Lying in bed, I didn\u2019t know it was the O\u2019Jays. I knew it was loud music at 11:30 p.m. I called the Shaker cops, who said the homeowner had a permit. I said, \u201cI\u2019m a musician! I\u2019ve played in Shaker outdoors and been shut down at 10 p.m. I think it was on Rocklyn Road at a bar mitzvah, in fact.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe officer on the scene reports it\u2019s not loud,” the police dispatcher said.<\/p>\n
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I walked<\/strong><\/span> over to the scene, a quarter-mile away. There were several off-duty Shaker cops working the party. On my cell phone I called the police station and asked, \u201cThey have a permit to play to when<\/em>?”<\/p>\n \u201cOne-thirty a.m.”<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re kidding!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAll neighbors are invited to go in,” the dispatcher said.<\/p>\n I stood<\/span> <\/strong>outside the house (the Halle mansion, by the way) next to an old black woman who told me I was listening to the O\u2019Jays. She was on her way home from the ER and felt lousy, but then heard the music, stopped, and felt better. I asked her if she wanted to go in \u2013 to the party in the backyard. She said yes. We got to checkpoint, where the off-duty cop said, \u201cIs your name on the list?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo, but I called the station and complained, and they said all neighbors are invited.\u201d The cop walked us over to the bandstand, and the woman got to meet a personal hero, Eddie Levert, the bandleader. Then the band shut down. The off-duty cop said, \u201cToo many neighbors are complaining.\u201d<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Yiddishe Cup marches in Parade the Circle noon this Saturday (June 10), Wade Oval, University Circle, Cleveland.<\/span><\/p>\n Parade 2012<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I helped shut down the O\u2019Jays, the Grammy-winning soul band, last summer. The O’Jays were playing at a neighbor’s. The homeowner, who pays $107,343 per year in taxes (true), apparently thought he could do whatever he wanted, party-wise. He hired the O\u2019Jays for a backyard party. Lying in bed, I didn\u2019t know it was the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24841"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25172,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24841\/revisions\/25172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Parade](\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/parade-the-circle-2012-1-300x225.jpg\")