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This week’s theme: One-hit wonders
What freak chart hit still makes you want to frugg out?
To enter, complete this sentence
‘The most satisfying single hit from an otherwise obscure source would have to be _____________________________’
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For both the apt title and the sing-a-long chorus its got to be “The One and Only” by Chesney Hawkes
“Word Up” – Cameo.
She’s Strange, Single Life and Candy also hit the chaaats but I agree that Word Up is superb, writes a superannuated Soul Boy.
…winner…and just before he can enter and enjoy oblivion he has to go on with Ray D’Arcy
“I’m A Man Not A Boy” was also a top 40 song.
The most satisfying single hit from an otherwise obscure source would have to be ‘Lemon Tree’ by Fools Garden.
The most satisfying single hit from an otherwise obscure source would have to be She’s Not There by The Zombies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKBRc8zNQ30
Obscure is a funny word. This is the only hit but I suppose maybe everybody also knows Time of the Season from the Bulmers ad.
Odessey and Oracle is a criminally underrated album. Up there with the best of the 60s.
It’s very good. I saw them play at Glastonbury 2 years ago and they mentioned (and it felt a tiny bit pathetic) that Paul Weller (also playing at festival) rated it as one of the best albums he ever heard. It felt like they hoped he was gonna pop up out of the crowd and join ’em.
Anyway – they were great, and singin along to Care of Cell 44 and This will be Our Year made my day, even if it didn’t for the poor divils near me!
Oh, and have this as a wee treat! It’s the version that got me hunting the original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1peq2vzsIFw
Hi Ivan, Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone don’t need endorsement from the increasingly galumphing Paul Weller. :)
heh. 10 points to Gryffindor, Neilo
@Ivan: I like you, kid….you got moxie for days.
The most satisfying single hit from an otherwise obscure source would have to be ‘Where’s me Jumper’ by Sultans of Ping
+ 100
This one is my favourite one-hit wonder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH8koMzxZks
The most satisfying single hit from an otherwise obscure source would have to be Lee Marvin’s Wandering Star from the movie Paint Your Wagon :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTymtAbaG08
Has to be Owen Paul – ‘My Favourite Waste of Time’ Sums up my relationship with Broadsheet perfectly.
Stuck in the middle with you, Steelers Wheel.
The most satisfying single hit from an otherwise obscure source would have to be You Get What You Give by New Radicals because it’s the most 90s thing ever.
Not obscure, it’s by a famous song writer and producer who blessed us with “Life is a Rollercoaster”
Why must you hurt me so? :(
Procal Harum, A Whiter Shade of Pale
The most satisfying single hit from an otherwise obscure source would have to be Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmmm by Crash test dummies because Mmmm.
The most satisfying single hit from an otherwise obscure source would have to be “Kung Fu Fighting” by Carl Douglas.
“There was funky Billy Chin and little Sammy Chung
He said here comes the big boss, lets get it on”
Nobel prize on the way?!
The most satisfying single hit from an otherwise obscure source would have to be Stardust’s “Music Sounds Better with You”. Who *are* those mysterious silver-headed men?? Perhaps we’ll never know…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwv-3cM2pVk
I also like the fact that one of the linked videos is Modjo’s Lady, another great French one-hit-wonder.
The most satisfying single hit from an otherwise obscure source has to be The Only Ones, Another Girl, Another Planet, great song and the intro opened Dave Fanning’s radio show in ’80s so added heaps of nostalgia.
Oooh – you’re older (or younger) than you think. I read this and though ‘hang on, the Fanning theme was “Oh Well” by Fleetwood Mac’ but it seems that changed to Another Girl Another Planet in, wait for it, the late nineties!
cracker of a tune, btw
Wow, genuinely “remembered ” it the other way round. Spent 10 years out of country between ’87 and ’97 so maybe this has contributed to confusion or maybe I’m becoming frighteningly old.
The most satisfying single hit from an otherwise obscure source would have to be Richard Harris’ rendition of MacArthur Park. Seven minutes and 21 second of epic stuff! It was played at a party I was at one night and it turned into an interpretive dance fest.
The most satisfying single hit from an otherwise obscure source would have to be..
https://youtu.be/8hVbo6TqVsg?t=147
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, by Paul Dukas (1865-1935)
‘The most satisfying single hit from an otherwise obscure source would have to be Skee Lo’s song I wish. I wish I was a little bit taller….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryDOy3AosBw
Sixpence None The Richer – Kiss Me
https://youtu.be/8N-qO3sPMjc
Not a one hit wonder, their cover of ‘There She Goes’ was a hit too.
In that case :)
White Town – Your Woman
https://youtu.be/3OMEWH8vilU
I’d it narrowed down to either this or The Zombies up above….
good shout
Big Area by Then Jerico. Class.
Video Killed the Radio Star- Buggles
Buggles had a couple more minor hits, I recall.
Yep, living in the plastic age for one
Trevor Horn is a hero
His work with Dollar alone should enshrine him in the pantheon of pop.
Have you heard “Captain – This is Hazelville”?
Poptastic.
It’s all good, well apart from some of that Seal stuff but, y’know, George Martin facilitated Phil Collins’ butchering of the Abbey Road medley so we have to accept that our idols have feet of clay.
That Captain album was unbelievable, Bertie: it is the equal of Gotten Bold by Birth for me.
Don’t know that one Neilo, fair play, will check it out.
Worth a Deezer or Spotify, Bertie: a New Age Jess Roden, in essence.
The most satisfying single hit from an otherwise obscure source would have to be Fatima Mansions’ Only Losers Take the Bus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaSi2Z74Ou8
Bus vvankers!
The most satisfying single hit from an otherwise obscure source would have to be “Your Woman” by White Town. From nowhere to UK no.1 and rapidly back to nowhere. His only UK top 40 entry in 10 attempts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im5fiehrGAM
well someone else just posted it as I was typing! slow fingers!
I’ll give you 12.50 if I win
99 Red Balloons by Nena
German or English version
https://youtu.be/14IRDDnEPR4
I was musing to meself that if anyone suggested “99 Red Balloons” I would go around to their house and punch them. Funny that.
123 Fake Street, keys in the door,
doors in the floor
Had it on 12″ white label, boyh cersions either side ;)
Damn you fat fongers !
Let Loose, Crazy for you
I’d defo be going for Chesney Hawks Because I AM THE ONE AND ONLY
Phew, just made the deadline…
The most satisfying single from an otherwise obscure source is…
Falco – Rock Me Amadeus
Genius!
https://youtu.be/cVikZ8Oe_XA
As an avid MT USA watcher, Falco (RIP) was definitely no one hit wonder.
Have we learned nothing from the time that we told him the commissar was in town?
He had at least n-n-n-n-n-nineteen of them! Like a soundtrack to Beverly Hills…
The Lotus Eaters – First Picture of You
https://youtu.be/0vBpGAQ2vQg
gotta be Althea & Donna who came from obscurity to have a UK no.1 in 1977 with the reggae classic “Uptown Top Ranking”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_txbkbwsCg
“Gimme little bass let me wind out me waist!”
Men Without Hats – Safety Dance.
“Or as they’re called now.. Men without jobs”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWa-6g-TbgI
The most satisfying single hit from an otherwise obscure source would have to be Return of the Mack by Mark Morrison.
We’re still waiting for his return *sad face*
toy dolls. nelly the elephant
The most satisfying single hit from an otherwise obscure source would have to be this classic from Tony Basil:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW7VnHnX3LQ
The most satisfying hit single from an otherwise obscure source would have to be They’re coming to take me away by Napoleon XIV. Delightfully simple and not quite PC he apparently found limited fame in old folks retirement centres.
A Wheelchair bound Robert Wyatt channeling his inner Neil Diamond.
I’m a Believer!!!
https://youtu.be/Y7PBPd3UA7Q
Satisfying you say ? Obscure you say ?How about this little guilty pleasure, the Sundays, Heres where the story ends.
https://g.co/kgs/4d1n2V
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy-Television, the drug of the nation.