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top 5 songs of ... one hit wonders!

Salad
Salad Posts: 10,189
edited July 2008 in Not Sports Related
First Picture Of You - Lotus Eaters

Story Of The Blues - The Mighty Wah!

Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones

Einstein A Go-Go - Landscape

Uptown Top Ranking - Anthea + Donna

Driving Away From Home - It's Immaterial

Camouflage - Stan Ridgeway

Brilliant Mind - Furniture

Feels Like Heaven - Fiction Factory

There She Goes - The Las

Echo Beach - Martha And The Muffins


top 5, top 10, whatever!
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  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,113
    Save your love - Rene and Renata

    Shup uppa your face - Joe Dolce
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    Saturday Night - Whigfield
  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,091
    Oh Superman - Laurie Anderson
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,028
    99 red balloons - Nena
    Silver Machine - Hawkwind
    In a broken dream - Python Lee Jackson
    Free Electric Band - Albert Hammond
    Radar Love - Golden Earring
    Two pints of lager - Splodgenessabounds


    Salad took 2 of the best already, The La's and Mighty Wah!
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,166
    Trail of the Lonesome Pine - Laurel and Hardy
    Wake Up Boo - Boo Radleys
    Young at Heart - Bluebells
    Jungle Rock - Hank Mizel
    Would I lie to You - Charles & Eddie

    Stonemuse beat me to Radar Love and Silver Machine.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,495
    The Final Countdown....Europe.

    Baker Street .....Gerry Rafferty.(True if you think about it).
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,495
    [quote][cite]Posted By: Valley McMoist[/cite]Save your love - Rene and Renata

    Shup uppa your face - Joe Dolce[/quote]

    Believe it or not, Shut Uppa Your Face prevented the classic Ultra Vox track Oh Vienna from getting to number one.
    One of the greatest travesties in rock history when you think about it!
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,427
    a few from an earlier thread.
  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,091
    [cite]Posted By: SoundAsa£[/cite]The Final Countdown....Europe.

    Baker Street .....Gerry Rafferty.(True if you think about it).

    Yellow card

    Rafferty also did Get it right next time
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,495
    OK he got a name for himself after that if you like but everything after Baker Street pailed into insignificance really....just about scrapes in as a one hit wonder,though I know where you're coming from in not being in total agreement.

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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,040
    He was also "stuck in the middle with you" I believe, Steeler's Wheel.
  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,091
    [cite]Posted By: SoundAsa£[/cite]OK he got a name for himself after that if you like but everything after Baker Street pailed into insignificance really....just about scrapes in as a one hit wonder,though I know where you're coming from in not being in total agreement.

    Mr Blobby was the same, it was that difficult second album that did it for him.

    :-)
  • kaiser_soze
    kaiser_soze Posts: 20
    Deep blue something-Breakfast at Tiffanys
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,962
    Something in the Air, Thunderclap Newman.

    Fantastic discordant keyboards part way through.
  • Essex_Al
    Essex_Al Posts: 3,585
    Spirit in the sky - Norman Greenbaum
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,661
    The Israelites Desmond Dekker
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,166
    [cite]Posted By: DA9[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: SoundAsa£[/cite]The Final Countdown....Europe.

    Baker Street .....Gerry Rafferty.(True if you think about it).

    Yellow card

    Rafferty also did Get it right next time

    Quite a few of those named are not one hit wonders in the true sense - ie one and only one appearance on the chart ever, but most tend to be the only tune from that particular artist that we remember. Gerry Rafferty obviously does not come under that category as you rightly point out DA9. The Guinness Book only counts those that actually made number one with their only chart hit as one hit wonders.
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    [cite]Posted By: Charlie Block[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Algarveaddick[/cite]
    Young at Heart - Bluebells

    Actually their second hit - their first being "I'm Falling" (second song in following video)
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y79JGSxTLWw
    Don't forget Kath either!
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,051
    Banana Splits - the Dickies
    Is Vic There? - Department S
    Jilted John - Jilted John
    Brimful of Asha - Cornershop
    Monster Mash - ???
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Play that funky music - Black Cherry
    Turning Japanese - The Vapors
    Can you dig it - The Mock Turtles
    Louie, Louie - The Kingsmen
    Brimful of Asha - Cornershop

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  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Monster Mash - ???


    Written/performed by Bobby Pickett.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,040
    [cite]Posted By: BlackForestReds[/cite]Play that funky music - Black Cherry
    Turning Japanese - The Vapors
    Can you dig it - The Mock Turtles
    Louie, Louie - The Kingsmen
    Brimful of Asha - Cornershop

    I presume everyone knows what Turning Japanese was about ? Answers please.
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    oriental woodturning techniques
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,040
    I'll say no as I've never heard it described as that.
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,113
    Jo Jo Gunne - Run Run Run
    Climax Blues Band - Couldn't get it right
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    it's basically about what you can produce with your wood
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,040
    I think i'll give you that.
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    can I stop pulling a face now?
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,040
    Yes or you'll go blind :-)
  • aylesfordaddick
    aylesfordaddick Posts: 264
    son of my father - chicory tip

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