FReeper Canteen ~ One Hit Wonders (Voter Thread) ~ Do You Have A Favorite? ~ 13AUG2005

The Canteen Deejays

[MoJo2001]

 

 

One Hit Wonders
(Voter Thread)
 

Welcome To The Canteen Music Dedication!!
In our continued effort to bring music themes that you want, we continue this week with our Canteen voted thread of One Hit Wonders!

This list was compiled from various sources. Some of you may disagree with an artist showing up in our One Hit Wonders list, but that's okay. We're not here to state that we are the authority on such matters. We're here to enjoy some music from popular artist (although, not popular for long) of their respective music eras.

There are many artists/songs that are considered One Hit Wonders. However, we don't have all day and night to list them. We've gotta sleep now and again! Hehehe!

We enjoy feedback. If you have requests, please ping laurenmarlowe on the thread or via FReepmail.

As always, we greatly appreciate the opportunity to entertain our Troops, Veterans, and their family members.

Enjoy!

 

 

Artist	Song	Artist	Song
Neneh Cherry *Related to Don Cherry and Eagle Eye Cherry. This song is 1989. 80s Hip Hop/Dance	Buffalo Stance	Betty Harris *This song forces one to almost cry at how she sounds singing it. Cry me a river comes to mind!	Cry To Me
Teddy Bears *The Shirelles are probably better known for this song.	To Know Him Is To Love Him	Barry Mann *Song from 1961	Who Put The Bomp
The Voxpoppers *From 1958	Wishing For Your Love	Hollywood Argyles *From 1960	Alley Oop
The Gentrys *From 1965	Keep On Dancing	Amboy Dukes *From 1968	Journey To The Center Of The Mind
Leapy Lee *From 1968	Little Arrows	Four Jacks & A Jill *From 1968	Master Jack
Terry Jacks *1974	Seasons In The Sun	Carl Douglas *From 1974	Kung Fu Fighting
Rosie & The Originals *From 1976	Angel Baby	The Knack *From 1979	My Sharona
Anita Ward *From 1979	Ring My Bell	The Buggles *From 1979	Video Killed The Radio Star
Amii Stewart *From 1979	Knock On Wood	Rupert Holmes *From 1980	Escape (Pina Colada Song)
Buckner & Garcia	Pac Man Fever	Dexy's Midnight Runners	Come On Eileen
The Divinyls *This song was rereleased in the 1990s.	I Touch Myself	Falco	Rock Me Amadeus
Gary Numan	Cars	Greg Kihn Band *MoJo likes Weird Al Yankovic's parody of this tune!	Jeopardy
Harold Faltermeyer *No Crazy Frog version tonight! WooHoo!!	Axel F	Johnny Hates Jazz	Shattered Dreams
Johnny Kemp *VH1 obviously forgot about his awesome "Birthday Suit" song, huh?	Just Got Paid	Lipps, Inc *MoJo and sibs annoyed the parents on a family vacation with this song. Who knew parents were so touchy!	Funkytown
Matthew Wilder *A very chippy and happy song!	Break My Stride	Men Without Hats *Who remembers the midget from the video?	Safety Dance

 

Artist	Song	Artist	Song
Modern English *MoJo could've sworn they had another hit, but VH1 thinks otherwise. Oh well! Anyone else remember Nicholas Cage in "Valley Girl" and this song?	Melt With You	Murray Head	One Night In Bangkok
Real Life *There was a white horse a chick and that's all remember about the video to this song!	Send Me An Angel	Rick Astley *Who was lamer? Rick or his brother Jon? LOL!	Never Gonna Give You Up
Scritti Politti *Another great song to annoy the parental units on a long road trip!	Perfect Way	Soft Cell *How MoJo misses the 80s! What a great song!	Tainted Love
T'Pau	Heart and Soul	Terrence Trent Darby *Whatever happened to him?	Wishing Well
Thomas Dolby *A song that makes almost every 80s collection.	She Blinded Me With Me Science	The Belle Stars *Song made popular thanks to "Rain Man". Remember that movie? Remake of the Dixie Cups!	Iko Iko
Timex Social Club *This group was created from members of Club Noveau. Both groups experienced One Hit Wonders!	Rumors	Tom Cochran	Life Is A Highway
Tommy Shaw *From Styx to Solo Artist to Damn Yankees with Ted Nugent	Girls With Guns	Kajagoogoo *Stunned that Big Apple wasn't considered a hit!	Too Shy
Trio *Volkswagen commercial made this song a hit!	Da Da Da	Wall Of Voodoo	Mexican Radio
When In Rome *What does MoJo remember about these guys? They were cute! Hehe!	The Promise	Yello *Ferris Bueller's Day Off and this song! Oh YEAH!	OH YEAH
Alana Davis *If you ever have a chance, listen to her entire CD. What an incredible voice and range!	32 Flavors	Billie Meyers	Kiss The Rain
Chumbawumba *Um, very British! How about that?	Tubthumping	Del Amitri *Um, MoJo thinks there was a shopping cart in this video. Maybe not!	Roll With Me
Des'ree *Loved this song until they used it in Promos for "Good Morning America". Nothing like killing a song!	Gotta Be	Sir Mix A Lot *This song caused great distress to the NOW chicks. Meanwhile, the rest of us loved it. Old School Rap!	Baby Got Back
Right Said Fred *These dudes were strange, but a bumping overplayed song!	I'm Too Sexy	Billy Ray Cyrus *MoJo disagrees with VH1 on this one. After all, the song "Some Gave All" was awesome!	Achy Breaky Heart
Joe Public *One of those songs MoJo was sleepwalking through in the 90s.	Live and Learn	Lisa Loeb *MoJo kind of disagrees with this one as well, but oh well!	Stay
Tag Team *90s Hip Hop/Rap	Whoomp! There It Is	Gabrielle	Dreams

 

Artist	Song	Artist	Song
Craig Mack *Hip Hop/Rap	Flava In Ya Ear	Ini Kamoze	Here Comes The Hotstepper
Wynona Carr *A MoJo favorite!	Til The Well Runs Dry	Jeannie C. Riley	Harper Valley P.T.A
Bobby *Boris* Pickett *Great song to scare little kids during Halloween!	Monster Mash	The Contours *Loved this song in the movie "Dirty Dancing".	Do You Love Me
The Bobbettes	Mr. Lee	Essex	Easier Said Than Done
Hollywood Flames *TexasCowboy made an awesome music for our Troops with this song!	Buzz Buzz Buzz	Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs	Sugar Shack
Duice *Jessica Simpson would love this song!	Daisy Dukes	JJ Fad *Love people that talk fast? You'll love this song! Old School Rap/Hip Hop	Supersonic
Kid Frost *Latino Hip Hop/Rap	La Raza	Master Ace *hotstreak loved this video because they were at a car show. Hello?	Born To Roll
Quad City DJs *Choo choo train! 90s Hip Hop/Rap	Come On Ride The Train	Skee Lo *Rap/Hip Hop Very funny song!	I Wish
RuPaul *Okay! MoJo loves this song!  What can I say?	Supermodel	The Ad Libs	Boy From New York City
Sheb Wooley	Purple People Eater	The Trashmen	Surfin' Bird
The Verve	Bittersweet Symphony	Til Tuesday	Voices Carry
The Kingsmen	Louie Louie	Rockwell *Michael Jackson sings back up.	Somebody's Watching Me
Shannon	Let The Music Play	Tracey Ullman	They Don't Know
Peter Shilling *English version of this song	Major Tom	Linear	Sending All My Love
Vanilla Ice *There is so much MoJo could say, but I won't.	Ice Ice Baby	DMob and Cathy Dennis *MoJo guesses Diva Betsy Ross could really get down to this song! WooHoo!	C'Mon and Get My Love

 

Artist	Song	Artist	Song
Mellow Man Ace *Bilingual Rapper	Mentirosa (That would be *liar* for the Spanish inept out there like Ma!)	Kyper	Tic Tac Toe
Oran *Juice* Jones *Old School Rap	Walking In The Rain	Archies *Hmm...	Sugar Sugar
Guy Mitchell	Singing The Blues	J. Frank Wilson *A sad Oldies song!	Last Kiss
Thurston Harris	Little Bitty Pretty One	EMF	Unbelievable
Faith No More *Not For Ma or Kids	Epic	Gerardo *He was nice to look at! Um, oh the song? Well, it was sort of nice. Hehe!	Rico Suave
K7 *Don't click Ma, ok?	Come Baby Come	No Mercy *Another 90s group that was nice to look at! Hehe! Where did they go?	Where Do You Go
Portrait	Here We Go Again	The Castaways	Liar Liar
Wilbert Harrison *First heard this song in the 80s when Kansas City was hosting the basketball NCAA championships! It stuck with MoJo forever!	Kansas City	C Note	Wait Till I Get Home

 

 

[Mark In Columbus]

The La's - There She Goes

[Fudd Fan]

The greatest one-hit-wonder of them all,
SUKIYAKI by Kyu Sakamoto
yeargh!!

[luvie]

The prayer is just beautiful, SA!...as usual, you touched my heart with the words you chose!

[Drumbo]

One Toke Over The Line
~ Brewer & Shipley ~

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[laurenmarlowe]

DJ SUNSHINE!

Music for our Troops, Veterans, and their families!!
Canteen Music Requests Incoming!
(Please support the artists below!)

If you would like to be added/removed from the
Canteen Music Ping List, please
FReepmail MoJo2001 or Kathy In Alaska

The Chips~Rubber Biscuit

Genre: From The Brlue Brothers

Suitable for MA and kids: YES!

*** Please ping laurenmarlowe to any song requests
made on the thread. Thank you! ***

[Zacs Mom]

Oh WOW!! That is so much better!!! Thanks so much for posting that!! I've always liked that song and was bummed I couldn't find a better version of it to play!

You guys are the greatest!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, acad, for today's daily dose o' da blues.

[MoJo2001]

Our usefulness can sometimes be astounding. Glad you got a version of a song you like!!

Don't be such a stranger. We're here everyday!! And of course, we have a music dedication every Saturday.

[PzLdr]

"Just Like Romeo and Juliet" by The Reflections, "Looking for an Echo" by Kenny Vance and the Planetones

[I still care]

LOL! Phil is close... it's Phil Phillips!

The Honeydrippers are one hit wonders - and they aren't at all. That was the name Robert Plant, of Led Zeppelin fame, chose for himself when he recorded an album of his favorite older musci.

[Soaring Feather]

oooops

[mountn man]

My Kinda Lover

Stroke Me

In The Dark

All Night Long

[laurenmarlowe]

Thanks for your request! I'll play for you shortly!

[Kathy in Alaska]

DJ SUNSHINE!

Welcome Troops, Veterans, Families, and Allies!
Canteen Music Requests
Incoming!
(Please support the artists below!)

If you would like to be added/removed from the
Canteen Music Ping List, please
FReepmail MoJo2001 or Kathy In Alaska

Brad Paisley ~ I Wish You'd Stay

Brenda Lee ~ Sweet Nothin's

Genre: Country/Classic Rock & Roll

*** Please ping laurenmarlowe to any song requests
made on the thread. Thank you! ***

[laurenmarlowe]

Evening, thanks for your song request! I'll post for you here in a bit!

[luvie]

Thank you! My hubby couldn't believe he could be wrong on this one! LOL! He feels much better now! :o)

[barker]

Many thanks. You're fast tonight.

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening, and thanks for your request! I'll get loaded and post for you here in a bit!

[mabelkitty]

Speaking of Lindsey Buckingham (Wow, was he ever adorable back in the '80s), I would love to hear his "Trouble" or even "Chuck E's in Love" by Rickie Lee Jones.

I just discovered this is mp3 format. It took me a year to get my CD burner to work, so about this time next year, I'll be pinging y'all back and saying "THANK YOU, THANK YOU!"

LOL!

[Drumbo]

That Thing You Do
~ The Wonders ~

From the soundtrack to the Tom Hanks-written and directed movie about a fictional rock & roll band from Erie, Pennsylvania who luck into their one and only hit record in 1964, this title track reached # 21 on real-life Billboard Charts in 1996! Both the movie and the song are favorites of mine. Lies
~ The Knickerbockers ~

In early 1966, the Knickerbockers hit the Top 20 with "Lies," the best and most accurate early Beatle imitation ever recorded; the lead vocals were a dead ringer for John Lennon and the whole production could have fit in snugly on the second side of A Hard Day's Night. Actually a frat rock band from New Jersey who didn't write much of their own material, they never made anything else as successful. A couple decent follow-ups — "One Track Mind" and the similarly mock-British Invasion "High on Love" — were small regional hits, but their albums were even blander than many of the era's other one-shot artists. Drummer and singer Jimmy Walker briefly replaced Bill Medley in the Righteous Brothers.

The classic structure and the distinctive "bridge" section ("Someday you're gonna be lonely") seems to my ear to be the note-for-note inspiration for "That Thing You Do" by The Wonders and the Knickerbockers story could be the prototype of the movie.

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