Posted on 08/29/2025 3:54:34 PM PDT by DallasBiff
3) Derek and The Dominos
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Lazy article. No one associates a one hit wonder with a group that put out one LP. A group that had one hit song amongst a larger body of work / multiple LP’s YES.
Derek and the Dominoes should not have been on the list. If this clown writer thinks so I guess he missed. Blind Faith, Mad Season, Lauren Hill, Sex Pistols. Jeff Buckley.......
Iron Butterfly comes to mine, and also RamJam.
“Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong is a favorite…. Pocket Full of whatever a close second”
Pocket full of Kryptonite is the name of the LP, no song by that title. Actually a very good LP, Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong...Two Princes....Jimmy Olsen Blues are the best of the bunch.
Buster Poindexter
Blind Faith
It’s twenty years old but check out Colin Hay’s “Man at Work” for a couple acoustic versions of “Down Under” and “Overkill”. My favorite is “Beautiful World” and “Waiting for My Real Life to Begin”. About a dozen years later was title of a pretty good biopic.
“Derek and The Dominos” was only meant to be a 1 album deal when Eric briefly became “Derek”.
I saw “Derek” when Santana was the opening act.
After the “Dominos” took stage, “Derek” came out, slung his guitar over his shoulder, played a few notes...then wailed into the beginning of “Layla”.
It was an awesome moment!
Thunderclap Newman
Pages Outrider was great also. His work with Chris Farlowe on Hummingbird was excellent, good solo, a Leon Russell song I believe.
One case where the band kept the name, but it was a profoundly different band was Pink Floyd. Try Fleetwood Mac
Pocket Full of whatever a close second.
That was Jimmy Olsen’s Blues.
What were the other hits? There are a pile of great songs on that album but they didn’t chart like Layla.
The Chicago Transit Authority
I liked his playing on Hummingbird too. Unfortunately, I thought Farlowe’s singing was overwrought and the original songs had horribly trite, Spinal-Tap-level lyrics. The only exception was “The Only One,” which sounds like something Page and Plant would come up with during a casual jam session, but caught a little of the old magic.
Huey Lewis and the News - Sports
Hootie and the Blowfish - Cracked Rear View
I can’t think of any songs that came after their big mega-albums.
Bell Bottom Blues
I'll Be Satisfied--The Dominoes (1952)
Reached #91 on the Billboard Hot 100
Not exactly a hit
IMO Page’s best post-Zep song is Satisfaction Guaranteed with Paul Rogers in their short-lived collaboration The Firm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FqwURo4j6U&list=RD-FqwURo4j6U&start_radio=1
Rogers and his live band have really perfected it in recent years:
https://youtu.be/_QHhoYqbRrc?si=zGKUIkREIFQhuPqt&t=24
“Overkill” on “Cargo” is my favorite “Men at Work” song.
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