Your Favorite One Hit Wonder Song

[MichaelWinicki]

German

Couple other one-hit German songs...

Lolita- "Sailor, Your Home is the Sea" from 1960

Joe Dowell- "Wooden Heart" in 1961

 

[Ranching]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=#&ved=0ahUKEwiJ2LeP2p7cAhUQGKwKHZcBA0AQ8TUIPTAC&usg=AOvVaw0VTJzWxrN8ZFOD4xbU2nov

This guy is from my neck of the woods. Good guy that got screwed over by the business. He named his band after a shrimping boat on South Padre Island. He makes a good living playing cruise ships.

Can someone post the video. Apparently I can't

 

[Runwildboys]

I thought this was a Petty song!

 

[Runwildboys]

Comfortably Numb

One hit wonder?

 

[Runwildboys]

Some that pop into my head that I don’t think anyone has mentioned ...

Play that Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Smoking in the Boys Room - Brownsville Station
Brandy - Looking Glass
Stuck in the Middle With You - Stealer’s Wheel
Radar Love - Golden Earring

Then there have been a lot of one hit wonders with what I’ll call “gimmick” songs - songs, that were just catcy (sometimes annoying) and/or that took advantage of trends at a point in time:

King Tut -Steve Martin
The Hustle - ?
Convoy - CW McCall
I’m too Sexy - ?
Video Killed the Radio Star - ?
Hey Mickey - Toni Basil
Pop Muzic - ?
The Macarena - ?

Golden Earring also had Twilight Zone, which may have been an even bigger hit.

 

[CouchCoach]

Comfortably Numb

Wrong thread, you need to transfer this to the Pink Floyd thread and bring whatever you put over there over here. I'll wait.

 

[CouchCoach]

It’s a legit tune. I don’t know anybody that can hear that song and not sing along and try to hit that high note at least once (nobody can hit that note)

I hit it. Can't father any more children but I hit it.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Golden Earring also had Twilight Zone, which may have been an even bigger hit.

Yep, and "Twilight Zone" was a very good song.

 

[CouchCoach]

Another all time favorite

 

[Idgit]

No Tubthumpin’ yet? Good.

Here’s an obscure one that I always liked and you almost never hear anymore:

 

[Idgit]

Almost forgot this one.



/closethread?

 

[CouchCoach]

When I die and they lay me to rest
Gonna go to the place that's the best
When I lay me down to die
Goin' up to the spirit in the sky

Biggie might have the winner because that one hit wonder has been in so many films. The first time I heard it, I was hooked. Never understood why he didn't follow that up with something good because that song was hot.

 

[Runwildboys]

No Tubthumpin’ yet? Good.

Here’s an obscure one that I always liked and you almost never hear anymore:

Always liked this one. It was kind of eerie.

 

[Runwildboys]

Almost forgot this one.



/closethread?

LOL - You've just opened the door to William Shatner's Rocket Man.

 

[CouchCoach]

Here ya go

 

[OmerV]

Golden Earring also had Twilight Zone, which may have been an even bigger hit.

Forgot about that.

 

[CouchCoach]

Oh yeah and this one

 

[Idgit]

LOL - You've just opened the door to William Shatner's Rocket Man.

Shatner also had “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.”



This is “one hit wonders.” Keep up.

 

[CouchCoach]

This song came out when one of my stations was Top 40 and I always thought his vocal was the front runner on Grunge.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

"Afternoon Delight" by Starland Local Band

In the summer of '76 that song was on constantly.