Music thread...One hit wonders!

[Archae]

Pilot-"It's Magic"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41UIiEH53QY

[Strawman]

1. Whale: Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77otjeuD2uo

[Pendrench]

17. Beach Baby by First Class

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WWWy8lRuGQ

[Cobalt-60]

19. their vocalist really wailed!

no pun intended!

[MrSlayer]

2. I Eat Cannibals - Toto Coelo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV03QzNlHeo

[shawmut]

4. That song was used in a commercial in the 80's

the lyrics were changed, though. I can't remember what the commercial was for. Anyone?

[Cobalt-60]

20. The Vapors! Turning Japanese!

(sorry, wrong place!)

[shawmut]

3. Tasmin Archer - "Sleeping Satellite" (1993)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuhDDx49TTw

[guitar man]

5. The best ....

.....one hit wonder ever. Billy Paul, "Me and Mrs Jones"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QngHKzWn-6Q

[hellbound-liberal]

6. The definitive one hit wonder!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5axMyJ_-Z8

[stuntcat]

29. Rock The Boat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_nisLMfn6g
MAYBE it's a one-hit wonder I don't know what else Hue's Corporation sang.

[stuntcat]

30. ooooooooo and Althea and Donna

Uptown Top Ranking! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeeVdiqRFBs
I don't listen to reggae but I LoVe that song, they had more hits though probably.

and White Horse - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nho44DR0dw

and JJ Fad - SUPERSONIC! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLUBfeGUq2M

[stuntcat]

31. (I can't work the Internets)

I put them in the wrong place :blush:

[saltpoint]

7. "You Gotta Be Loved," by The Montanas.

Music and Lyrics by Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent.

A hell of a peach of a record and then whoosh -- they're gone.

[Nicole]

8. Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight

Hey, you didn't say it had to be good ones.

Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5axMyJ_-Z8

Their performance on The Grammy Awards. I think this is the year they beat Boston & Foreigner as Best New Artists. :rofl:

[AlCzervik]

9. Just a friend-Biz Markie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMU2qsJhvN0

[conscious evolution]

10. Jimmi Hendrix-All Along the Watchtower

His only top forty song.Reached #18.

[Texasgal]

11. Elvin Bishop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkLdDqAy1Tw

[BlueJazz]

12. Telstar by the Tornados

[auntAgonist]

34. when I was growing up in Scotland

we'd go to the movies on saturdays. Telstar was always played while we waited for the movie to start. I love it!

aA

[outofbounds]

13. Never Been Any Reason

Head East

[salin]

14. for several years in college

I couldn't go to a party and *not* hear this song.

[salin]

15. Face-to-face: "I'll Stop the World to Meet With You"

[begin_within]

16. I nominate this, because the band was formed for the song...

"Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" was a song written and recorded by Gary DeCarlo, Dale Frashuer, and Paul Leka; attributed to a then fictitious band "Steam," it was released under the Mercury subsidiary label Fontana. It became the number one pop single on the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1969. Although subsequent recordings and a quickly assembled touring band Steam met with little success, "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" remains a perennial favorite.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dZBRTDuWH1c

I believe that the video clip above actually uses the original studio recording for the audio, because you hear more instruments than you see being played.

[ironflange]

49. The original is still fun to listen to

I listen to the 60's on XM a lot. What I hate is the way hockey fans like to sing it when the visiting team is losing during the playoffs. It's gotten so hackneyed that way.

Say, may I ask why you have the pic of Peyto Lake?

[u4ic]

18. The radio gave me this earworm the other day

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

[Dinger]

21. I Fought The Law And The Law Won

By the Bobby Fuller Four.
I love that song!

[Va Lefty]

28. I love The Clash's version of this song!!

[jus_the_facts]

22. 99 Luftballoons ~ Nena

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzCU1Kc8ic8

English Version...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14IRDDnEPR4

[ironflange]

48. 99 Dead Baboons

http://www.snapsandbytes.co.uk/99deadbaboons.mp3

:rofl:

DO you like monkeys? Check http://www.snapsandbytes.co.uk/monkey.html for a droll monkey story.

[Burma Jones]

23. Prelude - After the Gold Rush

A nice cover of the Neil Young song

Or Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime....

Or Status Quo - Pictures of Matchstick Men

Or Terry jacks - Seasons in the Sun (blech)

[Broken_Hero]

24. Take on Me, by A-Ha....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0R7dvLAiP8

[AllegroRondo]

44. They also did "Living Daylights" for the Bond movie.

[recoveringdittohed]

25. In the Year 2525

Zager & Evans from 1969

[Strawman]

26. Positive K - I Got a Man

Can't find a youtube video

[Va Lefty]

27. Thomas Dolby-She Blinded Me With Science

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSWlnheUrL8

[derby378]

43. You forgot about HYPERACTIVE and EUROPA AND THE PIRATE TWINS

Although I must admit that SCIENCE was probably his most enduring hit.

[stuntcat]

32. Born to be Alive

by Patrick Hernandez. It makes me laugh every time I hear it, so I listen to it a lot :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g0SG3KTQKA

[cloudbase]

33. Incense and Peppermint

The Strawberry Alarm Clock.

Christ, I'm getting old.

[auntAgonist]

35. Kyu Sakamoto Sukiyaki ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVIddibrWAM <--Sukiyaki


Curtis Lee Pretty Little Angel Eyes , ...

[Lydia Leftcoast]

50. Kyu Sakamoto was NOT a 1-hit wonder in Japan

"Sukiyaki" was not the actual title of the song. It was just that a DJ who had somehow gotten a hold of a copy of the japanese release played it on the radio and called it "Sukiyaki," which was about the only Japanese word most Americans knew at the time (1963).

When I was a student in Japan in the late 1970s, Sakamoto was on TV variety shows all the time.

Sadly, he was one of the victims of the August 1985 mountainside crash of a Japan Airlines plane that killed 495 people traveling between Tokyo and Osaka.

The song is actually called "Ue o Muite" or "Looking Upward."

"I will walk looking upward so that my tears do not spill. I remember spring days, nights all alone..."

[racaulk]

36. "No Rain" by Blind Melon

One of my favorites...I can soooooo relate to the Bee Girl!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amrbtJtIl60

[racaulk]

37. "I Touch Myself" by Divinyls

Another good one... :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pssv4G0amM

[NoGOPZone]

38. Baha Men - Who Let the Dogs Out?

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

[shawmut]

39. My favorite one hit wonder ... "Life In A Northern Town"

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

[derby378]

40. Swing Out Sister, BREAKOUT

That song has been an earworm in my head for the past 36 hours, and I don't know why, but as far as earworms go, I could do much worse.

[bif]

41. "96 Tears" ? & the Mysterians

From Flint, Michigan, Baby!

[TheBaldyMan]

54. Dream Academy isn't a one hit wonder ...

here's a cover of Morrisey's "Please Let Me Get What I Want"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-8ZJN1dSHI

They always were a bit wimpy for my taste but they make a fair attempt at this song.

[idgiehkt]

42. Cantaloop by US3

I think it was his/their only hit. I just posted it elsewhere so it's fresh in my mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=055iIlEZA1Q

[Brewman_Jax]

45. My favorite indulgence...

Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice. :D

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

[idgiehkt]

47. yes

I love to watch him and Bobby Brown dance, they were so beautiful doing the running man and that kind of really energetic hip-hop dancing that you don't see anymore.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

52. "Reach Out in the Darkness" by Friend and Lover

which for years I misheard as "Freak Out in the Garden."

[Arkansas Granny]

46. "Signs" - Five Man Electrical Band

[pokerfan]

51. "Spirit In the Sky" by Norman Greenbaum

http://www.youtube.com/v/vQ-qdScZXuY

I want it played at my wake.

[RedStateShame]

53. Nada Surf, "Popular"

"ONCE every two weeks!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGLxoCj4EE4

[KamaAina]

55. Pac-Man Fever. Buckner and Garcia.

I can't believe I actually know that. :shrug:

[KamaAina]

56. La Macarena. Los Del Mar.

That ought to about do it for this thread... :P

[blockhead]

57. Brother Louie -- Stories

"Louie, Louie, Louie, Loo-aye"