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?
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.
But you should count “Hold On”...
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
Brandy by the Looking Glass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-tRXewCAmU
Thanks guys. You can learn something new here, most every day.
Good call on Minnie. Reminds of Maria Muldaur....Midnight at the Oasis.
(Captain Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters.)
“You’re Gonna Miss Me”
13th Floor Elevator
A lot of pop fluff on this thread so far.
[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
The Byrds also charted a #1 hit with ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’. So, Turn, etc. didn't make the Byrds a one hit wonder.
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
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......
Post #49 before that came up?
Seems like a lot of people don’t understand what a one hit wonder is!
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
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?
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