{"id":31236,"date":"2025-01-16T18:02:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T18:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-jan-16-1988-george-harrison-hit-1-with-got-my-mind-set-on-you\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T18:02:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T18:02:33","slug":"on-this-day-jan-16-1988-george-harrison-hit-1-with-got-my-mind-set-on-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-jan-16-1988-george-harrison-hit-1-with-got-my-mind-set-on-you\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Jan. 16, 1988: George Harrison hit #1 with &#8216;Got My Mind Set On You&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-16\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p>On This Day, Jan. 16, 1988 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>George Harrison<\/strong> hit #1 on the <em>Billboard<\/em> Hot 100 with \u201cGot My Mind Set On You,\u201d a cover of a 1962 track originally recorded by <strong>James Ray<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The recording was produced by <strong>ELO<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Jeff Lynne<\/strong>, who also played bass and keyboards on the song. It appeared on Harrison\u2019s 11th studio album, <em>Cloud Nine<\/em>, which was\u00a0the final solo album to be released during\u00a0Harrison&#8217;s lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGot My Mind Set On You\u201d would be Harrison\u2019s third and final #1 solo single. It also marked the last time a member of <strong>The<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Beatles<\/strong> hit #1 in both the U.S. and the U.K.<\/p>\n<p>The song hit #1 just one week before The Beatles were inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Jan. 16, 1988 &#8230; George Harrison hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with \u201cGot My Mind Set On You,\u201d a cover of a 1962 track originally recorded by James Ray. The recording was produced by ELO\u2019s Jeff Lynne, who also played bass and keyboards on the<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-jan-16-1988-george-harrison-hit-1-with-got-my-mind-set-on-you\/\">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\/31236"}],"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=31236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}