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Blast from the Past: What's your favorite "One-Hit Wonder" song/artist?
one man's opinion...

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...


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To: trebb

Was a fun song, though!


221 posted on 01/20/2014 9:07:03 AM PST by mdmathis6 (American Christians can help America best by remembering that we are Heaven's citizens first!)
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To: winodog

AWB didn’t do Play that Funky Music. Wild Cherry did.


222 posted on 01/20/2014 11:01:08 AM PST by Daveinyork (IER)
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To: BunnySlippers

Little Red Riding Hood.


223 posted on 01/20/2014 11:05:19 AM PST by Daveinyork (IER)
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To: ken5050

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.


224 posted on 01/20/2014 11:11:09 AM PST by Daveinyork (IER)
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To: Daveinyork

I will be darned. I would have sworn on that one. I do luv that tune


225 posted on 01/20/2014 1:25:18 PM PST by winodog
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To: winodog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRr2kf84V2M


226 posted on 01/20/2014 2:37:11 PM PST by Daveinyork (IER)
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To: GSWarrior
Back When My Hair Was Short — Gunhill Road

Yeap there was the On Air version and the album origional version.

227 posted on 01/21/2014 2:48:08 AM PST by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: married21
“Afternoon Delight” by Starlight Vocal Band. I loved the vocal harmonies when I was a kid.

They also co-wrote Take me home country roads. Bill and Taffy Danoff were John Denver's musician & back up singers called "Fat City".

228 posted on 01/21/2014 2:52:30 AM PST by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: ken5050
Has to be "Earth Angel," by the Penguins. They never made another hit. In fact, the B side, "Hey Senorita" (Let Me Take You Home) stank so bad that if you played it once you never played it again.

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.

229 posted on 01/21/2014 3:18:31 AM PST by firebrand
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To: firebrand
Interesting.."Earth Angel was a such a big hit..it usually makes any TOP 100 all time hit list..that I assumed they'd had a string of hits..

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..

230 posted on 01/21/2014 3:43:48 AM PST by ken5050 (This space available cheap...)
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To: cva66snipe
"A World without love" by Peter & Gordon. Most probably thought it was The Beatles. McCartney's ex brother in law recorded the song and IIRC Lennon & McCartney wrote it.

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.

231 posted on 01/21/2014 3:46:17 AM PST by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: ken5050
Thought of another great one, from maybe 1963 or 1964. A great dance cut. I was having a party on the weekend so I went to a record store and the only thing I could find that I thought people might dance to was Wooly Bully, by Sam the Sham and the Pharohs.

At the right moment, I put it on the turntable, and the entire room was up and dancing in a second!

232 posted on 01/21/2014 3:54:18 AM PST by firebrand
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To: firebrand

Great song...and remember the story that if you played it at 33 rpm, you could hear Sam yelling “hand job” after Wooly Bully?


233 posted on 01/21/2014 3:58:07 AM PST by ken5050 (This space available cheap...)
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To: ken5050

Dirty Water -Standells
The Martian Hop - Ran-dells


234 posted on 01/21/2014 4:01:55 AM PST by FXRP
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To: ken5050

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.


235 posted on 01/21/2014 4:19:40 AM PST by firebrand
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To: cva66snipe

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.


236 posted on 01/21/2014 2:11:41 PM PST by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: married21

Yea they are also on his older Youtube video’s of Country Roads.


237 posted on 01/21/2014 5:40:55 PM PST by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: LS

I gorgot Screaming Jay Hawkins, “I put a spell on you.”


238 posted on 01/22/2014 6:45:42 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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