FINALLY!
Someone talking about one-hit wonders who doesn't think that all music started in 1995
How about Andrew Gold, the Babys, the Bells, Carl Carlton, JoBoxers, Mouth and McNeal, Motherlode, Mungo Jerry, Paper Lace, Smith, the Sanford-Townsend Band, The Stampeders, Stealer's Wheel, The Tee-Set.....
(Yes, I *did* just take a quick run through my iPod, how could you tell? )
Wow! You're good...I didn't know that. One of the early cover bands I played guitar in had a drummer who rarely sang, but who had a raspy voice like Rod Stewart, and he turned me on to the Stories version of the song.
I remember Hot Chocolate most for "You Sexy Thing":
Okay one more, Minnie Riperton:
Trivia: The late Minnie Riperton's daughter is Maya Rudolf who used to be a cast member of Saturday Night Live:
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Wow! You're good...I didn't know that. One of the early cover bands I played guitar in had a drummer who rarely sang, but who had a raspy voice like Rod Stewart, and he turned me on to the Stories version of the song.
I remember Hot Chocolate most for "You Sexy Thing":
Okay one more, Minnie Riperton:
Trivia: The late Minnie Riperton's daughter is Maya Rudolf who used to be a cast member of Saturday Night Live:
ADG
i remember when i was a kid i heard on the radio minnie passed then they played that song fuckin cancer R.I.P.
I have an older sister whose collection of 45's I inherited when she left home, and this thread made me remember a one-hit band from the 60's called "People":
A-HA and Talk Talk had a good bunch of hits. Maybe not in US since I don't live there, but they were huge around the world, especially A-HA
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Lonely Boy - Andrew Gold (I sense I have been beaten here - This guy also did the Golden Girls theme in the 80s)
You *were* beaten on that one
And not only wouldn't I have any idea what the Golden Girls theme was - I don't think that could count as a song
Originally posted by GrouchyAdmin
My Baby Loves Lovin' - White Plains
Interesting about that one. That *was* the only major hit for White Plains. But White Plains didn't have much claim to being a hit band; it was really a backing band for Tony Burrows, a very talented studio musician - who had similar hits under different names during the same era: Edison Lighthouse (Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes), The Pipkins (Gimme Dat Ding), The Brotherhood of Man (United We Stand), First Class (Beach Baby). So White Plains WAS a one hit wonder - but Tony Burrows was one of the biggest pop stars of the era who no one ever knew.
Originally posted by GrouchyAdmin
Popcorn - Hot Butter - One of the first, uh, electronic instrumentals of the era that wasn't just crap?
Well, a notable instrumental, but there were lots of others that preceeded it that were terrific...check out the Ventures from the 60s
[QUOTE=GrouchyAdmin;16694812]Kung-Fu Fighting - Carl Douglass (This is to make up for getting Popcorn stuck in your head)[QUOTE=GrouchyAdmin;16694812]
Now THAT wasn't fair
Originally posted by GrouchyAdmin
All of these are from before I was born. That's kind of strange to think about.
Strange to think that you know them even though you weren't around to hear them every 60 minutes on the radio Nice list
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