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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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 :)
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.
Right?!? Lynn Anderson had five #1 hits and 18 Top Ten hits...that does NOT sound like a “one-hit wonder”!
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.
No ‘Afternoon Delight’ or ‘Me and Mrs. Jones’?
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/
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!
I don't remember any other songs by them!
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...
Awesome xylophone solo.
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.
What the heck are you doing near Troy :)
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.
“Short people” sure enraged a lot, well, short people.....
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
Heh, that was what it was best known for, IMO!
And...not a lot of pop songs with a prominent xylophone solo featured in it!
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.....................
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