{"id":31540,"date":"2025-02-27T18:02:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T18:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-feb-27-1981-the-who-release-you-better-you-bet\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T18:02:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T18:02:28","slug":"on-this-day-feb-27-1981-the-who-release-you-better-you-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-feb-27-1981-the-who-release-you-better-you-bet\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Feb. 27, 1981: The Who release \u2018You Better You Bet\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-02-27\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p>On This Day, Feb. 27, 1981\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Who<\/strong> released the song \u201cYou Better You Bet,\u201d their first single since the death of drummer <strong>Keith Moon<\/strong> three years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The song, written by <strong>Pete Townshend<\/strong>, was the first single off the band\u2019s 1981 album <em>Face Dances<\/em>, which featured former <strong>The Faces<\/strong> drummer <strong>Kenney Jones<\/strong> in Moon\u2019s place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou Better You Bet\u201d was a top 20 hit for The Who, peaking at #18 on the <em>Billboard<\/em> Hot 100.<\/p>\n<p>The video for the track was the fourth video played on MTV when it debuted Aug 1, 1981.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Feb. 27, 1981\u2026 The Who released the song \u201cYou Better You Bet,\u201d their first single since the death of drummer Keith Moon three years earlier. The song, written by Pete Townshend, was the first single off the band\u2019s 1981 album Face Dances, which featured former The Faces<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-feb-27-1981-the-who-release-you-better-you-bet\/\">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\/31540"}],"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=31540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}