{"id":12587,"date":"2025-05-18T06:30:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T11:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/?p=12587"},"modified":"2025-05-17T15:07:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T20:07:57","slug":"hit-songs-of-1975-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/?p=12587","title":{"rendered":"Hit Songs of 1975 \u2013 #20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earth, Wind and Fire had a really big hit with &#8220;Shining Star&#8221; in 1975. It was written by three members of the group; Maurice White (lead vocal), Larry Dunn (clavinet), and Philip Bailey (vocals &amp; congas). The song was at the top of both the <em>Billboard<\/em> and <em>Cash Box<\/em> charts for the week of May 18 &#8211; 25, 1975. It also won a Grammy award for Best R&amp;B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. In 2008, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>The group was formed in 1970 by Maurice White. It has always been a large band with anywhere between 10 to 15 members. Over the years many members left and were replaced so that there are only 3 original members. The horn section of the group has played with many other artists over the years. Although the group had more hits, &#8220;Shining Star&#8221; was their only #1.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BPtSPJK8rx8?si=jw1Jhqm84FLynmtA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth, Wind and Fire had a really big hit with &#8220;Shining Star&#8221; in 1975. It was written by three members of the group; Maurice White (lead vocal), Larry Dunn (clavinet), and Philip Bailey (vocals &amp; congas). The song was at the top of both the Billboard and Cash Box charts for the week of May &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/?p=12587\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Hit Songs of 1975 \u2013 #20&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[541,144],"class_list":["post-12587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-541","tag-songs"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12588,"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12587\/revisions\/12588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}