{"id":10135,"date":"2015-04-19T19:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=10135"},"modified":"2015-04-19T18:17:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T17:17:53","slug":"every-uk-number-one-song-hey-joe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/04\/every-uk-number-one-song-hey-joe\/","title":{"rendered":"Every UK Number One Song: Hey Joe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nowthisiswhatiwouldcallmusic.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/frankie-laine-hey-joe-_boudleaux-bryant.jpg?resize=210%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey Joe &#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frankie_Laine\" target=\"_blank\">Frankie Laine<\/a>\u00a0was\u00a0Number One on 24th October 1953\u00a0and it remained at number one for 2 weeks. Now this is a fast paced, choo-choo train type of a song. I&#8217;m not sure who &#8220;Joe&#8221; is but Frankie seems to like him.<\/p>\n<p>Have a listen, it&#8217;s 2 minutes of pure nostalgia from an different time altogether&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i94jhrX0Vzw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hey Joe &#8221; by Frankie Laine\u00a0was\u00a0Number One on 24th October 1953\u00a0and it remained at number one for 2 weeks. Now this is a fast&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[664,1015,645,661,793,1016,1017,602,603,79,80],"class_list":["post-10135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-charts","tag-era","tag-every-uk-number-1","tag-every-uk-number-one","tag-frankie-laine","tag-hey-joe","tag-nostalgia","tag-now-thats-what-i-call-music","tag-now-this-is-what-i-would-call-music","tag-single","tag-song"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-2Dt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9470,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/03\/every-uk-number-one-song-i-believe\/","url_meta":{"origin":10135,"position":0},"title":"Every UK Number One Song: I Believe","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"08\/03\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\"I Believe\" by Frankie Laine was Number One on 25th April 1953\u00a0and it remained at number one for an amazing 6 weeks. 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