The Ultimate one hit wonders thread........
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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.
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@JC said in The Ultimate one hit wonders thread........:
@MN5 Fair point. In that case
You must have forgotten about "Forget about you". Easily done.
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ahem @Nepia - not all 7-'s - here is one from the 60's
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@Stockcar86 That’s a well known one, not an obscure 70s one!
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Taking @Catogrande request to pack it in I refrained from posting vids of the numerous winners of reality TV talent shows whose winning song becomes a hit and they fade to obscurity very quickly thereafter.
Modern, worldwide one hit wonders.
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@MiketheSnow said in The Ultimate one hit wonders thread........:
Taking @Catogrande request to pack it in I refrained from posting vids of the numerous winners of reality TV talent shows whose winning song becomes a hit and they fade to obscurity very quickly thereafter.
Modern, worldwide one hit wonders.
Thank you from a grateful public
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@Catogrande said in The Ultimate one hit wonders thread........:
@MiketheSnow said in The Ultimate one hit wonders thread........:
Taking @Catogrande request to pack it in I refrained from posting vids of the numerous winners of reality TV talent shows whose winning song becomes a hit and they fade to obscurity very quickly thereafter.
Modern, worldwide one hit wonders.
Thank you from a grateful public
We aim to please
