Favorite/Famous "One Hit Wonders"

[Synthaholic]

The Left Banke:

 

[Synthaholic]

Scritti Politti, Perfect Way

^ My all-time favorite one-hit-wonder, that. ^

One of my favorite bands - I have all their stuff.

But they really aren't a one-hit wonder - 'Boom! There She Was' was a bit of a hit.

 

[Synthaholic]

Tainted Love -- soft cell

Turn The Beat Around -- Vicki Sue Robinson

My Sharonna. -- the knack

Come On Eileen -- Dexy's Midight Runners

Na Na Na Na hey hey ( kiss him goodbye)

If I Can't have you (I don't Want nobody baby) -- Yvonne Elliman

I will survive -- Gloria Gaynor

Numb -- linkin park

The Knack also had "Good Girls Don't (But I Do)"

And Doug Feiger, the leader (up front with the big smile) was the brother of noted Kevorkian attorney Geoffrey Feiger:

There is your trivia for today!

 

[Synthaholic]

Love this song and video.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uejh-bHa4To

I agree, but they had other hits (Coming Up Close, What About Love)

 

[Synthaholic]

Now, this guy qualifies:





I saw this joke open up for Foreigner on their Double Vision tour, at Madison Square Garden. He strutted around like David Bowie and was booed mercilessly.

 

[Vandalshandle]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3iPP-tHdA]A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Vandalshandle]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTeI65yrhGw]"REFLECTIONS OF MY LIFE" THE MARMALADE ~ 1969 - original recording ~ HQ AUDIO - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Vandalshandle]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIZOKVk-kQo]Jessie Hill "Ooh Poo Pah Doo?Pt. 1" - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Synthaholic]

Kyu Sakamoto:







Great song. It was also a hit (in English) by [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFkUNqBwMw"]A Taste Of Honey[/ame] and the vocal group [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSYS7cPc3nE"]4 P.M.[/ame]


Kyu Sakamoto was killed on August 12, 1985, in the crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123, the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history.




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[konradv]

A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum - YouTube

Did you forget this one? #16 in 1972.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW2KN7Tz89s"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW2KN7Tz89s[/ame]

Procol Harum- Conquistador

 

[shart_attack]

Scritti Politti, Perfect Way

^ My all-time favorite one-hit-wonder, that. ^

One of my favorite bands - I have all their stuff.

But they really aren't a one-hit wonder - 'Boom! There She Was' was a bit of a hit.

Only if you're British, Australian or worse: COMMUNIST.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand on that note, rollin' right the fk along:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wSn81dLK6s]The Fine Young Cannibals, She Drives Me Crazy[/ame]

 

[Vandalshandle]

A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum - YouTube

Did you forget this one? #16 in 1972.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW2KN7Tz89s"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW2KN7Tz89s[/ame]

Procol Harum- Conquistador

Well, Personally, I have never heard of this song...

 

[Vandalshandle]

Looking back, this was an interesting group. One guy was sporting a flat top haircut, which had disappeared in late 1958. the other guy has Brylle cream in his hair, which had disappeared in about 1956. The lyrics suck, and so does the whole song, but it was the first hit record to include a 12 string guitar, which everyone decided was super cool...


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ImVlwiuMQk]The Rooftop Singers - Walk Right In (stereo) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Vandalshandle]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDU9FP5_B2M]Gene Vincent - Be-Bop-A-Lula - YouTube[/ame]


Gene never did become a success after this hit. For one thing, he was mostly dead, having been killed, as I recall, in a traffic accident in a British taxi cab. BUT, his memory was kept alive by the Stray Cats, who worshiped him and Eddie Cochran, who was in the same taxi, but survived, only to die from alcoholism years later;

 

[Vandalshandle]

This was a huge hit in 1958. The guy on the left, and the woman, have faded into obscurity. The guy on the right is in the slammer for life for murder. His name is Phil Spector, who produced records for everyone from the Beatles to Simon and Garfunkel. Then he just sort of slowly went crazy:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCnUsInBQws]Teddy Bears - To Know Him Is To Love Him - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Desperado]

A favorite of mine:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8zmkzshUvE]Thunderclap Newman Something In The Air (vintage pop) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Rockland]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand on that note, rollin' right the fk along:

The Fine Young Cannibals, She Drives Me Crazy

Not a one-hit wonder. They had a follow-up hit called "Good Thing".

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZECajaaVY4"]Fine Young Cannibals - Good Thing[/ame]

 

[Zander]

Let's change the thread name to "One or Two hit Wonders" .....then we can stop all the pedantic niggling....

 

[P F Tinmore]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4diS3khW-5k]The Euclid Beach Band-No Surf In Cleveland - YouTube[/ame]

 

[P F Tinmore]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcRWNf93v9g]The Poni-Tails:Born Too Late(1958) - YouTube[/ame]