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#1930595 - 09/24/24 01:23 PM Name your favorite "one hit wonder"
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(Forgive me if Wawazzat's bar has already 'been there done that'.)

For me, Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit In The Sky."

Even though the lyrics make me wanna puke. After all these years, the original recording still gives me chills, and the beat still makes me want to get up and chug chug across the floor. To this day, I've never heard a beat quite like it, with the sloppy claps and the snare slightly behind the beat, just kinda shuffling along.

Those were the early days of hearing distorted guitars on top 40 radio. To my pubescent self it was cosmic.

You don't hear many songs with distorted guitars and a shuffling beat.
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#1930599 - 09/24/24 01:26 PM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: Deeper]
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(Forgive me if Wawazzat's bar has already 'been there done that'.)


I'm sure we have at some point - but it would have been 15+ years ago - I'm guessing.


Probably "My Sharona".
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#1930617 - 09/24/24 02:28 PM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: Webster]
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"There She Goes" The La's.
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#1930622 - 09/24/24 02:49 PM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: The Vampire Lestat]
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Walk away Renee, by the Left Bank
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#1930633 - 09/24/24 03:43 PM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: Dave Morris]
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#1930636 - 09/24/24 03:48 PM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: Dave Morris]
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Walk away Renee - yeah great song.

Spooky - Classics IV
Green Eyed Lady - Sugarloaf
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#1930641 - 09/24/24 03:56 PM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: Andy McClelland]
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Left Banke had another hit, Pretty Ballerina.

I like the song Wildflower by Skylark. Kind of an unusual guitar solo and the song satisfies my misogynist tendencies.
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#1930644 - 09/24/24 04:01 PM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: Ismellelephant]
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#1930649 - 09/24/24 04:08 PM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: Ismellelephant]
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#1930669 - 09/24/24 04:42 PM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: MadGuitrst]
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"Green Eyed Lady - Sugarloaf"

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#1930675 - 09/24/24 04:50 PM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: fabulousthunderbird]
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#1930678 - 09/24/24 04:56 PM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: Wish]
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At This Moment? Billy Vera….does he count as a one hit wonder? I feel like that’s kind of reductive term.
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#1930679 - 09/24/24 04:56 PM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: fabulousthunderbird]
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 Originally Posted By: fabulousthunderbird
"Green Eyed Lady - Sugarloaf"


Oh God! I might have to go back and change mine! Green-Eyed Lady is one of those songs that is in a genre by itself! Way ahead of its time!
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#1930714 - 09/24/24 06:47 PM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: Deeper]
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I like “ Patches”

The Hip Hop jam “Let Me Clear My Throat “ is fantastic

I like a couple named above:

There She Goes
Walk Away Renae

I like “ Just A Friend”by Biz Markie named above there, but he’s had a lot more than one hit.

My son was at a music festival a while back and when hundreds of people were filing out because the concerts were over, somebody starts singing real loud, “ oh baby you, you got what I need, but you say he’s just a friend, you say he’s just a friend…”. He said hundreds of people started singing it.


It wouldn’t be right to leave “Oooo Child” unmentioned.
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#1930715 - 09/24/24 06:57 PM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: Tao Jones]
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Think the “ Patches” singer had other hits, though. Great song written by that fierce producer who ran Stax about his own life.
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#1930720 - 09/24/24 07:13 PM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: Tao Jones]
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Good tunes here listed. I love "walk away renee" One of my top 10.

I also like the "safety dance". yeah I am weird.
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#1930728 - 09/24/24 07:40 PM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: Timster]
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Oh man, Patches. I forgot all about that song. My sister used to play that 45 a lot when we were kids.
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#1930756 - 09/24/24 09:02 PM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: MadGuitrst]
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#1930761 - 09/24/24 09:04 PM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: Andy McClelland]
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 Originally Posted By: Andy McClelland
Walk away Renee - yeah great song.

Spooky - Classics IV
Green Eyed Lady - Sugarloaf


Classics IV had 3 huge hits.
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#1930762 - 09/24/24 09:07 PM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: MadGuitrst]
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In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry
I Touch Myself - Divinyls
Wherever You Will Go - The Calling
What's Up - 4 Non Blondes


Did I ever tell you that the late Chrissy Amphlett of DiVinyls was a friend of mine?
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#1930764 - 09/24/24 09:10 PM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: AL]
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#1930765 - 09/24/24 09:12 PM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: Tao Jones]
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#1930767 - 09/24/24 09:13 PM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: Wish]
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 Originally Posted By: Wish


Chilliwack is definitely not a one-hit wonder:





and there's many more.
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#1930771 - 09/24/24 09:26 PM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: moontan]
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here a classic Canadian one-hit wonder!

they called it quit after their first album, when barely anyone showed up for their shows.
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#1930774 - 09/24/24 09:30 PM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: moontan]
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#1930775 - 09/24/24 09:37 PM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: WRC,Jr.]
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 Quote:
I like a couple named above:

There She Goes
Walk Away Renae



" Time Won't Let Me " Just a different groove than others back then on the AM radio

A garage rock song that was recorded by the Outsiders in September 1965.


THese lads had something

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#1930823 - 09/25/24 12:29 AM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: C Jo Go]
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My mom and sister loved Patches.
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#1930829 - 09/25/24 12:44 AM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: AL]
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 Originally Posted By: MadGuitrst
In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry
I Touch Myself - Divinyls
Wherever You Will Go - The Calling
What's Up - 4 Non Blondes


Did I ever tell you that the late Chrissy Amphlett of DiVinyls was a friend of mine?

No, you didn't. In rea life, or just online?
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#1930831 - 09/25/24 12:47 AM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: MadGuitrst]
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Are you guys talking about the old "Patches" tune by Clarence Carter? I just did a search and found that there are many songs called Patches... Or maybe they're all different covers of the same song? Which artist are you talking about?
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#1930833 - 09/25/24 12:52 AM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: MadGuitrst]
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#1930841 - 09/25/24 01:12 AM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: avetter11]
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Yes, Clarence Carter. Bad ass soul music right there. What a drummer.
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#1930842 - 09/25/24 01:13 AM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: Tao Jones]
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Back up singers so great

There’s a cello in there

But so so catchy
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#1930849 - 09/25/24 02:17 AM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: moontan]
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 Originally Posted By: moontan
here a classic Canadian one-hit wonder!

they called it quit after their first album, when barely anyone showed up for their shows.



My god. I love that song....switching to glide..yeah baby.
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#1930879 - 09/25/24 09:30 AM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: MadGuitrst]
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 Originally Posted By: AL
 Originally Posted By: MadGuitrst
In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry
I Touch Myself - Divinyls
Wherever You Will Go - The Calling
What's Up - 4 Non Blondes


Did I ever tell you that the late Chrissy Amphlett of DiVinyls was a friend of mine?

No, you didn't. In rea life, or just online?


I spoke to her on the phone.
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#1930887 - 09/25/24 11:58 AM Re: Name your favorite "one hit wonder" [Re: AL]
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I hope it was a cool conversation.
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