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Today is National One Hit Wonder Day
It’s that one song that made them famous and it was a hit and they had no others.
So what’s your favorite?
Here are two of my favorites....
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"California Sun" by the Rivieras.
I was an oldies disk jockey back in my misspent youth. I played a lot of the one hit wonders.
I saw the Tokens in concert at the Weinberg Center in Frederick, MD. The lead singer can still hit the high notes.
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Only picked this one 'cause I went to high school with these guys
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Transfusion by Nervous Norvus
Transfusion
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Not sure it was even a HIT! Was played over sound system befoe races at local stock car tracks in 50s.
Curious; I checked WIKIPEDIA: His novelty song "Transfusion" was a Top 20 hit in 1956, reaching No. 13 on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart.
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I can still do the drum part.
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99 Luftballoons- Nena
or maybe- 867-5309- Tommy Tutone
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He had more hits in Jamaica, but I’ll bet this is the only one you know.
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Funny story about, Who Let the Dogs Out.
When my son was in high school he played football and their team was the Bulldogs. So every morning before a game his mother would blow him out of bed with that song!  He hated it,and so did I for that fact but she kept the CD hid so no one could find it. He searched high and low for it but she only knew where it was and pulled it out on game days. Of course if we would have found it it would have been broken and discarded.
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Just goes to show that pop music is not always universal. Hot Chocolate had a bunch of hits in the UK.
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A couple of my favourites.
Both songs have fantastic hooks. I first heard Birdhouse on a late night TV show in the UK at a buddy's flat. I said right then it was a possible #1 and would be a top ten at least.
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What year, era, genre.
So so many and so few brain cells left.
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About "Play that funky music".
My friend and session player Ron Mancuso wrote it. He was in a studio in Pittsburgh working on a track for a commercial. He, and the other players, were not giving the client what he wanted. The client got frustrated and told them that he was taking a long lunch and for them to come up with something better by the time he got back as it was costing him money.
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Ouch!!
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Was with my Bro in his Beetle.
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Just as he turned into his parking lot, it started playing.
He turned into his parking place and we just sat there and listened to all of the song.
What happened?
They threw something off the bridge?
This many years later, it’s still a mystery!
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Cock Robin...When your Heart is Weak (1985). Still my all time #1 favorite Song and Video. This was filmed in Arizona.
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I'm not a music follower but Don Mclean's American Pie elicited a unique reaction at 4am, in a NY bar, that made me remember it.
1970's, closing time, everyone preparing to leave, when the song comes on the radio. The half dozen small groups of customers heading toward the door, stop in their tracks and start singing the song, then line up at the bar, chorus like, and belt out the song at the top of their lungs.
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The biggest one hit wonder of them all: "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen.
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Was with my Bro in his Beetle.
We were returning to his Memphis apt.
Just as he turned into his parking lot, it started playing.
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They threw something off the bridge?
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Was a teenager living in Tallahatchie County going to West Tallahatchie High School when this came out - it was played on WHBQ (Memphis) often - seemed like every other song. It was a mystery to us as to what they threw off the Tallahatchie Bridge. in fact, there are a number of bridges across the Tallahatchie River, in multiple counties.
I don't think Bobbie Gentry ever had another big hit like this.
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A call to Forum Order here:
Several of the songs listed are not true "One Hit Wonders" They may be chart busters or well remembered, but the group or singer had several popular songs.
So by definition not actual "One Hit", they had more than one popular song.
Pandora listeners can set up a One Hit Station.
Carry On.
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Music makes the world turn the right direction. High,low ,sad ,happy,drunk or sober. Can’t imagine what it would be like without it.
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The biggest one hit wonder of them all: "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen.
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Gads brings me back to a long, drawn out, terrible break up with that song
Damn I was in love. sniff sniff.
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A great song, but not a one hit, She had many,
Another "tear jerker" for me.
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How about In A Gadda Da Vida, Iron Butterfly? They did other stuff I think, but I thought they were awful songs and didn't even listen to them all the way through. IIRC, we wore out our LP of the song playing it at every party we had.
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I'm not a music follower but Don Mclean's American Pie elicited a unique reaction at 4am, in a NY bar, that made me remember it.
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In a similar vein, I never did find out why a certain biker crew I hung out with had "Daydream believer" by the Monkees as their sort of theme tune.
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if there was a hotter rocker than Alannah Myles in 1990......tell me who........Black Velvet won her a Grammy....the song is about Elvis.........
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