Favorite "One One Hit Wonder"?

[Zelja]

The Plimsouls / A million Miles Away, excellent song! Peter Case is still out there making great music and still going strong. He's one of my favorite singer / songwriters and he's a pretty good rack harmonica player too.

Peter Case - 8 - Walk In The Woods (1986) - YouTube

Peter Case - 6 - Small Town Spree (1986) - YouTube

Peter Case - Spell of Wheels - YouTube

I saw the Peter Case Band a few years back in a pub here in Sydney supporting the Flamin' Groovies. They were fantastic! Know about The Nerves, a band he was in in the late 70s? Also in that band was Paul Collins who had a band called The Beat. Their first album is power pop perfection. Nearly very band I went to see & my band as well, did a cover off that album. The other guy was Jack Lee. His debut album "Greatest Hits Vol. 1" was also really good. He wrote the songs "Hanging On The Telephone" & "Come Back & Stay" which were hits for Blondie & Paul Young.

 

[Sal]

So I'll go with Streets Of Your Town by The Go-Betweens. Not sure if this was even a hit in the US (it was elsewhere) but if not it shoulda been! One of my '80s favs.

-Dave-

Yes a great song! I'm a big fan of Grant McLennan's solo work, RIP.

 

[dbirchett]

Not to get off track, but this is Sal Valentino the lead singer of the Beau Brummels from back in the day, with what I'm pretty sure is a Guild, of all things!!

Guitar players Ron Elliot and Don Irving both played Starfire IIIs so its not too surprising.

 

[Velvet Phelts]

^^^^^ What happen to Iron butterfly. ^^^^^

Ralph

Rusted

 

[jwsamuel]

"It's a Shame About Ray" - The Lemon Heads

 

[dreadnut]

"Come On Down To My Boat Baby," Every Mother's Son. A buncha little kids, LOL. And Guild content!

 

[mavuser]

some of u don't know what a one hit wonder is, and it's starting to show.

 

[mavuser]

i have 3.

A Ha Take on me





Dee Lite Groove is in the Heart



and John Parr St. Elmo's Fire

 

[walrus]

some of u don't know what a one hit wonder is, and it's starting to show.

Ha! +1.

i have 3.

A Ha Take on me

Dee Lite Groove is in the Heart

and John Parr St. Elmo's Fire

Nice ones!

walrus

 

[F312]

Oh Oh, I see "One One Hit Wonder Tread Part Two" emerging.

Ralph

 

[richardp69]

i have 3.

A Ha Take on me





Dee Lite Groove is in the Heart



and John Parr St. Elmo's Fire

I'll admit, I am fairly ignorant on the topic. Great old songs though, regardless.

 

[awagner]

Let’s step it up. 2-hit wonders

The Zombies - She’s Not There and Time of the Season

 

[Brucebubs]

Let’s step it up. 2-hit wonders

The Zombies - She’s Not There and Time of the Season

They became Argent and had this great song ...

 

[walrus]

Wait! That's a three-hit wonder!

When will it end? Let's do fifty-hit wonders so we can talk about The Beatles...

walrus

 

[walrus]

"Purple People Eater" - Sheb Wooley



walrus

 

[dreadnut]

Two hit? We can't even get One-hit right...

 

[fronobulax]

In the days of my youth there were charts that rated the popularity of recorded songs. Generally the charts were based on sales or AM plays but the concept of "chart" did adjust some when there were "albums" and people who listened to FM.

Generally something was a hit if it appeared in the top ten of a chart. A one hot wonder was a band that had a song in the Top Ten once, but never again. Sometimes those bands faded away and other times the name lived on with members being replaced and could be found on the County Fair circuit. So there are a lot of postings that don't fit that definition but I am amused nevertheless. There is also the question of a band that had a decades long career but only one song in the top ten. By some definitions they are a One Hit Wonder but because they had a lucrative career maybe that' not the best description for them.

 

[gjmalcyon]

"Because I Got High" - Afroman

 

[davismanLV]

I think Rockwell qualifies for a OHW!! There's no way he couldn't. And it's an okay song. If Michael Jackson hadn't done the background and he hadn't been the son of Barry Gordy I doubt very much this song would've gone anywhere. So it's not what you know but WHO you know.......

 

[Nuuska]

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