{"id":2363,"date":"2023-01-27T09:42:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T20:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2023-01-27T09:45:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T20:45:50","slug":"if-you-got-a-problem-billy-can-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2363","title":{"rendered":"If You Got a Problem, Billy Can Help"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Billy Swan&#8221; is an American country singer-songwriter who learned drums, piano and guitar and began writing songs as a child. He is best known for his 1974 single, <em>I Can Help<\/em>. The story goes that Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge had bought Billy Swan a small &#8220;RMI&#8221; organ as a wedding present. Billy was fiddling around with it when the chorus of I Can Help &#8220;appeared.&#8221; Twenty minutes later he had written the lyrics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the USA <em>I Can Help<\/em> topped the &#8220;US Billboard Hot 100&#8221; as well as reaching number 1 on the Country chart. The song was a hit throughout most of Europe and also reached number 1 in Australia and New Zealand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I Can Help<\/em> is generally recognized as being Billy Swan&#8217;s only major hit single release. However, he continued to have success as a songwriter for other artists and as a session musician.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Billy Swan - I Can Help 4:3 HD\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2FHfcxOeGSA?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\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Billy Swan&#8221; is an American country singer-songwriter who learned drums, piano and guitar and began writing songs as a child. He is best known for his 1974 single, I Can Help. The story goes that Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge had bought Billy Swan a small &#8220;RMI&#8221; organ as a wedding present. Billy was fiddling [&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":[220],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-billy-swan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","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=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2368,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions\/2368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}