Biggest One-Hit-Wonder in Rock Music

[StoneCold]

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Kingdom Come - Get It On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq1tpCkAecI

[StoneCold]

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Flash & The Pan - Hey St Peter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz48dyXTFpQ

[JRNYMAN]

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Journey fans'll remember these guys but this was pretty much their only hit. Got quite a bit of radio play a few months before grunge started taking over.

The Storm - I've Got A Lot To Learn ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyYsqtoCQUk

Chalfant/Rolie on vox

Show Me The Way (from the same album) got just as much airplay, if not more. And, IMHO a better song. Chalfant really shines on this one!! Perhaps his finest hour...?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjCpC_w6z4E

[verslibre]

Billy Thorpe - Children of the Sun

Love that album. Good shit.

Saga - On the Loose

"Wind Him Up" (from the same album) was kind of a hit, IIRC. Saga has a lot of f'in albums, too. I haven't heard the latest one, but 10,000 Days (the last one before Michael Sadler left the band for a spell) was their best in a long time.

[JRNYMAN]

Stick this in your head all day..

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w5jkAkm4J ... 5jkAkm4JmM


Oogga Chaka

Thanks! It seems like the ones that get stuck in your head are the most obscure -OR- it's a song that you just hear the beginning of as you pull into a parking spot or your driveway and turn off the car. For instance, a couple of days ago, this commercial comes on the radio whilst driving and they use part of "Time to Change" by The Brady Bunch kids as their jingle..... I had that fucking song stuck in my cranium the entire day!
Just in case you're dying to hear it... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKEQm10-n84

"Wind Him Up" (from the same album) was kind of a hit, IIRC. Saga has a lot of f'in albums, too. I haven't heard the latest one, but 10,000 Days (the last one before Michael Sadler left the band for a spell) was their best in a long time.

Forgot about Wind Him Up. I wasn't even aware they ever made another album. Got that one in a Columbia House deal way back when.

A couple more...

Sniff 'N the Tears - Driver's Seat
Dada - Dizneyland

[verslibre]

The next album they made was Heads Or Tales, with the singles "The Flyer" and "Cat Walk." Then there are another fifteen or so albums.

[JRNYMAN]

I was in the supermarket on Monday and the Muzak played a OHW, it got stuck in my head and then later when I remembered this thread I couldn't for the life of me remember what the song was. Still can't.

ahh, yes... another senior moment!
This is kinda off topic but a senior moment nonetheless. There have been a couple of times when someone has abbreviated a Journey song and I can not remember/figure out what song it is. The first time I PM'd Rick (I think or maybe it was ST. John...) and asked him what the song was . Whomever it was reassured me we've all had one of those moments where we just can't figure out what song it is. The next time, I simply put my pride aside and asked in the thread.

[StoneCold]

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Surprised these haven't been mentioned. Great driving songs.

Golden Earring - Radar Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwqMKf7r7Xg

Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTFVMMCwsss

[zigzag]

black betty - ram jam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMLnDuzgkjo

[UncleKG]

Kim Mitchell - "Go for a Soda" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXnTbmPxv5g
Nik Kershaw - "Wouldn't it be Good" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvC2LRTR8UI

Loved the reference to Sniff N The Tears. "Driver's seat" is a GREAT song.

[scarab]

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Surprised these haven't been mentioned. Great driving songs.

Golden Earring - Radar Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwqMKf7r7Xg

Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTFVMMCwsss

Golden Earring actually had a bigger hit in America, the Top 10 "Twilight Zone"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1sf2CzEq0w

[StoneCold]

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Surprised these haven't been mentioned. Great driving songs.

Golden Earring - Radar Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwqMKf7r7Xg

Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTFVMMCwsss

Golden Earring actually had a bigger hit in America, the Top 10 "Twilight Zone"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1sf2CzEq0w

oops, forgot about that one, good call

... and I noticed JRNYman's original post did mention Red Rider. oh well

[Deb]

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Definitely a 1hw - great song:

Henry Lee Summer - I Wish I Had A Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnPZeVFJ9e8

Great tune! A song of his came up on my ipod the other day and I actually switched it over to artist instead of shuffle and listened to a bunch of his I have on there. Man he had some great songs, he had 2 or 3 hits though back in the day.

It's too bad he got mixed up in drugs I think, lol goofy but such a talented dude, absolutely love the gravelly soul r&b vocal tone he had. A couple other favourites..........

Hands on the Radio ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOEXVB7kBjk
Darlin Danielle Don't ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te3Ug5jKXAg

[StoneCold]

Thanks Deb, hadn't heard that Danielle song. It's pretty good.

I miss this kind of music being on the radio. Speakin of which that Hands on Radio tune is great.

I'll have to find some of his cds and get his other tunes.

[StoneCold]

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Remembered another, Cult of Personality - Living Colour

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0


and I looked up these guys, lots of albums but this is the only thing I remember from them, great song though

Soul Asylum - Runaway Train
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRtvqT_wMeY

[FamilyMan]

Toni Basil "Mickey"
The Firm "Radioactive"
Tommy Tutone "Jenny Jenny (8675309)
Aldo Nova "Fantasy"
Flock of Seagulls "I Ran"

[Deb]

Toni Basil "Mickey"
The Firm "Radioactive"
Tommy Tutone "Jenny Jenny (8675309)
Aldo Nova "Fantasy"
Flock of Seagulls "I Ran"

That was definitely his biggest, but Aldo had other charters as well...........Ball & Chain, Foolin' Yourself, Monkey on Your Back. Although this one is one of my faves of his.......... Rumours of You http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSLTnBYI5ys

A favourite one hit wonder back in the day...........

Benny Mardones ~ Into The Night http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bpOBAwrFVw

[RPM]

Not exactly rock but.....

Boogie oogie oogie .......Taste Of Honey....

[StoneCold]

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Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY

[MotherCitay]

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Andy Kim - Rock Me Gently

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ym3RlvVR9M

Sounds very Neil Diamond-ish

[JRNYMAN]

Toni Basil "Mickey"
The Firm "Radioactive"
Tommy Tutone "Jenny Jenny (8675309)
Aldo Nova "Fantasy"
Flock of Seagulls "I Ran"

That was definitely his biggest, but Aldo had other charters as well...........Ball & Chain, Foolin' Yourself, Monkey on Your Back. Although this one is one of my faves of his.......... Rumours of You http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSLTnBYI5ys

A favourite one hit wonder back in the day...........

Benny Mardones ~ Into The Night http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bpOBAwrFVw

I loved "Foolin' Yourself" the first time I heard it - far more than Fantasy.
Thanks for the Henry Lee Summer mention and links. Man, I had forgotten all about him. He really had a lot of potential and like you said, it's too bad the road he went down.

[StoneCold]

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This was always on the radio in 1983. Then nothing.


Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA5MtAmT24g

[JRNYMAN]

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This was always on the radio in 1983. Then nothing.


Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA5MtAmT24g

Never did like that one.

[MotherCitay]

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Player - Baby Come Back

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn-enjcgV1o

[The Sushi Hunter]

Last weekend the wife and I were at the mall shopping and a song was being played over the p/a system of the store we were in. Another chick who was standing in line with us and who was older than we are was asking us if we knew who it was singing the song. I thought it was a young Stevie Wonder. The woman was saying she thought it was like a band similar to Chicago.

Out of curiosity I got on the internet to check it out. Turns out the band is Spiral Starecase and the song we heard was "More Today Than Yesterday". It also turns out that Spiral Starecase is considered a one-hit-wonder and this is the song that was the hit. I'm sure though that I've heard Stevie Wonder singing this song back in the day though. Anyone mention this one-hit-wonder yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuqHlv1YPe0