{"id":28509,"date":"2024-01-26T18:03:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T18:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-january-26-1974-ringo-starr-hits-1-with-youre-sixteen\/"},"modified":"2024-01-26T18:03:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T18:03:15","slug":"on-this-day-january-26-1974-ringo-starr-hits-1-with-youre-sixteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-january-26-1974-ringo-starr-hits-1-with-youre-sixteen\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, January 26, 1974: Ringo Starr hits #1 with \u201cYou\u2019re Sixteen&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag-18.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>On This Day, January 26, 1974\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ringo Starr<\/strong>\u00a0landed his second #1 single with \u201cYou\u2019re Sixteen.\u201d\u00a0The song was written by the\u00a0<strong>Sherman Brothers<\/strong>\u00a0and originally recorded by\u00a0<strong>Johnny Burnette<\/strong>\u00a0in 1969.<\/p>\n<p>Ringo\u2019s version was on his third studio album,\u00a0<em>Ringo<\/em>, and featured his former\u00a0<strong>Beatles<\/strong>\u00a0bandmate\u00a0<strong>Paul McCartney\u00a0<\/strong>as well as\u00a0<strong>Harry Nilsson<\/strong>\u00a0on backing vocals.<\/p>\n<p>The song\u00a0also went to #1 in New Zealand and was a\u00a0top 10 hit in the U.K., Australia and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your Sixteen&#8221; wound up being Ringo&#8217;s final #1 as a solo artist. He had his first, \u201cPhotograph,\u201d in November 1973. Of course, he had\u00a020 chart-toppers as a member of The Beatles.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, January 26, 1974\u2026 Ringo Starr\u00a0landed his second #1 single with \u201cYou\u2019re Sixteen.\u201d\u00a0The song was written by the\u00a0Sherman Brothers\u00a0and originally recorded by\u00a0Johnny Burnette\u00a0in 1969. Ringo\u2019s version was on his third studio album,\u00a0Ringo, and featured his former\u00a0Beatles\u00a0bandmate\u00a0Paul McCartney\u00a0as well as\u00a0Harry Nilsson\u00a0on backing vocals. The song\u00a0also went to #1 in<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-january-26-1974-ringo-starr-hits-1-with-youre-sixteen\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}