{"id":12977,"date":"2026-03-01T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/?p=12977"},"modified":"2026-03-01T10:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T15:00:15","slug":"hit-songs-of-1976-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/?p=12977","title":{"rendered":"Hit Songs of 1976 \u2013 #9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smokey Robinson left The Miracles in 1972. His replacement was Billy Griffin and the group continued making hits. In 1975 they had a big hit with &#8220;Love Machine.&#8221; It was at the top of both the <em>Billboard<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Cash Box<\/em> charts for the week of March 1 &#8211; 6.<\/p>\n<p>This version of The Miracles continued until about 1979 when Griffin ad Pete Moore left the group. There would be a new group called The New Miracles after that.<\/p>\n<p>The video is the group performing &#8220;Love Machine&#8221; and as a bonus &#8220;Do It Baby&#8221; which got up to #13 in 1974 on the\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em> chart. Do you like those pink suits?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fGXSRISBu3Y?si=F8T-N_n8h3uZZjtW\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smokey Robinson left The Miracles in 1972. His replacement was Billy Griffin and the group continued making hits. In 1975 they had a big hit with &#8220;Love Machine.&#8221; It was at the top of both the Billboard and\u00a0Cash Box charts for the week of March 1 &#8211; 6. This version of The Miracles continued until &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/?p=12977\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Hit Songs of 1976 \u2013 #9&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-12977","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\/12977","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=12977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12978,"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12977\/revisions\/12978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}