FReeper Canteen ~ One Hit Wonders (Voter Thread) ~ Do You Have A Favorite? ~ 13AUG2005

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[MoJo2001]

 

 

One Hit Wonders
(Voter Thread)
 

Welcome To The Canteen Music Dedication!!
In our continued effort to bring music themes that you want, we continue this week with our Canteen voted thread of One Hit Wonders!

This list was compiled from various sources. Some of you may disagree with an artist showing up in our One Hit Wonders list, but that's okay. We're not here to state that we are the authority on such matters. We're here to enjoy some music from popular artist (although, not popular for long) of their respective music eras.

There are many artists/songs that are considered One Hit Wonders. However, we don't have all day and night to list them. We've gotta sleep now and again! Hehehe!

We enjoy feedback. If you have requests, please ping laurenmarlowe on the thread or via FReepmail.

As always, we greatly appreciate the opportunity to entertain our Troops, Veterans, and their family members.

Enjoy!

 

 

Artist	Song	Artist	Song
Neneh Cherry *Related to Don Cherry and Eagle Eye Cherry. This song is 1989. 80s Hip Hop/Dance	Buffalo Stance	Betty Harris *This song forces one to almost cry at how she sounds singing it. Cry me a river comes to mind!	Cry To Me
Teddy Bears *The Shirelles are probably better known for this song.	To Know Him Is To Love Him	Barry Mann *Song from 1961	Who Put The Bomp
The Voxpoppers *From 1958	Wishing For Your Love	Hollywood Argyles *From 1960	Alley Oop
The Gentrys *From 1965	Keep On Dancing	Amboy Dukes *From 1968	Journey To The Center Of The Mind
Leapy Lee *From 1968	Little Arrows	Four Jacks & A Jill *From 1968	Master Jack
Terry Jacks *1974	Seasons In The Sun	Carl Douglas *From 1974	Kung Fu Fighting
Rosie & The Originals *From 1976	Angel Baby	The Knack *From 1979	My Sharona
Anita Ward *From 1979	Ring My Bell	The Buggles *From 1979	Video Killed The Radio Star
Amii Stewart *From 1979	Knock On Wood	Rupert Holmes *From 1980	Escape (Pina Colada Song)
Buckner & Garcia	Pac Man Fever	Dexy's Midnight Runners	Come On Eileen
The Divinyls *This song was rereleased in the 1990s.	I Touch Myself	Falco	Rock Me Amadeus
Gary Numan	Cars	Greg Kihn Band *MoJo likes Weird Al Yankovic's parody of this tune!	Jeopardy
Harold Faltermeyer *No Crazy Frog version tonight! WooHoo!!	Axel F	Johnny Hates Jazz	Shattered Dreams
Johnny Kemp *VH1 obviously forgot about his awesome "Birthday Suit" song, huh?	Just Got Paid	Lipps, Inc *MoJo and sibs annoyed the parents on a family vacation with this song. Who knew parents were so touchy!	Funkytown
Matthew Wilder *A very chippy and happy song!	Break My Stride	Men Without Hats *Who remembers the midget from the video?	Safety Dance

 

Artist	Song	Artist	Song
Modern English *MoJo could've sworn they had another hit, but VH1 thinks otherwise. Oh well! Anyone else remember Nicholas Cage in "Valley Girl" and this song?	Melt With You	Murray Head	One Night In Bangkok
Real Life *There was a white horse a chick and that's all remember about the video to this song!	Send Me An Angel	Rick Astley *Who was lamer? Rick or his brother Jon? LOL!	Never Gonna Give You Up
Scritti Politti *Another great song to annoy the parental units on a long road trip!	Perfect Way	Soft Cell *How MoJo misses the 80s! What a great song!	Tainted Love
T'Pau	Heart and Soul	Terrence Trent Darby *Whatever happened to him?	Wishing Well
Thomas Dolby *A song that makes almost every 80s collection.	She Blinded Me With Me Science	The Belle Stars *Song made popular thanks to "Rain Man". Remember that movie? Remake of the Dixie Cups!	Iko Iko
Timex Social Club *This group was created from members of Club Noveau. Both groups experienced One Hit Wonders!	Rumors	Tom Cochran	Life Is A Highway
Tommy Shaw *From Styx to Solo Artist to Damn Yankees with Ted Nugent	Girls With Guns	Kajagoogoo *Stunned that Big Apple wasn't considered a hit!	Too Shy
Trio *Volkswagen commercial made this song a hit!	Da Da Da	Wall Of Voodoo	Mexican Radio
When In Rome *What does MoJo remember about these guys? They were cute! Hehe!	The Promise	Yello *Ferris Bueller's Day Off and this song! Oh YEAH!	OH YEAH
Alana Davis *If you ever have a chance, listen to her entire CD. What an incredible voice and range!	32 Flavors	Billie Meyers	Kiss The Rain
Chumbawumba *Um, very British! How about that?	Tubthumping	Del Amitri *Um, MoJo thinks there was a shopping cart in this video. Maybe not!	Roll With Me
Des'ree *Loved this song until they used it in Promos for "Good Morning America". Nothing like killing a song!	Gotta Be	Sir Mix A Lot *This song caused great distress to the NOW chicks. Meanwhile, the rest of us loved it. Old School Rap!	Baby Got Back
Right Said Fred *These dudes were strange, but a bumping overplayed song!	I'm Too Sexy	Billy Ray Cyrus *MoJo disagrees with VH1 on this one. After all, the song "Some Gave All" was awesome!	Achy Breaky Heart
Joe Public *One of those songs MoJo was sleepwalking through in the 90s.	Live and Learn	Lisa Loeb *MoJo kind of disagrees with this one as well, but oh well!	Stay
Tag Team *90s Hip Hop/Rap	Whoomp! There It Is	Gabrielle	Dreams

 

Artist	Song	Artist	Song
Craig Mack *Hip Hop/Rap	Flava In Ya Ear	Ini Kamoze	Here Comes The Hotstepper
Wynona Carr *A MoJo favorite!	Til The Well Runs Dry	Jeannie C. Riley	Harper Valley P.T.A
Bobby *Boris* Pickett *Great song to scare little kids during Halloween!	Monster Mash	The Contours *Loved this song in the movie "Dirty Dancing".	Do You Love Me
The Bobbettes	Mr. Lee	Essex	Easier Said Than Done
Hollywood Flames *TexasCowboy made an awesome music for our Troops with this song!	Buzz Buzz Buzz	Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs	Sugar Shack
Duice *Jessica Simpson would love this song!	Daisy Dukes	JJ Fad *Love people that talk fast? You'll love this song! Old School Rap/Hip Hop	Supersonic
Kid Frost *Latino Hip Hop/Rap	La Raza	Master Ace *hotstreak loved this video because they were at a car show. Hello?	Born To Roll
Quad City DJs *Choo choo train! 90s Hip Hop/Rap	Come On Ride The Train	Skee Lo *Rap/Hip Hop Very funny song!	I Wish
RuPaul *Okay! MoJo loves this song!  What can I say?	Supermodel	The Ad Libs	Boy From New York City
Sheb Wooley	Purple People Eater	The Trashmen	Surfin' Bird
The Verve	Bittersweet Symphony	Til Tuesday	Voices Carry
The Kingsmen	Louie Louie	Rockwell *Michael Jackson sings back up.	Somebody's Watching Me
Shannon	Let The Music Play	Tracey Ullman	They Don't Know
Peter Shilling *English version of this song	Major Tom	Linear	Sending All My Love
Vanilla Ice *There is so much MoJo could say, but I won't.	Ice Ice Baby	DMob and Cathy Dennis *MoJo guesses Diva Betsy Ross could really get down to this song! WooHoo!	C'Mon and Get My Love

 

Artist	Song	Artist	Song
Mellow Man Ace *Bilingual Rapper	Mentirosa (That would be *liar* for the Spanish inept out there like Ma!)	Kyper	Tic Tac Toe
Oran *Juice* Jones *Old School Rap	Walking In The Rain	Archies *Hmm...	Sugar Sugar
Guy Mitchell	Singing The Blues	J. Frank Wilson *A sad Oldies song!	Last Kiss
Thurston Harris	Little Bitty Pretty One	EMF	Unbelievable
Faith No More *Not For Ma or Kids	Epic	Gerardo *He was nice to look at! Um, oh the song? Well, it was sort of nice. Hehe!	Rico Suave
K7 *Don't click Ma, ok?	Come Baby Come	No Mercy *Another 90s group that was nice to look at! Hehe! Where did they go?	Where Do You Go
Portrait	Here We Go Again	The Castaways	Liar Liar
Wilbert Harrison *First heard this song in the 80s when Kansas City was hosting the basketball NCAA championships! It stuck with MoJo forever!	Kansas City	C Note	Wait Till I Get Home

 

 

[Army Air Corps]

Howzabout Sixpence None The Richer - Kiss Me

[luvie]

They're the best there are anywhere!

(((hugs)))

[Jack Deth]

Hi, MoJo!

Greetings to all the FReeper Divas!

See if you can dig up the Instrumental "Telstar" by The Tornadoes.

Jack.

[luvie]

Whatever it takes to keep it tied down!!!! LOL!

[Kathy in Alaska]

I'm dying of the heat, LW...LOL!!

[laurenmarlowe]

DJ SUNSHINE!

Music for our Troops, Veterans, and their families!!
Canteen Music Requests Incoming!
(Please support the artists below!)

If you would like to be added/removed from the
Canteen Music Ping List, please
FReepmail MoJo2001 or Kathy In Alaska

Phil Phillips and The Twilights~Sea Of Love

Genre: Oldies

Suitable for MA and kids: YES!

*** Please ping laurenmarlowe to any song requests
made on the thread. Thank you! ***

[fishbabe]

THANNNNNNNNNNNNNK YOU!!!!!!!!!!

[luvie]

PERSPECTIVE!!!!!

How funny!

[mabelkitty]

OOOohhh!!!
Thank you!
Great 1980s R&B.
I sure miss it.

[MoJo2001]

See if you can dig up the Instrumental "Telstar" by The Tornadoes.

The request Diva will get to it when she can.

Thank you for the request Jack!
Hope you're having a fabulous evening!
*HUGS*

[Drumbo]

Psychotic Reaction
~ Count Five ~

Strictly speaking, based on their raw talent, the Count Five wouldn't rate too much attention from music historians. The definitive one-hit wonders, they failed to make much of a lasting impression on the listening public or on music — but just play that one hit, "Psychotic Reaction," even 40 years after the fact, and almost any audience will brighten up and want to hear more. Their one fault was that they could never generate more — they tried but never issued another record half as good. In 1965 the group was turned down by Capitol Records, Fantasy Records, and a handful of other California-based companies, but after working out a new arrangement of "Psychotic Reaction" with the band, Lord got the song and the group placed with Double Shot Records, a Los Angeles-based label. The record — a chugging, fuzz tone-laden piece of punk defiance with more than a few signature licks and phrasings borrowed from Bo Diddley and the Yardbirds, among others, and a punk attitude that was worthy of the Standells — eventually made number five nationally and number one in Los Angeles.

Unfortunately, the band was never able to follow up the hit with anything even remotely as successful. An album was rushed out, containing some ill-conceived originals, but nothing that the group did after "Psychotic Reaction" seemed to work. They tried reusing the same formula, working in a slightly more folk-rock vein, and attempting some fresh guitar pyrotechnics (on "The World" and "Pretty Big Mouth" and, in a psychedelic vein, on "Peace of Mind"), plus a pair of pretty fair Who covers ("My Generation" and "Out in the Street"), but by 1967, it was clear that the group's days were numbered. The strain of maintaining music careers while attending college — which was essential to the members keeping their draft deferments — took its toll, as did the dwindling bookings, as memory of "Psychotic Reaction" faded. In the end, after an attempt by Double Shot to keep Byrne as the only active member, the Count Five ceased to exist.

Their story might have ended there, as dimly remembered one-shot hitmakers, but for the 1972 release of Nuggets, Lenny Kaye's original '60s garage/psychedelic punk compilation. "Psychotic Reaction" may not have been the most original track on the album, but it was one of the more accessible, and still potent and enjoyable on its own terms six years after the fact; suddenly a new generation of enthusiasts discovered the Count Five. Yardbirds fans, in particular, tended to despise the group for having ripped off many of lead guitarist Jeff Beck's pyrotechnical tricks in a more commercially successful manner, but generally the song proved a popular oldie selection among more knowing '60s listeners, and there was demand for their album, which resulted in several rounds of reissues on vinyl and CD. In the decades since, the group has rated at least a mention in most histories of garage rock and psychedelic punk, and "Psychotic Reaction" is as much a standard of the genre as the Standells' "Dirty Water" or the Thirteenth Floor Elevators' "You're Gonna Miss Me."

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[El Gran Salseron]

Bet ya can't find this one:

1958

Jimmy Clanton

Just a Dream

[luvie]

I love Telstar!!!!!! Glad you thought of it!

[Zacs Mom]

He sure is!!! Don Williams is one of my "traveling music" staples! I love to drive and listen to his songs! My hubby & I both sing along with him and now all our grand kids do, too! lol

[AZamericonnie]

Awww....how cute are you! And how brave were your parents! LOL

[T Minus Four]

OMG! I've been looking for that song for years. Nobody else I ask ever remembers and they alwasy looked at me like I ws a little off. It always creeped me out, and still does.

[laurenmarlowe]

DJ SUNSHINE!

Music for our Troops, Veterans, and their families!!
Canteen Music Requests Incoming!
(Please support the artists below!)

If you would like to be added/removed from the
Canteen Music Ping List, please
FReepmail MoJo2001 or Kathy In Alaska

Moving Pictures~What About Me

Genre: 80's Music

Suitable for MA and kids: Yes

*** Please ping laurenmarlowe to any song requests
made on the thread. Thank you! ***

[MoJo2001]

Wanna wager on that?
LOL!
(Psst..you'd lose. So? Stay safe and wait for it to be posted. LOL!)

[Rebelbase]

Thanks for creating this thread. I've had a blast listening to song's I haven't heard in 30 years!

[AZamericonnie]

Howzabout Sixpence None The Richer - Kiss Me

Love that song!