One Hit Wonders
Jerry Stone
scene. Here's a starter list of either #1 or Top Ten singles that
looking back, were some pretty "sorry" songs:
Beach Baby First Class
Convoy ???
Don't Pull Your Love Hamilton, Joe Frank, & Reynolds
Eighteen With a Bullett Pete Wingfield
Feelings (barf!) Morris Albert
Kiss You All Over Exile (still together, I understand)
Kung Fu Fighting Carl ?
Paloma Blanca ???
The Night Chicago Died Paper Lace
Saturday Night Bay City Rollers (The Next Beatles!)
Seasons In the Sun (barfx2) Terry Jacks
...and ANYTHING by Barry Manilow !
Albert Avery Vise
Jerry Stone (godz...@netcom.com) wrote:
: The 70s were a great decade for "One Hit Wonders" on the pop music
: scene. Here's a starter list of either #1 or Top Ten singles that
: looking back, were some pretty "sorry" songs:
: Convoy ???
The artist is C.W. McCall. Who was he? I haven't the foggiest, probably
a minor c/w star. 'Convoy', BTW, should not be confused with 'The White
Knight', another novelty song capitalizing on the citizen's band radio
craze of 1974-1975 or so. That one was recorded by Merle Haggard.
: Feelings (barf!) Morris Albert
Also covered by Freddy Fender, I believe.
: Kung Fu Fighting Carl ?
Carl Douglas. I have no idea what ever became of him.
: The Night Chicago Died Paper Lace
Paper Lace not only had the bad taste to record this song, they actually
covered it. Like Donna Summer recording a disco version of MacArthur
Park, first (unwisely) released by actor Richard Harris. Another group,
British I believe, recorded 'The Night Chicago Died first. Their name
escapes me, but they were as bad as Paper Lace. If I remember, I'll post.
: Saturday Night Bay City Rollers (The Next Beatles!)
Not technically a one-hit wonder (more like The Knack, which was a
two-hit wonder), but they certainly were in spirit. The Knack, you will
recall, also were The Next Beatles. BCR also shared in that uniquely
'70s phenomenon of giving one-hit wonders television shows. Everyone was
going for another Sonny & Cher or Donnie & Marie, but it rarely worked.
Remember The Hudson Brothers? Another notable recording act that had a
TV show was Starland Vocal Band, which recorded Afternoon Delight. The
most significant thing about their show was that one of the regulars was
a young David Letterman.
: Seasons In the Sun (barfx2) Terry Jacks
Lyrics by poet Rod McKuen.
: ...and ANYTHING by Barry Manilow !
Sadly, most sadly, not a one-hit wonder, but one can dream certainly.
To yours I would add:
Disco Duck Rick Dees (in his defense, it was intended to be bad.)
Midnight at the Oasis Maria Muldaur (who has had success as a New Age act.)
Loving You Minnie Ripperton
Fifth of Beethoven Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band
Brand New Key Melanie
Magic Pilot ('whoa, whoa, whoa it's magic')
Undercover Angel Alan O'Day
Dead Skunk Loudon Wainwright III (great at folk, bad at pop)
Later,
Avery
Ronald Snelgrove
To give Ms. Ripperton the benefit of the doubt, she may have had more hits had
she lived past the late 1970's. I'm pretty sure that she passed away in
1979-80.
Ron
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Mark Thomas
Lonely Boy, by Andrew Gold.
I Like Dreaming. Can't think of the singer..
My sister has _all_ the Bay City Rollers albums..
It's a point of much embarrassment these days.
Ken Strayhorn Jr.
<Avery fills in the gaps of another One-Hit post, then adds . . .>
>To yours I would add:
>
>Disco Duck Rick Dees (in his defense, it was intended to be bad.)
Dees was a former DJ in Greensboro, NC, where I first heard him. His version
of Phil Collins "Sudio", called "Sushio", envisions Flipper in a
California Roll. What can I say, I have an odd sense of humor.
>Midnight at the Oasis Maria Muldaur (who has had success as a New Age act.)
Nifty song, with the amazing guitar talent of Amos Garrett. Muldaur came
out of Jim Kweskin's Jug Band. Kweskin later became convinced he was God
(I'm not kidding), so I'm not surprised that Maria ended up on the New
Age circuit.
>Loving You Minnie Ripperton
One of Stevie Wonder's discoveries. Sadly, dead of cancer.
>Fifth of Beethoven Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band
Death to Walter Murphy.
>Brand New Key Melanie
As I said before, Brand New Irritation. But didn't she have a later
hit with "Candles in the Rain"?
>Magic Pilot ('whoa, whoa, whoa it's magic')
Hand me another death warrant to sign!
>Undercover Angel Alan O'Day
Add Alan O'Day to the list as well
>Dead Skunk Loudon Wainwright III (great at folk, bad at pop)
Since we share the same hometown, I can't say too much. But I did
like this song.
While we are talking about terrible one-hit wonders:
"Gimme Dat Ding", The Pipkins, 1970
"Chick-a-boom", Daddy Dewdrop, 1971
"Desiderata", Les Crane, 1971
"Funky Nassau", Beginning of the End, 1971
Each of these songs was in the Top 40 in the year mentioned. If that
doesn't make you want to grab an assault rifle and kill everyone
in the music industry, I don't know what will.
Strayhorn
Not Duke policy, etc.
Dawn M Kilbourn
I was just thinking of this song. I sing it at work and drive everyone
crazy. What about "The Things We Do For Love" by 10cc?
-Dawn
Kameran Kashani
wrote numerous popular songs for other artists (for example, for Linda Ronstadt).
Of course, his extensive experience and credentials don't mean that "Lonley Boy"
was anything except a miserable piece of trash. But I digress.
A classic one-hit-wonder group is "Looking Glass." You know, "Brandy
you're a fine girl, what a good wife you would be. But my life, my love
and my lady are the sea. [Dooo-doo-do, doooo-doo-do, dooo-do-doo etc.]"
Sort of in the Andew-Gold miliue of stepping-out-from-the-backdrop
to record a hit then fading way ... Nicollette Larsen. Or was it "Larson?"
Her cover of Neil Young's "Lotta Love" hit the charts but we never heard
much from her after that. I might still have that two-foot-high stack of
empty Nicollette Larse[o]n album covers that had decorated the
record-store wall.
And in the No-Hit-Non-Wonder category, there's "Zwol." A bald guy
who wore mirrored shades. My best friend would buy every copy of
every used Zwol album he could find. Of course, he balked when the
price was over 25 cents. Mostly Zwol albums went for 10 cents.
Kam
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>Paloma Blanca ???
Bobby Vinton did the version I recall. I'm just a bird in the sky...
>Seasons In the Sun (barfx2) Terry Jacks
Hardly a one hit wonder! "Where Evil Grows" jumps to mind...
and the Poppy Family had a few hits.
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Leanne McInnes
>Disco Duck Rick Dees (in his defense, it was intended to be bad.)
>Fifth of Beethoven Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band
>Magic Pilot ('whoa, whoa, whoa it's magic')
>Later,
>Avery
Pilot also did have a hit with "January", so can't really be OHWs.
Here's a short list from me (b. 1970)
She Taught Me How to Love Again -Bjerre
You're Moving Out Today -Carol Bayer-Sager (I know she WROTE lots)
Baker Street -Gerry Rafferty
Smurf Song -Father Abraham
Born to Be Alive -Patrick Hernandez
Forgive any repeats here, I missed the original post.
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>>Loving You Minnie Ripperton
>One of Stevie Wonder's discoveries. Sadly, dead of cancer.
>Strayhorn
Loving You was a hit all over again (esp. in Europe) when
the Orb created an electronic/ambient version with Minnie('s voice)
in '89-'91, it's called:
"a huge ever growing pulsating brain that rules
from the centre of the ultraworld (loving you)"
You can find it many places:
_the orb's adventures beyond the ultraworld_
_(Artificial Intelligence I) Electronic Listening music_
_ORB LIVE '93_
check it out,
-LorenD
Kelly Sprankle
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I hate to be disagreeable(sp??), but 10cc put out quite a few albums six
to ten. I don't know the exact count, but they are really quite
interesting, some a little out of the mainstream. Two of the members Kevin
Godley and Lol Cream are involved in music video production these days last
that I heard. KS
Tom Valesky
Albert Avery Vise <av...@netcom.com> wrote:
[snazzy list deleted]
How 'bout:
"Fox on the Run" by The Sweet
"Hot Child in the City" by Nick Gilder
"Baker Street" by [GJ]erry Rafferty
"Taxi" by ??? (you know, "another man mighta been angry,
another man mighta been hurt,
but another man never woulda let her go,
I stuck the bill in my shirt")
"In the Bush" by Musique
More! More! More!
Tom Valesky
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>In article <aviseCt...@netcom.com>,
>Albert Avery Vise <av...@netcom.com> wrote:
>
>[snazzy list deleted]
>
>How 'bout:
>
>"Fox on the Run" by The Sweet
>"Hot Child in the City" by Nick Gilder
>"Baker Street" by [GJ]erry Rafferty
>"Taxi" by ??? (you know, "another man mighta been angry,
> another man mighta been hurt,
> but another man never woulda let her go,
> I stuck the bill in my shirt")
Harry Chapin...Did you forget "Cat's In The Cradle (bigger hit than "Taxi")? or
"W.O.L.D"?...btw it's "I stashed the bill in my shirt."
You're welcome!
Mark Thomas
: "Taxi" by ??? (you know, "another man mighta been angry,
: another man mighta been hurt,
: but another man never woulda let her go,
: I stuck the bill in my shirt")
Harry Chapin was _hardly_ a one hit wonder..
Laura Gillespie
The Grand Wazoo <yac...@eeserv.ee.umanitoba.ca> wrote:
>godz...@netcom.com (Jerry Stone) writes:
>>Seasons In the Sun (barfx2) Terry Jacks
^^^^^^^^
I beg your pardon! That was one of the great songs of the '70s, and
one of my own all-time favorites. It was a heart-felt song, about a
dying young man looking back on his life. It was very beautiful, it
made me cry, it got me depressed -- a *classic*! If you find this
song offensive, it likely means that you don't like songs which evoke
strong feelings of sentimentality, sadness, and the like. Perhaps you
could use some sensitivity training.
I also point out that this song has even more meaning because it comes
from my senior year in high school.
This is all my opinion, of course.
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Erik A Smith
¥>The 70s were a great decade for "One Hit Wonders" on the pop music
¥>scene. Here's a starter list of either #1 or Top Ten singles that
¥>looking back, were some pretty "sorry" songs:
Heartbeat(It's a Lovebeat) The DeFranco Family featuring
Joey DeFranco
Brandy Looking Glass
Fox on the Run Sweet
How 'bout a two hit wonder: Jim Stafford
He gave us "Spiders & Snakes" AND "My Girl Bill"
EAS
CSCI1E80
>In article av...@netcom.com (Albert Avery Vise) writes:
>
stuff deleted ...
>
>
>While we are talking about terrible one-hit wonders:
>
>"Gimme Dat Ding", The Pipkins, 1970
>"Chick-a-boom", Daddy Dewdrop, 1971
>"Desiderata", Les Crane, 1971
>"Funky Nassau", Beginning of the End, 1971
>
>
>Each of these songs was in the Top 40 in the year mentioned. If that
>doesn't make you want to grab an assault rifle and kill everyone
>in the music industry, I don't know what will.
>
>
>Strayhorn
>
>Not Duke policy, etc.
>
Now here's a real winner :
How about "Tiptoe Through The Tulips" by Tiny Tim (I think that was his name).
Does anybody remember when he married Miss Julie (I think that was her name) on
the Tonight Show ?
Dawn M Kilbourn
>
>Ą>The 70s were a great decade for "One Hit Wonders" on the pop music
>Ą>scene. Here's a starter list of either #1 or Top Ten singles that
>Ą>looking back, were some pretty "sorry" songs:
>
>We can't forget:
>Fox on the Run Sweet
>
>
"Ballroom Blitz" and "Little Willie".
By the way, does anyone know who sings the song that goes "you are the
magnet and I am steel" or something like that. I heard it on the the
radio and it keeps going through my head.
-Dawn
AVB
lau...@ritz.mordor.com (Laura Gillespie) writes:
> >>Seasons In the Sun (barfx2) Terry Jacks
My cousin had a hearing problem and thought the song was "Weenies in a
Bun."
That's the only thing I can ever think of when I hear this song.
AVB
Ted Fry
> Now here's a real winner :
>
> How about "Tiptoe Through The Tulips" by Tiny Tim (I think that was his name).
>
> Does anybody remember when he married Miss Julie (I think that was her name) on
> the Tonight Show ?
That was the 1960s, not the 70s. Tim married in 1969 on the Tonight Show,
which -- until the moon landing some months later -- had one of the the
biggest TV audiences ever.
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Mark Thomas
: How about "Tiptoe Through The Tulips" by Tiny Tim (I think that was his name).
: Does anybody remember when he married Miss Julie (I think that was her name) on
: the Tonight Show ?
I think she was Miss Twiggy. That marriage (before my time) is still the
most watched Tonight Show ever (excluding the final show, I'm told).
Tiny Tim is still around, doing _what_ I can't imagine. He turned up in
interviews when they were doing all those Johnny Carson retrospectives a
few years ago.
TT was one of those guests that Johnny dropped like a rock when it was
clear that the fad had passed.
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>Midnight at the Oasis Maria Muldaur (who has had success as a New Age act.)
Nifty song, with the amazing guitar talent of Amos Garrett. Muldaur came
out of Jim Kweskin's Jug Band. Kweskin later became convinced he was God
(I'm not kidding), so I'm not surprised that Maria ended up on the New
Age circuit.
Thanks very much for this info! I have always loved this record, and wondered
who played the great guitar on it.
Did this Garrett guy do anything else, or was he mostly a studio player?
Dave
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Come on. You're forgetting:
Hooked On A Feeling Blue Swede (actually a cover)
Pretty Lady Lighthouse
Smoking In The Boys Room Brownsville Station (!)
plus more that don't come to mind at the moment
I definitely appreciate the inclusion of "Kung Fu Fighting", which I
regard as a classic. BTW, I like to call your last entry "Seizures In
The Sun".
Dave
Brenda Thorne
ah yes, the 70's had to be thee decade of the one-hit-wonder.
some corrections to the list....
Convoy was by CW McCall (but i think i spelled it wrong)
KungFu Fighting by Carl Douglas
that list was of sorry songs and not one hit wonders though because i am
quite sure some of those artists had more than one hit.
for more sorry 70's tunes (and many classics) check out Rhino Records
"Have a Nice Day - Hits of the 70's" series. IT"S THE BEST!!!!!
Now, who sang Paloma Blanca?!!!!?!?!??!?! (that doesn't ring a single bell
with me!)
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Albert Avery Vise
: While we are talking about terrible one-hit wonders:
: "Chick-a-boom", Daddy Dewdrop, 1971
Don't forget the full name of this truly awful song: "Chick-a-boom,
chick-a-boom (Don't ya jes love it)"
Avery
Albert Avery Vise
: A classic one-hit-wonder group is "Looking Glass." You know, "Brandy
: you're a fine girl, what a good wife you would be. But my life, my love
: and my lady are the sea. [Dooo-doo-do, doooo-doo-do, dooo-do-doo etc.]"
Looking Glass wasn't a pure one-hit-wonder either. They had a minor hit
with "Jimmie Loves Mary-Anne" in 1973. "Brandy", of course, hit number
1. "Jimmie Loves Marry-Anne" was on the charts for 15 weeks, but it
topped out at number 33.
Avery
Albert Avery Vise
: "Taxi" by ??? (you know, "another man mighta been angry,
: another man mighta been hurt,
: but another man never woulda let her go,
: I stuck the bill in my shirt")
The late Harry Chapin was no pop superstar, but he did have more than one
hit. "Cat's In The Cradle" (circa 1976) probably charted higher than
"Taxi", but I'm not sure. Also, the sequel to "Taxi", creatively named
"Sequel", may have hit the charts as well and certainly still gets play
now and again on oldies stations. Folk/folk rock was Chapin's forte,
some of it humorous ("30,000 Pounds of Bananas"), but most of it melancholy.
Chapin was killed in an automobile accident in July 1981, after, I
believe, suffering a heart attack.
Avery
Albert Avery Vise
: >>Seasons In the Sun (barfx2) Terry Jacks
: ^^^^^^^^
: I beg your pardon! That was one of the great songs of the '70s, and
: one of my own all-time favorites. It was a heart-felt song, about a
: dying young man looking back on his life. It was very beautiful, it
: made me cry, it got me depressed -- a *classic*! If you find this
: song offensive, it likely means that you don't like songs which evoke
: strong feelings of sentimentality, sadness, and the like. Perhaps you
: could use some sensitivity training.
I agree with you, but I certainly see the point of this songs
detractors. The tune is sophomoric and lyrics maudlin. From a pure
aesthetics stand point, it...sucks.
HOWEVER, as a work of impressionism, "Seasons In The Sun" is great. If
you are in the right mood and perhaps have had a little to drink, it can
make you break down and cry like a baby. IMHO, it's a much better
tearjerker than, say, Bobby Goldsboro's appalling hit, "Honey".
Avery
Albert Avery Vise
: Brandy Looking Glass
See my response elsewhere in this thread.
: Fox on the Run Sweet
Sweet was definitely not a one-hit wonder. Among their popular songs
were "Little Willy" (you know, "Little Willy Willy won't...go home"),
"Ballroom Blitz" (which was covered in the movie "Wayne's World"), and
"Love Is Like Oxygen".
Avery
Albert Avery Vise
: By the way, does anyone know who sings the song that goes "you are the
: magnet and I am steel" or something like that. I heard it on the the
: radio and it keeps going through my head.
: -Dawn
It was recorded by the ever-popular Walter Egan. It was his only Top 40
hit. "Magnet and Steel", BTW, was co-produced by Lindsey Buckingham. I
guess it didn't hurt to have a member of the most popular group of the
'70s (or was that The BeeGees?) on his team.
Avery
Albert Avery Vise
: : The Night Chicago Died Paper Lace
: Paper Lace not only had the bad taste to record this song, they actually
: covered it. Like Donna Summer recording a disco version of MacArthur
: Park, first (unwisely) released by actor Richard Harris. Another group,
: British I believe, recorded 'The Night Chicago Died first. Their name
: escapes me, but they were as bad as Paper Lace. If I remember, I'll post.
I'm responding to my own response because I now remember the group that
did "The Night Chicago Died" first. It was Bo Donaldson and The
Heywoods, but their version was released only in the U.K., I believe. BD
& THs are better known for another song, but I can't remember it. Can
someone help me out?
Also, while I'm here, I thought I would post a few more one-hit wonders
for everyone's consideration:
Thunder Island Jay Ferguson
Sometimes When We Touch Dan Hill (prime candidate for the all-time worst)
Love Is In The Air John Paul Young (a lounge singer's wet dream)
The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia Vicki Lawrence (of Carol Burnett)
It Never Rains In Southern California Albert Hammond
Happy Days Pratt & McClain
Moonlight Feels Right Starbuck
Avery
Curtis Jackson
} Smoking In The Boys Room Brownsville Station (!)
Was it Brownsville Station who did a stupid little song
called "Martian Boogie" ?
Here's how stupid:
The singer of the song passes up all the cheap franchise
joints on hamburger row to go to a place called Eats.
He orders up a couple of greasebombs, and a little green
Martian sitting next to him at the counter asks him to
pass the ketchup (which is how he first becomes aware of
said little green Martian).
The Martian then gives him a "Martian cigarette", our
hero tries it, and proceeds to go into some silly
dialogue with the Martian, interspersed with loud guitar
work. Said dialogue obviously written under the influence
of "Martian cigarettes."
Anybody know if this was Brownsville Station or someone
else?
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>
>I'm responding to my own response because I now remember the group that
>did "The Night Chicago Died" first. It was Bo Donaldson and The
>Heywoods, but their version was released only in the U.K., I believe. BD
>& THs are better known for another song, but I can't remember it. Can
>someone help me out?
>
The song was "Billy, Don't Be A Hero" which (I think) made it to #1
in the spring/summer of 1974. Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods had another
minor hit but I can't remember what it was.
In keeping with the thread here are a few more one-hit wonders:
Driver's Seat (1979) Sniff 'n' the Tears
Back In Love Again (1977) LTD
Fooled Around and Fell In Love (1976) Elvin Bishop
Torn Between Two Lovers (ugh - 1977?) Mary McGregor
I Can Help (1974) Billy Swan
and one of all-time favorite cheesy 70's songs
Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me) (1974) Reunion
As the story goes, this wasn't even a group but a bunch of studio musicians
who were brought together to produce a single and then went their separate
ways. One recording session, one hit, nobody left on base. And being
able to mention Doris Day and Jack the Ripper in the same sentence.
But then, hey, it was the seventies ....
Bob Schlesinger
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Nope. the VW Rabbit he was driving (like a maniac...like the do on the LIE)
didn't react when he hit the gas to get in from of an 18-wheeler, thereby
causing same to rear-end the VW.
>
>Avery
>
>
Ken Strayhorn Jr.
Garrett was primarily a studio player but did put out at least one solo
record, called "Empty Cupboard" or "Empty Closet", something like that.
He also had an album with Muldaur's husband, called "Geoff Muldaur
and Amos Garrett". Both of these are moldering at home in my record
closet.
Garrett has spent mos of his career on Rounder and Flying Fish records
and the folks who record for those two off-beat labels. Garrett also
turns up from time to time in magazines like "Musician" and "Guitar Player".
Apparently he's quite well-respected in the Northeast among the club
and studio set.
Beth Allerton
sor...@panix.com (Mark Thomas) writes:
>CSCI1E80 (csci1e80@uhcl2) wrote:
>
>: How about "Tiptoe Through The Tulips" by Tiny Tim (I think that was his name).
>
>: Does anybody remember when he married Miss Julie (I think that was her name) on
>: the Tonight Show ?
>
>
>I think she was Miss Twiggy. That marriage (before my time) is still the
>most watched Tonight Show ever (excluding the final show, I'm told).
>
I remember seeing the wedding on the Carson show. I thought TT was hilarious,
and my mom would tell me he was singing REAL songs, that were popular in the
20s-30s? and I didn't believe her. I thought he wrote them specially to be
weird and irritating. Twiggy was the british model in the 60s that needed
a few pounds to be anorexic. She was last seen in the TV pilot about three
girls in an apartment - princesses? - about 2-3 years ago???
-Beth
Bruce Harrison
cjac...@adobe.com (Curtis Jackson) writes:
>In article <STALLARD.94...@viola.bbn.com> stal...@BBN.COM writes:
>} Smoking In The Boys Room Brownsville Station (!)
>
>Was it Brownsville Station who did a stupid little song
>called "Martian Boogie" ?
>Anybody know if this was Brownsville Station or someone
>else?
the Boy's Room: The Best of Brownsville Station". It's on Rhino Records.
[I thought my brother and I were the only ones who remembered this song...]
Bruce Harrison
U. of Louisville
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Phil Miller
: guess it didn't hurt to have a member of the most popular group of the
: '70s (or was that The BeeGees?) on his team.
Didn't Walter Egan also have a hit at about that same time with "Sentimental
Lady" (or something like that)?
philll
Phil Miller
: >"Funky Nassau", Beginning of the End, 1971
This was the rip-off of Sly Stone's "Dance to the Music", right?
and of this same ilk: "Tarus" by Dennis Coffee.
philll
Dave Stallard
Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me) (1974) Reunion
*Great* choice. But how come nobody has yet mentioned:
Radar Love (1975) Golden Earring
ASBU...@ulkyvm.louisville.edu
ck radio is conservative, so there is hit after hit after hit from the same art
ists, but back in the radio-apartheid days, there were plenty of lame-a-zoids (
especially of the disco and funk variety). my all-time number one loser, though
, would have to be "King Kong" by Jimmy Castor. does anybody else remember this
turkey? when you're done falling out of your chair, respond and add some more
tunes to the list.
tony...bi-racial, so my memories of the seventies are like sesame street...
John Ferraris
: Jerry Stone (godz...@netcom.com) wrote:
: : The 70s were a great decade for "One Hit Wonders" on the pop music
: : scene. Here's a starter list of either #1 or Top Ten singles that
: : looking back, were some pretty "sorry" songs:
: : Convoy ???
: The artist is C.W. McCall. Who was he? I haven't the foggiest, probably
: a minor c/w star.
He also did 'Wolfcreek Pass'. (My little brother had the album...)
: 'Convoy', BTW, should not be confused with 'The White
: Knight', another novelty song capitalizing on the citizen's band radio
: craze of 1974-1975 or so. That one was recorded by Merle Haggard.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Nope, Cledus Maggard and the Citizen Band. (I have the album...
<blush>)
: Later,
: Avery
Later...
jbf
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: In article <aviseCt...@netcom.com>,
: Albert Avery Vise <av...@netcom.com> wrote:
: [snazzy list deleted]
: How 'bout:
: "Fox on the Run" by The Sweet
: "Hot Child in the City" by Nick Gilder
: "Baker Street" by [GJ]erry Rafferty
: "Taxi" by ??? (you know, "another man mighta been angry,
: another man mighta been hurt,
: but another man never woulda let her go,
: I stuck the bill in my shirt")
Uh, Harry Chapin.
: "In the Bush" by Musique
: More! More! More!
: Tom Valesky
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John Ferraris
: Sweet was not a one hit wonder...they also sang "Love is Like Oxygen"
: "Ballroom Blitz" and "Little Willie".
: By the way, does anyone know who sings the song that goes "you are the
: magnet and I am steel" or something like that. I heard it on the the
: radio and it keeps going through my head.
: -Dawn
That would have been Walter Egan.... Don't ask me HOW I know that, I
just do... :)
Albert Avery Vise
: Didn't Walter Egan also have a hit at about that same time with "Sentimental
: Lady" (or something like that)?
: philll
No, "Sentimental Lady" was recorded by Bob Welch, who had been a member
of Fleetwood Mac but left before they became really, really popular.
Christine McVie and/or Stevie Nicks sang back-up on the record. SL was
Welch's biggest hit, but he did have another hit in 1979 with "Precious
Love".
Avery
Albert Avery Vise
: Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me) (1974) Reunion
: As the story goes, this wasn't even a group but a bunch of studio musicians
: who were brought together to produce a single and then went their separate
: ways. One recording session, one hit, nobody left on base. And being
: able to mention Doris Day and Jack the Ripper in the same sentence.
That one day not only spawned a bit hit for Reunion, but clearly inspired
Billy Joel's biggest hit from the 'Storm Front' album, "We Didn't Start
The Fire." And in the Washington, D.C. are, one of the local shoppping
malls is using the tune from "Life Is A Rock...", replacing the names of
people with the names of stores in the mall.
Avery
Wendell R. Ricks
How about "You light up my life"? Was that the most
overplayed song of the 70's? I don't remember too
many other hits (none in fact) from her. The song
was okay, but the overplay made it unbearable.
WRRicks
Jennifer Eastman
I think Golden Earring try for one hit per decade. _Radar Love_ in the '70s,
_Twilight Zone_ in the '80s. Makes you wonder what the '90s hold in store...
:)
Oh, and for the person (sorry, didn't save the msg) who mentioned Dan Hill's
_Sometimes When We Touch_ (which I have on some K-TEL collection somewhere --
heh), he also had a lesser hit with Vonda Sheppard (sp?) in the mid-80s
with _Can't We Try_.
Now, I'm new to this thread, but has anyone mentioned _She's Having My Baby_
yet (BTW, who was it by?)?
-- Jen
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tony buchanan
>: "Hot Child in the City" by Nick Gilder
>: "Baker Street" by [GJ]erry Rafferty
>: "Taxi" by ??? (you know, "another man mighta been angry,
>: "In the Bush" by Musique
>: More! More! More!
>
1) Marie Osmond--Paper Roses 2) Gilbert O'Sullivan--Alone Again
(Naturally) 3) Humperdinnck--After the Lovin' 4)Neil Diamond--
If You Know What I Mean 5)Johnny Mathis--Life Is A Song Worth
Singing 6) Captain and Tenneille--Muskrat Love: all of this is
pure "Easy Sounds of the Seventies" for only $19.95 check or
money-order pablum...
please don't talk to me about sentimentality because i like
Harry Chapin, the Carpenters, the Moody Blues, Judy Collins,
Phoebe Snow, Carol KIng, and Barbara...the people above just
SUCK!!!!!!!!!...tony...
Mark Taylor
>>
>>I'm responding to my own response because I now remember the group that
>>did "The Night Chicago Died" first. It was Bo Donaldson and The
>>Heywoods, but their version was released only in the U.K., I believe. BD
>>& THs are better known for another song, but I can't remember it. Can
>>someone help me out?
>
>The song was "Billy, Don't Be A Hero" which (I think) made it to #1
>in the spring/summer of 1974. Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods had another
>minor hit but I can't remember what it was.
I hadn't read this group for a while, and was beginning to think I
would get all the way to the end of the thread with no one mentioning
this CLASSIC sappy song. I used to drive my family crazy singing it.
I have a 45 with BDBAH on one side, and TNCD on the flipside,
although it is a crappy rendition of BDBAH... A real gem.
Another real winner (loser?) for the list:
Run, Joey, Run
Anyone else remember this major human drama of a song?
James R. Stromski
j...@ll.mit.edu (Jennifer Eastman) writes:
>
> Now, I'm new to this thread, but has anyone mentioned _She's Having My Baby_
> yet (BTW, who was it by?)?
>
> -- Jen
Pretty sure that it was Paul Anka....
Samantha Star Straf
Mark Taylor <mta...@FRICKA.DUCH.UDEL.EDU> wrote:
>
>I have a 45 with BDBAH on one side, and TNCD on the flipside,
>although it is a crappy rendition of BDBAH... A real gem.
>
>Another real winner (loser?) for the list:
> Run, Joey, Run
>Anyone else remember this major human drama of a song?
that was on my first album I ever bought with my own money (K-Tel)
along with
Chevy Van
Mandy
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