{"id":23707,"date":"2025-07-11T12:06:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T16:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/?p=23707"},"modified":"2025-07-11T12:06:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T16:06:56","slug":"dave-baby-cortez-pop-music-pioneer-died-at-83-in-2022-label-just-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/?p=23707","title":{"rendered":"Dave \u2018Baby\u2019 Cortez, Pop Music Pioneer, Died at 83 in 2022, Label Just Learned"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Dave &#8216;Baby&#8217; Cortez, reclusive composer of first No. 1 Hot 100 instrumental hit &#8216;The Happy Organ, has been reported dead at 83 after passing in 2022.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u200bDave &#8216;Baby&#8217; Cortez, reclusive composer of first No. 1 Hot 100 instrumental hit &#8216;The Happy Organ, has been reported dead at 83 after passing in 2022.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/dave-baby-cortez-dead-83-happy-organ-instrumental-dies-1236018578\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave &#8216;Baby&#8217; Cortez, reclusive composer of first No. 1 Hot 100 instrumental hit &#8216;The Happy Organ, has been reported dead at 83 after passing in 2022. \u200bDave &#8216;Baby&#8217; Cortez, reclusive composer of first No. 1 Hot 100 instrumental hit &#8216;The Happy Organ, has been reported dead at 83 after passing ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}