{"id":12773,"date":"2025-10-19T09:24:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T14:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/?p=12773"},"modified":"2025-10-19T09:24:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T14:24:57","slug":"hit-songs-of-1975-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/?p=12773","title":{"rendered":"Hit Songs of 1975 \u2013 #42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Sedaka has had a long career in music. He wrote a lot of songs and had numerous hits. His best selling single ever was &#8220;Bad Blood.&#8221; Doing background vocals on the song is Elton John.<\/p>\n<p>The song was #1 on the\u00a0<em>Cash Box<\/em> chart for 2 weeks, Oct. 19 &#8211; Nov. 1. On the\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em> chart it was at the top for three weeks, Oct. 5 &#8211; 25.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_8B5S0j2jTQ?si=wZe0dnK3YkV88vIQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Sedaka has had a long career in music. He wrote a lot of songs and had numerous hits. His best selling single ever was &#8220;Bad Blood.&#8221; Doing background vocals on the song is Elton John. The song was #1 on the\u00a0Cash Box chart for 2 weeks, Oct. 19 &#8211; Nov. 1. On the\u00a0Billboard chart &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/?p=12773\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Hit Songs of 1975 \u2013 #42&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-12773","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\/12773","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=12773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12774,"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12773\/revisions\/12774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}