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Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #20 on: April 17, 2005, 02:56:02 PM »

'Turn Up The Radio' by Autograph
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Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #21 on: April 17, 2005, 06:49:30 PM »

The Five Stairsteps- O-o-h Child
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Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #22 on: April 17, 2005, 06:50:13 PM »

Sugar Hill Gang - Rapper's Delight
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Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #23 on: April 17, 2005, 07:00:41 PM »

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Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #24 on: April 17, 2005, 07:09:21 PM »

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Where was that a hit?
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Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #25 on: April 17, 2005, 07:09:54 PM »

Great song though.
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Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #26 on: April 17, 2005, 07:12:18 PM »

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Where was that a hit?

lol! my mistake, I thought this was the 'what you're listening to' thread  ;D
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Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #27 on: April 19, 2005, 12:24:34 AM »

The Contours - Do You Love Me
The Chantays - Pipeline
Swinging Blue Jeans - Hippy Hippy Shake
Head East - Never Been Any Reason
The Castaways - Liar, Liar
Blues Image - Ride Captain Ride
Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)  
Buoys - Timothy
Argent Hold - Your Head Up
King Harvest - Dancing in the Moonlight
Pilot - Magic
Ram Jam - Black Betty
Walter Egan - Magnet and Steel
Sniff 'n' the Tears - Driver's Seat
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Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #28 on: April 19, 2005, 04:06:20 PM »

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Buoys - Timothy

That's interesting... The Buoys are seen as a one hit wonder here as well, but their only hit here was Give Up Your Guns (excellent song by the way).
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Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #29 on: April 19, 2005, 04:11:03 PM »

2 biggies (for me) from the 60's:
Something in the air - Thunderclap Newman
Bend me shape me - American Breed
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Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #30 on: April 20, 2005, 12:56:09 AM »

Remember that "Hugh Grant" movie about a boy where when introduced people asked him what he did and he said nothing really I just live off a Xmas song I wrote!
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Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #31 on: April 20, 2005, 12:58:25 AM »

Bill Haily the "Rock Around The Clock" guy just finished out his life poor and told eveybody in bars that he wrote "Rock Around The Clock" The tragic story of a 1 hit wonder!
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Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #32 on: April 20, 2005, 07:01:11 AM »

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Remember that "Hugh Grant" movie about a boy where when introduced people asked him what he did and he said nothing really I just live off a Xmas song I wrote!

I bought the soundtrack to that movie (i Love Badly Drawn Boy). But thanks to him I now have a CD in my "collection" with Hugh Grant on the cover. Very cool.
I remember a nice little story about the guy who wrote Ray of Light. It had been written back in the 60's-70's by a guy in some failed hippy band. He hadn't played music for years since. Then Madonna stumbled on it and had a huge hit. Now the guys got enough money to build a studio and try and make music again.
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Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #33 on: July 17, 2005, 08:15:45 PM »

So Happy Together- The Turtles
I Ran- A Flock Of Seagulls
Tainted Love- Soft Cell
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Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #34 on: August 13, 2005, 04:47:33 AM »

All-time favorite: "White Lies, Blue Eyes" by Bullet, available on Rhino Records' HITS OF THE 70'S: HAVE A NICE DAY cd series.

All-time worst: "I've Never Been to Me" by Charlene (incredibly, on Motown Records),  although at least it's so bad that it's funny.  The very worst song I have ever heard is by a slightly more than 1-hitter, David Lee Roth of Van Halen, with this thing he recorded in the 1980's called "Yankee Rose," which sounds like fingernails scratching a chalkboard.

I also recommend the excellent ONE HIT WONDERS BOOK by Wayne Jancik, although Billboard, the publisher, only let him include half (the Top 20 acts) of the essays he wanted to include.
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Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #35 on: August 13, 2005, 04:53:20 AM »

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Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #36 on: August 13, 2005, 07:37:23 PM »

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Creep- radiohead

I know they werent one hit wonders, farrr from it, but I cant belive evrybody thought they were 1 hit wonders with Creep, and they made many albums after that, well noty many, but they did make OK Computer, one of the best albums of the 90s

I think saying they made many is a fair comment, coz they did 6 or 7 albums since then.

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Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #37 on: August 13, 2005, 07:40:06 PM »

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Their accents are so hard to understand, though! I could hardly even comprehend the words "come on eileen" so I looked up the lyrics. What are they, Irish, British? I have honestly no idea....


They are English and from the same city as I am from... Birmingham.
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Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #38 on: August 13, 2005, 07:42:50 PM »

Here's one for you that you would never expect.

Neil Young - Heart Of Gold

His only ever hit.
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Re: One Hit Wonders
« Reply #39 on: August 13, 2005, 08:17:40 PM »

How about this one to top yours?

Jimi Hendrix- All Along the Watchtower

or even The Grateful Dead- Touch of Grey
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