954, they were already working on their eighth&#8230; and they wanted to name it after a Peanuts book. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/resource\/sn83045462\/1958-06-22\/ed-1\/?sp=92\">the Washington D.C. newspaper <em>The Sunday Star<\/em> reported<\/a>, they were floating the idea of naming their next album<strong><em> Good Grief, More Hi-Lo&#8217;s<\/em><\/strong>, a reference to the book <strong><em>Good Grief, More Peanuts<\/em><\/strong> that had come out less than two years before. They even talked about trying to reach out to Schulz to provide a cover for the album.<\/p>\n<p>I do not know if that outreach was ever attempted. All I know is that the album ended up being named <em>The Hi-Lo&#8217;s and All That Jazz<\/em>, and the cover is purely design, no figure drawing at all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/HiLosAllThatJazz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7833\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/HiLosAllThatJazz-289x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/HiLosAllThatJazz-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/HiLosAllThatJazz-768x798.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/HiLosAllThatJazz.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Oddly enough, if they could&#8217;ve just used the cover image from\u00a0<em>Good Grief, More Peanuts<\/em>, it would actually make a good album cover, with everyone listening to&#8230; something.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7832\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7832\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GoodGriefMorePeanuts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7832\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GoodGriefMorePeanuts-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GoodGriefMorePeanuts-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GoodGriefMorePeanuts-1024x665.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GoodGriefMorePeanuts-768x499.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GoodGriefMorePeanuts.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Version 1.0.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1958, the vocal jazz\/pop band The Hi-Lo&#8217;s were riding high. Having released their first album in 1954, they were already working on their eighth&#8230; and they wanted to name it after a Peanuts book. As the Washington D.C. newspaper The Sunday Star reported, they were floating the idea of &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}