FReeper Canteen ~ Tell Us Your Favorite "One Hit Wonder" Songs ~ 14 January 2022

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[dfwgator]

The Living Years.....Mike and the amechanics

Actually they had several hits, "Silent Running" and "All I Need Is a Miracle".

[dfwgator]

Sounds right. Fun fact: he was the husband of the photographer Linda Eastman.

I think he also did that duet with Stevie Wonder.

[BenLurkin]

Wildflower - Skylark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ8n_Esop5I

[Dr. Sivana]

In the 70s, there were a number of One Hit Wonders off of TV themes.

Two that come to mind are:
Happy Days Theme, Pratt and McClain
Making Our Dreams Come True (Laverne & Shirley), Cyndy Greco

[Pelham]

If you can determine the date of that performance you can find the then current lineup of The Hawks. There’s a list by year at wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Hawkins#The_Hawks_lineups

If it’s Fall 1961 to late 1963 it’s The Band

[Dr. Sivana]

The Night the Lights went out in Georgia, Vicki Lawrence

[Dr. Sivana]

I think he also did that duet with Stevie Wonder.

Yeah, and another one with that kid who split off from "The Jackson 5".

[dfwgator]

Sugar, Sugar ….The Archie’s

Co-Written by Andy Kim, who had a hit in the 70s with "Rock Me Gently"

[dfwgator]

Starbuck - Moonlight Feels Right

[xp38]

Yeah whatever happened to those guys? :)

[dfwgator]

Stampeders - Sweet City Woman

[Alberta's Child]

Great thread! You can’t have a list of one-hit wonders without including this epic classic: Big Country: In A Big Country

[dfwgator]

Big Country had a lot of great songs though in addition to that one.

[xp38]

He has an annual Charity Christmas party concert here in Toronto with him as the host and a bunch of other artists. Good times.

[Alberta's Child]

You beat me to it. That was one of the greatest hits of the 1980s!

[xp38]

Dang....they played at my high school. It was a great great show!

[dfwgator]

I wonder how rich Andy got off of Sugar Sugar.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Eres Tu, by Mocedades. 1974

[dfwgator]

Falco - Rock Me Amadeus

[Albion Wilde]

Gotta be Expressway To Your Heart by the Philly R&B band Soul Survivors. It was the first hit song released by noted producers Gamble and Huff. Actually saw the Soul Survivors perform it live in Philly not long after it came out.

Given the time, 1967, it was also a notable collaboration between a white band and the duo of black producers. Never heard much about the group after that, although they are still appearing in clubs around Philly. But Gamble and Huff went on to major, major success.

Even though "Expressway to Your Heart" was just an adolescent R&B love song with a great dance beat, the song's title had a lot of meaning for Philadelphians because of the main expressway route that winds through the City alongside the Schuylkill River (pronounced SKOO-kill). It's named, oddly enough, the Schuylkill Expressway. Even at 55 mph, you whiz by beautiful views, including parts of Fairmont Park (one of the largest city parks in the U.S., full of extraordinary monuments, the U.S. Centennial building and even large manor houses), and also the famous Boat House Row behind the magnificent Philadelphia Museum of Art.

I suppose the song's title gave the young 60s Boomers a thrill, blasting out over the car radio the first times they were able to drive with a date on a murderously curving and distracting superhighway like "the Surekill."