{"id":2144,"date":"2022-11-17T09:29:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T20:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2022-11-17T09:32:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T20:32:32","slug":"substitute-the-rigtheous-brothers-with-clout-and-create-a-big-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2144","title":{"rendered":"Substitute &#8220;The Rigtheous Brothers&#8221; with &#8220;Clout&#8221; and Create a Big Hit!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Substitute<\/em> was originally recorded by &#8220;The Righteous Brothers.&#8221; Released as a single in 1975, it went nowhere. The song was revived in 1977 by &#8220;Clout,&#8221; a 5-member, originally all-girl band from South Africa. Clout&#8217;s new arrangement of the song reached number 1 in South Africa, New Zealand, Germany, France, The Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, Denmark and Belgium. It also made number 2 in the UK behind <em>You&#8217;re The One That I Want<\/em> by &#8220;John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. \u00a0Later in their career, the group included some male musicians who had played as session musicians on <em>Substitute<\/em>.&#8221;\u00a0In Europe Clout scored more Top 10 singles including <em>Save Me<\/em>, <em>You&#8217;ve Got All of Me<\/em> and <em>Under Fire<\/em>. They split up in 1981, shortly after the release of their last major single, a re-arrangement of the Hall &amp; Oates song <em>Portable Radio<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Clout - Substitute \u2022 TopPop\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5fgA_yNCeq4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Substitute was originally recorded by &#8220;The Righteous Brothers.&#8221; Released as a single in 1975, it went nowhere. The song was revived in 1977 by &#8220;Clout,&#8221; a 5-member, originally all-girl band from South Africa. Clout&#8217;s new arrangement of the song reached number 1 in South Africa, New Zealand, Germany, France, The Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, Denmark and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-clout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2148,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}