{"id":9342,"date":"2015-03-01T19:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T19:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=9342"},"modified":"2015-03-01T18:33:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T18:33:04","slug":"every-uk-number-one-song-how-much-is-that-doggie-in-the-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/03\/every-uk-number-one-song-how-much-is-that-doggie-in-the-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Every UK Number One Song: (How Much Is That) Doggie In The Window?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1226-raw.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9343\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/03\/every-uk-number-one-song-how-much-is-that-doggie-in-the-window\/1226-raw\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1226-raw.jpg?fit=500%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"1226-raw\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1226-raw.jpg?fit=500%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" size-full wp-image-9343 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1226-raw.jpg?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"1226-raw\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(How Much Is That) Doggie In The Window?&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lita_Roza\">Lita Roza<\/a> was Number One on 18th April 1953\u00a0and it remained at number one for 1 week.<\/p>\n<p>Well, they certainly don&#8217;t make them like this anymore, do they? I always thought this song was just a kids song and never realised it was an <em>actual<\/em> song that reached the top of the charts.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe in a few weeks we&#8217;ll hear &#8220;Humpty Dumpty&#8221; followed by &#8220;Jack &amp; Jill&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Lita does have a brilliant voice and I&#8217;d be happy if she sang all the nursery rhymes!<\/p>\n<p>Also, a fact for the fact bank &#8211; Lita was the first British solo artist to top the UK charts.<\/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\/4LpgmQ5ZAro?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;(How Much Is That) Doggie In The Window?&#8221; by Lita Roza was Number One on 18th April 1953\u00a0and it remained at number one for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9343,"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":[727,664,645,661,728,142,729,602,603,730,678,80],"class_list":["post-9342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-british","tag-charts","tag-every-uk-number-1","tag-every-uk-number-one","tag-how-much-is-that-doggie-in-the-window","tag-itunes","tag-lita-roza","tag-now-thats-what-i-call-music","tag-now-this-is-what-i-would-call-music","tag-nursery-rhyme","tag-playlist","tag-song"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-2qG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9284,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/02\/every-uk-number-one-song-broken-wings\/","url_meta":{"origin":9342,"position":0},"title":"Every UK Number One Song: Broken Wings","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"22\/02\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Broken Wings\" by The Stargazers was Number One on 11th April 1953 and it remained at number one for 1 week. 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