Thank Flatley it’s Friday.
It’s that time of the week when the guns fall silent, a truce is called and the battle-weary Broadsheet commenters make their way through the blood-soaked fields of No Man’s Land to have a kickabout and a smoke with the enemy. In other words: it’s music competition time.
This week the theme comes courtesy of reader Scottser, who suggests your favourite one hit wonder.
Here’s mine.
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A brilliant choice of theme Scottser!
I’m going for this ear worm that has stayed a firm favourite of my since I first heard it.
To me, it’s still as fresh today!!
Lisa Loeb – Stay
https://youtu.be/i9HGwRbMiVY
Enjoy! And happy Friday!
Yes indeed, this will be a good one.
+1 Enjoyed that :)
“Rapper’s Delight” by The Sugahill Gang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKTUAESacQM
Whether or not it’s the best one hit wonder, it’s definitely one of my favored and possibly the most important.
This brings me back!
I do love me a one hit wonder and this song is exactly that. Younger me had the mega-hits for the lead singer back in the day. Where are they now you ask? Fupped if I know. But this song is solid and good luck getting it out of your head later.
Bodyrockers – I Like the Way You Move
https://youtu.be/jO90ullM3FQ
Toon!
The Kremlin in Belfast sold so much dodgy paramilitary booze to that song?
That’s an excellent tidbit.
The comments on that track are funny :)
Great pick!
Don’t know if this posted…
White Town – Your Woman
https://youtu.be/lVL-zZnD3VU
Dammit Bertie, I was getting in on time for the first time ever and you beat me to it! It’s an absolute banger!
:) sorry H
No worries, it made me look for another one and now I’m down a rabbit hole reliving my teens :-)
Cool track B :)
The Icicle Works
love is a wonderful colour
https://youtu.be/lVL-zZnD3VU
That’s White Town again!
Oops.
https://youtu.be/p1RyvR210m0
The Lotus Eaters – First picture of you
https://youtu.be/OnIqtV16B3k
When I saw the theme I knew you’d suggest it.
It’s one of my favourite songs.
On a similar theme, Mick Head from The Pale Fountains is playing two gigs in Liverpool in July.
Went on sale this morning but wasn’t sure if we’d be able to travel so skipped it.
Gutted.
Aww, tough one. Nothing like a bit of Head.
https://youtu.be/QCGV0GAT6eY
Oh…. I really like that one Bertie. Sounds vaguely familiar to me… :)
Okay, I’ve managed to come up with another one and this remains a real floor filler to this day
Lipps Inc – Funkytown
https://youtu.be/s36eQwgPNSE
Oh yes!
Nice one.
A total cracker!
Ah hear! :)
We had that at home on 7″single. Think my sister bought it when I was a wee fella.
Probably one of the first singes I’d have played to death… My first earworm maybe :)
The Connells 74 75
https://youtu.be/l-ITv4OBV9c
Men Without Hats – Safety Dance
https://youtu.be/0QDKLglEP5Y
Canada has been a great source of one hit wonders and none better than this. I adored this song when I was a chiseler. It has all the ingredients for a one hit wonder. It’s a quirky song from foreign parts with medieval stylings; it even has its own dance move (check the video). For added intrigue the urban myth persists that on time first lady of Canada, Margaret Trudeau, either appeared in the video as the dancing damsel or sang backing vocals, or both.
Great choice
Everybody wang Chung tonight
This gets my vote. Love this song.
It sure is quirky :) I too remember as a Chislet trying to reckon with the song… Is this a joke song, do I take this seriously, and yet so much fun and very catchy :)
Chislet! “Chislet”?… No idea what that is :)
Ram Jam – Black Betty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_2D8Eo15wE
There is just so much going on in this video… the singer looks like a serial killer, the bass player looks like a village person
Still, I’d love to be at that session
Ah there it is :)
I knew someone would’ve beaten me to it. Great pick!!
If there was one band that typifies the premise of the one-hit wonder it has to be The La’s with There She Goes. The potential that band had…
They released one glorious album that that had some great song but There She Goes really stood out.
It needed a re-release for it to chart and became what was clearly a much beloved indie/jangle pop staple for decades. Love it.
https://youtu.be/CZXLLMbJdZ4
Great pick :)
Yay ! It’s music competition time – a highlight of the virtual week.
May your God be with the heady days of the late 80’s and early 90’s when we had in Ireland – albeit 20 years later – what can be most closely approximated with the 60’s “summer of love.” A fine time for a young Fergalito to come of age with that perfect storm of knowing it all coupling itself with risk-taking stupidity to produce some incredible real and artificial experiences. Didn’t i find myself slap bang in the centre of London for a part of it, no better place to be once upon that time. Anyway, before i carelessly ramble myself into the weeds where the grass-snakes and blood-sucking ticks abide and come around to find a wet otter licking my face may i suggest the gem that is “I’m Free” from The Soup Dragons, any way you like it !
https://youtu.be/hSWbpVjwQGM
Classic!
Also I put a pin on this one, will come handy for the ” cover superior to the original” competition.
Darn tootin’ !
Should win, for the introductory paragraph alone; cracking tune too.
Back when god was still in short trousers, but after the dinosaurs.
The Jags – I got your number
https://youtu.be/aNFGE3QJiZ0
Eamonn, Edwin Poots wants a word with you – about the dinosaur sit yee achun
Tell him to dispatch a carrier pigeon please, Senior
Here’s a tune for him
https://youtu.be/53baYQPcC4s
screaming blue messiahs – I wanna be a flintstone
Whut abite ye, heh? Here’s another one he loves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgiDcJi534Y
Was Not Was – Walk The Dinosaur
Got me there with the pre history
Here is one for the road
https://youtu.be/KUed84hjXM8
The Jam Scrape Away
Not an entry to the voucher lottery – just a tune
Was Not Was had another hit in the early ’90’s with the Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley remix of Shake your head. The original featured vocals from Madonna b4 she found fame and a rap from Ozzy Osbourne!
https://youtu.be/xF86IyrxptU
Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum. He decided to write a gospel song after being impressed by one he heard. Wrote it in 15 mins. It’s kept him in coin owing to It’s perpetual use by advertisers. Funny enough though he’s Jewish..”I got a friend in Jesus”. Enjoy.
https://youtu.be/RpkMQueYPDY
Cracking tune and a one hot wonder for Dr and the Medics also
A cracker that :)
House of pain. -Jump around-
The bouncy Jump around (1992) is the only hit from the LA hip-hop duo with an Irish flavor. One of the member monikor is Danny boy, you can’t make that up!
True club classic, the horns of the intro are legendary. Pack it up, pack it in,let me begin! After that nobody will hear of HoP no more and the combo will disband in 1996, just to reunion again every now and then for Paddy’s day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhzpxjuwZy0
Nice one.
Sneaked in to see them when they played an airport hanger outside Munich circa 1994 (Riem perhaps?) – just went around the back and walked in!
They started throwing peaches out to the crowd at one stage and got a direct hit on me noggin as i recall.
Flowered Up – Weekender
https://youtu.be/Gn2GYzJjR2I
An anthem from my student daze. A Baggy epic about “avin’ it” as our English cousins would say. Radio DJs used to play this when they needed a toilet break. Rarely has the ritual of going out been described in such detail. The anticipation, the moment, the comedown and back to the grind. There’s enough here for a song trilogy. To top it all off there’s some classic Jimmy Cooper from Quadrophenia at the end.
That’s a deadly track :)
The First Big Weekend by Arab Strap is another for that theme :)
My son just reminded me of this one that I loved and he hated
Crazy Town – Butterfly
https://youtu.be/6FEDrU85FLE
Ear caterpillar?
For sure… Crackin’ hook on that :)
Danny Wilson, Mary’s Prayer. A sublime piece of soul/pop that immediately brightens your day when it comes on the radio. Hard to believe that they didn’t follow it up with more hits, although writer Gary Clark went on to write for a host of others, from Natalie Imbruglia to Loyd Cole. https://youtu.be/7hqgC3W9GUI
Can you dig it the Mock Turtles. One of the greatest guitar solos. Always makes my spine tingle.
https://youtu.be/sGSHIidlesQ
Superb – well done
Featuring Steve Coogan’s brother, Martin, on vocals.
Bobby BLoom – Montego Bay. Never to be heard of again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYYiaZcuEuk
Spanish Stroll – Mink de ville
https://youtu.be/N5LveBIjg3o
Althea and Donna. Uptown Top Ranking. Two young ones recording a song for a joke and they turn out one of the great reggae songs and a UK number one into the bargain.
https://youtu.be/joh37lrvf-s
If you in the mood for a skank
Norma Dean – Barbwire
https://youtu.be/YfsRsSdfQCk
Great song! Both.
Turning Japanese by the Vapor’s a great one hit wonder indeed!
Next to a mention in Chuck Berry’s “My Ding-a-Ling” I can’t think of any other song that made it to Number One featuring. ..how do I put it in polite company, “rubbing one out”. It’s a great post punk song that both clever and catchy. Its a shame they never had more success maybe it was due to their manager, Paul Weller’s Dad, who left them to concentrate on his son’s obscure project ‘The Jam.’
Turning Japanese by the Vapor’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx3HA-F8iVE
And of all things a fun cover version by of all people Kirsten Dunst
Kirsten Dunst – Turning Japanese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0X3CLJVMJU
A fun cracker :)
And I’ll admit to liking the cover too :)
it seems i’ve opened a bit of a pandora’s box. if you’re going to have only one hit, it might as well be this; bobby mcferrin – ‘don’t worry be happy’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU
or this, the evergreen ‘kung fu fighting’ by carl douglas..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmfudW7rbG0
Yeah that one failed because someone there argued that they were not kung fu fighting. After a long legal battle over slander and defgamation, and slurs on the guys character, he won his case.
He was actually karate fighting
I’ll get me coat
Men larking about in a field with weapons and chainmail. And a horse.
Gotta be Tenpole Tudor and “Swords of a Thousand Men”. Innit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AywIL5_eYM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tPJM928CPfA
Seaside Shuffle. Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs. Just in case we get some sunny weather.
…….
As an aside, which radio station had the phrase ‘It was a one hit wonder in the wilderness of rock and roll’. Was it BBC or Radio Luxembourg 208 long wave or what?
Absolutely has to be
M|A|R|R|S – Pump Up The Volume
https://youtu.be/w9gOQgfPW4Y
Love it!
The Pipkins – Gimme Dat Ding
Got to no.7 in the Irish charts in 1970. Catchy novelty tune. Sounds like Paul McCartney doing a quirky duet with a filthy muppet, is how I could best describe it.!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_CwCygHCIE
I’m free – the Soup Dragons
https://youtu.be/hSWbpVjwQGM
I’m going too try this gem,
The House Of Love – Shine On
https://youtu.be/rxUv79hejRU
Enjoy!
Maybe a bit harsh to label Ian Browns solo career a one hit wonder but this is some masterpiece
https://youtu.be/8f8wAXDZ9D0
And had a special resonance now
That’s a cool bike man :)
Reminds me of starting work in a pub as a teenager fancying all the female barstaff. Irrelevant, I know but its true!
Cool vocals, funky as funkin funk!!
Freak Power – Turn on, tune in, cop out.
https://youtu.be/_WAofvBHzGs
Oozing cool :)
Give it Up – The Goodmen.
THE dance hit of the early Nineties.
Just right for a Friday night or Saturday morning hovering job!
Deee Lite – Groove Is In The Heart
https://youtu.be/etviGf1uWlg
Quickly followed by,
D:Ream – Things Can Only Get Better
https://youtu.be/V6QhAZckY8w
Enjoy!
Yea I was gonna pick Deee Lite as well
You got there before me! Now I’ll have to think and I’m sober!
It’s Immaterial
Driving away from home
https://youtu.be/Ft-FqR9I7is
Just get in………….
Alien Ant Farm – Smooth Criminal
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CDl9ZMfj6aE
Eifel 65
Blue
https://youtu.be/zA52uNzx7Y4
remember this?
Couldn’t get away from it wherever you were at the time.
The Look
I am the beat
https://youtu.be/jkIa9lwqkI0
I’m in demawnd, I am the beat
The Pirhanas – Tom Hark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8U-I0RH8Cc
Earworm!
Michael Jackson wannabee (maybe not in all regards, possibly only the musical ones I hope)
Rockwell – “Somebody’s Watching Me”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY
Another one that Ed Poots probably salivates over
Baltimora – Tarzan boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r0n9Dv6XnY
I am sure it is not my favourite, but it is the first that came to mind, as usual with a relevant couple of memories.
I don’t know if you remember the band Dove (previously Dubh, but UK record producers thought it would confuse people. Probably friends of that lad who changed how our naval vessels are named)?
They did a cover (well, sort of) of Don’t Dream It’s Over, originally by Crowded House. I like their take on it, with great voices and a very interesting intertwining of a gentle rap talking about more modern issues. Sadly the last song I heard from them, but the three are still out there occasionally.
But I remember one very early morning (first flight out of Dublin that day) Aer Lingus flight on my way to London to link with a transcontinental flight to hell and gone. Was one of those times when the 12 hour flight from London was still faster than the car drive of only a couple of hundred kilometers once I arrived at the other end.
And as I meandered around the legs and bags of the business class passengers who got to board first, I saw three faces that looked familiar, all very excited. It was Dove, and I got the impression it may have been the first time they were in business class, and likely had been in the Lounge (no, no indication of drink, just excitement). The lady had naturally grabbed the window seat, and the guy first in the clip below was in the aisle seat, standing leaning over to look out the window at a dreary Dublin Airport tarmac. His ar*e was sticking into the aisle.
“Excuse me” I said politely, and he immediately pulled back in apologising. Butt (sorry, could not resist) that was not the issue.
“Are you the band Dove?” asked I, and they looked shocked that this relatively old fogey knew them, and recognised them. I told them that I really liked their song, and the take they put on it. In the meantime I am holding up the other narky half awake passengers, and got an ‘Excuse me!’ of my own, but less politely.
So I wished them luck, apologised to grumpy face, and went on to my own seat. I never met any of them again, but I have heard a few of them in later songs and bands. I do hope you all enjoy this version. Sheeters, allow me to present Dove and Don’t Dream It’s Over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXLRw1ii3o4
Enjoyed that story :)
Good pick too!
Word Up – Cameo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZjAantupsA
From a time that Muchacho had stuff to strut.
Colonel Abrams – Trapped
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSNWeXGZMcU
Interesting fact – his real name was Colonel Abrams, although he never served in the military.
He may have been named after US General Abrams, who also definitely had a tank named after him.
Fiction Factory – Feels like heaven
https://youtu.be/KQBoeBgb0uk
Loads of great tunes here tonight, shout for The Las and The Soup Dragons, I didn’t realise either of them were one hit wonders.
I think if we put all of these songs on a playlist it would be great for a party :-)
Andy Pipkin did a round up for 2020 of the winners, which is great to listen to. Not sure if you have it:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6FE8dSYf8FxC6NnCDaPzZV?si=U61297MQQD-8JtxpSjXcww&nd=1
+1 H :)
Won’t get a chance to go through these until Monday… But sure I’m off all week woohoo!
It was a big hit in my house.
You probably never heard of it.
Silver Apples – Lovefingers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBVCe2WX-ss
1960s
From a brilliant album from a band who should have been massive, really unique vocals!
I was lucky enough too meet them, sound bunch.
The Sundays – Here’s Where The Story Ends.
https://youtu.be/FHsip5xOenQ
Enjoy!
I bought that album for 99p in a Pakistani newsagents in Peckham.
Best 99p I ever spent.
{True story}
Neil Morrissey – The Theme Song from Bob The Builder.
I’m not going to bother posting a link… It’s already in your head.
”Can we fix it?”
Without getting too South Armagh about it.
The Flying Lizards- Money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVuSYUNAekc
Can I kick it? (Yes, you can!)
Lou Reed and Ian Dury sampling classic hip-hop from A Tribe Called Quest.
https://youtu.be/O3pyCGnZzYA
Whilst I was having “Breakfast @ Tiffinay’s” (Deep Blue Something) I thought “How Bizzare” (OMC) that “Tubthumping” (Chumbawamba) hadn’t been deemed worthy of a mention.. Natalie Imbruglia remained “Torn” after someone called her “Sugar Sugar” (The Archies) as she said “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye” (the Steam) because her Pseudonym was Mrs Jones (“Me and Mrs. Jones” — Billy Paul ) & she was totally “Hooked on a Feeling” Blue Swede, she thought it was “Magic” Pilot particularly when she put on “Play That Funky Music” Wild Cherry but in the end it was only “Afternoon Delight” — Starland Vocal Band as someone had forgotten to “Ring My Bell” — Anita Ward & Video had Killed The Radio Star” The Buggles. As it was Raining Men” — The Weather Girls she said “I Melt With You” — Modern English because “I’m Too Sexy” — Right Said Fred & i am just an going to ” Die In Your Arms” — Cutting Crew but i’m not a “Teenage Dirtbag” — Wheatus so maybe we should head over to a pleasure pad I know thats owned by “Stacy’s Mom” — Fountains of Wayne
Great work but most of those aren’t one hit wonders.
Surely the George Lazenby of Bond pop & fellow Antipodean Barry McGuire deserves the marmite sandwich. What ya think Skip. Well ur “Beds will be Burning” (Midnight Oil) & a Tree will fall in the forest unheard (Bruce Cockburn) if “Eve of Destruction” is not pronounced “The one & only” (Chesney Hawkes). What other numero uno hit bar “Eve of Destruction” sung by Baz Maguire juxtaposes the hate in Red China & the prospect of nuclear apocalypse with civil rights in the Jim Crow south of Selma Alabama. Name me another one hit wonder that after 55 years can boast a refrain as relevant as this ?
“HATE YOUR NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR, BUT DON’T FORGET TO SAY GRACE”. ohhh matron GoD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdWGp3HQVjU
Big up and shout out to Scottser..
This has been a musical journey., thanks to you.
Nice one.
The Assembly featured the unlikely duo of Ex-Undertone, Fergal Sharkey and ex-Depeche Mode/Yazoo keyboardist, Vince Clark. They released only one single which made its way to No. 4 in the UK charts in 1983.
The Assembly – Never Never
https://youtu.be/BDOF23sd-Bs
Yes, great choice :)
King Truman (paul weller + mick talbot moonlighting with acid jazz).
Like a gun
https://youtu.be/59U4ng9uYHI
Alive & Kicking – Tighter & Tighter (1970)
Classic soulful pop tune. A real gem in my book. Went to no.7 in the US charts. They released 3 other singles after that – the next one only reached no.69, the last two didn’t chart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfOYNLvH8V8
With a Bass rumbling like a truck down the Quays…
Jah Wobble (feat. Sinead O’Connor) – Visions of You
https://youtu.be/SLR2ZPFz8CE
I have a deep hatred of this woman- end.
Da da da by Trio.
It goes like this, in a Dadaesque fashion, sometimes.
https://youtu.be/xqTBlft8gQA
Artistic with a capital F.
John Foxx – Europe After The Rain
https://youtu.be/pvTgLDq5CXA
I would have sworn Underpass, AKA the most 80’s song ever, was a hit?
So it was…
https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/18211/john-foxx/
I doff my cap.
Honestly, I didn’t Google it, have a very, VERY faint recollection of it :)
Maybe it’s just me but I always hear him singing it as ‘underpants’.
The La’s – There she goes.
choon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZXLLMbJdZ4
Oddly never a chart hit in the UK but it reached the Billboard Top 100 in the States.
Modern English – I Melt With You
https://youtu.be/LuN6gs0AJls
The Adventures – Broken Land
https://youtu.be/okE5q-zbVKE
The Passions – I’m in Love with a German Film Star
https://youtu.be/KeKurL-3JmI
I took it upon myself to watch back the Top of the Pops repeats on BBC Four all the way from 1976 onwards.
I am sadly old enough to remember most of the songs, however, I didn’t remember this one.
Proper one hit wonders and what a hit.
Surely the George Lazenby of Bond pop & fellow Antipodean Barry McGuire deserves the marmite sandwich. What ya think Skip. Well ur “Beds will be Burning” (Midnight Oil) & a Tree will fall in the forest unheard (Bruce Cockburn) if “Eve of Destruction” is not pronounced “The one & only” (Chesney Hawkes). What other numero uno hit bar “Eve of Destruction” sung by Baz Maguire juxtaposes the hate in Red China & the prospect of nuclear apocalypse with civil rights in the Jim Crow south of Selma Alabama. Name me another one hit wonder that after 55 years can boast a refrain as relevant as this ?
“HATE YOUR NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR, BUT DON’T FORGET TO SAY GRACE”. ohhh matron GoD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdWGp3HQVjU
Someone has to fall on this grenade,
Wigfield on a Saturday night ear worm
https://youtu.be/8DNQRtmIMxk
Fair play in fairness
Pere Ubu – Waiting for Mary
https://youtu.be/I0Ov-rJGey8
It has to be Dexys Midnight Runners. Who could forget haring around the roller disco to Come on Eileen.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GbpnAGajyMc
Ace -How Long (1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo_GMMLULXw
Hard to think of tune like it – the feel-good vibe but lyrics about relationship breakdown descending into paranoia
..actually maybe it’s not that uncommon – just thought of Question Mark and the Mysterians – 96 Tears (1966)
another one hit wonder in a similar vein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im6dMLdXI28
A Neil Diamond cover by way of Pulp Fiction.
Urge Overkill – Girl, You’ll
Be a Woman Soon.
https://youtu.be/1fr1iyhkyVs
Lovely! Reminds me of summer of Pulp Fiction.
They did have another (lesser) hit with “Sister Havana” – think I have it on vinyl, good song
https://youtu.be/yzFlPdHt1Gk
Pure and unadulterated cheese but it has to be Owen Paul and My Favorite Waste of Time. https://youtu.be/KQEtYsyhX2w
Again brilliant vocals, this song transports me back to my youth, great track!
Sam Brown – Stop
https://youtu.be/i7lGQwOuiVQ
Enjoy!
I was so in love with her.
Indeed she was Uber hot
Wendy James from Transvision Vamp as well
Martha & the Muffins – Echo Beach
https://youtu.be/lpqDTQOFvf0
Just the one Top 30 hit in the States.
The Church – Under the Milky Way Tonight.
https://youtu.be/pWxJEIz7sSA
Now that is a tune.
The late but great Colin Vearncombe,aka Black with the brilliant, Wonderful Life
https://youtu.be/u1ZoHfJZACA
Good night and may your God bless you!
Strictly not a one it wonder but this was the theme to teenage melancholy in 1987. Great to hear it again
He lived in West Cork for many years. Poor fella died five years ago following an early morning car crash on his way to Cork airport.
Here’s a freshly squeezed Edwyn Collins
Orange Juice – Rip it up.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UzPh89tD5pA
The Supermen Lovers (feat. Mani Hoffman) – Starlight
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h61QG4s0I3U
If you have only one desire, and that’s to dance until you drop… Look no further. *sunglasses optional.!
Sly & Robbie – Boops (Here to Go)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VVIsTZPp0iM
Still a great song:
They Might Be Giants with Birdhouse in your Soul.
https://youtu.be/NhjSzjoU7OQ
…straight outta Brixton,the collective at The Fridge that lay the visual and musical template for the ’90s rave scene at The Haç and the Second Summer of Love in the UK and Ibiza.
Keep On Moving.
Soul To Soul.
https://youtu.be/1iQl46-zIcM
Yeah ,yeah back to life:)
Ah here, Soul 2 Soul were never outta the charts! :)
SOUL II SOUL – Get A Life-bertie:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er8ZFyRKgmI
Back To Life. Soul II Soul. Peaked at #4 on 12.15.1989.
Keep On Movin’ Soul II Soul (Featuring Caron Wheeler) Peaked at #11 on 9.8.1989.
Get A Life. Soul II Soul. Peaked at #54 on 5.4.1990.
A Dreams A Dream. Soul II Soul. Peaked at #85 on 7.13.1990.
14 Top 40 hits in the UK.
You were only 13 out.
Unlucky for some.
Sap.
No use playing with this lad, Bertie, he’s away with his own place, thankfully.
You’re right Papi.
It’s a gorgeous day and I’m bringing my little fella into the National Gallery while our friend only has a few joints, a Pot Noodle and a cryw*nk to look forward to.
Best ignored.
Well said both
Give us an update please Bertie on how that goes, I’ve been thinking about things like that to do with the kids as well thanks
Sure thing, Unreal. You need to pre-book tickets btw.
Ok thanks Bertie
gosh wish i was there…irelands world renowned NATIONAL galley – oh la la i mean NEW YORK… NEW YORK… MOMA …or The Met or even Central Park pale in comparison -to irelands dump of a national gallery on a sunny sunday afternoon-thats you best thinking for a day out with your kids,drag him indoors to that rubbish,is it the Italian Baroque and Dutch masters paintings thats drawing you or something else like…will you be providing audio guidance…:)
try the great outdoors.
“Try the great outdoors”, he suggested, lying on his greasy sofabed, rolling his earwax into balls and flicking them at the cockroaches….
Back in 1994 Bruce Springsteen had a number one hit in Ireland, France & Germany with “Streets of Philadelphia“. He was probably fairly confident he was going to have his first Nr. 1 in the UK as well.
But he hadn’t banked on Doop.
Doop – Doop
https://youtu.be/Oy3HpHLoqvk
Hard to beat a good Charleston in fairness.
Remember this from the Levi’s ad? 1994 again.
Stiltskin – Inside
https://youtu.be/VuTVKO0RScI
Perfect Saturday morning track,Memorial Day weekend in states or a long weekend,it’s the start of very hazy summer in NY.Haze weed is from the projects,grown in Miami and sold mainly by crack and coke dealers on street corners here,it’s the weed everyone wants at moment or you got any that ‘haze’.
Tame Impala cover of A Girl Like You.
https://youtu.be/Wt5DwYAu1ao
Edwyn Collins.
https://youtu.be/6oqJ0JpMj6I
New Radicals – You get what you give.
https://youtu.be/DL7-CKirWZE
A good 90’s tune and a pretty unique one hit wonder in that it was a choice to be so.
Frontman Gregg Alexander didn’t like the constant touring and all the pants associated with the music biz – so he called it a day.
Right after this hit and they were tipped to be the next big thing.
Ya gotta respect that – he didn’t need it.
I bought that album at the time, wasn’t great in fairness.
Never heard it.
I just like the story. ;)
You’re missing feck all.
And he wrote “life ish a rollercoashhhter” into the bargain!
Just give me the prize already
Sonic Boom Boy – Westwood
https://youtu.be/s9DMUnhfOQo
Don’t know if it has been called already… Ram Jam’s Black Betty :)
https://youtu.be/I_2D8Eo15wE
I think I may have cracked it.
The most one hit wonder song ever, has to be the song which title was a perfect self-fulfilling prophecy. Ironically the first song ever played on MTV,
The Buggles, “Video killed the radio star”, released a hit onto the world that also meant the quite obvious end of the musical road the band.
Because we all know what killed the radio star, but does anyone know The Buggles..?
https://youtu.be/W8r-tXRLazs
I hate to let sunlight in on the magic but this is probably the biggest self own I could post.
I’m a big big fan of Trevor Horn from Buggles.
About ten years ago, Geoff Downes’(the other Buggle) wife was on Come Dine With Me.
I was so giddy about it and Lady Bertie was so bamboozled by my excitement that I had a kind of outer body experience where I looked down at myself, getting giddy, that the unknown fella from Buggles wife was on a tv show.
Anyway, I did a bit of therapy and I’m grand now….
Haha great story
I never knew Trevor Horn was Buggles but yeah hardly a one hit wonder there :)
Yeah, Trevor Horn is an amazing producer alright. Good shout Papi
A couple of years back I gave a talk to a group of college students about media and part of it was about how radio’s predicted demise was encapsulated by that song and its use at the launch of MTV was intended to cement that.
Which of course, decades later proved to be completely the opposite of what happened – radio still going strong, MTV dead in the water etc.
I even got to play the track in the class and to my surprise quite a few of them knew the song and two students even knew it was The Buggles.
There’s hope for the next generation! :0)
Spaceman – Babylon Zoo
https://youtu.be/XCbAEkfXSDE
Black Box – Ride on Time
https://youtu.be/M0quXl_od3g
Scorpions…
The legends have it that there was a bet or a challenge or something like that put to lead singer Klaus Meine to produce a hit… Or that he wanted to show that a heavy metal vocalist could sing a “proper” song a d Wind of Change was the result :)
https://youtu.be/n4RjJKxsamQ
Were they not already a big band in Germany though Clamps?
*asking for a friend
Nah, sure wasn’t it written by the CIA to precipitate the fall of the Berlin Wall?
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/may/15/wind-of-change-did-the-cia-write-the-cold-wars-biggest-anthem?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
While Jimmy Somerville wasn’t a one hit wonder I think it’s a reasonable interpretation to say that Bronski Beat was !
This song and video is an absolute masterpiece
https://youtu.be/88sARuFu-tc
Icona Pop – I Love It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VWH13hJQWY
How about the biggest selling one hit wonder of all time. 20 Million single sold.
“We are the world” by USA for Africa
Which of course no one want to hear – coz it’s pants
So here’s Spitting Image’a homage instead, which is also pants but worth it for the Jagger and Bowie impressions alone. ;)
https://youtu.be/DMjI_1FRYgI
Muchacho and Papi have really put it up to us
Here is a late entry
Modjo – Lady (Hear me tonight)
https://youtu.be/mMfxI3r_LyA