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30 Best One-Hit Wonders of the ’70s (Favorite Picks)
Midder ^ | 5/30/23 | Will Fenton

Posted on 11/27/2023 10:55:30 AM PST by DallasBiff

20. “(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden” by Lynn Anderson

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KEYWORDS: 70s; onehitwonders
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To: Albion Wilde

Loved that song. “Those cats were fast as lighting. In fact it was a little bit frightening, those dudes with that expert timing.” Aw yes, the ‘70s.


61 posted on 11/27/2023 11:55:24 AM PST by kawhill (kawhill)
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To: DallasBiff

The Equals “Funky Like A Train”.


62 posted on 11/27/2023 11:56:35 AM PST by cweese (Hook 'em Horns!!!)
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To: Red Badger

[“Hooked on a Feeling” by Blue Swede was pure garbage.]

That’s one of my favorite songs. Gotta have them “Ooga chakas.”


63 posted on 11/27/2023 11:56:47 AM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: Red Badger

I bought BJ Thomas greatest hits album at a thrift store once. I was a lot younger and less wise and didn’t know the Blue Swede version existed.

I put the album on the turntable and listened, wondering where the unkachakas went. Thus began my quest for the other version of the song.


64 posted on 11/27/2023 11:57:00 AM PST by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: DallasBiff
"Video Killed the Radio Star" is a song written by Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes and Bruce Woolley in 1979. It was recorded concurrently by Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club (with Thomas Dolby on keyboards) for their album English Garden and by British new wave/synth-pop group the Buggles, which consisted of Horn and Downes (and initially Woolley).

Bruce Woolley - Video Killed The Radio Star

65 posted on 11/27/2023 11:57:24 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: dragnet2

I still listen to that song. As relevant now as when it was written in 1965, I believe.


66 posted on 11/27/2023 11:58:32 AM PST by kawhill (kawhill)
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To: Robert DeLong

Then Horn and Downes joined “Yes” for the Drama album. Which is actually quite good.


67 posted on 11/27/2023 11:58:37 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Steve_Seattle
I don’t consider performers like Randy Newman and Charlie Pride to be “one hit wonders.”

I went to a Randy Newman concert at the Philadelphia Academy of Music sometime in the 70s. Mainly him and a grand piano onstage. I very much enjoyed a lot of his hits—"Short People", "Sail Away", "Mama Told Me Not to Come," "You Can Leave Your Hat On."

When he started to sing "I Think It's Going to Rain Today," he suddenly looked stricken, got up from the piano and went backstage. Somebody in the audience said he had just lost a friend, another rocker had died—wish I could remember who. It was a touching moment. He came back after a few minutes and finished the song (audience sang along with the chorus) and the rest of the concert.

68 posted on 11/27/2023 12:00:10 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: cyclotic

I can. It was one of my teenage years songs, 1968, IIRC, and reminds me of my first girlfriend in HS...................


69 posted on 11/27/2023 12:01:37 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: cweese
The Equals “Funky Like A Train”.

Eddy Grant's former band.
70 posted on 11/27/2023 12:02:06 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

My 70s 1-hit wonders are:

“Yellow River” by Christie (a lot of the players on the record were from the Tremoloes). That song is a real toe-tapper.

“Late December” by Gypsy — a Minneapolis band w/ superb sound but lousy marketing. My favorite rock group of them all.


71 posted on 11/27/2023 12:03:21 PM PST by Migraine
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To: waterhill

He’s in the Rock & Roll Hall of fame.
Maybe he only had one really big hit of his own, but I bet he performed on many others.


72 posted on 11/27/2023 12:03:28 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: Albion Wilde

I like “Rednecks”, because what most people don’t realize when they hear it, is that it’s not the South he’s putting down.


73 posted on 11/27/2023 12:03:35 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Steely Tom

Great tune.


74 posted on 11/27/2023 12:04:36 PM PST by Fungi
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To: DallasBiff

75 posted on 11/27/2023 12:04:52 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: dfwgator

Ooh interesting! I had no idea (but I love that song!).


76 posted on 11/27/2023 12:06:27 PM PST by cweese (Hook 'em Horns!!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Exactly. The Buggles were truly a one hit wonder. But Ted Nugent?


77 posted on 11/27/2023 12:06:34 PM PST by RoadieFan
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To: woweeitsme

Bands in the 70’ could sing. Bands today auto-tune.


78 posted on 11/27/2023 12:07:26 PM PST by RoadieFan
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To: Responsibility2nd

For one, Charley Pride had many songs that hit the top 10 & he won a few Grammys as well.


79 posted on 11/27/2023 12:07:43 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: DallasBiff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_one-hit_wonders_in_the_United_States


80 posted on 11/27/2023 12:08:39 PM PST by coalminersson (since )
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