Oh, I love Boy George.
Karma Chameleon has to be the absolute best that the 80's had to offer as far has pop music.
Also my reason for having 80's music erased from my positronic matrix...

quote:

Originally posted by mcgreer:

Mark Cohn - Walking In Memphis

I've been absent from this thread cuz' I've been too busy to give it the time it's due, but I'm here now (and have 9 pages to go through)!

Anyhow, I just love that song, so let's listen to it:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XrT0gAbRqyw

quote:

Originally posted by 21yrsUSCGUSCS:
One of my favorites from a while back, David & David, "Welcome to the Boomtown".

I'd love to be able to play that on my guitar.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=u3spAwxSDEU&feature=related

Don

Ohhh that's a GOOD one!

quote:

Originally posted by peter3_1:
Barry Mann, that was his only hit? Thought he did more, but that was an amusing tune

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSp3zqqpvMo

Of course telstar was an eexcelent instrumental...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOIIaGoGqHY

tho a little hard edged,

here it has the edge taken off,

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENFz2gVItjc

of course the Ventures did a cover, feel free to you tube that one yourselves.

The original, you know, was all AM music, and the edge was lost somewhat on that medium...

Some of us are old enough to actually know what Telstar was.

quote:

Originally posted by peter3_1:
AH, Here it is, Kinnky Friedman, for all you young'ns who ain't never heard the like.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElDtH7rP3T0

Ol' Kinky is well known around Texas and isn't technically a one hit wonder.

Hell, he even ran for Governor!

quote:

Originally posted by The_Bonesaw:

quote:

Originally posted by BillSPrestonEsq:

Did 'Ace of Base' have more than 1 hit?

They had six hits that cracked the top 40 not only in the US, but in just about every other nation that keeps track of hits as well. Which, while counterintuitive (considering we're talking about Ace of Base), is actually very impressive.

In fact, the lowest mark they achieved out of those six US Top 40 songs was "Lucky Love" which only made it to #30 on Billboard's US Hot 100; yet it was a US #1 Dance hit, a #2 pop hit in Canada, #1 in Sweden and cracked the top 20 in the UK, Austria, Germany and France.

Ok, scratch that.

Everything but the Girl "Missing"

quote:

Originally posted by rd350:
"We not only SING, but we dance just as good as we walk"


Archie Bell and the Drells -- Tighten Up

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0n7C1AyU-9Q

Do you know the story behind that tune?

The Drells recorded that a couple of years before it was released. By the time it hit big, they had broken up and Archie was in the hospital recovering from wounds he received in Vietnam with the 11th ACR. He didn't know it had been released.

Here's one even the old timers might have trouble remembering.

Spike Jones was hardly a true one hit wonder, but this is the only one which hit during the rock and roll era. It came out in the mid-50's.

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

Hot Child In The City.
Just played on the radio.
Nick Lowe?

quote:

Originally posted by DocTrowerFMF:
Hot Child In The City.

Nick Lowe?

Nick Gilder

Very good, Bonesaw.

Yes our parents forbade us from swimming in the local rivers
Yes, we swam in the muddy Monongahela AND the yukky Youghiogheny anyway.
We never told’m, and they sure as heck weren’t there.
But somehow, on washday, our mom’s always knew.

The Standells -- Love That Dirty Water

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adNlRps5DmE


The Golden Palace -- There's a blast from the past.
I can’t believe how badly this is lip-synched.

Or that the chicks in the audience are going beatlemania anyway……………..

(Ironically, although the song in question lyrically presents itself as a hometown boy's ode to Boston, the Standells themselves are from Los Angeles.)

Before there was the old Bob Seeger System,

before Tom Cruise danced in his underwear (or jumped on the sofa)

There was Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys – -- Good ole Rock’n’Roll

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRQRZeUMBd4



bonus points if you can name the producer (hint – Cat Mother jammed regularly on the lower East Side in 66, 67 with Jeff the skunk, Randy California and “HIM”)

Although he had limited success in Mainstream Rock, this is the only song to crack the top 40 in the Hot 100 category for Aldo Nova...

"Fantasy"

To the best of my knowledge, this is the only single for Billy Thorpe to ever graze into the top 40:

"Children Of The Sun"

quote:

Originally posted by DocTrowerFMF:
Oh, I love Boy George.
Karma Chameleon has to be the absolute best that the 80's had to offer as far has pop music.
Also my reason for having 80's music erased from my positronic matrix...

LMAO!

Venus -- The Shocking Blue

Jay Ferguson is not a one hit wonder (he had one other "hit" that broke into the top 40)... but this is probably the only song for which he is remembered, and the only song to ever break into the top 10 for him:

Jay Ferguson - "Thunder Island"



... and the other top 40 entry:

"Shakedown Cruise"

"Don't Give Up On Us, Baby"

Doc,Red Rubber Ball was done by a group called Inner Circle or something like that.It did have Circle in its name.

Man Doc I was way off on that.I looked it up and it was by Simon And Garfunkel.But that doesnt sound right.Guess its my old age.