National One-Hit Wonder Day: Favorite long-lost hits(Friday Fun!)

ABC4 News(Utah) ^ | 09/25/2020 | Lindsey Peterson

[Kid Shelleen]

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (ABC4 News) – Sept. 25 is National One-Hit Wonder Day! A day where we can celebrate those songs that topped the charts but then their performers faded away from the music scene. What are some of your favorite one-hit wonders? Let us know on our social media pages! Below are some of the ABC4 staff’s favorite ‘one-hit wonders’:

[HChampagne]

Walking On Sunshine. (Katrina......)

[Chode]

Baby it's you. Smith

[lee martell]

That’s a new one to me. Never heard those lyrics before.

[Impala64ssa]

She's not just another woman The 8th Day

[kevao]

I always think of that song when we have iguana on the barbie.

[Fiji Hill]

This tune, inspired by a wall that was in the news at the time, got a lot of airplay over KWIZ, my favorite radio station in the late sixties.

West of the Wall--Toni Fisher (1962)

[LurkedLongEnough]

Ah Leah by Donnie Iris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ruhYeFe0TI

[lee martell]

Moonlight feels right, is famous to me as being one of very few pop songs to use the Xylophone.

[newfreep]

I was a 19 y/o kid when I moved from Ohio to Hollywood in ‘68 - just before Charles Manson was doing his satanic acts just a few minutes from my front door.

Many trips to Tijuana and, as I recall, the road became dirt when you crossed over the line into Mexico.

That said, I’ve never had iguana - BBQ or otherwise.

[Fiji Hill]

Abergavenny - Shannon

That got so much airplay over KEZY in the summer of 1969 that I thought it was a big hit. It may have been locally, but not nationally. I along with many others thought he was singing "Africa Benny."

[Fiji Hill]

Keep On Dancing--The Avantis (1963)

[TheMom]

All Right Now - Free

[Chode]

D.O.A.

[lee martell]

“As I lay me down” by Sophie Hawkins,
aka “Who Likes Tacos?”

[kevao]

Did you comprende those DJs in Tijuana, or was it a riddle?

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Though Cheech & Chong had many many great comedy skits, I believe they only had 2 actual songs with airtime: Basketball Jones, and Born in East LA. So .... 2-hit wonders?

Walkin' My Cat Named Dog - Norma Tanega.

In a Gadda Da Vida - Iron Butterfly.

Alone Again - Gilbert O. Sullivan

Category of "Eew! Gross!" gory 1-hit wonders ---

Timothy - The Buoys. (Cannibalism. Great tune though.)

D O A - Bloodrock. (Aftermath of fatal car crash. No redeeming traits; lousy tune; shock value only.)

[Fiji Hill]

The Playmates had some other hits, but they've been forgotten.

Jo-Ann (1958)

What Is Love? (1959)

Wait for Me (1960)

[kevao]

Lunatic Fringe - Red Rider

[Impala64ssa]

Louie Louie The Kingsmen. Must be hundreds of covers of this song, but the Kingsmen's version was a YYYYUUUUGGE hit and actually a subject of an FCC investigation, some people misheard the jumbled up lyrics as being obscene. The song is about a homesick Jamaican sailor.

[newfreep]

LOL! Good one.

Tijuana, in those days, was OK to visit during the day...but NEVER at night. My wife and I always skedaddled back home to Hollywood while it was still light.