Ultimate 1-hit Wonders
an33...@anon.penet.fi
Since the 1-hit wonder thread is here again, thought I'd repost the following
which I posted ~1-2 years ago. Courtesy of Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles,
here are the artists (1955-1969) whose *only* song to crack the top 100
hit #1:
Joan Weber-Let Me Go Lover
Morris Stoloff-Moonglow & Theme From "Picnic"
Silhouettes-Get A Job
Laurie London-He's Got The Whole World (In His Hands)
Elegants-Little Star
Hollywood Argyles-Alley-Oop
The Singing Nun-Dominique
Zager & Evans-In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)
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an33...@anon.penet.fi wrote:
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: The Singing Nun-Dominique
She had a follow up called "The Lord's Prayer".
Marc Wielage
> Since the 1-hit wonder thread is here again, thought I'd repost the following
> which I posted ~1-2 years ago. Courtesy of Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles,
> here are the artists (1955-1969) whose *only* song to crack the top 100
> hit #1:
>
> Joan Weber-Let Me Go Lover
> Morris Stoloff-Moonglow & Theme From "Picnic"
> Silhouettes-Get A Job
> Laurie London-He's Got The Whole World (In His Hands)
> Elegants-Little Star
> Hollywood Argyles-Alley-Oop
> The Singing Nun-Dominique
> Zager & Evans-In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)
>
I don't agree with your criteria. To me, a One-Hit Wonder is an artist
who only had one single that made the Top 40. I think most people who
worked in radio would agree that the term ONE-HIT doesn't mean "ONE #1
HIT."
If you extend this to Norm's definition, which insists that these people
had only one charted single (total), then here's a list of all the One-Hit
Wonders from 1950-1970 that I know of (and there may be a few more):
Johnny Ace - "Pledging My Love"
Rex Allen - "Don't Go Near the Indians"
The Alley Cats - "Puddin' N' Tain (Ask Me Again, I'll Tell You the Same)"
The Amboy Dukes - "Journey to the Center of the Mind"
The Aquatones - "You"
Russell Arms - "Cinco Robles (Five Oaks)"
The Avante-Garde - "Naturally Stoned"
Jim Backus & Friend - "Delicious!"
The Balloon Farm - "Question of Temperature"
Chris Barber's Jazz Band - "Petite Fleur (Little Flower)"
Keith Barbour - "Echo Park"
H.B. Barnum - "Lost Love"
Ray Barretto Y Su Charanga Moderna - "El Watusi"
Barry & The Tamerlanes - "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight"
Chris Bartley - "The Sweetest Thing This Side of Heaven"
Madeline Bell - "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"
Vincent Bell & Orchestra - "The Airport Love Theme (Gwen & Vern)"
Tony Bellus - "Robbing the Cradle"
Elmer Bernstein & His Orchestra - "Main Title from łThe Man with the
Golden Arm˛"
Billy Joe & The Checkmates - "Percolator (Twist)"
The Blue Jays - "Lovers' Island"
The Blue Stars - "Lullaby of Birdland"
Bonnie Lou - "Daddy-O"
The Bonnie Sisters - "Cry Baby"
Bob Braun - "'Till Death Do Us Part"
Lillian Briggs - "I Want You to Be My Baby"
Boots Brown & His Blockbusters - "Cerveza"
Al Brown's Tunetoppers - "The Madison"
Bubble Puppy - "Hot Smoke and Sassafrass"
The Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band - "Skokiaan"
The Busters - "Bust Out"
The Cadets - "Stranded in the Jungle"
Eddie Calvert - "Oh, Mein Papa (Oh! My Papa)"
The Carefrees - "We Love You Beatles"
Renato Carosone - "Torero"
Valerie Carr - "When the Boys Talk About the Girls"
Alvin Cash & The Crawlers - "Twine Time"
The Castaways - "Liar, Liar"
Cat Mother & The All Night News Boys - "Good Old Rock 'N' Roll"
Cathy Jean & The Roommates - "Please Love Me Forever"
The Chantays - "Pipeline"
The Chords - "Sh-Boom"
Claudine Clark - "Party Lights"
Buzz Clifford - "Baby Sittin' Boogie"
Eddie Cooley & The Dimples - "Priscilla"
Les Cooper & The Soul Rockers - "Wiggle Wobble"
Ken Copeland - "Pledge of Love"
Count Five - "Psychotic Reaction"
Crazy Elephant - "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'"
The Crescendos - "Oh Julie"
The Crows - "Gee"
Daddy-O's - "Got a Match?"
Dancer, Prancer & Nervous - "The Happy Reindeer"
The Danleers - "One Summer Night"
Desmond Dekker & The Aces - "Israelites"
The Del Vikings - "Cool Shake"
The Devotions - "Rip Van Winkle"
"Little" Jimmy Dickens - "May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose"
Kenny Dino - "Your Ma Said You Cried in Your Sleep Last Night"
Paul Dino - "Ginnie Bell"
Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen - "Gallant Men"
Harold Dorman - "Mountain of Love"
Mike Douglas - "The Men in My Little Girl's Life"
Charlie Drake - "My Boomerang Won't Come Back"
Pete Drake & His Talking Steel Guitar - "Forever"
Roy Drusky - "Three Hearts in a Tangle"
The Duals - "Stick Shift"
Earl-Jean - "I'm Into Something Good"
The Earls - "Remember Then"
The Edsels - "Rama Lama Ding Dong"
The El Dorados - "At My Front Door"
* The Elegants - "Little Star"
Jimmy Elledge - "Funny How Time Slips Away"
The Equals - "Baby, Come Back"
Tommy Facenda - "High School U.S.A."
The Fendermen - "Mule Skinner Blues"
Johnny Ferguson - "Angela Jones"
The Ferko String Band - "Alabama Jubilee"
Jose Ferrer - "Woman (Uh-Huh)"
The Fifth Estate - "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead"
Larry Finnegan - "Dear One"
The Five Blobs - "The Blob"
The Flares - "Foot-Stomping (Part 1)"
Dick Flood - "The Three Bells (The Jim Brown Story)"
Free - "All Right Now"
The Gadabouts - "Stranded in the Jungle"
Dave Gardner - "White Silver Sands"
James Gilreath - "Little Band of Gold"
Gino & Gina - "(It's Been a Long Time) Pretty Baby"
Tom Glazer - "On Top of Spaghetti"
The Glencoves - "Hootenanny"
Gone All Stars - "7-11"
The Benny Goodman Trio with Rosemary Clooney - "Memories of You"
Gerry Granahan - "No Chemise, Please"
Rocco Granata & The International Quartet - "Marina"
Garland Green - "Jealous Kind of Fella"
Andy Griffith with Jean Wilson - "Make Yourself Comfortable"
The Vince Guaraldi Trio - "Cast Your Fate to the Wind"
Larry Hall - "Sandy"
The Halos - "Nag"
Stuart Hamblen - "This Ole House"
Bobby Hamilton - "Crazy Eyes for You"
Russ Hamilton - "Rainbow"
Rita Hayworth & Jose Ferrer - "The Heatąs On"
Bunker Hill - "Hide & Go Seek (Part 1)"
Ron Holden - "Love You So"
* The Hollywood Argyles - "Alley-Oop"
The Hollywood Flames - "Buzz-Buzz-Buzz"
Leroy Holmes & His Orchestra - "The High and the Mighty"
The Hombres - "Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)"
Hot Legs - "Neanderthal Man"
Big Dee Irwin with Little Eva - "Swinging on a Star"
The Islanders - "The Enchanted Sea"
The Ivy Three - "Yogi"
The Jarmels - "A Little Bit of Soap"
The Jaynetts - "Sally, Go 'Round the Roses"
Kris Jensen - "Torture"
The Jive Bombers - "Bad Boy"
* Anton Karas - "The Third Man Theme"
Jerry Keller - "Here Comes Summer"
Adrian Kimberly - "(The Graduation Song) Pomp and Circumstance"
The Kingsmen - "Week End"
Kokomo - "Asia Minor"
The Larks - "The Jerk"
Rod Lauren - "If I Had a Girl"
The Laurie Sisters - "Dixie Danny"
Eddie Lawrence - "The Old Philosopher"
Joy Layne - "Your Wild Heart"
The Little Dippers - "Forever"
Little Joe & The Thrillers - "Peanuts"
Little Joey & The Flips - "Bongo Stomp"
Julie London - "Cry Me a River"
* Laurie London - "He's Got the Whole World (In His Hands)"
Denise Lor - "If I Give My Heart to You"
The Lost Generation - "The Sly, Slick, and the Wicked"
Robin Luke - "Susie Darlin'"
Bob Luman - "Let's Think About Living"
Victor Lundberg - "An Open Letter to My Teenage Son"
Moms Mabley - "Abraham, Martin and John"
Richard Maltby & His Orchestra - "The Theme from "The Man with the Golden
Arm""
Bobby Marchan - "There's Something on Your Mind (Part 2)"
Ernie Maresca - "Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself Out)"
Pigmeat Markham - "Here Comes the Judge"
Marion Marlowe - "The Man in the Raincoat"
Trade Martin - "That Stranger Used to Be My Girl"
Vince Martin featuring The Tarriers - "Cindy, Oh Cindy"
The Marvelows - "I Do"
Mashmakhan - "As the Years Go By"
Tobin Mathews & Co. - "Ruby Duby Du"
Nathaniel Mayer - "Village of Love"
Chas. McDevitt Skiffle Group - "Freight Train"
Bob McFadden & Dor - "The Mummy"
Phil McLean - "Small Sad Sam"
The Mello-Tones - "Rosie Lee"
The Monotones - "The Book of Love"
Bob Moore & His Orchestra - "Mexico"
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir - "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
Motherlode - "When I Die"
The Mickey Mozart Quintet - "Little Dipper"
The Murmaids - "Popsicles and Icicles"
Billy Myles - "The Joker (That's What They Call Me)"
Jimmy Newman - "A Fallen Star"
Nick Noble - "The Bible Tells Me So"
The Nu Tornados - "Philadelphia U.S.A."
The Original Caste - "One Tin Soldier"
Reg Owen & His Orchestra - "Manhattan Spiritual"
Donnie Owens - "Need You"
Parade - "Sunshine Girl"
The Paradons - "Diamonds and Pearls"
The Pastel Six - "Cinnamon Cinder (Itąs a Very Nice Dance)"
The Pastels - "Been So Long"
Patty & The Emblems - "Mixed-Up, Shook-Up Girl"
Rita Pavone - "Remember Me"
The Penguins - "Earth Angel"
People - "I Love You"
Emilio Pericoli - "Al Di Laą"
Anthony Perkins - "Moonlight Swim"
The Pets - "Cha-Hua-Hua"
Pipkins - "Gimme Dat Ding"
Franck Pourcel's French Fiddles - "Only You (and You Alone) (Loin de Vous)"
Joey Powers - "Midnight Mary"
The Premiers - "Farmer John"
Bill Pursell - "Our Winter Love"
The Pyramids - "Penetration"
The Quaker City Boys - "Teasin'"
The Ramrods - "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky"
Diane Ray - "Please Don't Talk to the Lifeguard"
The Revels - "Midnight Stroll"
Floyd Robinson - "Makin' Love"
Rochell & The Candles with Johnny Wyatt - "Once Upon a Time"
Rock-A-Teens - "Woo-Hoo"
Timmy "Oh Yeah" Rogers - "Back to School Again"
Ronald & Ruby - "Lollipop"
Ronnie & The Hi-Lites - "I Wish That We Were Married"
The Roommates - "The Glory of Love"
Spencer Ross - "Tracy's Theme"
Sammy Salvo - "Oh Julie"
Felicia Sanders - "Blue Star (The łMedic˛ Theme)"
The Voices of Walter Schumann - "The Ballad of Davy Crockett"
The Secrets - "The Boy Next Door"
The Shells - "Baby Oh Baby"
The Shields - "You Cheated"
* The Silhouettes - "Get a Job"
The Silkie - "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"
* The Singing Nun - "Dominique"
Whistling Jack Smith - "I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman"
The Starlets - "Better Tell Him No"
Randy Starr - "After School"
Lou Stein - "Almost Paradise"
The Stereos - "I Really Love You"
Sandi Stewart - "My Coloring Book"
* Morris Stoloff & His Orchestra - "Moonglow and Theme from 'Picnic'"
The Cliffie Stone Orchestra - "The Popcorn Song"
The Kirby Stone Four - "Baubles, Bangles and Beads"
Billy Storm - "I've Come of Age"
Barrett Strong - "Money (That's What I Want)"
Norma Tanega - "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog"
The Techniques - "Hey! Little Girl"
Teegarden & Van Winkle - "God, Love and Rock & Roll"
The Tempos - "See You In September"
The Temptations - "Barbara"
Art & Dotty Todd - "Chanson D'Amour (Song of Love)"
Tony & Joe - "The Freeze"
Travis & Bob - "Tell Him No"
Doris Troy - "Just One Look"
The Tune Weavers - "Happy, Happy Birthday Baby"
The Turbans - "When You Dance"
Jesse Lee Turner - "Little Space Girl"
The Phil Upchurch Combo - "You Can't Sit Down (Part 2)"
Caterina Valente - "The Breeze and I"
Mark Valentino - "The Push and Kick"
Joe Valino - "Garden of Eden"
Frankie Vaughan - "Judy"
The Volumes - "I Love You"
The Voxpoppers - "Wishing for Your Love"
Walter Wanderley - "Summer Samba (So Nice)"
Dale Ward - "Letter from Sherry"
Joe Ward - "Nuttin' for Christmas"
Robin Ward - "A Wonderful Summer"
* Joan Weber - "Let Me Go, Lover"
Wind - "Make Believe"
Kai Winding - "More"
Marion Worth - "Shake Me I Rattle (Squeeze Me I Cry)"
Priscilla Wright - "The Man in the Raincoat"
Yellow Balloon - "Yellow Balloon"
Florian Zabach - "The Hot Canary"
Helmut Zacharias & His Magic Violin - "When the White Lilacs Bloom Again"
John Zacherle - "Dinner with Drac (Part 1)"
Ricky Zahnd & The Blue Jeaners - "Nuttin' for Christmas"
* Zager & Evans - "In the Year 2525"
The 9 who made it to #1 are indicated with an asterisk (*).
--MFW
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Marc Wielage
> : The Singing Nun-Dominique
>
> She had a follow up called "The Lord's Prayer".
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*bzzzzzzzzt* I'm sorry, but that's not the answer we're looking for. It
was Sister Janet Mead who had that #4 hit in 1974, outside the range of
this newsgroup.
The original Singing Nun only had the one charted U.S. single, period. No
follow-ups, though she did release an album (if memory serves).
Andrew Rogers
Marc Wielage wrote:
> The original Singing Nun only had the one charted U.S. single, period. No
> follow-ups, though she did release an album (if memory serves).
Two or three albums, actually - I used to live in Pittsfield, MA
(where the major religious denominations are Irish Catholic, Italian
Catholic, Polish Catholic, and French-Canadian Catholic), and I
rarely went to a yard sale without seeing at least one Singing Nun
album.
(I am pissed off to this day that "Dominique" kept "Louie Louie" from
the #1 position on the Billboard "Hot 100" - hell, you can't even
understand any of the words!)
At least one of her LPs, incidentally, was packaged as a gatefold with
the French lyrics and an English translation - at least three years
before the Beatles' 1967 novelty record "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts
Club Band", which is often cited to this day as the first album to
include printed lyrics.
Andrew
JimKing
>(I am pissed off to this day that "Dominique" kept "Louie Louie" from
>the #1 position on the Billboard "Hot 100" - hell, you can't even
>understand any of the words!)
Yeah, I understood the words to "Louie, Louie" right away.
~ Jim
Marc Wielage
> Two or three albums, actually - I used to live in Pittsfield, MA
> (where the major religious denominations are Irish Catholic, Italian
> Catholic, Polish Catholic, and French-Canadian Catholic), and I
> rarely went to a yard sale without seeing at least one Singing Nun
> album.
>
> (I am pissed off to this day that "Dominique" kept "Louie Louie" from
> the #1 position on the Billboard "Hot 100" - hell, you can't even
> understand any of the words!)
>
> At least one of her LPs, incidentally, was packaged as a gatefold with
> the French lyrics and an English translation - at least three years
> before the Beatles' 1967 novelty record "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts
> Club Band", which is often cited to this day as the first album to
> include printed lyrics.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
Yeah, I just looked it up, and two of her albums charted in the U.S., and
the first (the one with "Dominique") was #1 for a whopping 10 weeks, which
is incredible for 1963.
Ronald Hontz
And then she got out of the habit,admitted she was a lesbian and later
killed herself.
Generic Kalar
Andrew Rogers <rog...@hi.com> wrote:
> Marc Wielage wrote:
> she did release an album (if memory serves).
>
> Two or three albums, actually -
> At least one of her LPs, incidentally, was packaged as a gatefold with
> the French lyrics and an English translation - at least three years
> before the Beatles' 1967 novelty record "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts
> Club Band", which is often cited to this day as the first album to
> include printed lyrics.
'63 Singing Nun Phillips PCC603 in glorious rechanneled stereo
Foldopen cover with booklet and four water-color sketches
'64 Her Joy, Her Songs Philips PCC609
The lady's real name was Jeanine Deckers. Sad to say, she committed
suicide in 1985.
-- Tony <ka...@brainerd.net>
Norm Katuna
On 3/31/58 Billboard magazine reviewed Zip 4686, Walter
Brown.------"Jelly Roll Rock", and On Sat, 08 Jun 1996 15:17:59 GMT,
on a totally different subject, jay...@ix.netcom.com (Jimbo), wrote:
::: >The Del Vikings - "Cool Shake"
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:::
::: The DelVikings don't qualify..they also had "Whispering Bells" reach
::: the chart.
:::
::: Jimbo
You forgot about "Come go with me".
Now this leads to an interesting situation. First of all the Dell
(Del) Vikings split up and a new group was formed with most members of
the original group. This group recorded for Mercury while one of the
founding members of the group stayed with Dot and picked up some new
members and kept the original name with two LLs. Now does this
Mercury group with the new spelling qualify as a different group in
relationship to this thread? The Mercury group in and of itself with
the different spelling never had a chart record before or after "Cool
Shake". So depending on how this is treated, it can be or can't be a
"One hit wonder".
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Jimbo
m...@musictrax.com (Marc Wielage) wrote:
>In article <105308Z...@anon.penet.fi>, an33...@anon.penet.fi wrote:
>> Since the 1-hit wonder thread is here again, thought I'd repost the following
>> which I posted ~1-2 years ago. Courtesy of Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles,
>> here are the artists (1955-1969) whose *only* song to crack the top 100
>> hit #1:
>>
>> Joan Weber-Let Me Go Lover
>> Morris Stoloff-Moonglow & Theme From "Picnic"
>> Silhouettes-Get A Job
>> Laurie London-He's Got The Whole World (In His Hands)
>> Elegants-Little Star
>> Hollywood Argyles-Alley-Oop
>> The Singing Nun-Dominique
>> Zager & Evans-In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)
>>
>I don't agree with your criteria. To me, a One-Hit Wonder is an artist
>who only had one single that made the Top 40. I think most people who
>worked in radio would agree that the term ONE-HIT doesn't mean "ONE #1
>HIT."
>If you extend this to Norm's definition, which insists that these people
>had only one charted single (total), then here's a list of all the One-Hit
>Wonders from 1950-1970 that I know of (and there may be a few more):
(snipped)
>Desmond Dekker & The Aces - "Israelites"
>The Del Vikings - "Cool Shake"
>The Devotions - "Rip Van Winkle"
>"Little" Jimmy Dickens - "May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose"
>Kenny Dino - "Your Ma Said You Cried in Your Sleep Last Night"
>Paul Dino - "Ginnie Bell"
>Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen - "Gallant Men"
>
(snipped)
>The 9 who made it to #1 are indicated with an asterisk (*).
>--MFW
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The DelVikings don't qualify..they also had "Whispering Bells" reach
the chart.
Jimbo
A modern day Diogenes...a seeker of truth!
Marc Wielage
In article <4pbr1f$f...@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com>, jay...@ix.netcom.com
(Jimbo) wrote:
>
> The DelVikings don't qualify..they also had "Whispering Bells" reach
> the chart.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
Not exactly true. Though The Del Vikings and the Dell-Vikings had one or
two of the same group members, I consider them to be different groups, on
different labels. By that criteria, the Del Vikings are indeed a true
one-hit wonder even by Norm's strict rules -- only one Top 40 hit, and
that was also their only charted pop single.
The story is this (from my database notes):
"After their early 1957 hit "Come Go with Me," Dell-Vikings group member
Donald "Gus" Backus left after a dispute and started a new group called
³The Del Vikings² (with only one L). This was their only charted single."
I welcome any and all comments on the "Del Vikings vs. the Dell-Vikings"
controversy.
abbeyrd@best.com/Steve Marinucci
Andrew Rogers wrote:
>
> Two or three albums, actually - I used to live in Pittsfield, MA
> (where the major religious denominations are Irish Catholic, Italian
> Catholic, Polish Catholic, and French-Canadian Catholic), and I
> rarely went to a yard sale without seeing at least one Singing Nun
> album.
I used to live in Watertown, Mass. (near Boston), and the Dominican nuns
at the Catholic school I went to (Mt. Trinity Academy) recorded their
own song, which I remember hearing endlessly in school because the nuns
would play it over and over. I remember my eighth grade teacher being
very firm in telling us we should buy it. This was around '65. I did,
though some of my friends weren't so easily persuaded. I was an
impressionable little kid.
I could probably still recall the song if I thought hard enough, though
thankfully, I don't think the record survives in my collection today...
steve
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