Posted on 09/25/2018 2:15:33 PM PDT by heterosupremacist
On September 25, we turn up the volume to honor all the musical artists and that chart-topping song that makes them memorable. Its National One-Hit Wonder Day!
Listed below are just a few of the well-known one-hit wonders from days gone by:
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San Francisco - Scott McKenzie (back in the day before there was poop on the sidewalks) it was a great place!!!
Would have been #1 song of the year if it weren’t for Hey Jude.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3KEhWTnWvE
“Brandy by the Looking Glass.”
That’s a good one.
So then you got to include
Ride Captain Ride
One reminds me of the other.
I would think ‘Green Eyed Lady’ by Sugarloaf should be included in the list...
Unfortunately Sugarloaf set the all-time record for time between #1 ‘hits’ with: ‘Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call you...’ so they are NOT, really one hit wonders...
Kind of like Golden Earring that had Radar Love, then Twilight Zone
IMO, the peak year for one-hit wonders was 1970:
Venus
Ma Belle Amie
Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)
Spirit in the Sky
Vehicle
Reflections of My Life
O-o-h Child
United We Stand
Ride Captain Ride
My Baby Loves Lovin’
Are You Ready?
Tighter, Tighter
In the Summertime
All Right Now
Somebody’s Been Sleeping
Indiana Wants Me
Yellow River
Montego Bay
You will receive a parting gift as you leave. And thanks for playing...
Two of the original Reggae songs:
Desmond Dekker - The Israelites
Dave & Ansell Collins - Double Barrel
Rhythm of the Rain, by the Cascades.
I was thinking of Clarence Carter with “Patches” but then years later he did “Strokin’”
“Venus - Shocking Blue”
Which was a one hit wonder twice.
By Shocking Blue and later by Bananarama. .
Bananarama had an other big hit, “Cruel Summer”
When I’m With You by Sheriff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucqVyQDoImc
I know they had a couple of other good songs as Alias.....
Lighthouse - One Fine Morning
My Charona.
Check out Eddie Grant back in the 60s with his original band, The Equals, doin’ the Hendrix thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o_Fq7rP33M
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