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

 

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks for the National Anthem. *sniff* And the Mormon Tabernacle Choir can sing it! Stand tall, stand proud!!

[MoJo2001]

Radar Love" by Golden Earring

Um, George Smiley..shame on you! We were waiting on you to come request it. WooHoo!!

How are you tonight?
Thanks for stopping into the Canteen! Great to see you!!

[luvie]

Got home fine. I'm mighty tired of sitting but I'm watching Monk and eating a sandwich and talking to you--Life Is Good! :o)

Glad you had a good day today! What's on for tomorrow? I go in at 10--get off at 3.

[Common Tator]

Here is a bit of a story on Bill Ray Cyrus.

Billy was from northern Kentucky. A former top Guitar player named Dean Porter lived near him. Dean had been the guitar player on the early Little Jimmy Dickens records. Dean had allowed Chet Adkins to stay at his home when Chet was trying to make it in Nashville. Most of the people in Nashville knew Dean quite well. He was very liked and respected.

Dean had a heart attack at age 35 (early 1950s) and retired for several years to his Kentucky farm. But then Chet got Dean the job of running the Gretch Guitar plant. Dean was a guitar crafsman as well as a great player.

After Dean retired from Gretch he just played a few local gigs in southern Ohio and northern Ky for fun. Dean heard Billy Ray on several occasions and introduced him to some people in Nashville.

The result was Achy Breaky Heart. The guy who wrote Achy Breaky Heart had given up on the song. It had been recorded three times before Billy Ray did it and it had never sold enough to pay for a session.

A good buddy of mine (a steel player) thows a picnic gig for wanna bees and never have beens each year. The year before Billy Ray made it he was playing with the rest of us. No one expected him to make it. But Dean thought he had a chance and Dean was right.

There have been many good talents come from Northern Ky and Southern ohio. Johny Paycheck, Connie Smith, Bobby Bare, Gary Adams, Darrel McCall, and Slim Rutter. Slim was the best singer of all... but never even got a recording contract. He passed away a few years ago. I played lead for Slim when I was just a kid. He was great but the majic never happened. Darell is a fantastic singer. He recorded for 3 major lablels and had top management but never made a hit. He is way to old to make it now.

Gary Adams is a fantastic singer.. but had one song get to number 20.. and that was it.

Connie, Johnny and Bobby all made it. Bobby and Connie made it quikly.. It took Johnny nine years in Nashville to get a hit.

It took Paycheck three names, Donnie Lytle, Donny Young, and Johnny Paycheck before he made a hit.

Paycheck did try to help other people get a start. He always introduced those of us from Southern Ohio as one of his relatives. As screwed up as Donny was, I never figured that was much help.. But Donny must have thought it was.

Someone once asked me If I was really related to Donny.. I replied, "Only by Divorce." The guy had likely heard "Only by marriage" but I don't think he had heard "Only by Divorce" before.

[Radix]

Hey Canteen Dee Jays, I see that you put my theme song up as a one hit wonder song. Wasn't there are a part 2 or sequel to the I am too sexy song? I seem to remember so.

[Smartass]

[Salvey]

"Let Me Go, Lover" - Joan Weber, 1955

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, Sir Francis Dashwood. Enjoy the music.

[MoJo2001]

DJ SUNSHINE!

If you'd like to be added/removed from the Canteen Music Ping list,
please FReepmail MoJo2001 or Kathy In Alaska.
This is a HIGH VOLUME PING LIST!!
Please ping laurenmarlowe to any song requests on the thread!
Thank you!!

The Honeydrippers

Sea Of Love

Sidenote: For LUV W and her hubby!
This group was fronted by Robert Plant

***PLEASE ping laurenmarlowe to any requests on the thread***
Thank you!
 

[ChildOfThe60s]

Scott McKenzie
San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair)

{I still laugh when I hear this one. Must have been better after a couple of doobies, snicker, snicker)

[Drumbo]

Breakfast At Tiffany's
~ Deep Blue Something ~

Reaching the Top Five at the end of 1995 this well-crafted pop song was in contrast to the group's self-image. These guys from North Texas State considered themselves an alternative band with gothic elements and this early song was a departure. The quartet consisted of Todd Pipes (vocals/bass), his brother Toby (guitar/ vocals), Kirk Tatom (guitar), and John Kirtland (drums). They toured Texas after graduating the University of North Texas, then settled down and began "real life" since their musical career was in doubt.

When this song began to get radio play, Todd Pipes was eventually fired from his job as an English teacher at a private Christian school because parents complained that their children were being educated by a rock & roller. Disillusioned, they didn't get around to recording a follow-up until 2001, by which time their star had passed them by.

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[Gosh I love this neighborhood]

Would Ninety Nine Tears by Question Mark qualify?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Eating now. Sugar not allowed. Sleep....could you give me a definition? How about you?

[MoJo2001]

You are indeed too sexy!!
It's the shades!! Yep! LOL!
Hmmm...I'll have to check!
*HUGS*

[luvie]

What a great nighttime picture! Hi--welcome back!

[NYTexan]

Dad, this one's for you!

[bannie]

I hope so too, MoJo. I often wonder how much the soldiers get to be here. They are truly heroes!!!!!!

I also appreciate the huge sacrafices all of you "dependents" make for us, too! Sometimes holding down the fort is just as hard--in its own way--as takin' care of the bad guys. It's a good thing women are good at multi-tasking 'cause when Daddy's away, Mamma does ALL of the home stuff.

It takes two great partners to make a military family!

[John Lenin]

A music thread ? I'm here !

[laurenmarlowe]

Evening George Smiley! I'll get your song posted here in a bit! Thanks for your request!

[GoldStarBrother]

Actually they are 2 hit wonders.. The Twilight Zone also scored big..