One hit wonders we have known and loved
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I hope that receptionist now only has one hand to answer the phone with.
diond said:
"Forever Young" was the name of their other major single, released a few months after "Big In Japan". I remember it, but without a "UK Chart History for Nerds" book to hand, I can't remember if it made the charts at all in the UK.
Often, a claimed "one hit wonder" released a follow-up single which charted at number 37 or something for a week, then disappeared. So, in the real world, they ARE one-hit wonders in the sense that they will only be remembered for one song, even though technically they aren't.
See Haysi Fantayzee and "Shiny Shiny" for details. That definitely charted, cos I remember watching them on TOTP and kind of fancying the girl, mainly cos she was wearing a fairly skimpy outfit. Plus ca change!
Giles..
Indeed, Forever Young was the name of their other major single as well as being their original band name, and I think that it could have made the U.S charts (if not, it was very well known there, perhaps more so than Big in Japan), but it never ever made it into the U.K Top 40, and neither have ANY of their other subsequent records....to date. You'll have to go with me on this one, because I know this for sure.Giles said:
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
acid priest said:I wonder who's just been reading a review of the new Sugababes album...?
Have they covered it then?
I love that song!
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Rah Band - Clouds Across The Moon
Orangesanlemons
Inamorati Anonymous
Tamsin Archer - "Sleeping Satellite" 
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
'In Your Care' and 'Lords Of the New Church' also made the top 40, although the second album failed to yield a hit single at all (being as it was much delayed and decidedly inferior), the album itself flopped and the reckord companie let her go.Orangesanlemons said:Tamsin Archer - "Sleeping Satellite"
Treacle Toes
Time
Renee and Renata..'Save your Love'
John Waite - I ain't Missing You
Kenny Loggins - Footloose
Re-Flex - Politics of Dancing (One of the best tunes ever made. Most think it was Heaven 17).
Rockwell - Somebody's Watching
Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days
Furniture - Brilliant Mind
Oran 'juice' Jones - The Rain
It's Immaterial - Driving Away From Home
Robbie Nevil - C'est La Vie
Timex Social Club - Rumours
Kenny Loggins - Footloose
Re-Flex - Politics of Dancing (One of the best tunes ever made. Most think it was Heaven 17).
Rockwell - Somebody's Watching
Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days
Furniture - Brilliant Mind
Oran 'juice' Jones - The Rain
It's Immaterial - Driving Away From Home
Robbie Nevil - C'est La Vie
Timex Social Club - Rumours
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
Hey. A True Pop Fan.diond said:
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
Harold Faltemeyer - 'Axel F'
Jan Hammer - 'Crockett's Theme'
It Bites - 'Calling All The Heroes' (although they released a further four albums).
And I think an honourable mention should go to Red Box, who actually had two hits. However, they weren't so much two hit wonders as one hit wonders twice, their record company having dropped them between the respective chart ascents of 'Lean On Me' and 'For America' and their respective follow-ups' complete chart bombings.
Jan Hammer - 'Crockett's Theme'
It Bites - 'Calling All The Heroes' (although they released a further four albums).
And I think an honourable mention should go to Red Box, who actually had two hits. However, they weren't so much two hit wonders as one hit wonders twice, their record company having dropped them between the respective chart ascents of 'Lean On Me' and 'For America' and their respective follow-ups' complete chart bombings.
The Groke
hot hail/Paging Dr. Beat
I've mentioned them before and I will mention them again:
One hit-wonder novelty records don't get much better than "Star Turn on 45 Pints" with "Pump up the Bitter"
Brew it! Brew it!
(he says, not reading the rest of the thread and just assuming that noone else has mentioned it yet )
One hit-wonder novelty records don't get much better than "Star Turn on 45 Pints" with "Pump up the Bitter"
Brew it! Brew it!
(he says, not reading the rest of the thread and just assuming that noone else has mentioned it yet
)
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
My uncle wrote one song which Rolf Harris did as a Christmas single. It was called Happy Birthday Father Christmas.
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
I would have to agree...a worthy follow up to Splodgenessabounds' earlier paean to the mores of the public hostelry, 'Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps Please'.The Groke said:
From what I remember Starturn On 45 (Pints) were at the time whacking it out in the hit parade with Harry Enfield's 'Loadsamoney (Doing Up The House)' - another sublime sibling-free pop jewel - for novelty top banana status.
The Groke
hot hail/Paging Dr. Beat
acid priest said:From what I remember Starturn On 45 (Pints) were at the time whacking it out in the hit parade with Harry Enfield's 'Loadsamoney (Doing Up The House)' - another sublime sibling-free pop jewel - for novelty top banana status.
haha - both of which MP3s are available at the bottom of this page along with "Rat Rapping"
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
How could I have failed to mention Barry McGuire's majestic 'Eve Of Destruction' here? Not only one of the finest one-hit-wonder tunes, but one of the greatest songs ever written. Word.
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
Excellent - excellent!The Groke said:haha - both of which MP3s are available at the bottom of this page along with "Rat Rapping"
That's especially convenient as I only owned 'Rat Rapping' on tape until now
. Funnily enough, the great rat wouldn't be entitled to OHW status as 'Rat Rapping''s follow up, an insightful interpretation of Elvis' 'Love Me Tender', clocked in at #32. Pity poor Kevin The Gerbil, however, whose sensitive reworking of Cliff's 'Summer Hoiday' stalled at a paltry #50... It sure beats anything Audio Bullies could come up with.
The Groke
hot hail/Paging Dr. Beat
acid priest said:
How could I have failed to mention Barry McGuire's majestic 'Eve Of Destruction' here? Not only one of the finest one-hit-wonder tunes, but one of the greatest songs ever written. Word.
I read that as "Barry McGuigans "Eve Of Destruction" then and got really quite excited at the thought of that cover version......
BadlyDrawnGirl
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The Groke said:I read that as "Barry McGuigans "Eve Of Destruction" then and got really quite excited at the thought of that cover version......
That would have made an utterly inspired pre-big fight novelty rabble-rouser!
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I don't remember Falcon, but The Crunch is ace - proto-techno!diond said:
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
They also had big hits with 'I Walk the Earth', 'Don't Call Me Baby' and 'I Think I Love You'. Got their first two albums.longdog said:
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