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It's Friday - One Hit Wonder Day [Actually Sept 25]

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OK, I'm late, what else is new.

No video - no post.

Randy Bachman (Bachman Turner Overdrive - and now the host of Vinyl Tap) says this is the best one hit wonder of all time. I am not 100% sure but it is waaay up there for me - fun ear worm.

What's yours? - again, we want to see video.

(BTW - Andy Kim wrote and performed this - he is Canadian and did another favourite 'Rock me Gently' back in '74. He is of Lebanese descent and stopped touring (his words) because everyone came to his concerts expecting a blond surfer sound and getting a Lebanese Canadian complexion instead. :smile:

 

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Two of my favorite one-hit wonders:

Mungo Jerry, In the Summertime


and Sugarloaf - Green Eyed Lady. (This band got their start as a bar band in Denver when I was in Highschool).

 
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Even when young, wouldn't wear Ray Dorset's shirt or sideburns/beard, the look wasn't what I'd want to see. But I did have beel bottoms and boots like those in high school.
 

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Ah, the 70’s
 

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Two more:


 

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Loving all these... taking me back.
Here's one I fondly remember:
 

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Great choices! I've got the Strawberry Alarm Clock and Sugarloaf albums on vinyl here. Among the others, Mungo Jerry and Starland were the ones I didn't have 45's of.
 

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Wow - I just watched every one of the videos. I was 20 again.

(And being 20 was a very dangerous time ...)

Tom M.
PS - don't forget Susan Christie and "I Love Onions".
 
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Well, seing as how Halloween is just around the corner, we shouldn't forget this one-hit wonder:

 

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Kinda subjective and subject to defining "one hit". I think this was their hit song, though they had several recordings. Always liked their sound:

 
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