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

The Canteen Deejays

[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

 

 

[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

Question Mark & The Mysterians~96 Tears

Bubble Puppy~Hot Smoke & Sasafrass

Genre: Oldies

Suitable for MA and kids: YES!

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

[Drumbo]

One Hit Wonder Incoming!
Signs
~ Five Man Electrical Band ~

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[radu]

Hiya GBUSA!
Sittin' here a bit disappointed.
We'd planned to take our Lincoln to a car show and it's RAINING!!
Been dry for DAYS and DAYS and it just couldn't wait til tomorrow to do this. LOL!

How's your day goin'?
*HUGZ*

[radu]

Hi laurnemarlowe!

Whew! You and the other DJs are sure makin' it hard to decide where to start! LOL!
Lots of great tunes!
*HUGZ*

[laurenmarlowe]

Good afternoon! Glad you enjoyed last night.

Check post #482, and see if that's the song you are looking for!

[PoorMuttly]

PURPLE PEOPLE EATER

The Purple People Eater was the #1 song for 6 weeks in 1958and the #24 song of the 1955-1959 rock era. It sold over 3 million records and received a Gold Record within 3 weeks after it was released, and over 100 Million Copies Overall.

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PURPLE PEOPLE EATER

Well I saw the thing coming out of the sky,
It had one long horn and one big eye.
I commenced to shaking and I said "Ooh-ee,
It looks like a purple people eater to me."

It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater,
(One-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater),
A one-eyed one-horned, flying purple people eater),
Sure looks stange to me. (One eye?)

Well he came down to earth and alit in a tree,
I said "Mr Purple People Eater, don't eat me!"
I heard him say in a voice so gruff,
[Helium voice] "I wouldn't eat you 'cos you're so tough."

It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater
One-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater,
One-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater,
Sure looks strange to me. (One horn?)

I said "Mr Purple People Eater, what's your line?"
He said "Eating purple people and it sure is fine,
But that's not the reason that I came to land:
[Helium voice] I wanna get a job in a rock and roll band."

Well bless my soul, rock and roll, flying purple people eater,
Pigeon-toed, undergrowed, flying purple people eater,
(We wear short shorts) friendly little people eater,
What a sight to see.

And then he swung from the tree and alit on the ground,
And he started to rock, really rocking around,
It was a crazy little ditty with a swinging tune:
[Helium voice] Sing a-bop-bop a-boopa-loppa loom-bam-boom.

Well, bless my soul, rock and roll, flying purple people eater,
Pigeon-toed, undergrowed, flying purple people eater,
[Helium voice] I like short shorts,
Flying purple people eater,
What a sight to see. (Purple people?)

Well, he went on his way, and then what do you know?
I saw him last night on a TV show,
He was blowing it out, really knocking 'em dead,
Playing rock and roll music through the horn in his head.

[Helium voice:] Tequila.

[GodBlessUSA]

Sorry the rain ruined your day. Do they have a rain date? Post a picture of car if you can. Is it an older Lincoln to show? Neat!! :) <P

Extreme heat here. Just hanging around. I feel bad for the kids. Way to hot to go out. Hubby will make dinner tonight. I have it made. LOL!

[Drumbo]

One Hit Wonder Incoming!
The Rapper
~ The Jaggerz ~

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[Lady Jag]

Maybe that was a shark and it wasn't hungry enough to bother anyone.

Example of full shark:

[E.G.C.]

Music bumps for 709, 710, 711, 714 and 721.

[Drumbo]

1968 One Hit Wonder Incoming!
Bend Me, Shape Me
~ The American Breed ~

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[radu]

Unfortunately, they don't have a rain date. :-(

A lot of shows have been rained out this year and we're getting frustrated with the weather. We haven't shown the Lincoln at all this year and were really looking forward to getting The Beast out.

Ms. feather had a good time cruisin' in it when she visited us a couple of years ago. It's a smooth-ridin' machine.

[stand watie]

YEP, i'm a member of the SC chapter, but i'm a crazy TEXICAN, who is MAROONED in yankee-occupied VA.

free dixie HUGS,sw

[Drumbo]

One Hit Wonder Incoming!
Let's Talk About Girls
~ The Chocolate Watch Band ~

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[steelyourfaith]

Check it out.

[HRoarke]

MoJo,

Glorious work as always by you and all the DJ's. You and I both know the Mix-A-Lot is no one hit wonder! (Posse on Broadway anyone?)

I've got one that may be hard to find though:

Just Ice-The Hip Hop Gangster

Just Ice was on the "Self Destruction" song and had an album and had the distintion of being on the first ever cover of the Washington Post Magazine. Had this one on tape and have never been able to find it again.

[Drumbo]

One Hit Wonder Incoming!
Love Grows
(Where My Rosemary Goes)
~ Edison Lighthouse ~

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[Lady Jag]

YEP, i'm a member of the SC chapter, but i'm a crazy TEXICAN, who is MAROONED in yankee-occupied VA.

GA!!

[Publius6961]

Check post #482, and see if that's the song you are looking for!

That's it!

Thank you.

Freepers are awesome, and definitely, the Canteen is an special place on so many levels.

If there is such a thing as internet Oscars, I'm nominating you guys.

[Jack Deth]

Hi, Ma!

I've always said that Rick Nelson was much more Rock-A-Billy than Rock. And that Rick saw himself more as Carl Perkins.

Thanks,

Jack.