I gotta go with No Good To Cry by The Wildweeds, featuring Al
Anderson's singing.
I gotta go with No Good To Cry by The Wildweeds, featuring Al
Anderson's singing.
“To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.”
Gotta go with a couple that turned me onto guitar (before I knew what guitar was).
I'd also add Reelin' in the Years, but the Dan isn't exactly 1 hit wonder material.
- Spirit in the Sky
- Journey to the Center of the Mind
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Geez, I love so many O.H.W.s that I can't pick just one to nominate.
Off the top of my head:
"Come On Eileen" - Dexy's Midnight Runners
"Groove is in the Heart" - DeeLite
"96 Tears" - ? and the Mysterions
"Me and Mrs. Jones" - Billy Paul
"I Nearly Lost You" - Screaming Trees
I'm sure I'll think of more.
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Here's a few.
http://www.thefenderforum.com/forum/...ad.php?t=16374
Yeah, those are nice, but they're like from a whole year ago!Here's a few.
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Double Barrel, by Dave and Ansel Collins.
Not really, but I dare someone to find information on it...
Lot's of great tunes. How about Journey to the Center of your Mind, by the Amboy Dukes? (No, you can't say it's a Ted Nugent Song)
Or We Ain't Got Nothing Yet, by the Blues Magoos?
I think Norman Greenbaum's Spirit in the Sky is the best though.
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Hocus Pocus - Focus
In A Gadda Da Vida
"Tomorrow", Silverchair. A little cheesy, but Rocks (that's right, with a capital R, friends)
Lots of stuff from that eraOriginally Posted by boobtube21
I Could Dream All Day
Possum Kingdom
Cannonball
There She Goes
Liar
etc.
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Hocus Pocus is a good one. Iron Butterfly? I don't think of them in terms of "one hit wonders".
Here is my pick:
Sympathy - by Rare Bird (I hope someone will second this one)
I could have been someone... but so could anyone
Without looking back on the old thread a couple that come to mind are:
"White Bird" - It's a Beautiful Day
"In Big Country" - Big Country
"99 Luft Ballons" - Nena
+1 for Norman's "Spirit In The Sky" - just heard it on the radio today and it's been what, like 35 years or something?!?!?
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In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
"If you're cool, you don't know nothin' about it. It just is...or you ain't." - Keith Richards
The Star Spangled Banner???
Layla
Dereck and the Dominoes.
Only reading the thread title, Greenbaum's "Spirit..." popped up immediately.
Gtrplyr: Nena doesn't really qualify because she's a german "artist" (really wouldn't call her an artist because her career was all hyped and she still can't hit a right note to save her life LOL!) and she had some more hits here in Germany - her US appearance on the charts was a surprise and more due to a kind of novelty factor, I'd guess.
I don't think "Layla" qualifies because it's album oriented material and the entire album is still a hit record (and an all-time classic).
We'd have to agree on what "one hit wonder" means - to me it's somebody who came out of nowhere, had a hit and disappeared again.
Sorry for the long post - back to the scheduled program:
Tobacco Road - The Nashville Teens
“To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.”
A great o-h-w, and IMHO, the best song of that decade.Cannonball
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Hey, Isn't a one hit wonder somone who had one hit song like the Big Bopper? Not just a song but an artist.I think In A Gadda Da Vida is a good one. I can't recall any other Iron Butterfly song. They still play it at one of the Pocono festivals in Pa. I recently heard an interview with Norman Greenbaum and he's still making a nice living off of Spirit in the Sky. Seriously cool.
I thought he was dead.I recently heard an interview with Norman Greenbaum and he's still making a nice living off of Spirit in the Sky. Seriously cool.
I've also heard that the same album that spawned SITS had a track that sounded almost exactly the same, but with different lyrics and a chorus that went "When ya gonna buy me my canned ham?". Can any of you hardcore Greenbaum fans confirm?
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Yep, "Canned Ham" is definitely a Norman Greenbaum tune. So is "The Eggplant That Ate Chicago," which he recorded under the New Vaudeville Band moniker, back when everybody was looking for the next "Winchester Cathedral."
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Procol Harum's Whiter Shade of Pale.
Stern interviewed him right before he left terrestial radio. Stern's stupid band I think they were called Losers or something like that covered it so they got in touch with Greenbaum. Unless he died not too long ago, I believe he's still around. Check this out http://www.spiritinthesky.com/
Yeah, Norman was around at least of a couple of years ago. He's got a website, where he details his SITS rig. Seemed like a pretty cool current/ex-hippie.
I mean, c'mon, isn't that everybody's dream? Make a hit single in your 20's, and be able to live the hippie thing forever off of it? And be able to record "The Eggplant that ate Chicago?"
I could live with that legacy.
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She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals
Achy Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus
The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
Ok, I can buy into She Drives Me Crazy, but the other two?
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I hope not. His website has an email link to ask ol' Norm a question, so, I did! I asked him how he got that low frequency breakup on Spirit.
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A ha! I got the name of that group wrong, checking out the page... "Dr. West's Medicine Show and Junk Band" was Greenbaum. "New Vaudeville Band" were the guys who actually did "Winchster Cathedral."
I owned the single of "The Eggplant That Ate Chicago" which was b/w "City Hall Blues." Used to play it in my solo gig, if the room was getting light and drunk. :)
And yes, Kap'n, I'd take his career any day. Living light, not working too hard... he must have just cashed another huge check because I'm hearing "Spirit In The Sky" in some TV campaign about football.
While Greenbaums "Spirit in the Sky" certainly qualifies as perhaps the most popular of all OHW's the most significant was maybe The Honeycombs hit "Have I the Right", they knocked the Beatles out of the #1 positon for a week or two when Beatlemania was raging over the globe
Fast doesn't always mean good
The Boomtown Rats- "I Don't Like Mondays"
I'm not aware of any other hit, at least not stateside.
Seeing the Greenbaum album cover reminds me of when a friend had an LP, "The Best of The Boomtown Rats."
I was flipping through his albums and asked, "What's this, a giant 45 of 'I Don't Like Mondays?"'
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
TFYC also had a hit song called "Good Thing."
“To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.”
And a cover of Suspicious Minds, which was a single, but not nearly as big. That guy (Roland Gift?) had a great voice. Whatever happened to him?
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That's a very cool cover.
I actually have their best of, "The Finest."
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P...PELD_OU08_.jpg
I vaguely recall he's been in a couple of movies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Gift
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Well, Norman responded. It was a custom built fuzz.
So he's either alive, or my response came from the spirit in the sky.
Maybe a little of both....
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Actually, it looks like your face is wearing Norman's hair.
What gives, man?
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
Why, that's not me, it's...it's...it's...Billy GibbonsActually, it looks like your face is wearing Norman's hair.
What gives, man?
Yeah, that's the ticket.
With cheap sunglasses
Yeah...
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How about the 1993 UK Christmas number one "Mr Blobby" by Mr Blobby?
The first Christmas number one by a barely comprehensible fat pink blobby thing. If you don't count Cliff Richard.
i bet this really annoy's you if your a grammar freak.
"Signs" by the Five Man Electrical Band.
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
They also had a hit with Conquistador.
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