{"id":9264,"date":"2015-02-15T19:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T19:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=9264"},"modified":"2015-02-15T16:13:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T16:13:35","slug":"every-uk-number-one-song-she-wears-red-feathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/02\/every-uk-number-one-song-she-wears-red-feathers\/","title":{"rendered":"Every UK Number One Song: She Wears Red Feathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;She Wears Red Feathers&#8221; by Guy Mitchell was Number One on 14th March 1953\u00a0and it remained at number one for 4 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>When I was first putting together my playlist, this song was playing <em>all<\/em> the time and I actually did work in a bank at the time &#8211; not a London Bank, however. 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