Posted on 06/03/2005 11:12:36 PM PDT by freedom44
Did you ever wonder what happened to some of those one-hit wonders like Vanilla Ice, Tommy Tutone and Flock of Seagulls?
NBC did too, so they are bringing them back in "Hit Me Baby One More Time." What do they look like? What do they sound like?
We tracked down hitmakers from the past to take the stage to perform one more time and you can be the judge.
For three weeks, the former Top Ten artists will perform their trademark hit song along with one of today's current hits. At the end of the night, the live audience votes for their favorites! Watch "Hit Me Baby One More Time," Thursday nights at 9 on NBC 10.
Here is a list of the performers so you don't miss your favorite!
Episode 1: Thursday June 2, 9 p.m.
Arrested Development Tiffany Flock of Seagulls Loverboy Cece Peniston
Episode 2: Thursday June 9
Sophie B. Hawkins Wang Chung Irene Cara Cameo Night Ranger
Episode 3: Thursday June 16
The Motels The Knack Tommy Tutone Vanilla Ice One Band To Be Determined
We will have to swap Winamp playlists someday... I got most of those on rotation to this day.
Yes, I stand corrected.
I attended that tour at its Memphis stop. It was the PRIVATE EYES tour for Hall & Oates, right?
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Absolutely MADE the Mike+TheMechanics song The Living Years, whatta voice.
Little piece of trivia from the booklet in his Twenty-One Good Reasons: The Paul Carrack Collection CD. He's writing about the song Tempted, it was on the East Side Story album that had been produced by Elvis Costello. Elvis had been listening to the tune being sung by usual-lead Glenn Tilbrook, stops the session, "Hey, PC (Paul), you should do this tune, it should also be re-done as R&B."
Good call there, Elvis!
Other 80's groups I liked... Only the obscure is mentioned below
Big Country (all their extended plays songs rocked) Even their B-side songs were collectable...
Adventures - Send my Heart
Alphaville - About 10 songs (often extended)
Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey --- Goodbye Bad Times
Captain Sensible -- He Said Captain I Said Wot
Red Box --- Anything for the album "Circle & The Square" (one of the most under rated 80's bands IMHO)...
Industry -- State Of The Nation (one hit wonder)
Kate Bush (just got to give her a chance, she will grow on you)
The Korgis --- Everybody´s got to learn sometime (they had a couple of other good songs too)
Mike Oldfield -- Moonlight Shadow (Extended), To France, Innocent, Incantations (part 4), Top of the Morning... ect... to many to mention
Talk Talk -- It's my life
Peter Godwin -- Images of Heaven
Grant Miller -- red for love
Real Life -- Catch Me I'm Falling Extended
Ray Lynch -- Vanished Gardens Of Cordoba
Runrig -- Almost 20 or more songs (spaning 3 decades)
The Essence -- How you make me hate
Wolfsheim == It's Not To Late (Extended)
I got a million of these obscure songs that were gems overlooked by the mainstream media... MTV..
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Level 42 actually had a few good songs, but they never really caught on here in the States except for "Somthing About You". I guess the best way to describe their style would be an 80's version of the Moody Blues.
No problem. Heck, if I hadn't been at the age where things like pop music actually mattered, I wouldn't have remembered.
Payolas - Eyes of a stranger
After the Ffire - Der kommisar
E.U. - Da butt
Laid Back - White horse
Modern English - I melt with you
Mr. Mister - Broken wings
Pet Shop Boys - West end girls
The Church - Under the milkyway
Talking Heads - Once in a lifetime
Thomas Dolby - She blinded me with science
Since I grew up on it, I miss 80's music. I tend to agree though, that the best stuff came out from 80-86 or so. A great soundtrack with a mixed bag of 80's music is "Grosse Pointe Blank", which is one reason I love the movie.
Wacko Jacko may have broken all the records with "Thriller", but "Purple Rain" by Prince is far superior and IMO, the best album of the decade. As for my favorite song of the 80's: it would have to be "Man in Motion" by John Parr. Everytime it comes on the radio in the car, even today, I still crank it up.
One Night in Bankok by Murray Head
That was the last I ever heard of the guys from Abba (They worked on the album "Chess"). They disappeared from then on.
Please say it isn't. Sigh... didn't age well. But he was somethin' back in 1982, made this 14-year-old teeny bopper all swoony...
Man how the mighty, or just the mighty dang cute, fall...
The Motels The Knack Tommy Tutone Vanilla Ice One Band To Be Determined
I remember seeing The Motels on Saturday Night Live back in 82 or 83, and if I had to take a wild guess why they were a 1 album wonder, it would probably be the glazed look in the eyes of their lead singer. She sang beautifully, but you could tell she was stoned out of her mind on coke or something else.
I agree, TO Live and Die in LA was a pretty goofy movie, but the soundtrack is excellent. Wang Chung, in my opinion, was a really good pop band. A lot of them were, they just got sort of marred with the 'trend' brush.
Guess we weren't the only ones watching the show!
Hey that guy is from the dealmac forum!! Can't remember his screen name though....
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