TOM COCHRANE - Life Is A Highway

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Originally posted by Hoffy1951:
"The Turtles" and "The Vogues" were two examples...out of the greater Pittsburgh, Pa, area.

Kat and i saw Turtle Creek's the Vogues recently at a charity fundraiser in McKeesport........ The Turtles were/are a California band.

Here's a cool piece of trivia -- On the FIRST Mothers of Invention (frank zappa) album "Freak Out", Frank's lookin for shock value, and in the liner notes he quotes a record industry exec's opinion of the Mothers -- It went something like "gimme a couple thousand dollars, get'm all a bath and a haircut, and I could make them as big as the Turtles." in less than five years, the Turtles were defunct, the Mothers were bigger than ever, and the two lead singers from the Turtles, Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, had joined the Mothers as "Flo and Eddie". This was the ultimate comeuppance for those of us involved in the counterculture music scene.

then, coming full circle, Flo and Eddie are now touring as the Turtles -- saw them at the State theater in Uniontown last year, which means I have REALLY sold out to "THE MAN".

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Originally posted by peaceforall:
Blind Melon - No Rain (C) 1993

He OD'd!

And peed on his audience once I heard. Yuck

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Originally posted by navy8086:
The Night Chicago Died - Paperlace

God I haven't heard or even thought about that sond in a long time. I love that song.

Michael Parks - Long Lonesome Highway.

It was the theme song for a television show called "Then Came Bronson" or something close to that.

One hit wonders? Well let’s see:
12 Presidents have served a single elected term - John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, James K Polk, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Rutherford B Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, Jimmy Carter and George HW Bush.
4 Presidents - Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry S Truman and Lyndon B Johnson - have succeeded to the Presidency through death, and then gone on to serve a single elected term of their own.
3 Presidents were elected to second terms but failed to complete them. - Abraham Lincoln and William McKinley served only a few weeks or months of their second terms before being assassinated, and Richard M Nixon, resigned 19 months into his second term.
3 Presidents - William H Harrison, Zachary Taylor, and Warren G Harding - died during their first terms and so had no opportunity to seek a second.
4 Presidents - John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson and Gerald Ford - succeeded from the Vice-Presidency but did not win elected terms of their own.
That gives 26 Presidentts who were "single-termers" or one hit wonders by one definition or another.
Or at least according to wikipedia:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_US_Presidents_served_only_one_term

Oh, jeesh! You meant recordings! Songs! Records! Never mind!!

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Originally posted by The_Bonesaw:

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Originally posted by ArtMarsh:

Why is it that I see dozens of songs listed on this "One Hit Wonders" thread whose bands/singers enjoyed multiple albums? Come on folks... Someone included even the mega band "Journey."

Because you have to draw the line somewhere:

We had this same discussion on another forum (I have even cut and pasted some of my same responses there to here - plagiarizing myself); all of us decided to come close to an agreement that "One Hit Wonder" would be defined as anyone who only had one US top 40 pop single in their career (because this his how Billboard loosely defines the term). The UK defines one hit wonder by the same criteria but gives the artist a better chance of breaking into the top 75.

Obviously, there are several artists with long illustrious careers who meet this criteria (and that's where the debate comes into play). Sure, Nena had a great singing career... in GERMANY; but she only broke into the US charts once.

By the Billboard definition: Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Rush, Lou Reed and The Grateful Dead are ALL one hit wonders. Do we, the public, consider them so? Not really... because all of them sold multiple albums and have a huge fan base to this day (including the first two who suffered more from an early, extended case of being dead, which was probably the sole contributer to their inclusion). But, technically, the argument could be made - the reason most people don't is that all of those artist have multiple songs well known to the general public. I admitted that Information Society had a couple of other albums and even charted more than once in top 40 Pop. They also charted more than once in top 10 Dance genre... however; no one has a clue what their other top 40 pop single was, because it only barely broke in and wasn't there for very long and - to the second point - who pays attention to Top 40 dance? I Wanna Know (Pure Energy) remains the only song for which that band is remembered.

I try to give the benefit of the doubt by not listing artists of good longevity on the US charts. I personally think The Grateful Dead suck donkey balls... but I cannot ignore the fact that they had a tremendous career and an enormous fan base. At the same time, I think T'pau was awesome, I own all their albums, but I acknowledge that the rest of the world views them as a flash in the pan.

Thanks Bonesaw, that makes a bit more sense now... and you are most certainly correct about Nena. It was years after the release before I even found that Nena HAD released an American album...

But some of the other posters are calling persons and bands "one hit wonders" when they have had multiple releases in the Pop 40 charts. One of our problems may be that there are s-o-o-o-o many top 40 charts out there... of which POP is only one. The only reason I knew that one existed was because of Casy Kassum (sp?) from decades ago.

Geesh! Didn't Bill Shatner settle all this on the Top 100 One Hit Wonders on VH1!

# Title Artist

100 Kung Fu Fighting Carl Douglas
99 No Rain Blind Melon
98 Two Of Hearts Stacey Q
97 Whoomp! (There It Is) - (2000 remix) Tag Team
96 I Want Candy Bow Wow Wow
95 Harper Valley PTA Jeannie C. Riley
94 What's Up 4 Non Blondes
93 Don't Give Up On Us David Soul
92 Heart And Soul T'Pau
91 Electric Avenue Eddy Grant
90 Don't Wanna Fall In Love Jane Child
89 Achy Breaky Heart Billy Ray Cyrus
88 Barbie Girl Aqua
87 Don't Leave Me This Way Thelma Houston
86 Bust A Move Young M.C.
85 Spirit In The Sky Norman Greenbaum
84 You Gotta Be Des'ree
83 Safety Dance The Men Without Hats
82 I Know What Boys Like The Waitresses
81 Just A Friend Biz Markie
80 *** On Feel The Noize Quiet Riot
79 Puttin' On The Ritz Taco
78 Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Crash Test Dummies
77 What I Am Edie Brickell
76 We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off Jermaine Stewart
75 I've Never Been to Me Charlene
74 Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat) Digable Planets
73 Convoy C.W. McCall
72 Maniac Michael Sembello
71 How Bizarre OMC
70 The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia Vicki Lawrence
69 Funkytown Lipps Inc.
68 A Girl Like You Edwyn Collins
67 Epic Faith No More
66 Mambo #5 Lou Bega
65 In My House The Mary Jane Girls
64 You Get What You Give New Radicals
63 Jump Around House of Pain
62 Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades The Timbuk 3
61 Round And Round Ratt
60 More, More, More Andrea True Connection
59 867-5309 (Jenny) Tommy Tutone
58 What Is Love Haddaway
57 Smokin' In The Boy's Room Brownsville Station
56 Lovin' You Minnie Riperton
55 It's Raining Men The Weather Girls
54 Makin' It David Naughton
53 Somebody's Watching Me Rockwell w/ Michael Jackson
52 Genius Of Love Tom Tom Club
51 I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) The Proclaimers
50 I Touch Myself The Divinyls
49 Turn The Beat Around Vicki Sue Robinson
48 True Spandau Ballet
47 Rock And Roll (Part 2) Gary Glitter
46 Don't Worry, Be Happy Bobby McFerrin
45 Lovefool The Cardigans
44 Rock Me Amadeus Falco
43 How Do You Talk To An Angel The Heights
42 Hot Child In The City Nick Gilder
41 Relax Frankie Goes to Hollywood
40 In A Big Country Big Country
39 Bitter Sweet Symphony The Verve
38 Me And Mrs. Jones Billy Paul
37 I Melt With You Modern English
36 Turning Japanese The Vapors
35 ***** Meredith Brooks
34 Afternoon Delight Starland Vocal Band
33 Got To Be Real Cheryl Lynn
32 Hot Hot Hot Buster Poindexter
31 Unbelieveable EMF
30 Seasons In The Sun Terry Jacks
29 Pass The Dutchie Musical Youth
28 It Takes Two Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock
27 Pop Musik M
26 Stumblin' In Suzi Quatro
25 Too Shy Kajagoogoo
24 Whip It Devo
23 All My Life (K-Ci & Jojo) Sybersound
22 Play That Funky Music Wild Cherry
21 Cars Gary Numan
20 She Blinded Me With Science Thomas Dolby (1983)
19 In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Iron Butterfly (1968)
18 Nothing Compares 2 U Sinéad O'Connor (1990)
17 We're Not Gonna Take It Twisted Sister (1984)
16 Rapper's Delight Sugarhill Gang (1980)
15 96 Tears ? And The Mysterians (1966)
14 Groove Is In The Hear Deee-Lite (1990)
13 The Hustle Van McCoy (1975)
12 Baby Got Back Sir Mix-A-Lot (1994)
11 You Light Up My Life Debby Boone (1977)
10 99 Luftballoons Nena (1984)
9 Rico Suave Gerardo (1991)
8 Take On Me A-Ha (1985)
7 Ice Ice Baby Vanilla Ice (1991)
6 Who Let The Dogs Ou Baha Men (2000)
5 Mickey Toni Basil (1982)
4 I'm Too Sexy Right Said Fred (1992)
3 Come On Eileen Dexy's Midnight Runners (1983)
2 Tainted Love Soft Cell (1982)
1 The Macarena Los Del Rio (1996)

http://home.ix.netcom.com/~speaker7/lists/1_hit_wonders.htm

And that is the authorative list, according to VH1 and Ol Bill!!

this might've already been posted.

Steelers Wheel -- Stuck in the Middle With You

AKA the Amputation Anthem


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=komvFIGYBYM


Mr Blonde: “Didja ever listen to K-billy’s Super Sounds of the Seventies? “

Marvin Nash: “mmpphh hmmbbb mmph mmph”

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Originally posted by SLDO:
Geesh! Didn't Bill Shatner settle all this on the Top 100 One Hit Wonders on VH1!

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And that is the authorative list, according to VH1 and Ol Bill!!

Well then S#!t, let's just close the thread down and stop posting...............

thank God for Google.

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Originally posted by rd350:

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Originally posted by SLDO:
Geesh! Didn't Bill Shatner settle all this on the Top 100 One Hit Wonders on VH1!

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And that is the authorative list, according to VH1 and Ol Bill!!

Well then S#!t, let's just close the thread down and stop posting...............

thank God for Google.

That's just the TOP 100. There are PLENTY of one-hit-wonders to list.

Couldn't find this one on Shatner's definitive list:

Smith -- Baby it's You.

I was so hot for Gayle McCormack when i was in High School.........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCD5GpmFHUg&feature=related



and once again, Tarantino's mining the vault; this one's GREAT in Grindhouse.

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Originally posted by rd350:

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Originally posted by SLDO:
Geesh! Didn't Bill Shatner settle all this on the Top 100 One Hit Wonders on VH1!

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And that is the authorative list, according to VH1 and Ol Bill!!

Well then S#!t, let's just close the thread down and stop posting...............

thank God for Google.

Thunder Road by Robert Mitchem.

I could not find the orginal but is is ok.

http://youtube.com/results?search_query=thunder+road+mitchem&search_type=

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Originally posted by SLDO:
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SLDO, If yer citing Mason William's excellent Classical Gas(can), someone beat you to it about three pages back.

[smile] iconic smirk [/smile]

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Originally posted by Fin_atic:
Has anybody submitted "come on Eileen" by dexie's midnight runners? Must have Sucked to be named Eileen when that song came out

Bonus points for best crossover to a porn title.

I can't remember there name, but they sang the 'I get knocked down and I get up again' song. It was the ONLY song on the radio that entire summer(96?).

Do actors count? Patrick Swayze had 'She's Like the Wind', on the Dirty Dancing soundtrack. Don Johnson and Eddie Murphy had hit singles also.

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Originally posted by BillSPrestonEsq:
I can't remember there name, but they sang the 'I get knocked down and I get up again' song. It was the ONLY song on the radio that entire summer(96?).

chumbawumba from tub thumping

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lJIjdajBww