What's Your Favorite One-hit Wonder Song?

American Pie.....Don McLean

Is McLean a one-hit wonder? I thought he had other songs that charted pretty high off the American Pie album. He was still recording in the '80s, IIRC.

101 posted on 04/01/2017 2:07:14 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)

Thanks for the tunes during a coffee break. FR has excellent taste.

Phil Specter made one song that everyone else just copies.
https://youtu.be/2g_FD_sYazk

“Woh oh oh oh.” That cry crushed every boy.

102 posted on 04/01/2017 2:07:41 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))

The Sundays - “Here’s Where The Story Ends”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq9x-ff0fXs

103 posted on 04/01/2017 2:08:01 PM PDT by sevlex

104 posted on 04/01/2017 2:08:08 PM PDT by EveningStar

To: lone star annie

How could Eileen not be on the first page?

105 posted on 04/01/2017 2:08:12 PM PDT by eclecticEel ("The petty man forsakes what lies within his power and longs for what lies with Heaven." - Xunzi)

Thanks for the tunes during a coffee break. FR has excellent taste.

Phil Specter made one song that everyone else just copies.
https://youtu.be/2g_FD_sYazk

“Woh oh oh oh.” That cry crushed every boy.

106 posted on 04/01/2017 2:08:14 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))

To: dainbramaged

Golden Earring - Radar Love LIVE 1973

Gonna get that El Camino I want and play this song!

107 posted on 04/01/2017 2:08:32 PM PDT by mdittmar

Safety Dance by Men Without Hats

108 posted on 04/01/2017 2:08:55 PM PDT by lone star annie

Minnie flamed out early, but that woman could hit the notes.

RIP Minnie!

109 posted on 04/01/2017 2:09:06 PM PDT by Dacula (President and CEO at Being Awesome)

110 posted on 04/01/2017 2:09:24 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time.)

111 posted on 04/01/2017 2:09:25 PM PDT by Emergencyawesome

Eric Clapton had many hits but for me this song became his ultimate hit and my “one hit wonder” after my father passed away in my arms on June 20th, 1998. It touches me deeply.
My Father was 83 years old and my rock. It changed me forever!
OOh Rah! Dad. Dignity! Reverence! Respct! Old Guard!

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

112 posted on 04/01/2017 2:10:36 PM PDT by lurked_for_a_decade (Imagination is more important than knowledge! ( e_uid == 0 ) != ( e_uid = 0 ). I Read kernel code.)

To: Charles Martel

Outside of Vincent, which did ok, I can’t think of any hit McLean had off of that album, or any other for that matter.

113 posted on 04/01/2017 2:11:02 PM PDT by LongWayHome

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"Purple People Eater"

Well I saw the thing comin' out of the sky
It had the one long horn, one big eye
I commenced to shakin' and I said "ooh-eee"
It looks like a purple eater to me

It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater
(One-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater)
A one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater
Sure looks strange to me (One eye?)

Well he came down to earth and he lit in a tree
I said Mr. Purple People Eater, don't eat me
I heard him say in a voice so gruff
I wouldn't eat you cuz you're so tough

It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater
One-eyed, one-horned flyin' purple people eater
One-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater
Sure looks strange to me (One horn?)

I said Mr. Purple People Eater, what's your line
He said it's eatin' purple people and it sure is fine
But that's not the reason that I came to land
I wanna get a job in a rock and roll band

Well bless my soul, rock and roll, flyin' purple people eater
Pigeon-toed, undergrowed, flyin' purple people eater
(We wear short shorts)
Flyin' purple people eater
Sure looks strange to me

And then he swung from the tree and he lit on the ground
He started to rock, really rockin' around
It was a crazy ditty with a swingin' tune
Sing a boop boop aboopa lopa lum bam boom

Well bless my soul, rock and roll, flyin' purple people eater
Pigeon-toed, undergrowed, flyin' purple people eater
I like short shorts
Flyin' little people eater
Sure looks strange to me (Purple People?)

And then he went on his way, and then what do ya know
I saw him last night on a TV show
He was blowing it out, a'really knockin' em dead
Playin' rock and roll music through the horn in his head

Tequila!

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"The Purple People Eater" is a novelty song written and performed by Sheb Wooley, which reached no. 1 in the Billboard pop charts in 1958 from June 9 to July 14, reached no. 12 overall in the UK singles chart and topped the Australian charts. A couple of weeks before my first son was born--haven't forgotten it.

(Still a hit with kids)

114 posted on 04/01/2017 2:11:23 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)

If You’re Going to San Francisco - Scott McKenzie
Ode to Billy Joe - Bobbie Gentry
Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road - Lloyd Wainwright III

115 posted on 04/01/2017 2:11:58 PM PDT by murron

Georgia Satellites - “Keep your hands to yourself”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMFMf9cN64U

116 posted on 04/01/2017 2:11:59 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg)

“Yellow Balloon” by The Yellow Balloon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAWOfrSJW1w

“Red Rubber Ball” by The Cyrkle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emx6dU7suvg

117 posted on 04/01/2017 2:12:24 PM PDT by LouieFisk

Me and Mrs. Jones by Billy Paul

118 posted on 04/01/2017 2:13:03 PM PDT by jonsie

119 posted on 04/01/2017 2:13:55 PM PDT by RockyTx

Outside of Vincent, which did ok, I can’t think of any hit McLean had off of that album, or any other for that matter.

"Crying" went pretty high on the charts. That was a few years after American Pie.

120 posted on 04/01/2017 2:14:55 PM PDT by Wissa (I took a little stroll to the Red Dog Saloon.)

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