Posted on 02/05/2024 2:22:36 PM PST by DallasBiff
Your nomination is a very interesting one hit wonder.
It would be interesting to re-do that song in view of all the changes in the world since 1969 that despite the good things, continue to make the future look bleak.
“ You’ve got Tony Burrows on this list three times with three different groups.”
Yeah.
Pretty amazing.
In a way these weren’t one hit wonder songs.
Great nomination, I like that song.
“Good Girls Don’t” only reached 11th on the charts. The Knack didn’t break the top 10 again until 1991 with this,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgm2J0ZEb_U
My sister played that album a lot.
A whole lot.
I have the audio but I have no way to share it.
I cannot find it up on the web at this time.
The song was at #49 but someone pulled a fast one and put it in at #39 that one week.
It was never caught before it was shipped and aired in most markets.
“I see Hooked On A Feeling ... no way to tell if it’s the original BJ Thomas one or the dorky Blue Suede one.”
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And let’s not forget David Hasselhoff’s most amazing video of that song. 😂
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PJQVlVHsFF8
I hadn’t heard “Take Off” for decades. I had thought that the singer “Geddy Lee” was a woman. I also thought that about the singer of #1 hit “Laughter in the Rain” until I found out “she” was Neil Sedaka.
And EVERYBODY thought that 1960s One Hit Wonder “The Castaways” (Liar, Liar) had a female singer in there.
“Wrecking Crew”
Great documentary. I learned a lot about the music I enjoyed growing up.
Diesel - Sausolito Summer Nights
“The Monkees”
Way underrated. Off now to listen to Day Dream Believer and more.
"Woke Up In Love This Morning", "Doesn't Somebody Want To Be Wanted", and "I'll Meet You Halfway" were all smashes in their own right. Of course, studio musicians recorded these over David and Shirley's voices as the kids pretty much couldn't play a note on their instruments.
One of my favorite "one hit wonders" is this one here:
How Do You Do? - Mouth & McNeal (1972)
This was such a happy and innocent song to hear on the radio back in 1972, before we all got a lot more cynical about things.
BUMP. That song kills. The guitar riff is perfect and doesn't even sound like it's coming from a guitar.
“The Night Chicago Died” describes a battle on the East Side of Chicago in which a group of gangsters led by Al Capone staged an insurrection that killed about 100 police. I once drove through Chicago’s East Side, unaware that I was driving through a battlefield.
From 1966--it got lots of airplay in the late summer of that year on Boss Radio 93 KHJ.
‘98.6” by Keith was a hit at the end of 1966. It is said that Keith was drafted into the military shortly afterwards, which ended his career.
I am remiss for not reading further. My definition of “one-hit-wonder” is someone you never hear from again. For me, because I always listened to entire albums looking for new music, there weren’t as many people that I never heard from again. It would have had to be someone I wasn’t interested in...
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