{"id":92084,"date":"2023-12-10T15:09:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T23:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92084"},"modified":"2023-12-10T15:09:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T23:09:41","slug":"love-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/12\/10\/love-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love when I hear good news about a friend, and my pal <strong>Darlene Love <\/strong>just got some very good news.&nbsp; In fact, it\u2019s very overdue good news.&nbsp; Her perennial holiday classic, \u201cChristmas (Baby Please Come Home)\u201d, just went platinum!&nbsp; And she had the platinum album presented to her by none other than <strong>Bruce Springsteen<\/strong>!&nbsp; It happened at Love\u2019s holiday show at New York\u2019s <em>Town Hall <\/em>on November 30<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; The \u201coverdue\u201d part is because the song was released in 1963.&nbsp; This year, the single has had a bit of resusitation since <strong>Cher <\/strong>included it on her Christmas collection \u2013 and turned it into a duet with Love.&nbsp; Fun fact \u2013 Cher actually sang backup on the original recording 60 years ago!&nbsp; Even more fun \u2013 during several of Cher\u2019s tours, Darlene sang backup for her!&nbsp; She\u2019s featured prominently on Cher\u2019s <strong><em>Live from the Mirage<\/em><\/strong> concert video from 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Not to be outdone, Cher got some good news of her own.&nbsp; Her single, \u201cDJ Play a Christmas Song\u201d, just went to #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.&nbsp; While that might sound impressive, it bears noting she has not had a #1 on that chart since 1989\u2019s \u201cIf I Could Turn Back Time\u201d (\u201cBelieve\u201d topped the Pop chart in 1999).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love when I hear good news about a friend, and my pal Darlene Love just got some very good news.&nbsp; In fact, it\u2019s very overdue good news.&nbsp; Her perennial holiday classic, \u201cChristmas (Baby Please Come Home)\u201d, just went platinum!&nbsp; And she had the platinum album presented to her by none other than Bruce Springsteen!&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92093,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92084\/revisions\/92093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}