Dealing with HTTP Status 400, Code: -1

[ChaitanyaGvs]

Plan

Premium

Country

India

Device

HP Omen

Operating System

Windows 11

My Question or Issue

So I recently started using Spotify's API through Spotipy library in Python for a school project.
The objective of our project is to analyze the songs in Billboard HOT 100 since 1960.
I got the data for all the Billboard songs and wrote a code to get the Spotify URIs for all these songs using Search query provided by the API using Spotipy.

I am getting a Spotify Exception with HTTP Status: 400, Code: -1, for the following line of code,

sp.search(q="track: A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around and Fall in Love) artist: Dinah Washington & Brook Benton year: 1960",type='track') 

Here, sp is the Spotify client.

I assumed this had something to do with the string quotes or the ampersand (&) but it doesn't seem to be the case because I have tried all possible combinations.

I would like to know how to deal with this.

Thank you.