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’:

[Salamander]

LOVE that song.

Lots of covers of it but my fave is Arthur Brown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2XpTJWhtgY

[llevrok]

We were so poor, we couldn’t afford trash.

[Salamander]

LOL

Ok, you win.

/knows when she’s whipped

:D

[M-cubed]

yes...I stand corrected!

[Auntie Mame]

Sugarloaf also had “Green Eyed Lady”

Ah, you're right. Okay, scratch Sugarloaf.

[Auntie Mame]

OMG. I remember this! Thanks.

[Freestate316]

Hocus Pocus by Focus

[Salamander]

Escalator Of Life - Robert Hazard.

( hope I’m not the only person who remembers that)

[Salamander]

I’m throwing Thomas Dolby in with She Blinded Me With Science because Hyperactive kinda sucked.

[tuffydoodle]

I love Suavecito!

[trebb]

Hurricane Smith - “Oh Babe (What would you say)”

Taco - “Puttin’ on the Ritz”

[Kid Shelleen]

>> Escalator Of Life - Robert Hazard.
( hope I’m not the only person who remembers that)<<


No your not. I saw them and the Hooters many times.

[Fiji Hill]

Puttin' on the Ritz--Leo Reisman (1930)

[trebb]

Thanks - I was aware it as an older song but had never heard that version...

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***West of the Wall—Toni Fisher (1962) ***

I remember that! It was a song in response to the Russians building the Berlin Wall! I could not remember who sang it.

I thought of it but it was so obscure I was not sure anyone would remember it.

Anyone remember this song..LEADER OF THE PACK? and it’s spoof LEADER OF THE LAUNDROMAT.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

“Sukiyaki.” i remember it well! It played for weeks on WLS from Chicago. They offered a translation of the tune so thousands wrote in for the translation.

It was nothing about sukiyaki but some sad love song.
“I walk with my head down, so that the tears don’t fall”

So many wrote in that the next time such a song hit the airwaves the station told people to send in a self addressed AND STAMPED envelope. It cost them a fortune in post office stamps.

[Fiji Hill]

Leader of the Pack--The Shangri-Las (1964)
No, despite their name, the group is from neither Tibet nor Nepal.

Leader of the laundromat--The Detergents (1964)
Believe it or not, this was a Top 20 hit.

While we're on the subject, I'll throw this one in as well.
Laundromat Blues--The Five Royales (1953)

[Fiji Hill]

This version is about eating sukiyaki in Nagasaki--a hit in Europe, but not in the US. The Blue Diamonds also scored with this version.

Sukiyaki--Yvonne Carre (1963)

[fatima]

:)

[xp38]

If you two are going to play Four Yorkshireman at least have the right number. I’ll just sit here and lurk sipping Chateau de Chasselas. :)