Quotehave a feelin that the gossip - standing in the way of control is gonna be one.
That was a brilliant song!Originally Posted by ifk101
I Just looked it up on Youtube. The video gets me real nostalgic. I remember when that song came out. It's almost ten years ago now. Seriously, what happened to them? Wikipedia, for once, isn't much help/
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have a feelin that the gossip - standing in the way of control is gonna be one.
Whigfield - Saturday Night? Seeing as the Macarena was mentioned earlier.
Did Rednex ever have a follow on to Cotton Eye Joe? Have a vague feeling there was a near-identical song which flopped, and there was also a song with a ridiculously long name too.
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You mightn't recognise him. He went and ate all the pork pies.
Heard some time ago they're back together having decided it's safe to rear their heads again as grunge (which they claim buried them -ignoring the fact they stopped moving records some 4 years before grunge) has faded into the mists of time.
Whoopee-fcukin-do.
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
Edwyn Collins / Orange Juice, same thing to me but on a technicality...
Proclaimers had Letter From America as said.
As for Soft Cell, lads this'll have to stop.
Other hits: "Bedsitter", "Soul Inside", "What", "Torch", "Down In The Subway" & "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" off the top of me head. At least 7-hit wonders then.
ifk101, beat you to Rapper's Delight by 2 pages.
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"Rapper's Delight" was a #36 hit on the US pop chart and a #4 hit on the US R&B chart in 1979 (see 1979 in music), though hip-hop was dismissed as a brief fad. The Sugarhill Gang never again topped the charts, though they had a few minor hits, such as "Apache", "Eighth Wonder", which was also performed on America's hit music show, Soul Train in 1981, "Rapper's Reprise [Jam Jam]", and "Showdown" (with the Furious Five).
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Theres quite a few bands floating around this thread that should be nowhere near a one hit wonders thread, tried to remember them all but the list just got too long. I'm sticking with my original pick of White Town - Your Woman, great video too
other notable mentions have to include, Monty Python - Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, Baz Luhrman - Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen), Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry, Be Happy, and Shampoo - Trouble
Rednex are still "going strong". They have turned their attentions to Eurovision these days but I think it's fair to say that Cotton Eye Joe is the only hit they've had.
Another one hit wonder is Andreas Johnsen - Glorious. It was the theme music to Sky Sports' Super Sunday 6/7 years back.
That reminds me of these one-hit wonders.
City definetly have the best bands playing at half-time.
O'Bama - "Eerah yeah, I'd say we can alright!"
G.O'Mahoney Trapattoni'll sort ém out!!
and a classic that I haven't seen yet, apologies if it's been said:
Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime.
Great song but just one a number of top 20 hits they had.... also remember it well that for about six weeks it was at number one (1971 I think) and it kept All Right Now by Free in second spot for all that time
my own favorite is
Eighteen with a bullet by Pete Wingfield
or for sheer kitcsh but brilliance, Kung Fu Fighting by Carl Douglas
Whale - Hobohumpinslobobabe (something like that anyway). Started humming it lastnight, and straight away thought of this thread. Yes, sad I know.
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That wasn't even Menswear's highest chart position.
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Black Box also charted with '' Fantasy'', '' Everybody, Everybody'' and '' Strike It Up so they don't count.
Ray Parker Junior charted several times as the lead singer of Raydio so I would also argue he doesn't count either.
My suggestion for One Hit Wonder... Kursaal Flyers and '' Little Does She Know''Mungo Jerry charted again with Baby Jump which also was a no 1 so that's out.
Pete Wingfield... Good Call. He was the record producer on Culture Club's hit's.
Carl Douglas charted twice more with ''Run Back'' in 1977 and '' Dance the Kung Fu'', follow up to the biggie, which I think excludes him.
By the way if you spend one week, in either the US or UK, at no. 100 you have had a chart hit.Jilted John was a solo artist real name Graham Fellowes.
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Has anyone mentioned Extreme's More Than Words. I cant even think of another song of theirs.
'Fascists dress in black and go round telling people what to do, where as priests.....'
Unfortunately I can remember "Get the funk out".
Damn you MTV!
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AKA John Shuttleworth if anyone remembers, a 50-something anorak-clad journeyman musician travelling all over the North of England plying his trade with his trusty portable Yamaha. "Pigeons in flight... I wanna hold you tonight"
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Why just the UK and US?
Japan is twice the size of the UK. There's 80-odd million Germans.
...and at the other extreme -barely scraping the top 100 anywhere -especially AFTER having a hit in that territory strikes me as casting the widest possible net.
I'd draw the line at whatever number (30, 40 or 50) makes you a contender for that territorys version of TOTP. If you're follow up doesn't crack that -then it's flopped.
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Boo Radleys :Wake up Boo (I can't remember another hit from them).
The Passions: I'm in love with a German Film Star
Boo Radleys: C'mon Kids.
Lazarus, I hang suspended, and Wishing I was skinny should have been, if there was any justice in the world.
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