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

[JPSmit]

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.

 

[Basil]

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).

 

[CaptRandy]

Incense Peppermint-Strawberry Alarmclock

 

[Basil]

Incense Peppermint-Strawberry Alarmclock

Ah yes, another golden oldie. Puts me in mind of this:

 

[Basil]

Incense Peppermint-Strawberry Alarmclock

By the way, the lead guitarist for SAC was Ed King who later joined another well know, but very different, group known as Lynyrd Skynyrd.

 

[mikephillips]

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.

 

[Gliderman8]

Ah, the 70’s

 

[Mickey Richaud]

Two more:

 

[Boink]

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

 

[DrEntropy]

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.

 

[DavidApp]

I remember almost all of them.

This still runs chills through me. It was popular on the radio in the UK for a short time. I have a 45 copy somewhere.

David

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFKFDujqO4s

 

[Grantura_MKI]

Are we going to vote?

 

[glemon]

The McCoys:
https://youtu.be/2NUZzB8_XHM

These guys sounded like Blood Sweat and Tears, but they weren't: https://youtu.be/sxJFjO4Skgo

This guy sounded like Neil Diamond: https://youtu.be/9ym3RlvVR9M

 

[NutmegCT]

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".

 

[JPSmit]

Are we going to vote?

I hope not - just more fun to post for a while. How could we decide even among this eclectic?

 

[JPSmit]

These guys sounded like Blood Sweat and Tears, but they weren't: https://youtu.be/sxJFjO4Skgo

This guy sounded like Neil Diamond: https://youtu.be/9ym3RlvVR9M

had never heard of 'the Ides of march' - assumed it was BS&T

and, Andy Kim - wrote Sugar Sugar that started this all. :thumbsup:

 

[JPSmit]

I remember almost all of them.

This still runs chills through me. It was popular on the radio in the UK for a short time. I have a 45 copy somewhere.

David

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFKFDujqO4s

regional variations! an important subgroup. thanks.

Not sure how far south this made it but still one of my very favourite

 

[Basil]

Well, seing as how Halloween is just around the corner, we shouldn't forget this one-hit wonder:

 

[Mickey Richaud]

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

 

[Basil]

Always liked this one.