National One Hit Wonder Day
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I'll add 2 others for now.
This:
And this. You despise it, sure, but you can't get it out of your ear-canal.
This:
And this. You despise it, sure, but you can't get it out of your ear-canal.
They put a cut-out 45 on the back of a cereal box of that song, when I was a kid. I think it might've been Honeycombs, but wouldn't swear to it. Played it on my close-and-play record player. It got scratched up pretty fast, though.
These guys were literally 1 hit wonders. Came out with 1 big hit song then broke up the band before they released their 2nd single.
not a one hit wonder, but the fact that they spoofed everyone for a couple year and never sang anything is worth noting.
Holy Crap; thank you!!
It was the summer of 1973, or '74 (I think '73). I was playing in the summer junior tennis tournaments all over Iowa and at one tourney in Waterloo, I went to a party. 'Rock Your Baby' was playing, but in the center of the party floor, surrounded by the crowd clapping, was a couple black teens doing this awesome dance where they "bump" their booties while twisting down and back up; then they sync'd tapping their heels. This was better than 'Soul Train' - this was smooth!
Looking back, I think I'll call this the first Disco song, when Disco was cool and this white boy just witnessed what a new dance craze called, "The Bump".........Rock Your Baby brings back this memory.
PS: I think George's wife did kinda remake of the song with different lyrics; called, "Rockin Chair"
Props on the Wild Cherry. That was big time for ISU football warmups in the day.
But have to call foul on the Archies. Technically not a one hit wonder. I remember Bang Shang A Lang and Jingle Jangle. I ONLY remember Bang Shanga Lang because it was played on Sirius not too long ago. Possibly one of the count down shows. But I definitely remember Jingle Jangle.
All 3 are instant button hits for me.
I remember one classic skit from a very short lived Television series called, "The Music Scene" It was hosted by/starred David Steinberg. In the skit he's ruminating over the horrible state of the world while listening to a news cast on radio. The news in alternately bad, then good. With each bad news he sidles over to the window and is about to jump when the next good news story causes him to reconsider then move away from the window. After several bad/good iterations the news man says something like, "And for the 4th consecutive week Sugar Sugar by the Archies is the Number 1 Billboard song." Steinberg, without hesitation, takes a running approach and dives headfirst out the window.
This was such a hit, Sheryl Crow recycled the riff in All I Want to Do is Have Some Fun
Whenever I think of that song this one always comes to mind. Thinking they may have been about the same time on the radio... 1972 is my memory. Could be way wrong, though
