[Fiji Hill]

In fact, let’s go back to “Tequila” (The Champs), “Kansas City” (Wilbert Harrison), “Little Bitty Pretty One (Thurston Harris), “Dominique” (hated it), “Sea of Love” (Phil Phillips) and other one hit wonders that still are played.

Dominique is just about the weirdest one-hit wonder of them all. Why American record buyers bought enough copies of a French-language ballad about Domingo Félix de Guzmán, a medieval Spanish diplomat, evangelist and crusader to send it to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks is baffling.

[pbear8]

It was a catchy tune.