{"id":31520,"date":"2025-02-25T18:02:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T18:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-feb-25-1984-van-halen-hits-1-with-jump\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T18:02:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T18:02:58","slug":"on-this-day-feb-25-1984-van-halen-hits-1-with-jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-feb-25-1984-van-halen-hits-1-with-jump\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Feb. 25, 1984: Van Halen hits #1 with &#8216;Jump&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-02-25\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p>On This Day, Feb. 25, 1984\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Van Halen<\/strong> hit #1 with the track \u201cJump\u201d off their sixth studio album, <em>1984<\/em>. The song was the rock band\u2019s only #1 single.<\/p>\n<p>The tune\u2019s popularity was aided by its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SwYN7mTi6HM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>music video<\/strong><\/a>, which was a staple on MTV. The clip, directed by <strong>Pete<\/strong> <strong>Angelus<\/strong> and Roth, was a performance video, that wound up nominated for three MTV Video Music Awards, winning best stage performance.<\/p>\n<p>The track was also nominated for best rock performance by a duo or group at the 27th annual Grammy Awards, but lost to \u201cPurple Rain\u201d by <strong>Prince &amp; The Revolution<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Feb. 25, 1984\u2026 Van Halen hit #1 with the track \u201cJump\u201d off their sixth studio album, 1984. The song was the rock band\u2019s only #1 single. The tune\u2019s popularity was aided by its music video, which was a staple on MTV. The clip, directed by Pete Angelus<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-feb-25-1984-van-halen-hits-1-with-jump\/\">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\/31520"}],"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=31520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}