One hit wonders

kmyers said:
Another favorite one hit wonder, all 17 plus minutes.

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Iron Butterfly. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.

If I see someone really ugly I tell them that they look like someone played the drum solo from the song on their face with a pair of ugly drumsticks. Many do not get the reference.
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I got to see them in a small venue in the early '80s. That drum solo was just incredible!! I'd not want to arm wrestle the drummer.
 
Rustyt1953 said:
That's uncanny. I, too, had a monstrous crush on a girl in HS (sssh... it wasn't you know who). When she found out I was going to enlist she fluffed me off like so much dandruff. "Lonely Girl" still makes me think of her every time.

My wedding song was "At Last" so that now holds the number 1 spot on my "heart tuggers" list.
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...fortunately that first one didn't work out...as I met my soulmate several girlfriends later...

...the first one has been married at least three times...so I think I dodged a bullet there...
 
s1mp13m4n said:
I am going to go out on a limb here but it depends on how you define "one hit wonder". LOL Jimmy Buffet only has one #1 hit and it took Alan Jackson to make it happen. Technically Jimmy Buffet is a one hit wonder.
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Under that definition of you must hit #1, there aren't many hit makers.

The Moody Blues sold over 70 million records, but never hit #1 on the Hot 100. They did hit #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart with "Your Wildest Dreams" and #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart with "The Voice."
 
Just skimmed through and didn't see them...apologies if they've been previously mentioned, but how about Zager and Evans' "In The Year 2525"? Released just before the first moon landing and a year after the debut of 2001: A Space Odyssey, I remember the eerie, prophetic feeling I would get when I listened to it.

[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lvYvtRmgA4o[/ame]
 
timjake said:
Under that definition of you must hit #1, there aren't many hit makers.

The Moody Blues sold over 70 million records, but never hit #1 on the Hot 100. They did hit #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart with "Your Wildest Dreams" and #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart with "The Voice."
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And "Nights in White Satin" hit #2 on Billboard's Top 100 when re-issued in 1972. And just too damn good not to share.....

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjUqfRrWwcM[/ame]
 
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I'm thinking some people don't understand the definition of "one hit wonder".
It isn't the same thing as having a #1 hit song.

"One hit wonder" refers to a group that had ONE song that was a big hit - one song that got lots of radio play, made it into the top 100 for a time, etc.

Groups that had multiple hits can't be a one hit wonder, and a group that had only one popular song is a one hit wonder even if that song never made it to number one on any of the charts.
 
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"Chantilly Lace" by J. P. Richardson, aka The Big Bopper. He died in the plane crash that also killed Buddy Holly and Richie Valens in 1959. They both had multiple hits on the charts.
 
Squarebutt said:
"Chantilly Lace" by J. P. Richardson, aka The Big Bopper. He died in the plane crash that also killed Buddy Holly and Richie Valens in 1959. They both had multiple hits on the charts.
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. . . which is why they weren't one hit wonders.

On the other hand, Larry Verne's "Please Mr. Custer," was.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe0q8Lq3L2Q[/ame]
 
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