OT: National One Hit Wonder Day

[nwhoopfan]

Here is another 80's group that almost made it big. The Sundays

"Summertime" from their last album got quite a bit of radio play. Seems like there must've been something else that was at least a minor hit? Not quite sure they're a OHW. I love Harriet's voice.

 

[Ozimoto]

Could be. I haven't heard "Summertime" that I am aware of.

I don't spend quite as much time listening to the radio as I used to back in the 80's and 90's. (Got married and our taste in music didn't quite match so had to find a new middle ground, except of course when I was alone in my car...).

 

[Martin]

Dexys Midnighth Runners - Come on Eileen. A GREAT song - loved it when i was in college. I never could understand half of what they were saying until websites like Lyrics.com were created.

Little known fact. Members of Dexy’s Midnight Runners were in a punk bsnd called The Killjoys. Amazing they went from this The Killjoys Johnny Wont Go To Heaven 1978 to what the Midnight Runners sound like.

 

[Bama fan]

Here is more from Harriet and The Sundays, and I think her voice is featured well in this one.

 

[Bama fan]

From 1960, Johnny Preston. He sang a few more tunes, but nothing to match this oddball tune.

 

[nwhoopfan]

I haven't heard "Summertime" that I am aware of.

 

[Ozimoto]

Nice! Not sure how I missed this one.

 

[Slipperman]

I love Harriet's voice.

so do i.. right up there with Liz Fraser of the Cocteau Twins..

this was a minor hit in Europe..

 

[Bama fan]

From 1959, a song from teenage girls reportedly written about their teacher.

 

[AgStatesman]

Im sorry to bring this back so much later, but I had surgery and forgot I was compelled to post. Tracy Chapman's Fast Car not withstanding, the greatest one hit wonder of all time, and you will all agree, has to be Bob Geldof's Boomtown Rats, I Don't Like Mondays.

 

[sivad40]

 

[Plebe]

I thought her debut album was great, but she's mostly known for this one song. I saw her around that time, at Bumbershoot back when it was still cool.

"One of Us" was her big hit, but "St. Teresa" was her best song IMO:

 

[sivad40]

 

[Scud49]

Good tune- #1 in GB:

 

[Golden Husky]

This is a site for UConn women's basketball so let's remember the ladies:

"The 81" - Candy & The Kisses
"Whenever a Teenager Cries" - Reparata & The Delrons
"Mixed-up, Shook-up Girl" - Patty & The Emblems
"Please Love Me Forever" Cathy Jean & The Roommates
"Party Lights" - Claudine Clark
"Bobby's Girl" - Marcie Blaine
"Popsicles and Icicles" - The Murmaids
"I Love How You Love Me" - The Paris Sisters
"You'll Lose a Good Thing" - Barbara Lynn
"Oh No Not My Baby" - Maxine Brown
"Right on the Tip of My Tongue" - Brenda & The Tabulations
"Sally Go 'Round the Roses" - The Jaynetts
"I Wanna Love Him So Bad" - The Jelly Beans
"A Lover's Concerto" - The Toys
"You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry" - The Caravelles
"The Boy From New York City" - The Ad Libs
"You" - The Aquatones
"Eddie My Love" - The Teen Queens