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The Greatest One-Hit Wonder Songs of the '70s
Ranker Music ^ | 1/1/24 | Ranker Music

Posted on 02/05/2024 2:22:36 PM PST by DallasBiff

We see flash-in-the-pan artists come and go with every decade, but one-hit wonders of the '70s ironically always seem to stick around. For example, you’ve probably heard the classics “American Pie” by Don McLean or “Spirit in the Sky” by Norman Greenbaum despite not knowing any of their other songs or discography. Below, music lovers have ranked the greatest songs of the '70s by one hit wonders in order to increase awareness for them—and also because they kick ass. So if you like “American Pie” or “Spirit in the Sky,” you’re sure to love the other one hit wonders of the '70s below. Also be sure to vote for your favorite '70s one-hit wonders below or add any you feel should be on the list

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KEYWORDS: 70s; onehitwonders
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To: Alberta's Child

Procol Harum did have some other hits, “Conquistador”.


61 posted on 02/05/2024 3:00:57 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

I forgot Love is Like Oxygen. Thought Little Willie was someone else.

Let me try “Kung Fu Fighting”


62 posted on 02/05/2024 3:01:50 PM PST by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: dfwgator

I do remember the episode when Keith was dating a woman’s libber who wanted to use the act to sing their women’s lib songs, and Keith pulled an Elvis Costello and played what the people came to hear.

Even then it was clear these kinds of girls were no fun at all.


63 posted on 02/05/2024 3:02:32 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: DallasBiff

‘One hit wonders’ are in the eye of the beholder. Many artists have distinctive, wonderful, lengthy and lucrative careers without some moronic pop chart hits that have become the fake summon bonum of Western Civ even before its recent collapse.


64 posted on 02/05/2024 3:02:40 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Wildflower by Skylark

dittos

great horse song


65 posted on 02/05/2024 3:02:58 PM PST by George from New England
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To: jjotto

Technically “Rush” is a one-hit wonder because they only had one Top-40 single, “New World Man”.


66 posted on 02/05/2024 3:03:39 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Dr. Sivana

You say Keith, I think 98.6, one-hit wonder albeit 1968.


67 posted on 02/05/2024 3:03:45 PM PST by George from New England
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To: George from New England

You’re thinking Wildfire by Michael Murphy.


68 posted on 02/05/2024 3:04:05 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator; Dilbert San Diego

“Chapin had Taxi, and Cats In the Cradle”

W.O.L.D.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SubLzRKYuo4


69 posted on 02/05/2024 3:04:34 PM PST by suthener
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To: DallasBiff

96 tears by ? And the Mysterians


70 posted on 02/05/2024 3:05:17 PM PST by HerrBlucher
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To: George from New England
You say Keith, I think 98.6, one-hit wonder albeit 1968.

I had to look that one up. Right you are. So obscure, his record made the Wikipedia, but his stage name did not!
71 posted on 02/05/2024 3:07:15 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: DallasBiff

Several entries on this list don’t make sense. The Guess Who had 6 top ten hits in the U.S., hardly a one-hit wonder. The same goes for Dr. Hook with 6 top tens.


72 posted on 02/05/2024 3:07:35 PM PST by Restless
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To: DallasBiff

If you want to see a real mind bender then check out when the Lawrence Welk singers did a cover of”One toke over the line “
on one of their shows.


73 posted on 02/05/2024 3:07:48 PM PST by Cautious Optimism
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To: George from New England; dfwgator

Michael Murphy had a hit follow-up, “Carolina in the Pine”. More upbeat. In fact, I think I will listen to it on my way home.


74 posted on 02/05/2024 3:08:17 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: Dr. Sivana

He’s had a pretty long-running country career.


75 posted on 02/05/2024 3:09:15 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

Sanford Townsend Band “Smoke From A Distant Fire”

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


76 posted on 02/05/2024 3:09:47 PM PST by bleach (If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Steam - Na na na na (Kiss Him Goodbye)

They weren’t even a real band.


77 posted on 02/05/2024 3:10:06 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator
Technically “Rush” is a one-hit wonder because they only had one Top-40 single, “New World Man”.

I am going by "Top 40" and Rush had a few that made the Top 40 though not the Top 10. "Tom Sawyer" is an example.
78 posted on 02/05/2024 3:10:35 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: bleach

Good one.


79 posted on 02/05/2024 3:11:04 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator
They weren’t even a real band.

Were "The Archies"?
80 posted on 02/05/2024 3:11:35 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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