What's Your Favorite One-hit Wonder Song?

various | 4/1/2017 | me

[mdittmar]

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

[ronniesgal]

yay for Spirit in the Sky!!!!

[eyedigress]

Golden Earring is NOT a one hit wonder.

Yes, that song rocks!

[Zeneta]

That,

or?

Chumbawamba - Tubthumping

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5uWRjFsGc

[John Milner]

I have it on a completely different label.

I think the original (actually THEM cover) of Gloria was on Dunwich. Shake was later and on some other obscure label. But I can’t remember what it was off the top of my head.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

The Knack’s second biggest hit didn’t happen until 1991.

The Knack - Rocket O’Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pir69Od-y0s

[Big Red Badger]

Name another song by
Wall of Voodoo??
ProcoharHaram....whatever...

Sheesh ...have fun with it.

[snooter55]

BKM - Need a better version of “Radar Love” .

[mdittmar]

American Graffiti fan;)

AMERICAN GRAFFITI-OPENING SEQUENCE

[yetidog]

Key Largo by Bernie somebody who tried it again withe a sound-alike Casablanca. Fail.

[hoagy62]

I think the only reason why Ms.Ripperton didn’t have any other hits is that she died of cancer not that long after “Loving You” became a hit.

[John Milner]

Been going off memory here.

But did decide to look that one up. Was a big hit (#2) in the UK but only hit 29 in the US. I just did remember it as a followup to True.

[nomorelurker]

Here we go Brandy, Walking on Sunshine, 99 Red Balloons. For Katrina or who ever has rights to Walking on Sunshine it has been worth a lot having been used in several movies and lots of commercials. Honorable mention to Eileen.

[LouieFisk]

“Nancy also scored with Sugar Town.
And Jackson with Lee Hazelwood”
==
Yup & “Some Velvet Morning” which is still a pretty great tune.

[heterosupremacist]

JonPreston wrote:

A Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum

I’m with it - can you dig it?

[Zeneta]

Cannonball - The Breeders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpoqzt2EHaA

[Fiji Hill]

Perhaps the strangest hit in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 was Dominique by Soeur Sourire (Sister Smile). Incredibly, in December, 1963, this French-language ballad of Domingo Félix de Guzmán, a thirteenth-century Spanish evangelist, diplomat, crusader and persecutor of heretics shot past all the rock and roll songs, dance tunes and surfer anthems of the day to park itself at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, where it stayed for four weeks.

[TIElniff]

From Francis Scott Key in 1817:

Lord, with glowing heart I’d praise thee
For the bliss thy love bestows,
For the pard’ning grace that saves me,
And the peace that from it flows.
Help, O God, my weak endeavor,
This dull soul to rapture raise:
Thou must light flame, or never
Can my love be warmed to praise.

Tune: Ripley. Arranged by Lowell Mason, 1839.

[windcliff]

Ping

[LouieFisk]

“I have it on a completely diffrent label.
I think the original (actually THEM cover) of Gloria was on Dunwich. Shake was later and on some other obscure label. But I can’t remember what it was off the top of my head.”
==
Yeah, record companies often switched the B-sides. Them w/Van Morrison version didn’t get any airplay in my area. The Shadows of Knight version of “Gloria” was a big national hit.

[Zeneta]

Never Say Never

Romeo Void

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x0fPZrPV3M