{"id":3293,"date":"2023-12-07T16:15:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T03:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=3293"},"modified":"2023-12-07T16:21:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T03:21:03","slug":"3293","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=3293","title":{"rendered":"Looking For An American Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Doo-wop and rock \u2018n\u2019 roll great Dion DiMucci has released a brand new song called &#8220;An American Hero.&#8221; Dion\u2019s biggest and best known hits include \u201cRunaround Sue\u201d and \u201cThe Wanderer,\u201d both from 1961. He scored a number 1 on the RadiJohan Top 10 in 2020 with &#8220;song For Sam Cooke&#8221; which featured Paul simon. Dion repeated the feat in 2022 when he topped our chart with &#8220;Dancing Girl&#8221; which featured Mark Knopfler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dion&#8217;s latest release is a duet which features veteran country star Carlene Carter (daughter of June Carter-Cash). Dion said in a press release:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201c<em>Basically, it\u2019s a song about the ordinary person being a hero and championing the cause of the people around them. You don\u2019t have to look at cable news or online and don\u2019t look to politicians to save you. Look into your own heart and be a hero to the ten people you affect in your life the most. Patriotism really isn\u2019t about politics; we\u2019re all Americans, so values and character are what matter most.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAn American Hero,\u201d by Dion with Carlene Carter, is new this week on RadiJohan.<\/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=\"Dion - &quot;An American Hero&quot; with Carlene Carter - Official Music Video\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tBngYKf3TKg?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>Doo-wop and rock \u2018n\u2019 roll great Dion DiMucci has released a brand new song called &#8220;An American Hero.&#8221; Dion\u2019s biggest and best known hits include \u201cRunaround Sue\u201d and \u201cThe Wanderer,\u201d both from 1961. He scored a number 1 on the RadiJohan Top 10 in 2020 with &#8220;song For Sam Cooke&#8221; which featured Paul simon. Dion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[365,14],"class_list":["post-3293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-music","tag-carlene-carter","tag-dion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293","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=3293"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3300,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293\/revisions\/3300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}