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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: mdittmar
Brandy
41 posted on 04/01/2017 1:46:14 PM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: Pearls Before Swine
Did Francis Scott Key ever write anything of note besides the “Star Spangled Banner?”

Francis Scott Key was not a composer. He was a lawyer and amateur poet.

The tune used for his poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry" describing the attack on Fort McHenry was a popular British song written by John Stafford Smith. It was popular in the States at the time also.

I don't know who it was who put the two together, though.

42 posted on 04/01/2017 1:46:21 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Good judgement comes from experience. And experience? Well, that comes from poor judgement.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

But you should count “Hold On”...


43 posted on 04/01/2017 1:46:23 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: mdittmar

Fly to The Angels by Slaughter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukmobha2krY


44 posted on 04/01/2017 1:46:43 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: mdittmar

Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me - Mel Carter

Afternoon Delight - Starlight Vocal Band.

and most of the doo-wop groups of the 50’s-60’s


45 posted on 04/01/2017 1:47:21 PM PDT by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: mdittmar

Brandy by the Looking Glass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-tRXewCAmU


46 posted on 04/01/2017 1:47:55 PM PDT by Texicanus (GOD bless Texas and the USA)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts; chajin

Thanks guys. You can learn something new here, most every day.


47 posted on 04/01/2017 1:48:11 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Dacula

Good call on Minnie. Reminds of Maria Muldaur....Midnight at the Oasis.


48 posted on 04/01/2017 1:48:28 PM PDT by chiller (One from the Right - One for the Fight)
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To: mdittmar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPMLG8mnCRM


49 posted on 04/01/2017 1:48:35 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: Jeff Chandler

(Captain Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters.)


50 posted on 04/01/2017 1:49:25 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: mdittmar

“You’re Gonna Miss Me”
13th Floor Elevator
A lot of pop fluff on this thread so far.


51 posted on 04/01/2017 1:49:40 PM PDT by Hiro Protaginast
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To: Pearls Before Swine

[Did Francis Scott Key ever write anything of note besides the “Star Spangled Banner?”]

He actually wrote two lyrics to the same melody.

At dawn, Key was able to see an American flag still waving. Back in Baltimore and inspired, Key wrote a poem about his experience, “Defence of Fort M’Henry”, which was soon published in William Pechin’s American and Commercial Daily Advertiser on September 21, 1814. He took it to Thomas Carr, a music publisher, who adapted it to the rhythms of composer John Stafford Smith’s “To Anacreon in Heaven”, a popular tune Key had already used as a setting for his 1805 song “When the Warrior Returns”, celebrating U.S. heroes of the First Barbary War. (Key used the “star-spangled” flag imagery in the earlier song.) It has become better known as “The Star-Spangled Banner”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key


52 posted on 04/01/2017 1:50:42 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: mdittmar

The Rapper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fYV3dJp-k4


53 posted on 04/01/2017 1:50:53 PM PDT by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: Ken522
Turn Turn Turn by the Byrds ...

The Byrds also charted a #1 hit with ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’. So, Turn, etc. didn't make the Byrds a one hit wonder.

54 posted on 04/01/2017 1:51:11 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Good judgement comes from experience. And experience? Well, that comes from poor judgement.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

This one was really popular in the late 80’s, but NOT as popular as during the early Internet days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ


55 posted on 04/01/2017 1:51:24 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: tx_eggman

I once went on a date with Question Mark’s sister Exclamation Point.

We didn’t have any fun, though, because she was on her Period.

An oldie but a goodie......


56 posted on 04/01/2017 1:51:27 PM PDT by day10 (You'll get nothing and like it!)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Post #49 before that came up?


57 posted on 04/01/2017 1:51:59 PM PDT by gubamyster
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To: mdittmar

Seems like a lot of people don’t understand what a one hit wonder is!


58 posted on 04/01/2017 1:52:21 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: stylin19a

arg....

Mel Carter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=591RBZHgrI4

Frankie Lyman & The Teenagers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q96ylFiQK_I

Starlight Vocal Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz1ex78QeQI

Don & Juan - “What’s Your Name”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrZf3vRHmkw


59 posted on 04/01/2017 1:52:25 PM PDT by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: mdittmar

Looking at comments so far, I would never describe Wall of Voodoo, Procul Harum, or the Byrds as “One-hit wonder” bands.

Not sure about Yellow Submarine, who wrote that one? /s

By the way, does anyone know who came up with the term “One-hit wonder”? Did that person come up with any other memorable phrases?


60 posted on 04/01/2017 1:52:30 PM PDT by PlateOfShrimp
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