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'Hit Me Baby' Brings Back 80s 1-Hit Wonders
NBC10 ^ | 6/04/05 | NBC10

Posted on 06/03/2005 11:12:36 PM PDT by freedom44

Did you ever wonder what happened to some of those one-hit wonders like Vanilla Ice, Tommy Tutone and Flock of Seagulls?

NBC did too, so they are bringing them back in "Hit Me Baby One More Time." What do they look like? What do they sound like?

We tracked down hitmakers from the past to take the stage to perform one more time and you can be the judge.

For three weeks, the former Top Ten artists will perform their trademark hit song along with one of today's current hits. At the end of the night, the live audience votes for their favorites! Watch "Hit Me Baby One More Time," Thursday nights at 9 on NBC 10.

Here is a list of the performers so you don't miss your favorite!

Episode 1: Thursday June 2, 9 p.m.

Arrested Development Tiffany Flock of Seagulls Loverboy Cece Peniston

Episode 2: Thursday June 9

Sophie B. Hawkins Wang Chung Irene Cara Cameo Night Ranger

Episode 3: Thursday June 16

The Motels The Knack Tommy Tutone Vanilla Ice One Band To Be Determined


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 80s; americanfalseidols; better2watchpaintdry; bigcountry; bighair; cockrock; fatdudesinspandex; genx; music
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To: GodBlessRonaldReagan

Fear, Black Flag, Dr. Know, Circle Jerks, Angry Samoans, Social D - Socal punk, gotta love it!


381 posted on 06/06/2005 4:51:30 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: MarkL

I saw a great Level 42 / Thompson Twins show back in '87 or so. At a fairly large venue - The Santa Barbara County Bowl. Certainly not full stadium sized, but nothing the sneeze at either.


382 posted on 06/06/2005 4:53:30 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: GraniteStateConservative

Mike Score: Lives in FLA, into 4 bys and boats ... gotta hand it too him, he had the good taste to become a Red State kinda guy! :=)

His bro's not far off from that - another Red State guy, in SC I do believe.


383 posted on 06/06/2005 4:58:58 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: latina4dubya
Two thumbs up:

Missing Persons

The Pretenders

Dire Straits

I never really cared for The Pretenders (Chrissy Hind's voice never did it for me), but Missing Persons ROCKED!!!! Warren C. is one heck of a guitarist, Terry Bozzio is an awesome drummer (he did some amazing stuff with Frank Zappa), and I always thought that Dale Bozzio had an "interesting voice" and fasion sense! LOL A lot of people don't realize that she was a Hustler magazine centerfold before her musical career "took off."

On the other hand, Dire Straits was just amazing, and I've long thought that "Brothers in Arms" easily fits on the list of the best 100 albumes ever. Mark Knoffler is something else.

Mark

384 posted on 06/06/2005 8:23:56 PM PDT by MarkL (I've got a fever, and the only prescription is MORE COWBELL!!!)
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To: GOP_1900AD
Fear, Black Flag, Dr. Know, Circle Jerks, Angry Samoans, Social D - Socal punk, gotta love it!

Don't forget the first generation - the Dickies, Weirdos, Deadbeats, Alleycats, Dils, Screamers. Great bands all. And from Frisco, I loved Crime - "Baby You're So Repulsive" is in my all time top ten!
385 posted on 06/07/2005 4:43:57 AM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Count Petofi will not be denied!)
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To: martin_fierro

Uck! Whadda you tryin' to do..........make me SICK?


386 posted on 06/07/2005 4:48:26 AM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: MarkL; This Just In; Riverman94610; GraniteStateConservative; hoagy62
i agree... Missing Persons and Dire Straits were really good... and personally, i too never cared for The Pretenders...

did any of you ever listen to a group called THE BUS BOYS? i remember they had a song, "Did You See Me?" i really liked it...

and then yesterday, i remembered another song that i really liked back then... it was by BRONSKY BEAT, "Small Town Boy."

387 posted on 06/07/2005 10:09:30 AM PDT by latina4dubya
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To: latina4dubya
did any of you ever listen to a group called THE BUS BOYS? i remember they had a song, "Did You See Me?" i really liked it...

Weren't they a SKA band?

BTW, something that I've thought about recently is that Dale Bozzio of Missing Persons was something of a trend-setter. You can see a huge influence of her, in both vocal stylings and style in general (although much tamer) in Gwen Stephani.

Mark

388 posted on 06/07/2005 12:13:49 PM PDT by MarkL (I've got a fever, and the only prescription is MORE COWBELL!!!)
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To: latina4dubya
and then yesterday, i remembered another song that i really liked back then... it was by BRONSKY BEAT, "Small Town Boy."

See my post 287 for more songs like that... The extended version of "Small Town Boy" is awesome..

Give this a try ----> Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey --- Goodbye Bad Times (extended is best)

389 posted on 06/07/2005 2:12:34 PM PDT by LowOiL ("I am neither . I am a Christocrat" -Benjamin Rush)
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To: LowOiL
See my post 287 for more songs like that... The extended version of "Small Town Boy" is awesome..

Talk Talk--It's My Life... very good song... you're right--they were overlooked... didn't someone recently redo that song? maybe No Doubt? anyway, what about the one-man band Baltimora? every now and then i hear, "Tarzan Boy."

390 posted on 06/07/2005 4:11:21 PM PDT by latina4dubya
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To: MarkL
i'm not sure how The Bus Boys' music is classified... back then they seemed a little new wav-y to me... but not exactly... i think i remember being surprised that the group was mainly made up of black men... that was back in 1980...

does anybody remember a song--it was a dance song--i think it was called "Are You Ready?" it was synthesizer-y, outer-spacey... few lyrics... i think the group who sang it started with the letter "K." i just can't think of the group's name, and it's irritating me...

391 posted on 06/07/2005 6:07:07 PM PDT by latina4dubya
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To: freedom44

A lot of the artists mentioned here had more than one hit.

Vanilla Ice had 2 Top 40 hits ("Play That Funky Music" and "Ice Ice Baby"). Tommy Tutone had 2 Top 40 hits ("Angel Say No" and "867-5309/Jenny"). Flock of Seagulls had 3 Top 40 hits ("I Ran (So Far Away)", "Space Age Love Song", and "Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)"). Corey Hart had 9 Top 40 hits ("It Ain't Enough", "Sunglasses At Night", "Boy in the Box", "Everything in My Heart", "Never Surrender", "Can't Help Falling in Love", "I Am By Your Side", "In Your Soul", and "A Little Love"). The Knack had 3 Top 40 hits ("Good Girls Don't", "My Sharona", and "Baby Talks Dirty").


392 posted on 06/15/2005 4:53:25 PM PDT by TheFountainhead
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