{"id":3120,"date":"2023-09-28T09:15:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T20:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=3120"},"modified":"2023-09-30T13:47:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T00:47:18","slug":"rock-me-to-the-top-gently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=3120","title":{"rendered":"Rock Me to The Top, Gently and Slowly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 1969 Canadian singer and songwriter Andy Kim had two hit singles, &#8220;Rainbow Ride,&#8221; which made the US Top 50, and &#8220;Baby, I Love You,&#8221; which got to number 9 in the USA and number 1 in Canada. Over the next few years, he had a few minor hits but after September 1971 he did not have a top 100 single until&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1974 he released the self-written &#8220;Rock Me Gently which went to number 1 in the USA on 28 September.&#8221; The song also topped the chart in Canada and made the top 10 in the UK and South Africa.<\/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=\"ANDY KIM - ROCK ME GENTLY (1974) - HQ AUDIO VIDEO EDIT\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zr434M-wuek?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>In 1969 Canadian singer and songwriter Andy Kim had two hit singles, &#8220;Rainbow Ride,&#8221; which made the US Top 50, and &#8220;Baby, I Love You,&#8221; which got to number 9 in the USA and number 1 in Canada. Over the next few years, he had a few minor hits but after September 1971 he did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[344],"class_list":["post-3120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-andy-kim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120","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=3120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3132,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions\/3132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}