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?
That’s the ringtone I have for my sister’s calls. Always liked it.
It’s obcure:
‘this term doesn’t appear in print until surprisingly late. The earliest I can find is from the Winnipeg Free Press, in July 1977, in a piece about Abba:
“Instead of becoming what everyone expected [after winning the Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo], a one-hit wonder, they soon had a string of hits behind them.”
The use of the phrase there suggests that it was already known. It would certainly be ironic if the first use ‘one-hit wonder’ was in an article about Abba - one of the most successful groups in pop history.
There were many one-hit wonders in the 1950s and 1960s, although whether they were called that at the time seems in doubt.
The phrase was used long before 1977 in another context. In baseball a one-hit wonder is a pitcher who restricts the opposing team to a single base-hit by virtue of outstanding pitching. This goes back to at least 1914, as here from the New York newspaper The Middletown Daily Times-Press, July 1914 - in a piece entitled One-hit wonder fails to hold locals down:
“The Middies trimmed Newburgh by a score of 6 to 1, although Newburgh were aided and abetted by ‘Let-er-go’ Gallagher, their one hit pitcher.”
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/one-hit-wonder.html
In the Garden of Eden
Clapton a one hit wonder - no way!
How Do You Do? by Mouth and MacNeal
Shadows of Knight also had a hit with “Oh Yeah”
And “Shake” just missed the top 40.
And I welcome that pu**y lead singer to try to kick my ass, as he says in the song.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
“I Was Kaiser Bill’s Batman” by Whistling Jack Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQQ5sEOhbjQ
“Winchester Cathedral” by The New Vaudeville Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnVYa2svIQQ
I never heard of Gold. Here’s where I got the Spandau Ballet one hit wonder idea (it’s #48 on VH1’s 100 greatest one hit wonders):
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/fierystage/vh1s_100_greatest_one_hit_wonders/3/
Hey, Boo Boo!
I saw a kook who was standing on his head.
He flipped his lid like he should have been in bed.
I said, "what gives, man?"
He looked at me and said:
"I'm a yogi. I'm a yogi, baby.
I'm a yogi. I'm a yogi, baby."
Hey, Boo Boo!
And then the cat started strutting on hot coals
He was wearing sneaks, but they were so full of holes.
He sang out from the bottom of his soles:
"I'm a yogi. I'm a yogi, baby.
I'm a yogi. I'm a yogi, baby."
Hey, Boo Boo!
"Listen here, baby" the yogi man said,
"It's all a matter of the mind.
Just commune with your innermost being,
And baby, you'll be just fine."
He was hip all right, wasn't he?
So I tried my best to dig my inner me
I walked on coals, my head below my knee.
Until I heard me say perfectly,
I'm a yogi. I'm a yogi, baby."
Hey, Boo Boo!
Romantics - What I Like About You was actually barely a hit.
They did much better with a later single Talking In Your Sleep which was definitely top 10.
People just remember What I Like About You because it’s been in approximately 2,453 commercials!
“And “Shake” just missed the top 40.”
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On the 45 I had of it, it was the B-side of “Gloria”.
Nancy also scored with Sugar Town.
And Jackson with Lee Hazelwood
J Geils Band also had hits with Freeze Frame and Love Stinks
Joe Jackson’s Big first hit was, Is She Really Going Out With Him.
My next is;
“Dead Mans Party”
Oingo Boingo
Darn near anything by Si Zentner & His Orchestra.
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