{"id":30861,"date":"2024-11-15T18:02:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T18:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-nov-15-1980-blondies-the-tide-is-high-hit-1-in-the-uk\/"},"modified":"2024-11-15T18:02:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T18:02:30","slug":"on-this-day-nov-15-1980-blondies-the-tide-is-high-hit-1-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-nov-15-1980-blondies-the-tide-is-high-hit-1-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Nov. 15, 1980: Blondie\u2019s &#8216;The Tide Is High&#8217; hit #1 in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-15\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Nov. 15, 1980 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Blondie\u00a0<\/strong>landed their fifth U.K. #1 single with \u201cThe Tide Is High,\u201d from their fifth studio album,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Autoamerican<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">. It would be another18 years before Blondie topped the U.K. chart again, landing at #1 in 1999 with the track \u201cMaria.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe Tide Is High\u201d was a cover of a 1967 song originally performed by the Jamaican group\u00a0<strong>The Paragons<\/strong>, with the tune&#8217;s songwriter,\u00a0<strong>John Holt<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>singing lead on the track.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Blondie\u2019s version of &#8220;The Tide Is High\u201d also went on to hit #1 in the U.S., becoming their third #1 single. It also topped the charts in Canada and New Zealand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">And Blondie is still making music. Their last studio album, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Pollinator<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, was released in 2017 and in October, Blondie\u2019s <strong>Chris Stein<\/strong> revealed on Instagram that a new album is coming next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Nov. 15, 1980 &#8230; Blondie\u00a0landed their fifth U.K. #1 single with \u201cThe Tide Is High,\u201d from their fifth studio album,\u00a0Autoamerican. It would be another18 years before Blondie topped the U.K. chart again, landing at #1 in 1999 with the track \u201cMaria.&#8221; \u201cThe Tide Is High\u201d was a<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-nov-15-1980-blondies-the-tide-is-high-hit-1-in-the-uk\/\">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\/30861"}],"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=30861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}