OT: Guilty Pleasures-Another Music Thread

[mauconnfan]

What I mean is of course Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix aren't one hit wonders. Remember many of the best rock n roll groups didn't have great success on America's Top 40 but the albums they sell keep them out of the category the way I look at it as One Hit Wonders. I could be totally off but comparing these to Digital Underground is way off. But you have a point I guess if they have 2.

 

[UConn 77]

Red rubber ball by the Cyrkle

Nope. They followed that up with Turn Down Day.

 

[UConn 77]

Liar, Liar, The Castaways.

 

[DogBoy]

Sorry DB, this entry has been rejected. The Cyrkle also hit the Top 40 with "Turn-Down Day".

Doh! Forgot about Turn Down Day

 

[TRest]

Here is a link for Matthew Sweet "Evangeline" - thought I'd add this, he is not a one-hit wonder. Hope it works.



Hey, can someone post how to add a video link properly?

I couldn't find any chart information at all for it. One hit wonder means one actual hit, not whether they have a body of work.
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[DogBoy]

Rock & Roll Hoochie Coo Rick Derringer
Play that funk music white boy Wild Cherry
Black is Black Los Bravos
Bang A Gong T Rex
Connecticut's own Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye Steam (Bridgeport I Think)
Eve of Destruction Barry Mcguire

 

[JMick]

Apologies in advance, and I'm using "hit" in the most liberal of meanings, but this song I heard recently is a "classic" and unlike anything else I've heard- the one & only, "Mr. Magic" by the Native Hipsters




From 107.7, the low-powered FM station in Brattleboro, VT

This is the worst song I have ever heard in my entire life.

 

[Huskybass]

Ok. I started this mess. I can name 20 Led Zep songs off the top of my head and folks like Jimi and Janice are far from one hit wonders.

I am talking about acts that everyone immediately thinks of one song when they are mentioned. Stuff like Driver's Seat, Ice Ice Baby, Hocus Pocus, Come on Eileen.... Those are gold, Jerry.

 

[superjohn]

My bad. I keep forgetting about "Doowutchyalike". You're right. Everyone knows that one.

You're trying to make a joke here but that song was a pretty big song back in the day off of an album which went platinum. I'm guessing you being older you didn't grow up with rap and don't know much about rap music, doesn't mean it's not popular.

 

[Huskybass]

You're trying to make a joke here but that song was a pretty big song back in the day off of an album which went platinum. I'm guessing you being older you didn't grow up with rap and don't know much about rap music, doesn't mean it's not popular.

I started the thread and I had never heard of that song either.

 

[alexd]

 

[alexd]

 

[Deepster]

You're trying to make a joke here but that song was a pretty big song back in the day off of an album which went platinum. I'm guessing you being older you didn't grow up with rap and don't know much about rap music, doesn't mean it's not popular.

I give up. This is 1,000 times more than I ever have desired to talk about The Humpty Dance. Digital Underground is a hit machine. And walking through Hartford is as safe as being rocked to sleep in your mother's arms. You win. Please put me on ignore or stop replying to anything I post.

 

[superjohn]

I give up. This is 1,000 times more than I ever have desired to talk about The Humpty Dance. Digital Underground is a hit machine. And walking through Hartford is as safe as being rocked to sleep in your mother's arms. You win. Please put me on ignore or stop replying to anything I post.

You admitted you're wrong, it would have been so much easier if you just did from the start. This does feel like a breakthrough and I am proud of you. I'll gladly ignore you from now on.

 

[Kembacity]

I am talking about acts that everyone immediately thinks of one song when they are mentioned.

I'm with you guy, that's the definition to me

 

[huskyblooz]

Here is a link for Matthew Sweet "Evangeline" - thought I'd add this, he is not a one-hit wonder. Hope it works.



Hey, can someone post how to add a video link properly?

Also he got a lot of AirPlay with "Sick of Mysekf"

 

[storrsroars]

Stealer's Wheel also had "Star" which charted in top 30.

I can go through a ton of 80s bands that made the new music charts (see: Oingo Boingo, Haircut 100, Nik Kershaw, The Church, Lords of the Church, Kajagoogoo, Total Cuelo, Black Flag, Swing Out Sister, Peter Schilling, Wall of Voodoo, Taco, The Buggles, The Vapors, Men Without Hats, Rockwell, Tommy Tutone and many others.

But my favorite one-hit wonder resulted in an absurd video from a variety show where you don't know if it's a lipsynch or not because it's simply whistling. A top 10 hit in the UK and a top 20 in the US.

This should be what UConn sings instead of Sweet Caroline.

I now bring you Whistling Jack Smith, performing, "I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman"...

 

[Kembacity]

 

[tdrink]

 

[tomtom80]

Peppermint Trolley Company. Theme song to the Brady Bunch TV show

 

[Deepster]

You admitted you're wrong, it would have been so much easier if you just did from the start. This does feel like a breakthrough and I am proud of you. I'll gladly ignore you from now on.

I never admitted i was wrong.

 

[Dove]

@Kembacity Tom Cochrane struck it big with Red Rider. Remember "Lunatic Fringe?

 

[Dove]

Loved this guy...

 

[80shusky]

Does this count?

 

[mauconnfan]

Rock & Roll Hoochie Coo Rick Derringer
Play that funk music white boy Wild Cherry
Black is Black Los Bravos
Bang A Gong T Rex
Connecticut's own Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye Steam (Bridgeport I Think)
Eve of Destruction Barry Mcguire

While TRex only had one "hit" I found their album The Slider to be pretty good overall. And if not for the early death of a young Marc Bolan I think they would have been a big player in the Rock n Roll era of the 70's and beyond.