The Ultimate one hit wonders thread........
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@Catogrande said in The Ultimate one hit wonders thread........:
@MiketheSnow Does it count if it was a hit twice?
Was waiting for that
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@MiketheSnow said in The Ultimate one hit wonders thread........:
@Snowy said in The Ultimate one hit wonders thread........:
I also want a poll. Nominate your best track by an artist / band that went on to do fuck all else? I just don't know how to do that.
From the tracks posted it seems like the One Hit Wonder falls into a number of categories:
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A genuine bolt from the blue. An above average hit song which for some unknown reason was the artist / band's one and only release
e.g. Norman Greenspan - Spirit In The Sky -
A below average hit which was released on the back of an event or gimmick
e.g. Clive Dunn - Grandad -
An above average song which was the artist / band's one and only Top 10? Top 20? Top 40? hit. Prior and subsequent releases either didn't chart or didn't reach the required number.
e.g. The Members - Sound Of The Suburbs
Feel free to add / am
mendHave done
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@MiketheSnow said in The Ultimate one hit wonders thread........:
@Snowy said in The Ultimate one hit wonders thread........:
I also want a poll. Nominate your best track by an artist / band that went on to do fuck all else? I just don't know how to do that.
From the tracks posted it seems like the One Hit Wonder falls into a number of categories:
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A genuine bolt from the blue. An above average hit song which for some unknown reason was the artist / band's one and only release
e.g. Norman Greenspan - Spirit In The Sky -
A below average hit which was released on the back of an event or gimmick
e.g. Clive Dunn - Grandad -
An above average song which was the artist / band's one and only Top 10? Top 20? Top 40? hit. Prior and subsequent releases either didn't chart or didn't reach the required number.
e.g. The Members - Sound Of The Suburbs
Feel free to add / ammend
It is a bit like rugby - nobody is quite sure of the laws- so you just push them.
Yes to Spirit in the Sky. Everybody knows it. Not many know who wrote or sung it. (unlikely to know any others).
No to "Grandad". Maybe I'm not old enough and it is a U.K. thing. Never heard it.
No to "Sound of the suburbs". Know it, just ,but never a "hit" I would say.Your "hit" status is worthy of comment -a NZ hit isn't a U.K hit. However if a U.K band makes it in NZ ( and vice versa) it is actually global success I think.
I'm a fan of Brit music but...2 of those those don't fit for me, as a larger than Britain hit.
@MN5 will probably have to adjudicate any poll, which worries me a bit . A bit like Garces on Saturday.
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@Snowy said in The Ultimate one hit wonders thread........:
"Tainted love" @MiketheSnow being second behind "Macarena" from some random google thing. I've never heard of another Soft cell song
I do think the U.K is regional music wise, it might well sell more singles because it has a lot of people, but the "hits" aren't heard down here much, as amusing and awful as the Christmas music is.
I beg to differ @Snowy . Pretty much all of these were played here in NZ back in the day. In fact before the early 80s when the FM rollout started and almost all radio outside Auckland was controlled by NZBC and later the Radio New Zealand SOE, we were far more likely to hear the UK stuff than anything else. All those novelty records got an airing, at least on Radio Northland, and as playlisting was done centrally it was probably the same around the country. There was some US music, but mostly Country, and a bit from Aus as well, and many were re-recorded by local artists and the originals weren’t released here. And in fact you were much more likely to get St Winifred’s Choir than a local band like Blerta or even Split Enz, and bands like Human Instinct? Nope, nowhere.
Radio Hauraki was the exception, and we used to love being within range so we could hear different stuff. Ironically it was TV that brought the change to more music from the US, Aus, Europe and Canada when Grunt Machine and Radio with Pix played it. God bless you Brent Hansen.
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@Snowy said in The Ultimate one hit wonders thread........:
@MiketheSnow said in The Ultimate one hit wonders thread........:
@Snowy said in The Ultimate one hit wonders thread........:
I also want a poll. Nominate your best track by an artist / band that went on to do fuck all else? I just don't know how to do that.
From the tracks posted it seems like the One Hit Wonder falls into a number of categories:
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A genuine bolt from the blue. An above average hit song which for some unknown reason was the artist / band's one and only release
e.g. Norman Greenspan - Spirit In The Sky -
A below average hit which was released on the back of an event or gimmick
e.g. Clive Dunn - Grandad -
An above average song which was the artist / band's one and only Top 10? Top 20? Top 40? hit. Prior and subsequent releases either didn't chart or didn't reach the required number.
e.g. The Members - Sound Of The Suburbs
Feel free to add / ammend
It is a bit like rugby - nobody is quite sure of the laws- so you just push them.
Yes to Spirit in the Sky. Everybody knows it. Not many know who wrote or sung it. (unlikely to know any others).
No to "Grandad". Maybe I'm not old enough and it is a U.K. thing. Never heard it.
No to "Sound of the suburbs". Know it, just ,but never a "hit" I would say.Your "hit" status is worthy of comment -a NZ hit isn't a U.K hit. However if a U.K band makes it in NZ ( and vice versa) it is actually global success I think.
I'm a fan of Brit music but...2 of those those don't fit for me, as a larger than Britain hit.
@MN5 will probably have to adjudicate any poll, which worries me a bit . A bit like Garces on Saturday.
Sounds too technical and beyond my paygrade
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Sister Janet Mead, singing nun from Adelaide who was a part of the “Rock Mass” movement, using rock music to get the kids into Catholic church. A worldwide smash hit in 1974. Listen to that electric guitar! Almost makes me regret I didn’t become an altar boy. (She’s still alive btw not sure where to send fan mail, sorry.)
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My memory of the ‘70s was syndicated U.S. radio shows I could hear up & down NZ on the AM dial — Casey Kasem’s American Top 40, Country Countdown (from Nashville, hated the thing) and Wolfman Jack’s show, which was mostly oldies and weird stuff, a real education. Hauraki played the Stones, but can’t remember anybody playing Zeppelin on radio, you had to buy those records to hear them. Only time you heard Pink Floyd on air was “The Great Gig In the Sky” being used to sell coffee on a tv advert which still blows my mind. Radio i used to play rock in the mornings, then Sinclair’s talker, then rock music afterward, followed by Tim Bickerstaff’s afternoon-early evening sports talker, then back to rock in the evening. Crazy radio format. K-Tel records were also very popular.
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@Salacious-Crumb Wow. That took me back.
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@Salacious-Crumb said in The Ultimate one hit wonders thread........:
My memory of the ‘70s was syndicated U.S. radio shows I could hear up & down NZ on the AM dial — Casey Kasem’s American Top 40, Country Countdown (from Nashville, hated the thing) and Wolfman Jack’s show, which was mostly oldies and weird stuff, a real education. Hauraki played the Stones, but can’t remember anybody playing Zeppelin on radio, you had to buy those records to hear them. Only time you heard Pink Floyd on air was “The Great Gig In the Sky” being used to sell coffee on a tv advert which still blows my mind. Radio i used to play rock in the mornings, then Sinclair’s talker, then rock music afterward, followed by Tim Bickerstaff’s afternoon-early evening sports talker, then back to rock in the evening. Crazy radio format. K-Tel records were also very popular.
When you say Sinclair do you mean Pete Sinclair? For some reason I hear his name and think of vegemite jars.
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I had to wash dishes every night, had a transistor radio by the sink. I think Tuesdays and Thursday evenings was Country Countdown, Ugh. Monday-WEdnesday-Friday I think was Wolfman. He’d play awesome stuff, many classic one-hit wonders, like this:
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Geoff Sinclair. At one time him and Bickerstaff did a sports show together. This is when sports and politics were really becoming intertwined, 1976, the tour to SA, the Olympic boycott, and Desmond Tutu was Bickerstaff’s Enemy No. 1.
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@mariner4life said in The Ultimate one hit wonders thread........:
I love how this thread has become the Poms posting the worst music in history, and everyone trying to prove every artist has more than one hit. Solid Ferning.
I try my best. Thanks.
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@Salacious-Crumb said in The Ultimate one hit wonders thread........:
My memory of the ‘70s was syndicated U.S. radio shows I could hear up & down NZ on the AM dial — Casey Kasem’s American Top 40, Country Countdown (from Nashville, hated the thing) and Wolfman Jack’s show, which was mostly oldies and weird stuff, a real education. Hauraki played the Stones, but can’t remember anybody playing Zeppelin on radio, you had to buy those records to hear them. Only time you heard Pink Floyd on air was “The Great Gig In the Sky” being used to sell coffee on a tv advert which still blows my mind. Radio i used to play rock in the mornings, then Sinclair’s talker, then rock music afterward, followed by Tim Bickerstaff’s afternoon-early evening sports talker, then back to rock in the evening. Crazy radio format. K-Tel records were also very popular.
Yeah, I used to sleep with a transistor under my pillow. I had to be careful not to fall asleep because the 9 volt batteries were really expensive.
I was really lucky that our music teacher at Whangarei Boys’ played us some quite challenging stuff for the time, Transformer had just come out but you weren’t going to hear Walk on the Wild Side on the radio, and I still remember her explaining it’s meaning to us.
The first time I heard Pink Floyd (Meddle), The Who (Tommy), Elton John (Yellow Brick Road), any Bowie other than The Laughing Gnome (Pinups and Ziggy Stardust), Sabbath, Zappa, Beefheart and so many others were all at school. Old Ma Shields (who was probably only in her 40s) changed my life.
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@JC said in The Ultimate one hit wonders thread........:
@Salacious-Crumb said in The Ultimate one hit wonders thread........:
My memory of the ‘70s was syndicated U.S. radio shows I could hear up & down NZ on the AM dial — Casey Kasem’s American Top 40, Country Countdown (from Nashville, hated the thing) and Wolfman Jack’s show, which was mostly oldies and weird stuff, a real education. Hauraki played the Stones, but can’t remember anybody playing Zeppelin on radio, you had to buy those records to hear them. Only time you heard Pink Floyd on air was “The Great Gig In the Sky” being used to sell coffee on a tv advert which still blows my mind. Radio i used to play rock in the mornings, then Sinclair’s talker, then rock music afterward, followed by Tim Bickerstaff’s afternoon-early evening sports talker, then back to rock in the evening. Crazy radio format. K-Tel records were also very popular.
Yeah, I used to sleep with a transistor under my pillow. I had to be careful not to fall asleep because the 9 volt batteries were really expensive.
I was really lucky that our music teacher at Whangarei Boys’ played us some quite challenging stuff for the time, Transformer had just come out but you weren’t going to hear Walk on the Wild Side on the radio, and I still remember her explaining it’s meaning to us.
The first time I heard Pink Floyd (Meddle), The Who (Tommy), Elton John (Yellow Brick Road), any Bowie other than The Laughing Gnome (Pinups and Ziggy Stardust), Sabbath, Zappa, Beefheart and so many others were all at school. Old Ma Shields (who was probably only in her 40s) changed my life.
I thought I made the rules on discussion clear when I created this thread.
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@MN5 said in The Ultimate one hit wonders thread........:
@JC said in The Ultimate one hit wonders thread........:
@Salacious-Crumb said in The Ultimate one hit wonders thread........:
My memory of the ‘70s was syndicated U.S. radio shows I could hear up & down NZ on the AM dial — Casey Kasem’s American Top 40, Country Countdown (from Nashville, hated the thing) and Wolfman Jack’s show, which was mostly oldies and weird stuff, a real education. Hauraki played the Stones, but can’t remember anybody playing Zeppelin on radio, you had to buy those records to hear them. Only time you heard Pink Floyd on air was “The Great Gig In the Sky” being used to sell coffee on a tv advert which still blows my mind. Radio i used to play rock in the mornings, then Sinclair’s talker, then rock music afterward, followed by Tim Bickerstaff’s afternoon-early evening sports talker, then back to rock in the evening. Crazy radio format. K-Tel records were also very popular.
Yeah, I used to sleep with a transistor under my pillow. I had to be careful not to fall asleep because the 9 volt batteries were really expensive.
I was really lucky that our music teacher at Whangarei Boys’ played us some quite challenging stuff for the time, Transformer had just come out but you weren’t going to hear Walk on the Wild Side on the radio, and I still remember her explaining it’s meaning to us.
The first time I heard Pink Floyd (Meddle), The Who (Tommy), Elton John (Yellow Brick Road), any Bowie other than The Laughing Gnome (Pinups and Ziggy Stardust), Sabbath, Zappa, Beefheart and so many others were all at school. Old Ma Shields (who was probably only in her 40s) changed my life.
I thought I made the rules on discussion clear when I created this thread.
Yeah you did. But I’m too old to follow rules, or even remember them.
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@JC said in The Ultimate one hit wonders thread........:
@MN5 said in The Ultimate one hit wonders thread........:
@JC said in The Ultimate one hit wonders thread........:
@Salacious-Crumb said in The Ultimate one hit wonders thread........:
My memory of the ‘70s was syndicated U.S. radio shows I could hear up & down NZ on the AM dial — Casey Kasem’s American Top 40, Country Countdown (from Nashville, hated the thing) and Wolfman Jack’s show, which was mostly oldies and weird stuff, a real education. Hauraki played the Stones, but can’t remember anybody playing Zeppelin on radio, you had to buy those records to hear them. Only time you heard Pink Floyd on air was “The Great Gig In the Sky” being used to sell coffee on a tv advert which still blows my mind. Radio i used to play rock in the mornings, then Sinclair’s talker, then rock music afterward, followed by Tim Bickerstaff’s afternoon-early evening sports talker, then back to rock in the evening. Crazy radio format. K-Tel records were also very popular.
Yeah, I used to sleep with a transistor under my pillow. I had to be careful not to fall asleep because the 9 volt batteries were really expensive.
I was really lucky that our music teacher at Whangarei Boys’ played us some quite challenging stuff for the time, Transformer had just come out but you weren’t going to hear Walk on the Wild Side on the radio, and I still remember her explaining it’s meaning to us.
The first time I heard Pink Floyd (Meddle), The Who (Tommy), Elton John (Yellow Brick Road), any Bowie other than The Laughing Gnome (Pinups and Ziggy Stardust), Sabbath, Zappa, Beefheart and so many others were all at school. Old Ma Shields (who was probably only in her 40s) changed my life.
I thought I made the rules on discussion clear when I created this thread.
Yeah you did. But I’m too old to follow rules, or even remember them.
I'm certainly a fan of many of the groups you've mentioned but they're far too good for this thread and all it stands for.
