One Hit Wonders

[WolfyOne]

Since everyone seems to live music videos, it made me think tonight about those people that made one big hit and we never heard them again.

I'll start us out with one that I believe was a One Hit Wonder and ya'll can add from here.


YouTube- Bertie Higgins - Key Largo

[Daywalker]

YouTube- Bobby Bloom - Montego Bay


Excellent...one of my favorite Genres

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[weatherboi]

:happyjump: love it WolfyOne!!!


YouTube- Jermaine stewart we don't have to take our clothes off. Top

[WolfyOne]

YouTube- LAST SONG - EDWARD BEAR

[Daywalker]

YouTube- Brewer & Shipley - One Toke Over The Line

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[WolfyOne]

YouTube- Brewer & Shipley - One Toke Over The Line (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuS-9hx2JYQ)

:cannabis:

:daywalker:



Day when I was growing up, a friend of mine would sing this all the time....I think it was her theme song, lol.

[weatherboi]

YouTube- My Sharona - The Knack Official Video

[Daywalker]

YouTube- One Tin Soldier - The Legend of Billy Jack

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[Daywalker]

Day when I was growing up, a friend of mine would sing this all the time....I think it was her theme song, lol.

I actually have a One Hit Wonder play list on yootooob...lol, but I gotta
pace myself in here...LOL, because there are so many good ones
for so many decades that seemed a 'Theme song' at
one time or another...yes?

:rainsing:

:guitar:

:daywalker:

[WolfyOne]

YouTube- The Five Stairsteps performing "O-o-h Child" on Soul Train

[WolfyOne]

Last one for me tonight
Maybe this one will stick in your head for a while

YouTube- Macarena - Los del Rio

[StoneFinn]

YouTube- Timex Social Club Rumors

[StoneFinn]

YouTube- Napoleon XIV: 'They're coming to take me away'

[T D]

YouTube- maria muldaur - midnight at the oasis


Although I understand that she's still creating music and is somewhat well known for her niche now (whatever it is).

[Queerasfck]

Of course there's the original by Starland Vocal Band. But this will do!
I'm posting this for apretty who loves a good 'nooner.

YouTube- Anchorman-Afternoon Delight

[WolfyOne]

YouTube- Dave Loggins - Please Come To Boston - 1974 - DJ Single

[Ryobi]

And then,

YouTube- dexys midnight runners come on eileen

[WolfyOne]

YouTube- Sukiyaki - Ue wo muite arukou - Kyu Sakamoto

[WolfyOne]

YouTube- spirit in the sky Norman Greenbaum

[WolfyOne]

YouTube- The Jaggerz - The Rapper 1970

[Jess]

who could forget?...

YouTube- Alicia Bridges - I Love The Nightlife (HQ Sound)

and another fav...

YouTube- Lotta Love Nicolette Larson

[Jess]

and then there is:

YouTube- Rob Base DJ E Z Rock It Takes Two Official Music Video 1988 iViewTube com3


and a roller skating fav from back in the day :

YouTube- Planet Rock Soul Sonic Force

heh.. we skated a lot.. lol , man, trippin down memory lane..

YouTube- Kurtis Blow performs "The Breaks" on Soul Train


fun thread. thanks wolfy one!

[Daywalker]

YouTube- Wildflower - Skylark (With Lyrics)

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[Daywalker]

YouTube- Playground In My Mind

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[suebee]

YouTube- Break My Stride - MATTHEW WILDER

[PinkieLee]

YouTube- Rupert Holmes - Escape / The Pina Colada Song (Lyrics)

[Gemme]

Love this!

YouTube- SHANNON - Let The Music Play

[I'mOneToo]

YouTube- Waiting For A Star To Fall - Boy Meets Girl - HQ Video

[T D]

YouTube- Alley Oop

[WolfyOne]

This is the only hit song Vicki Lawrence ever made

YouTube- Vicki Lawrence The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia

[WolfyOne]

YouTube- Midnight Special - Stories "Brother Louie"

[dreadgeek]

One of my favorite one-hit wonder songs from the 80's

YouTube- The Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away

This is my other favorite one-hit wonder song from that period:

YouTube- The Hooters - And We Danced

[WolfyOne]

YouTube- DADDY DEWDROP- "CHICK-A-BOOM (DON'T YA JES' LOVE IT)"

[luciddreamer]

YouTube- LAST SONG - EDWARD BEAR (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNowpI2XfVc)


Whoaaaa...now that took me wayyy back...lmao

[luciddreamer]

YouTube- Culture Beat: Mr. Vain

[luciddreamer]

YouTube- Haddaway-What is Love?

[WolfyOne]

YouTube- Ad Libs - The Boy From New York City - 45 rpm

[WolfyOne]

YouTube- Every Mother's Son - Come On Down To My Boat

[Jess]

the 80's!... some had more than one "hit", but were quickly forgotten...

YouTube- Hip 80s band who had a "perfect way" of recording great music in the UK on Virgin Records

YouTube- Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (2003 Digital Remaster)

YouTube- WALL OF VOODOO "Mexican Radio"

YouTube- Shriekback - Nemesis

[Jess]

more 80's!

YouTube- Siouxsie and the Banshees - cities in dust

[Daywalker]

YouTube- Christie - Yellow River


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[WolfyOne]

YouTube- The Cascades - Rhythm Of The Rain (1963)

[WolfyOne]

YouTube- The Reflections - (Just Like) Romeo & Juliet

[WolfyOne]

YouTube- The Trashmen : Surfin' Bird ( 1963 )

[theoddz]

And this.....

YouTube- Edison Lighthouse-Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes

~Theo~ :winky::listening::bouquet:

[theoddz]

I always loved this one!!! :D:thumbsup:

YouTube- IN THE SUMMER TIME/MUNGO JERRY

~Theo~ :D:thumbsup::dance2::bouquet:

[WolfyOne]

YouTube- The Flying Machine - Smile A Little Smile For Me

[WolfyOne]

YouTube- Venus by Shocking Blue

[chefhottie25]

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[Gemme]

In 1987, while performing around the United States at nightclub venues, Gibson was recording what would become her debut album, "Out Of The Blue." The album was recorded in four weeks. Four singles from Out Of The Blue reached the Top 5 of the Billboard Top 100: "Only in My Dreams", "Shake Your Love", "Out Of The Blue", and the # 1 hit "Foolish Beat", followed by "Staying Together", which performed more modestly, reaching # 22.

"Foolish Beat" set a record for Gibson, making her (at 17) the youngest artist ever to write, produce, and perform a Billboard # 1 single, as entered in the 1988 Guinness Book of World Records, and she remains the youngest female artist to write, record, and perform a #1 single to date. By the time Out Of The Blue was established as a hit album, and she had success in the UK, as well as in Japan and southeast Asia, with her Out Of The Blue tour. By the end of 1988, Out of the Blue had gone triple platinum. The Out Of The Blue music videos on VHS was certified platinum by the RIAA, as well as Live In Concert "The Out of The Blue tour VHS video was certified 2x platinum by the RIAA.

In October 1988, Gibson sang the national anthem for Game One of the Major League Baseball World Series. Throughout 1988 and early 1989, Gibson was racking up studio time recording her second album release. Electric Youth was released in March 1989, and spent five weeks at #1 on Billboard's Top 200 Album Chart. The first single released, "Lost in Your Eyes", was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks, garnering Debbie with another achievement Electric Youth album and single "Lost In Your Eyes" simultaneously at #1. She shared ASCAP Songwriter of the Year Award 1989 with Bruce Springsteen. Subsequent singles from this album missed the Top 10: Electric Youth (#11), No More Rhyme (#17) and We Could Be Together (#71). The Electric Youth album was certified 2x platinum by the RIAA. Another successful "The Electric Youth" world tour, and Live Around the World tour on vhs certified 2x platinum by the RIAA followed.

Gibson recorded two more albums for Atlantic Records: Anything Is Possible (1990), and Body Mind Soul (1993). "Anything Is Possible", co-written with Motown mainstay Lamont Dozier, peaked at #26 on Billboard's Hot 100 in January 1991. Subsequent singles from Anything Is Possible failed to chart on The Billboard Hot 100, although "One Step Ahead" scored on the Billboard Hot Maxi Singles and Hot Dance chart, peaking at #21 and #18 respectively. Body Mind Soul, which was released in February of 1993, spawned another minor hit in "Losin' Myself", which was accompanied by a somewhat contraversial video clip featuring Gibson as a stripper. And while second single "Shock Your Mama" would fare well in Europe and the UK, "Losin' Myself" remains Gibson's last American Billboard Hot 100 chart appearance to date. Atlantic released a greatest hits package in 1995.

In 1995, she signed with EMI's SBK Records division and recorded what would be her only album for the label, Think With Your Heart. This album is an Adult Contemporary heavy album consisting of piano ballads and keyboard ballads. The album's producer, Niko Bolas (usually Neil Young's co-producer), was producing the reunion album for veteran punk band Circle Jerks, and invited Gibson to a recording session for that band's album. She sang background vocals on the song "I Wanna Destroy You," as well as appearing at and participating in the Circle Jerks' performance at punk venue CBGB, wearing one of the band's t-shirts and sharing a microphone with frontman Keith Morris.

After parting company with EMI, Gibson formed her own record label, Espiritu, to release her original material. Her sixth album, Deborah, marked her full return to dance-pop. Deborah includes the lead single "Only Words." "Only Words" (Dance Edit) became a Top 40 Hot Dance Music/Club Play hit. The album's other single is the ballad, "Naturally." Deborah was well received and remains respected, though it only sold 20,000 in the US.

In 2001, Gibson released her seventh album on her then-new record label, Golden Egg, titled M.Y.O.B. (AKA Mind Your Own Business). It features the three singles, the sensual pop song "What You Want," the Latin-infused Dance-pop song "Your Secret," and the bass heavy "M.Y.O.B." Highlights from the album include the sultry Latin flavored Smooth Jazz song "In Blue," her vintage style ballad "Wishing You Were Here," "Jaded," and a remix of "M.Y.O.B." Her single M.Y.O.B. had the background vocals of her two nieces.

In 2005, Gibson co-wrote and recorded a song titled "Someone You Love" with the O'Neill Brothers. With the O'Neill Brothers, Gibson released an updated, acoustic version of her former #1 hit "Lost in Your Eyes." There was a PBS special late 2005, and it was Emmy nominated in February 2006.

<-----likes Debbie Gibson :)

[Ebon]

I love how the syncing is off like an old kung fu movie. lol

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Everybody danced when this song came on don't lie. lol

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[Gemme]

Everybody danced when this song came on don't lie. lol

rog8ou-ZepE

If, by everybody, you mean you, then yes....everybody danced to this when it came on (last week).

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[Kätzchen]

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[Babyangeleyez]

Love this song!

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[Babyangeleyez]

I was pregnant with my 1st. son when this song came out.
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I remember this as a young girl. My dad used to turn it up on the radio.
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[Okiebug61]

Jonathan Edwards: Sunshine - YouTube

[Okiebug61]

Seasons In The Sun - Terry Jacks 1974 - YouTube

[Kätzchen]

Henri Mancini wrote the musical score, Johnny Mercer wrote the lyrics, Audrey Hepburn sang it in "Breakfast at Tiffany's", as well as other artists of the sixties like Andy Williams, Frank Sinatra, and others.


Moon River

Moon river, wider than mile,
I'm crossing you one day, in style.
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker,
Where ever you're going, I'm going your way .....



I often think of Moon River as an one hit wonder, because no other song seems to takes its place. Of course, Henri Mancini was no ordinary composer, either. I do love that song, though.

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