{"id":30253,"date":"2024-08-30T15:03:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T15:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-30-1986-steve-winwood-hit-1-with-higher-love\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T15:03:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T15:03:37","slug":"on-this-day-aug-30-1986-steve-winwood-hit-1-with-higher-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-30-1986-steve-winwood-hit-1-with-higher-love\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Aug. 30, 1986: Steve Winwood hit #1 with \u201cHigher Love\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-08-29\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag_0.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Aug. 30, 1986 \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Former<strong> Traffic<\/strong> star<strong> Steve Winwood\u00a0<\/strong>landed his first\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">Hot 100 #1 with \u201cHigher Love,\u201d from his fourth solo album,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Back in the High Life.<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The song, featuring backing vocals by\u00a0<strong>Chaka Khan<\/strong>, spent one week on top of the chart. It went on to win Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Best Male Vocal Performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Winwood\u2019s second and only other #1 single came less than two years later when \u201cRoll With It,&#8221; from the #1 album of the same name,\u00a0 topped the chart in July 1988.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Whitney Houston\u00a0<\/strong>covered &#8220;Higher Love&#8221; in 1990, which was released on the Japanese version of her hit album\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">I&#8217;m Your Baby Tonight<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">. In 2019, Norwegian DJ\u00a0<strong>Kygo\u00a0<\/strong>released a remix of that version, which hit #1 on the Dance Club Songs chart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Aug. 30, 1986 \u2026 Former Traffic star Steve Winwood\u00a0landed his first\u00a0Billboard\u00a0Hot 100 #1 with \u201cHigher Love,\u201d from his fourth solo album,\u00a0Back in the High Life.\u00a0 The song, featuring backing vocals by\u00a0Chaka Khan, spent one week on top of the chart. It went on to win Grammy Awards<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-30-1986-steve-winwood-hit-1-with-higher-love\/\">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\/30253"}],"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=30253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}