One Hit Wonders - Share 'Em If You Got 'Em...
 

Starting with the 70's:


























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ADG

Those are some awesome oldies right there, thanks for sharing :thumbsup

FINALLY!
Someone talking about one-hit wonders who doesn't think that all music started in 1995 :1orglaugh

How about Andrew Gold, the Babys, the Bells, Carl Carlton, JoBoxers, Mouth and McNeal, Motherlode, Mungo Jerry, Paper Lace, Smith, the Sanford-Townsend Band, The Stampeders, Stealer's Wheel, The Tee-Set.....
(Yes, I *did* just take a quick run through my iPod, how could you tell? :winkwink: )

70's 70's...

Great songs and great thread. Thanks for reminding me of these. See if I can dig some up.

It doesn't ?? Dammit !! :(

Lonely Boy - Andrew Gold (I sense I have been beaten here - This guy also did the Golden Girls theme in the 80s)


My Baby Loves Lovin' - White Plains


Popcorn - Hot Butter - One of the first, uh, electronic instrumentals of the era that wasn't just crap?


Kung-Fu Fighting - Carl Douglass (This is to make up for getting Popcorn stuck in your head)


All of these are from before I was born. That's kind of strange to think about.

Badfinger was NOT a One Hit Wonder.



Hubby and I will add to the list from our IPODs...

All though they had a couple of hits 10CC had this great song:



One of the best songs from the 60s:


The 70s:

Love the New York Dolls!!! :thumbsup

Another one from the 70's:

Paper Lace had 2 that I can think of... The Night Chicago Died, and Billy Dont Be A Hero.

2 hit wonder maybe?

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Stories was not the first:

Hot Chocolate was the first: Brother Louie

I didn't mean absolutely literally, since Badfinger had a few other lesser know hits, such as:



Trivia: Pete Ham of Badfinger wrote "Without You", made famous by Harry Nilsson:



Point taken - as I always liked this 10CC song best:



A few from the 60's:





:smokin

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This thread makes me want to twist one up!


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Wow! You're good...I didn't know that. One of the early cover bands I played guitar in had a drummer who rarely sang, but who had a raspy voice like Rod Stewart, and he turned me on to the Stories version of the song.

I remember Hot Chocolate most for "You Sexy Thing":



Okay one more, Minnie Riperton:



Trivia: The late Minnie Riperton's daughter is Maya Rudolf who used to be a cast member of Saturday Night Live:

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowln...bios_maya1.jpg

ADG

That reminds me...



Sublime later had a hit with this song. :stoned

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Maybe it's the title, but I suddenly thought of Bertha Butt:



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:1orglaugh

I actually love this song, sadly.

The year I refer to as the year Puffy killed music.

Pre-95 it was all Gregorian Chant and Tibetan throat singing.

Wow. For a few minutes I was back in my bunk bed, under the covers listening to my transistor radio ;)

ADG

that's a great song :thumbsup

this thread is ruining my productivity today :(

let me 80-ize this











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i remember when i was a kid i heard on the radio minnie passed then they played that song fuckin cancer R.I.P. :(

One more before I have to go shoot my last photo session of the decade...

Technically not a one-hit band, but this one song dwarfed all of their others:



One of their more obscure hits:



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Last one for me, until tonight...

I have an older sister whose collection of 45's I inherited when she left home, and this thread made me remember a one-hit band from the 60's called "People":



Thanks for sharing all. :)

Keep those one hit wonders coming...

ADG

:1orglaugh im doing the running man

You have great taste in the oldies! :thumbsup

Sniff n the Tears - Driver's Seat

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh almost forgot all about that one

A few from the 80s -

A-HA and Talk Talk had a good bunch of hits. Maybe not in US since I don't live there, but they were huge around the world, especially A-HA

You *were* beaten on that one :1orglaugh
And not only wouldn't I have any idea what the Golden Girls theme was - I don't think that could count as a song :1orglaugh

Interesting about that one. That *was* the only major hit for White Plains. But White Plains didn't have much claim to being a hit band; it was really a backing band for Tony Burrows, a very talented studio musician - who had similar hits under different names during the same era: Edison Lighthouse (Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes), The Pipkins (Gimme Dat Ding), The Brotherhood of Man (United We Stand), First Class (Beach Baby). So White Plains WAS a one hit wonder - but Tony Burrows was one of the biggest pop stars of the era who no one ever knew.

Well, a notable instrumental, but there were lots of others that preceeded it that were terrific...check out the Ventures from the 60s :thumbsup

[QUOTE=GrouchyAdmin;16694812]Kung-Fu Fighting - Carl Douglass (This is to make up for getting Popcorn stuck in your head)[QUOTE=GrouchyAdmin;16694812]

Now THAT wasn't fair :1orglaugh

Strange to think that you know them even though you weren't around to hear them every 60 minutes on the radio :1orglaugh Nice list :thumbsup

The Raspberries also had a big hit with "I Wanna Be With You."

Their lead singer, Eric Carmen, went on to a great solo career as well.