Posted on 01/19/2014 6:15:37 AM PST by ken5050
I was clicking through some links on Wikipedia last night, and stumbled across the "List of One-hit Wonders" in the United States." Amazingly, they have separate, detailed individual lists for each decade ( I've posted the links below..)I was astonished at how many there were, how many I'd liked, and many I'd pretty much forgotten; and I spent several hours on YouTube, reminiscing, and then downloading some of the tunes. So, enjoy.. if you have a favorite, opine below...
Was a fun song, though!
AWB didn’t do Play that Funky Music. Wild Cherry did.
Little Red Riding Hood.
Don’t Pull Your Love Out on Me, Baby by Hamilton, Joe, Frank and Reynolds.
The Letter, by the Boxtops.
Expressway to your Heart, by the Sole Explosion (or something)
The Tighten UP. By Archie Bell and the Drells.
Hot Smoke and Sassafras, by Bubblepuppy.
I will be darned. I would have sworn on that one. I do luv that tune
Yeap there was the On Air version and the album origional version.
They also co-wrote Take me home country roads. Bill and Taffy Danoff were John Denver's musician & back up singers called "Fat City".
I used to go to doo-wop shows and I once suggested they get the Penguins together for the next one. They did, but not one original Penguin was there. The show, at Radio City, was great though. The Heartbeats did "You're a Thousand Miles Away-hay" (rat-a-tat) and they brought the house down.
I was a freshman at NYU in 64 when the Beach Boys came east..trying to counter the British Invasion..I caught all four shows at the Academy of Music on 14th street..
Saturday Morning Confusion by Bobby Russell. He wrote The night the lights went out in Georgia and his wife Vickie Lawrence sang it. Not sure if Russell had any hits he sang.
Daisy a Day by Jud Strunk. Shannon by Henry Gross. A song he and Carl Wilson's conservation about the death of a pet dog lead to. Carl was supposed to have sang the chorus but counld't make it to the recording session.
Hot Rod Lincoln by Commander Cody and Cotton Eyed Joe by Isaac Peyton Sweat.
At the right moment, I put it on the turntable, and the entire room was up and dancing in a second!
Great song...and remember the story that if you played it at 33 rpm, you could hear Sam yelling “hand job” after Wooly Bully?
Dirty Water -Standells
The Martian Hop - Ran-dells
No, I don’t remember that. LOL.
They play a Beach Boy song in Starbux at Christmastime. Something about Little Old Saint Nick? I always stop what I’m doing to listen to that one.
I didn’t know that. I was a big John Denver fan as a kid, too, and learned to play a lot of his music on the piano.
Yea they are also on his older Youtube video’s of Country Roads.
I gorgot Screaming Jay Hawkins, “I put a spell on you.”
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