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What's Your Favorite One-hit Wonder Song?
various | 4/1/2017 | me

Posted on 04/01/2017 1:33:16 PM PDT by mdittmar

Seems like a boring news day,What's Your Favorite One-hit Wonder Song?


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: music; onehitwonder; onehitwondersong; songs
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To: Hugin

The Amboy Dukes-Ted Nugent’s band!


161 posted on 04/01/2017 2:31:11 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: Artemis Webb
Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died (Live)
162 posted on 04/01/2017 2:31:16 PM PDT by mdittmar
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To: lurked_for_a_decade

I sat with my Father, who was career Army and retired as a Lt. Col. with only an eighth grade education after 24 years of service from 1940 - 1964/65.

He served in the the Pacific in WWII, in Korea from July 1950 through early April 1952, and helped with logistics in the first years of the Vietnam Conflict.

I watched and felt through my hands his life and soul leave his earthly body. Afterwards I sat on the lawn of the hospital with Arlington National Cemetery visible in the distance. I sat and stared at Arlington for hours at 2 AM in the morning and I new we would say our final good bye there in a few weeks.

It was a rough time in American history and I wish things could have been better between us. In retrospect I’m sure its all good now when we meet again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDA0Hecw1k


163 posted on 04/01/2017 2:32:26 PM PDT by lurked_for_a_decade (Imagination is more important than knowledge! ( e_uid == 0 ) != ( e_uid = 0 ). I Read kernel code.)
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To: KosmicKitty

Sad how many FReepers don’t know what a one-hit wonder is. Aha had several hits. Including a theme song for a James Bond movie.

But don’t feel bad. You weren’t alone. Somebody also mentioned Falco and Eric Clapton.

I believe Clapton is in the Rock & Roll hall of fame three times. Hilarious.


164 posted on 04/01/2017 2:33:06 PM PDT by proudpapa (Trump Pence earned it.)
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To: mdittmar

Afroman - Because I Got High
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeYsTmIzjkw


165 posted on 04/01/2017 2:33:06 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Willie Sutton went into robbing banks and Hillary Clinton went into politics)
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To: Fresh Wind

The First Edition-I Just Dropped In (To See What My Condition Was In) w/Kenny Rogers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhTVSatyN90


166 posted on 04/01/2017 2:33:07 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Key Largo by Bertie Higgins

I love that song!!

167 posted on 04/01/2017 2:33:20 PM PDT by Inspectorette
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

good questions about charting.
That’s why I include Frankie Lyman and The Teenagers.
They didn’t do squat after “Why Do Fools Fall in Love”

Here is the Heartbeats - Thousand Miles Away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIqqWC_1bkQ

charted at about 50 something.

The lead singer James Shep Shepard leaves the Heartbeats and starts:
Shep & The Limelites - Daddy’s Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIGla91-qmk

charted 2.

each is a 1 hit wonder though it’s the lead singer that makes these a go.


168 posted on 04/01/2017 2:33:57 PM PDT by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: Fresh Wind

Oops! (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)


169 posted on 04/01/2017 2:34:24 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: LouieFisk

Aw, if I’d read the whole thread I could have saved a lot of time typing! :)


170 posted on 04/01/2017 2:35:12 PM PDT by Buttons12 ( rent this space)
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To: lurked_for_a_decade

Eric Clapton is in the RR Hall of Fame three times. Not exactly the poster child for one hit wonders.


171 posted on 04/01/2017 2:35:22 PM PDT by proudpapa (Trump Pence earned it.)
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To: mdittmar

Fire - Arthur Brown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaHEusBG20c


172 posted on 04/01/2017 2:36:05 PM PDT by llevrok (A group of baboons is called a "congress." Just sayin' .....)
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To: proudpapa

There isn’t, afaik, an ironclad definition of a one hit wonder. I looked at a couple of prominent lists, and A-Ha/Take on Me was cited.

Here’s one:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/rolling-stone-readers-pick-the-top-10-one-hit-wonders-of-all-time-20110504/1-a-ha-take-on-me-0573531


173 posted on 04/01/2017 2:37:14 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: mdittmar

The Romantics-That’s What I Like About You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqnw5IfbZOU


174 posted on 04/01/2017 2:37:35 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: mdittmar

WILD thang! It came out in one of my favorite summers as a teen.


175 posted on 04/01/2017 2:37:37 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative
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To: Fresh Wind

Did you check out the video of the very young, mod, Ted?


176 posted on 04/01/2017 2:37:40 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
You Light Up My Life by Debby Boone.

Gack! How about "These Boots Are Made for Walkin' by Nancy Sinatra...

If these two hadn't had famous fathers, neither one would've gotten even ONE hit.

177 posted on 04/01/2017 2:37:47 PM PDT by Inspectorette
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To: mdittmar

But if I have to give a true one hit wonder from my youth that always brought a smile to my face it would be Mongo Jerry and Summer Time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUQcnfwUUM


178 posted on 04/01/2017 2:38:46 PM PDT by lurked_for_a_decade (Imagination is more important than knowledge! ( e_uid == 0 ) != ( e_uid = 0 ). I Read kernel code.)
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To: tx_eggman

I saw them in concert in a small venue. Those were the days!


179 posted on 04/01/2017 2:39:19 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative
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To: lone star annie

Here’s the video (Men without Hats - NOT Rick Astley):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjPau5QYtYs


180 posted on 04/01/2017 2:40:23 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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