{"id":29569,"date":"2024-05-22T18:03:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T18:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-may-22-1976-paul-mccartney-wings-hit-number-one-with-silly-love-songs\/"},"modified":"2024-05-22T18:03:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T18:03:16","slug":"on-this-day-may-22-1976-paul-mccartney-wings-hit-number-one-with-silly-love-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-may-22-1976-paul-mccartney-wings-hit-number-one-with-silly-love-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, May 22, 1976: Paul McCartney &amp; Wings hit number one with \u201cSilly Love Songs\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-22\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p>On This Day, May 22, 1976&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Paul McCartney &amp; Wings\u00a0<\/strong>hit number one on the\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">Hot 100 singles chart with \u201cSilly Love Songs,\u201d which spent five weeks on top of the chart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The tune, from the 1976 album\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Wings at the Speed of Sound<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, was McCartney\u2019s answer to critics who suggested he only wrote lightweight love songs.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cSilly Love Songs\u201d was McCartney\u2019s fifth number one as a solo artist and his 27th number one as a songwriter, which was a new record. McCartney still holds the record for the most number ones by a songwriter with 32.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatlesbible.com\/people\/paul-mccartney\/songs\/silly-love-songs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Beatles Bible<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">, although McCartney continues to tour to this day,\u00a0he hasn\u2019t played &#8220;Silly Love Songs&#8221; live since the Wings Over the World Tour in 1976.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, May 22, 1976&#8230; Paul McCartney &amp; Wings\u00a0hit number one on the\u00a0Billboard\u00a0Hot 100 singles chart with \u201cSilly Love Songs,\u201d which spent five weeks on top of the chart. The tune, from the 1976 album\u00a0Wings at the Speed of Sound, was McCartney\u2019s answer to critics who suggested he only<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-may-22-1976-paul-mccartney-wings-hit-number-one-with-silly-love-songs\/\">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\/29569"}],"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=29569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}