{"id":2191,"date":"2022-11-29T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T20:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2022-12-01T07:31:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T18:31:41","slug":"language-need-not-be-a-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2191","title":{"rendered":"Language need not be a barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week in 1975 F<em>ly Robin Fly<\/em> by &#8220;Silver Convention&#8221; hit number 1 in America for the first of three weeks.&nbsp;The song was written with very few lyrics because the German group couldn&#8217;t speak English which made memorizing a page of lyrics in a language unfamiliar to them too difficult. The disco classic contains only six unique words. It simply repeats &#8220;fly, robin, fly&#8221; three times, with an ending of &#8220;up, up to the sky!&#8221; Initially the song was titled <em>Run, Rabbit, Run<\/em>, but the writers changed it moments before the recording took place.&nbsp; <em>Fly Robin Fly <\/em>won the 1975 Grammy Award for Best R&amp;B Instrumental Performance.<\/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=\"Silver Convention - Fly Robin Fly (1975) \u2022 TopPop\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wC_kCnm3GYQ?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>This week in 1975 Fly Robin Fly by &#8220;Silver Convention&#8221; hit number 1 in America for the first of three weeks.&nbsp;The song was written with very few lyrics because the German group couldn&#8217;t speak English which made memorizing a page of lyrics in a language unfamiliar to them too difficult. The disco classic contains only [&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":[],"class_list":["post-2191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191","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=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2198,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions\/2198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}