{"id":29273,"date":"2024-04-15T15:04:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T15:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-april-15-1974-lynyrd-skynyrd-released-their-sophomore-album-second-helping\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T15:04:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T15:04:19","slug":"on-this-day-april-15-1974-lynyrd-skynyrd-released-their-sophomore-album-second-helping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-april-15-1974-lynyrd-skynyrd-released-their-sophomore-album-second-helping\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, April 15, 1974: Lynyrd Skynyrd released their sophomore album, &#8216;Second Helping&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-15\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, April 15, 1974\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Lynyrd Skynyrd<\/strong> released <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Second Helping<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, their second album and the follow-up to their successful debut,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">(Pronounced &#8216;L\u0115h-&#8216;n\u00e9rd &#8216;Skin-&#8216;n\u00e9rd).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album featured the track \u201cSweet Home Alabama,\u201d co-written by <strong>Ronnie Van Zant<\/strong>, <strong>Gary Rossington<\/strong> and <strong>Ed King<\/strong>, which would go on to be one of the band\u2019s signature tunes. It peaked at #8 on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> Hot 100, becoming the band&#8217;s only #10 hit and their highest-charting single.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cSweet Home Alabama\u201d was a response to <strong>Neil Young<\/strong>\u2019s 1972 track \u201cSouthern Man&#8221;; it even name-checked Young\u2019s\u00a0tune in the lyrics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Second Helping<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> peaked at #12 on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> 200 Album chart and was certified Gold by the RIAA within six months of its release. It went on to be certified double Platinum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, April 15, 1974\u2026 Lynyrd Skynyrd released Second Helping, their second album and the follow-up to their successful debut,\u00a0(Pronounced &#8216;L\u0115h-&#8216;n\u00e9rd &#8216;Skin-&#8216;n\u00e9rd). The album featured the track \u201cSweet Home Alabama,\u201d co-written by Ronnie Van Zant, Gary Rossington and Ed King, which would go on to be one of the<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-april-15-1974-lynyrd-skynyrd-released-their-sophomore-album-second-helping\/\">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\/29273"}],"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=29273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}