{"id":30326,"date":"2024-09-11T15:02:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T15:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-11-1982-john-mellencamp-lands-his-first-and-only-1-album-with-american-fool\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T15:02:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T15:02:25","slug":"on-this-day-sept-11-1982-john-mellencamp-lands-his-first-and-only-1-album-with-american-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-11-1982-john-mellencamp-lands-his-first-and-only-1-album-with-american-fool\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Sept. 11, 1982: John Mellencamp lands his first and only #1 album with &#8216;American Fool&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-09-11\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Sept. 11, 1982\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>John Mellencamp<\/strong>, then known as <strong>John Cougar<\/strong>, had the #1 album in the country, with his fifth studio album <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">American Fool<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">. It was his first and only #1 record.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album spent nine weeks at #1, and produced the #1 single, \u201cJack and Diane,\u201d which spent four weeks in the top spot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Another single, \u201cHurt So Good,\u201d spent four weeks at #2 and 16 weeks in the top 10, while a third, \u201cHand to Hold On To,\u201d peaked at #19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHurts So Good\u201d went on to win Mellencamp a Grammy for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Sept. 11, 1982\u2026 John Mellencamp, then known as John Cougar, had the #1 album in the country, with his fifth studio album American Fool. It was his first and only #1 record. The album spent nine weeks at #1, and produced the #1 single, \u201cJack and Diane,\u201d<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-11-1982-john-mellencamp-lands-his-first-and-only-1-album-with-american-fool\/\">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\/30326"}],"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=30326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}