{"id":20992,"date":"2016-08-19T07:43:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T11:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=20992"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:23:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:23:21","slug":"charlie-gracie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/08\/19\/charlie-gracie\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Gracie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20993\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/08\/19\/charlie-gracie\/cgracie\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/CGracie.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"CGracie\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/CGracie.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20993\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/CGracie.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"CGracie\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/CGracie.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/CGracie.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Charlie Gracie dropped by DiSilvestro Rec Center on Saturday to check in on progress being made on a fabulous mural that is being worked on by neighborhood volunteers\u00a0that will be installed at Broad and Tasker. Mr. Gracie, along with a number of other South Philadelphia pop stars are the feature of this mural designed by Eric Okdeh.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Check out Mr. Gracie&#8217;s appearance on The Ed Sullivan show!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YSf9pMcEdHE\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Gracie dropped by DiSilvestro Rec Center on Saturday to check in on progress being made on a fabulous mural that is being worked on by neighborhood volunteers\u00a0that will be installed at Broad and Tasker. Mr. Gracie, along with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/08\/19\/charlie-gracie\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[104,2093,3809],"tags":[3938,3939,3940,800,105],"class_list":["post-20992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philadelphia","category-photography-2","category-south-philly-safari","tag-charlie-gracie","tag-eric-okdeh","tag-mural","tag-rock-and-roll","tag-south-philly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5sA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21351,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/11\/22\/south-philly-musicians-remix-mural\/","url_meta":{"origin":20992,"position":0},"title":"South Philly Musicians Remix Mural","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"November 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Traveling down Broad and Tasker Streets the other day, I got my first glimpse of the completed South Philly Musicians Remix mural designed by artist Eric Okdeh.\u00a0 I was present at the Di Silvestro Rec Center the day they invited the community to volunteer painting the mural, supervised by Mr.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/CharlieGracie.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/CharlieGracie.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/CharlieGracie.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":39725,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/12\/21\/charlie-gracie-1936-2022\/","url_meta":{"origin":20992,"position":1},"title":"Charlie Gracie 1936 &#8211; 2022","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"December 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"I was sad to discover that Charlie Gracie, whose song \"Butterfly\" was a huge hit in 1957, passed away on Saturday. 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