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30 Best One-Hit Wonders of the ’70s (Favorite Picks)
Midder ^ | 5/30/23 | Will Fenton

Posted on 11/27/2023 10:55:30 AM PST by DallasBiff

20. “(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden” by Lynn Anderson

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: 70s; onehitwonders
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To: dfwgator

Oops! I forgot the rules!


101 posted on 11/27/2023 12:39:49 PM PST by lee martell
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To: dfwgator
Kind of like “Pumped Up Kicks”. My wife was really enjoying the song, then I had to clue her on what the lyrics were.

I like that song too :( and when you figure out another I like, Take me to church, Hozier, let me know if I'm some pagan worshiper :)

102 posted on 11/27/2023 12:43:59 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: DallasBiff

Many “one hit wonder” acts had a minor success after their one big hit. One example is The Lemon Pipers, whose big hit, “Green Tambourine,” was followed by “Rice is Nice,” which made it midway into the Top 40 charts before the band faded away.


103 posted on 11/27/2023 12:44:38 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Responsibility2nd

Right?!? Lynn Anderson had five #1 hits and 18 Top Ten hits...that does NOT sound like a “one-hit wonder”!


104 posted on 11/27/2023 12:44:54 PM PST by ExTxMarine (Finish the Wall and Deport them All!)
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To: DallasBiff

Must be a list of songs that made the artist #1 for a time because Lynn Anderson and Charlie Pride both had many other popular tunes.


105 posted on 11/27/2023 12:47:14 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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To: Red Badger

No ‘Afternoon Delight’ or ‘Me and Mrs. Jones’?


106 posted on 11/27/2023 12:47:59 PM PST by redangus ( )
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To: dfwgator

Roxy Music’s album Flesh and Blood was the NUMBER 1 album in Great Britain in 1980.

I used to always think of their music when I would drive by this dry cleaners in Troy, NY:

https://nextdoor.com/pages/roxy-cleaners-troy-ny/


107 posted on 11/27/2023 12:51:52 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: Responsibility2nd

Even worse, Charley Pride had 29 number-one hits!!

He was the Entertainer of the Year for the CMAs in 1971 and Top Male Vocalist of the Year in 1971 AND 1972! And even bigger than that, from 1967-1977, except for two years, he was a Grammy Nominee or a Grammy Winner!

The person who put this list together is an IDIOT! And I apologize to all the idiots out there for insulting them with that association!


108 posted on 11/27/2023 12:52:37 PM PST by ExTxMarine (Finish the Wall and Deport them All!)
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To: DallasBiff; Red Badger
How about LINK: "Moonlight Feels Right" by Starbuck!

I don't remember any other songs by them!

109 posted on 11/27/2023 12:53:33 PM PST by rlmorel ("The stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side." (Clarice Feldman))
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To: Sirius Lee

I always liked that song. Very evocative of depressed misery, but if you aren’t depressed and in misery, it won’t make you that way...


110 posted on 11/27/2023 12:55:14 PM PST by rlmorel ("The stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side." (Clarice Feldman))
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To: rlmorel

Awesome xylophone solo.


111 posted on 11/27/2023 12:57:04 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rlmorel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starbuck_(band)


112 posted on 11/27/2023 12:58:06 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: woodbutcher1963

There’s a Roxy reunion concert on YouTube from some years ago. Brian Ferry had completely lost his voice. Very sad. I still have some Roxy in my USB cue in my car.


113 posted on 11/27/2023 12:59:03 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: woodbutcher1963
I used to always think of their music when I would drive by this dry cleaners in Troy, NY:

What the heck are you doing near Troy :)

114 posted on 11/27/2023 1:00:05 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: DallasBiff

There ‘s so many more… Convoy (CW McCall), Timothy (Buoys), DOA (Bloodrock), maybe Spirit in the Sky (70s?) Norm Greenbaum (follow up Canned Ham did not touch Top 40.

Hard for me to think of Lynn Anderson and Randy Newman as “One Hit Wonders”, as they were pretty established.


115 posted on 11/27/2023 1:00:20 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: DallasBiff

“Short people” sure enraged a lot, well, short people.....


116 posted on 11/27/2023 1:00:58 PM PST by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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To: 1Old Pro

Hozier, Annie Lennox - Take Me to Church - I Put a Spell on You (Medley) (57th GRAMMYs) official video, british chart no. 3.

Awesome, Annie stole the show:
https://dai.ly/x2h27te


117 posted on 11/27/2023 1:01:43 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: dfwgator

Heh, that was what it was best known for, IMO!


118 posted on 11/27/2023 1:02:11 PM PST by rlmorel ("The stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side." (Clarice Feldman))
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To: dfwgator

And...not a lot of pop songs with a prominent xylophone solo featured in it!


119 posted on 11/27/2023 1:03:23 PM PST by rlmorel ("The stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side." (Clarice Feldman))
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To: cyclotic

It was recorded in Memphis, where I lived right SE of in 1968, in Mississippi. We got a lot of music earlier than the rest of the country back then.....................


120 posted on 11/27/2023 1:03:50 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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