Best Songs by One Hit Wonders
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Some really good songs have been done by One Hit Wonders. Name some of your favorite one hit wonder songs.
Come On Eileen....by Dexy's Midnight Runners.
NaNaNaNaNa Goodbye....Steam
Fire....Crazy World of Arthur Brown
We Ain't Got Nothin Yet...Blues Magoos
Eve of Destruction, Barry McGuire
Funky Town ...Lipps Inc.
Lookin' for Love....Johnny Lee
Funky Poodle...Wild Horses
Walking in Memphis....Marc Cohn
OMC....How Bizarre
What is Love....Haddaway
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Kind of like this one too:
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Aleeah....Donnie Iris
Yep
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Ah! Leah! is a favorite of mine
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"Best" is highly debateable. Here's some I like:
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Space hog is cool like that song it means a lot to me.
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I miss the 90s so goddamn bad. -
"One said:
Space hog is cool like that song it means a lot to me.
I used to jam with a guy from space hog named Anthony in new york once in a while.
This shit ain't nothing to me, man. -
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"One said:
Space hog is cool like that song it means a lot to me.
I used to jam with a guy from space hog named Anthony in new york once in a while.
Very cool. Ya I like them.I used to jam with a guy from space hog named Anthony in new york once in a while.
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Love sugarloaf - they had another song named "Dont call us" too that was pretty good -
heres my 70s radio hit- I think it was a one hit wonder too?
xylophone guy just shreds.... well in xylophone fashion
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VH-1's list of Top 25 One Hit Wonders. Some good songs.
One in particular had perhaps my favorite video of all time:
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Well in ain't In the Year 2525 by Zager and Evans... or Eve of Destruction...
So many "novelty" hits, (Alley Oop, Monster Mash, etc.) that they deserve their own category.
I love this one.. its just uber cool!
Sugarloaf had something there... great "sound"...
First to come to my mind: Blues Image's Ride Captain Ride...
But one that I listen to a lot is Dee-Lite's Groove is in the Heart... Far from a techno-pop guy, but I bought their CD World Clique out of a cut out bin and it's a flat out fun CD. I've started "road trips" with it for years since it wards off speeding tickets. Stupidstition? Absolutely, but first time I did it I was pulled over and only given a verbal warning... a first for me.
The Knack's My Sharonna was catchy... Cossell doomed the group calling them "the next Beatles" on his (thankfully) short-lived variety show, "Saturday Night Live". He beat SNL to the name... that's why Chevy's intro was always "Live from New York... It's Saturday Night!"
Old one I loved was The Cyrcle's Red Rubber Ball... kinda Up with People-ish, but WTF...
Buffalo Springfield only had one, For What It's Worth... may have impacted me the most of the OHW's...
The longest one has to be MacArthur Park "sung" by Richard Harris...
So many... so little time...
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I don't think that For What It's worth was Buffalo Springfield's only hit song. Need to check.
Well, That is the only song of their's that hit the Top Ten. A couple of others hit Top 50. Their albums also were not Top Sellers at the time.
But their influence as we know was beyond the pale. They are in the RRHOF....and you don't get there without being well respected.
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