Posted on 12/10/2009 10:44:24 AM PST by a fool in paradise
Between my wife’s Spanish music and my Polish music, I barely even listen to English songs anymore. I find songs more intriguing when sung in another language, or I just listen to instrumental stuff.
A lot of Country is just 70s "Light Rock" repackaged.
>>>And a lot of them apparently don’t know how to spell.
Long history of that in popular music; Beatles, Byrds, Led Zeppelin, Def Leppard come to mind readily.
Band names is one thing, song titles are another.
Ditto. And only because Rush used it as bumper music.
Mambo No 5 is cheating, IMO.
4 shor!
Is NOT. I don't get to listen to Rush, so I haven't heard his show since 2001 (honeymoon).
We can only hope Obama is a one hit wonder.
I’ll take the “One Hit Wonders of the ‘80s” over the “One Hit Wonders of the ‘00s” any day of the week!
Where is Cris Brown - He only got one good hit on Rihanna in the 200’s. sent rest of his time in jail.
And I’ll take the ‘one hit’ wonders of 1962-1966 over the MTV one-hit bands of the 1980s (even having grown up in that era).
That song turned up in first-year commercials promoting the new Star Trek show Enterprise - may have had something to do with that.
By 1990, everything that could be done in Pop music was pretty much done.
One Hit Wonders music of the 50’s.
Artist Song Year
The Chords Sh-Boom 1954
The Penguins Earth Angel 1955
The Cheers Black Denim Trousers 1955
Joan Weber Let Me go Lover 1955
Julie London Cry Me A River 1955
Caterina Valente Breeze and I 1955
Cowboy Church Sunday School Open Up Your Heart 1955
Bonnie Lou Daddy-O 1955
Lenny Dee Plantation Boogie 1955
Grace Kelly True Love 1956
Don Robertson Happy Whistler 1956
Morris Stoloff Moonglow And Theme From Picnic 1956
Vince Martin & The Tarriers Cindy, Oh Cindy 1956
Terry Gilkyson & The Easy Riders Marianne 1957
Russ Hamilton Rainbow 1957
Margie Rayburn I’m Available 1957
The Bobbetts Mr. Lee 1957
The Tune Weavers Happy, Happy Birthday Baby 1957
Joe Bennett and The Sparkletones Black Slacks 1957
Thurston Harris Little Bitty Pretty One 1957
There was only really for me one pop song this decade I kinda liked and that was “Hey Ya!”
Link Wray is in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a “one hit wonder” for ‘Rumble’ but everyone from Bob Dylan to Pete Townsend to John Lennon was a huge fan and owes him a debt of gratitude in making them excited about music enough to pick up a guitar.
As the word song is defined by most people, there might not be a "song" in the top 25.
Coincidentally, I also have reached the point where I cannot name all the teams in the NBA and the names of NBA players I recognize has dropped to 8.
Wayne Jancik’s book The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders (Billboard Books, 1998) defines a one-hit wonder rather strictly, as “an act that has won a position on Billboard’s national, pop, Top 40 just once.” He therefore includes such performers as Janis Joplin (for “Me and Bobby McGee”) or Jimi Hendrix (for “All Along the Watchtower”), solely on the basis of their Top 40 performance.
Odd that Chuck Berry’s only #1 hit was My Ding-A-Ling (a cover song that was decades old).
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