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Blast from the Past: What's your favorite "One-Hit Wonder" song/artist?
one man's opinion...
Posted on 01/19/2014 6:15:37 AM PST by ken5050
I was clicking through some links on Wikipedia last night, and stumbled across the "List of One-hit Wonders" in the United States." Amazingly, they have separate, detailed individual lists for each decade ( I've posted the links below..)I was astonished at how many there were, how many I'd liked, and many I'd pretty much forgotten; and I spent several hours on YouTube, reminiscing, and then downloading some of the tunes. So, enjoy.. if you have a favorite, opine below...
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To: ken5050
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posted on
01/19/2014 9:14:59 AM PST
by
OldPossum
("It's" is the contraction of "it" and "is"; think about ITS implications.)
To: ken5050
The Flamin' Groovies - "Shake Some Action"
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posted on
01/19/2014 9:17:44 AM PST
by
Mase
(Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
To: NEWwoman
Back in my college days in Iowa City, I remember a pin that said, “Agnew President in The Year 2525.”
To: All
Big Country - In a Big Country....
They did have great success overseas even in Russia (they were quite liberal). The UK gave them lots of chart success as well..I loved their first 4 albums/mini albums, but their second "full" album was my favorite though it never charted a song in the US
Big Country - In a Big Country
Big Country - Steeltown Album
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posted on
01/19/2014 9:28:48 AM PST
by
LowOiL
("Abomination" sure sounds like "ObamaNation" to me.)
To: JoeProBono
165
posted on
01/19/2014 10:03:32 AM PST
by
shove_it
(long ago Orwell and Rand warned us of ObamaÂ’s America)
To: LS
I liked the whole movie and soundtrack as well. One of Hanks best. I’d say every kid who had a garage band in the 60’s (including myself)enjoyed that film.
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posted on
01/19/2014 10:07:41 AM PST
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: ken5050
Walk on the Wild Side by Lou Reed
1992
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posted on
01/19/2014 11:01:12 AM PST
by
SeaDragon
("Life is tough ..... It's even tougher if you're stupid." - John Wayne)
To: rjsimmon
The list is based on artists who reached the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, which is Billboard's national pop music chart.
Billboard has a myriad of different lists, including R&B, country, and rock.
As in your example, Emmylou Harris has many, many hit songs; however, they were hits on the Billboard Country chart and (with the one exception) not the pop chart.
So she's a 'One Hit Wonder" according to the criteria on which this list is based, as are many country singers with multiple Top 40 Country hits but only one Top 40 pop song.
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posted on
01/19/2014 11:44:32 AM PST
by
Scoutmaster
(I'd rather be at Philmont)
To: spankalib
Red Rubber Ball doesn’t qualify as a one-hit wonder. The Cyrkle also had Top 40 hit with Turn Down Day in 1966, the same year that Red Rubber Ball hit the Top 40.
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posted on
01/19/2014 11:49:22 AM PST
by
Scoutmaster
(I'd rather be at Philmont)
To: Fresh Wind
Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) doesn't qualify as a one-hit wonder according to the criteria of having only one Top 40 Song on the Billboard Hot 100 pop list.
In 1968, The First Edition also hit #19 on the Top 40 with But You Know I Love You.
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posted on
01/19/2014 11:54:14 AM PST
by
Scoutmaster
(I'd rather be at Philmont)
To: golux
Kim Carnes and Bette Davis Eyes wouldn't qualify as a One Hit Wonder according to the criteria of this list - only one Top 40 hit on Billboards Hot 100 pop chart.
Carnes hit the Top 40 with her solo hits in 1980 with More Love (Billboard Pop #10).
She followed Bette Davis Eyes with I Pretend (# 9), "What About Me?" (#1), and "Crazy in Love" (# 10), all of which were solo hits.
She also hit the Top 40 with duets such as You're A Part of Me (#36) with Gene Cotton and Make No Mistake, He's Mine with Barbra Streisand (#9).
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posted on
01/19/2014 12:07:07 PM PST
by
Scoutmaster
(I'd rather be at Philmont)
To: Artie
Wooly Bully by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs is not a one-hit wonder according to the criteria of this list. The group also broke the Billboard Top 40 on the Hot 100 pop chart with Juju Hand (#9), L’il Red Riding Hood (#2), The Hair On My Chinny Chin Chin (#22), and How Do You Catch A Girl (#27).
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posted on
01/19/2014 12:13:37 PM PST
by
Scoutmaster
(I'd rather be at Philmont)
To: Scoutmaster
No, I’m not going through and disputing all non-One Hit Wonders. As I skim the posts, I notice nominations for groups that I know also had additional Top 40 hits.
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posted on
01/19/2014 12:16:24 PM PST
by
Scoutmaster
(I'd rather be at Philmont)
To: ken5050; a fool in paradise
The problem with One Hit Wonders is that after the corporatification of the music business in the late 1960s, we have been fed by the Geffens and other Davises what should have been one hit wonders, as Great Artists For All Ages instead. Take for example Jackson Browne or Neil Young, the latter one I’m not even sure if he’s had one hit. There have been many others.
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posted on
01/19/2014 12:24:34 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious! We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone!)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Back in my college days in Iowa City, I remember a pin that said, Agnew President in The Year 2525. Ever see Futurama? Agnew is still vice president in 3000. (But he doesn't have his head.)
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posted on
01/19/2014 1:57:36 PM PST
by
NEWwoman
(God Bless America)
To: ken5050
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posted on
01/19/2014 1:58:33 PM PST
by
Cheerio
(Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
To: DoodleDawg
I believe the title is “Reflections of my life”. A beautiful song for sure.
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posted on
01/19/2014 1:59:14 PM PST
by
Boiler Plate
("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
To: DoodleDawg
Questions Of My Life by the Marmalades.
That’s “Reflections of my Life” by the Marmalades.
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posted on
01/19/2014 2:19:01 PM PST
by
ckilmer
To: ken5050
Thanks for posting this list of one-hit wonders. I will be referring back to them.
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posted on
01/19/2014 2:21:06 PM PST
by
matthew fuller
(Our enemy list- http://www.nraila.org/news-issues/fact-sheets/2004/anti-gun-lobbying-organizations..)
To: trebb
Puttin’ on the Ritz was TACO’s only hit in the US and that was 1983.
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posted on
01/19/2014 2:50:48 PM PST
by
mdmathis6
(American Christians can help America best by remembering that we are Heaven's citizens first!)
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