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Stegor
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1/31/2008 8:35:18 PM
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One Hit Wonders - What are your favorites?
I just realized how much I love a lot of one hit wonders. It prompted me to do a little research and I thought some of you might enjoy some of my findings and thoughts.
I would divide the One Hit Wonder phenomena into 5 categories:
1. The Monsters
2. The Novelties
3. The Greats
4. The Flukes
5. The Guilty Pleasures
A lot of these I got from http://www.onehitwondercentral.com Most of them are from my favorite decade, the '70's. Of course, since I'm from the middle of the USA, some of you may not even recognize some of these. You might even be amused that groups like T Rex only had ONE hit.
1. The Monsters. The Rock Giants that managed to have one big hit single. Most of these are now considered "Classic Rock".
Mountain - Mississippi Queen
Free - Alright Now
Ten Years After - I'd Love to Change the World
Argent - Hold Your Head Up
T-Rex Bang a Gong
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Focus - Hocus Pocus
Rick Derringer - Rock & Roll Hootchie Koo
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Thin Lizzy - The Boys are Back in Town
Head East - Never Been Any Reason
2. The Novelty songs. They were horrible. I excluded Disco Duck.
Bloodrock - DOA - the anti-novelty song about dying in a plane crash
Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting - Hahahaha!
Brownsville Station - Smokin in the Boys Room
3. The Greats. Just really really good songs that will never get old, and I don't feel guilty at all about loving them. Would make great covers.
Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes
Jaggerz - The Rapper
Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime
Shocking Blue - Venus
The Tee Set - Ma Belle a Mie
The Ides of March - Vehicle
Undisputed Truth - Smiling Faces Sometimes
Coven - One Tin Soldier
Jo-Jo Gunne - Run Ru Run
Stories - Brother Louie
King Harvest - Dancing in the Moonlight
Maria Muldaur - Midnight at the Oasis
Walter Egan - Magnet and Steel
Patti Smith Group - Because The Night
Nick Lowe - Cruel to be Kind
Sniff 'n' the Tears - Driver's Seat
Judy in Disguise (With Glasses) - John Fred and his Playboy Band
You Know What I Mean - Lee Michaels
4. The Flukes - Songs that sounded like nothing else. They thrived despite their uniqueness. (Some from category 1 appear here also)
Chakachas - Jungle Fever
Commander Cody... - Hot Rod Lincoln
David Essex - Rock On
Reunion - Life Is A Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)
Wild Cherry - Play that Funky Music
Ram Jam - Black Betty
T-Rex Bang a Gong
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Focus - Hocus Pocus
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire
5. The Guilty Pleasures - These probably only have sentimental appeal...
Vickie Lawrence - The Night the Lights Went out in Georgia
Terry Jacks - Seasons in the Sun (often voted as the worst song ever)
Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died
Elvin Bishop - Fooled Around and Fell in Love
Redbone - Come and Get Your Love
SO - Feel free to comment on any of these, or add some of your own faves, from any decade!
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Duane Flock
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1/31/2008 8:57:14 PM
My God man You fucking grew up right next door to me!!! I swear to God !!
This shit is right up my alley!! I'm still trying to find a singer that'll do Hocus Pocus by Focus!! Hahahahaha!
This stuff brings back some rIghtious memories, dude!!
D.
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mysticangel_001
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1/31/2008 9:12:35 PM
Nick Gilder...Hot Child In The City...not sure which catagory that would fall under. LOVE Head East!!! Did Little Feat not have any #1's?
*God I'm old!*
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mysticangel_001
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1/31/2008 9:20:50 PM
Oh and the staple of every skating rink in the WORLD
SATURDAY NIGHT- Bay City Rollers...love me some Scottish boys.
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1/31/2008 10:57:34 PM
"Little Arrows" by leapy Lea - I think the guy retired on that
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fly on the wall
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1/31/2008 11:08:10 PM
One Fine Morning by Lighthouse I love.
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srm
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2/1/2008 3:35:35 AM
How about Blue Cheer's version of "Summertime Blues"? Or was that even a hit?
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No Rhythm
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2/1/2008 5:21:45 AM
We had a hit here in oz, I'm not sure if it charted elswhere, called "shaddup a your face" by Joe dolce which would fit into your novelty category.
Check it out here
Cheers Mark
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THE JACK PADDLE COVER BAND
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2/1/2008 5:39:13 AM
I'm the friendly stranger
In the black sedan
Oh won't you hop inside my car?
What a nipple crackin', buttock slappin' song that is!!!!.....Oh yeah!!!
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Stegor
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2/1/2008 6:40:03 AM
Yeah, some of those old songs had some real questionable lyrical content - was "Vehicle" a song about a child abductor!?
Remember "Come on Down to My Boat Baby" by Every Mother's Son?
"But she's tied to the dock and she can't get free...
Soon I'm gonna have to get my knife and cut that rope, cut that rope
Then we can go fishin' in my little red boat"
But until this very moment when I looked up the lyrics I was positive he said "Cut her throat"!!!
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Carl Schonbeck
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2/1/2008 9:13:03 AM
Here are a few - Eddie Money "Two Tickets To Paradise", "Brandy" Looking Glass (SCREAMING for a Van Morrison cover version), T. Tutone (you know the chick's number :-), "Driver's Seat" Sniff n the Tears
Not sure the Brits would buy T Rex as a one hit wonder...guy was like Elvis over there for a while but couldn't get served a coffee Stateside (which of course why he's still reverred over there lol)
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Stegor
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2/1/2008 7:19:35 PM
It is weird that T Rex only had one hit here. I have never heard a T Rex song on the radio other than Bang a Gong, even late night public radio!
On the other hand, Eddie Money has had more hits here than you can shake a stick at, if that's your idea of a good time.
Brandy still makes me feel like a kid when I hear it.
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The Man With No Band
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2/1/2008 8:01:10 PM
Commander Cody, Kraftwerk, Mike Oldfield, T-Rex, Ten Years After, Mountain, Head East ...
All may have been One-Hit Wonders but I have Albums from all of them and 2 or more from all of them except Oldfield and Mountain ... I still listen to those Albums today ... not just the hits ...
Now, I do also have the David Essex Album and I love "Rock-On" but can't listen to anything else on the Album ... the same with Shocking Blue and Venus ... and Coven and "One Tin Soldier"
I like three tunes on the first Mungo Jerry Album ...
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Stegor
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2/2/2008 11:59:15 AM
Man, you must have some serious vinyl collection, Sam!
Makes me think of another idea - oddball songs that made it big. Songs that sounded like nothing else but made it anyway. Like Bennie and the Jets for instance.
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