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30 Best One-Hit Wonders of the ’70s (Favorite Picks)
Midder ^ | 5/30/23 | Will Fenton

Posted on 11/27/2023 10:55:30 AM PST by DallasBiff

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To: cweese

I think Eddy had already left by then.


81 posted on 11/27/2023 12:09:02 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Albion Wilde

The struggle is real.


82 posted on 11/27/2023 12:09:41 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Yes; another great song. He comes from quite a family, according to Wikipedia. His father was a doctor, but three Newman uncles were Hollywood film-score composers (Alfred, Lionel, and Emil); and four Newman cousins (Thomas, Maria, David, and Joey) also compose music for movies.


83 posted on 11/27/2023 12:11:08 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde

Especially after a couple of glasses of wine and some blonde Lebanese hash? That was a long time ago.


84 posted on 11/27/2023 12:12:02 PM PST by kawhill (kawhill)
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To: CletusVanDamme
Driver's Seat by Sniff 'n' The Tears still sounds fresh today.

I do have the entire "Fickle Heart" album from that year (1979) which this cut was pulled from. While this band was lumped into the "new wave" category, it was really more of a straight up pub rock band.

That album also had some unique album art, painted by lead singer Paul Roberts, in which a women in high heels points a gun at a cat arching its back with the body of an apparent lover lying on the floor.


85 posted on 11/27/2023 12:12:59 PM PST by SamAdams76 (6,390,901 Truth | 86,874,940 Twitter)
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To: DallasBiff
My favorite one-hit wonder from the Seventies is Whispering by Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band (1976). This counts as a one-hit wonder according to the article's criteria because the band s only other released only reached #80 on the Hot Hundred.

Nonetheless, it's a far, far cry from Paul Whiteman's original version of Whispering, a hit late in the year 1920.

86 posted on 11/27/2023 12:13:49 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: SamAdams76

it was really more of a straight up pub rock band.

I’ve really gotten into “Dr. Feelgood”, they were the ultimate British Pub Rock band. Nobody played the guitar like Wilko.


87 posted on 11/27/2023 12:16:20 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Both “Turn Down Day” and “Red Rubber Ball” were fixtures on KHJ’s playlist in the late summer of ‘66.


88 posted on 11/27/2023 12:17:06 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

Having the KHJ sound checks now online is a godsend, I go to sleep with it playing, and it takes me back to my childhood.


89 posted on 11/27/2023 12:18:34 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: kawhill

Speak for yourself on that part. Lying on the sofa in my boyfriend’s arms and just listening was enough for me.


90 posted on 11/27/2023 12:20:36 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: RoadieFan
Bands in the 70’ could sing. Bands today auto-tune.

Is this why the word was “singer” decades ago but now it’s “artist”?

91 posted on 11/27/2023 12:21:00 PM PST by Freee-dame
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To: waterhill
Elvin Bishop is a beast. Wrote a lot of songs.

"Fooled Around and Fell in Love" is a song written and performed by blues guitarist Elvin Bishop with future "Jefferson Starship" vocalist Mickey Thomas on lead vocals.

92 posted on 11/27/2023 12:22:11 PM PST by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: Albion Wilde
That's painful to see the stylus/cantilever turned 90-degrees...


93 posted on 11/27/2023 12:24:54 PM PST by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: Red Badger

Probably 1969. The song was released October 29, 1968 and doesn’t appear to have charted by the end of the year.

BTW, BJ Thomas took it to Number 5 on Billboard. Blue Swede hit Number 1 in 1974.

I guess everyone loved the ukachakas.

This is a fun conversation.


94 posted on 11/27/2023 12:27:12 PM PST by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: x
The sailor she loved thought she was a fine girl, but his wife, his lover, his lady, was the sea.

The girl in this tune has a similar problem. To the sailor she loves, his home is the ocean, his friends are the stars over Bali, Shanghai, Lima, and Hawaii, his love is his ship and he is addicted to long voyages. Frustrated and ready to give up on him, she tells him not to think about her anymore.

Interestingly, this hit song comes from Austria, which has no seacoast.

Sailor, Your Home Is the Ocean--Lolita Ditta

95 posted on 11/27/2023 12:27:33 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: dragnet2

I was going to say that the 50s and 60s were best -— at least for me.


97 posted on 11/27/2023 12:33:01 PM PST by Exit148
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To: DallasBiff

How Long Has This Been Going On? by Ace 1974

Wildfire! by Micheal Martin Murphy 1975

Love Is the Drug by Roxy Music 1975

Somebody’s Watching You! by Little Sister (of Sly&Fam,Stone)
1970


98 posted on 11/27/2023 12:35:31 PM PST by lee martell
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To: lee martell

Roxy Music??!?!?! Hardly.

Avalon is one of the best albums of the 80s.


99 posted on 11/27/2023 12:38:24 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Kind of like “Pumped Up Kicks”. My wife was really enjoying the song, then I had to clue her on what the lyrics were.

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And yet that song is still in regular rotation on Alt Radio


100 posted on 11/27/2023 12:39:19 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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