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From the 70's: Alicia Bridges - I Love the Nightlife

80's: Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science

90's: Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy

You old timers feel free to include the 50's and 60's.

What do you mean you old timers? The only song I recognize was from the 90's.

Dramarama - Anything, Anything

Very good question, loopus.

70s: Baby Come Back (Player)

80s: Jenny 867-5309 (Tommy Tutone), tied with The Final Countdown (Europe), Turn Up the Radio (Autograph) and When the Heart Rules The Mind (GTR).

90s: Runaround (Blues Travelers)

Zaeger & Evans - "In The Year 2525"

Blues Travelers weren't a one hit wonder.

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90's: Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy

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You should be killed.

On the catwalk....on the catwalk yeahhh...I love to shake my little tush on the catwalk....

Exile- I Wanna Kiss You All Over

It really wasn't my "favorite to listen to"...................but it's second only to "Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye in getting me shall we say "sexual satisfaction" when I was much younger!

And ya gotta love THAT!

Hook, Conquer Me, But Anyway, Carolina Blues, to name a few.

Children of the Sun....Billy Thorpe
Lunatic Fringe.....Red Rider

50's- Rumble-Link Wray

60's-Baby Come Back-The Equals

70's-Are You Ready-Pacific Gas and Electric

80's-A Fine Fine Day-Tony Carey

90's-Cult of Personality-Living Colour

is it weird that i don't know any songs listed in this thread except lets get it on by marvin gaye? which is weird cuz he shouldn't be in this thread of ONE hit wonders

Children of the sun-kick ass song right there.

My favorite one hit wonder would have to Take on me-bye Aha.

Not really one hit wonders but that reminds me, I'm working two concerts on the 3rd and 4th at Busch Gardens. One is Grand Funk Railroad and you will never "Guess Who" the other band is

King Harvest: Dancing in the Moonlight.

Hey Con Artist, you live in the Tampa Bay area? So do I, in Clearwater.

I would agree with Beerdowner, Dramarama: anything, anything

Then there is: Blinded by the Light: Manford Mann

Also, nice song Lamp, When the Heart rules the Mind: GTR, this was a group made up of members of YES and GENESIS.

She Blinded Me With Science?????

[quote/)... nice song Lamp, When the Heart rules the Mind: GTR, this was a group made up of members of YES and GENESIS.

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Yep, glad I'm not the only one who remembers this song. Steve Howe (GREAT guitarist), Steve Hackett, and some other dudes whose names I don't know. One album and done, IIRC.

well Lamp, there is supposedly a 2nd unreleased album. Also, there was the band Asia, which I believe also had members of YES in it, well at least one anyways, Steve Hackett, they were a two hit wonder band. Only time will tell and Heat of the Moment.

Could be. I read that the two Steves supposedly hated each other's guts. Another good song from GTR is The Hunter.

Yeah, for about another month and a half I'm living in Largo on the Largo/Seminole border. Then I'm moving far far away to Montana. There are a lot of us on these boards in this general area.

EMF - Unbelievable

My good buddies make good music!

Okay I'm going to plug myself, kind of....

In 1990 I was in a band signed to Geffen Records called "Salty Dog" we had one "semi-hit" with the track "Come Along",....most people remember it as the Hot Dog Bun song....

I'm in a different dog now.!!!

It's hard to list just one.

Blind Melon- No Rain
Marcy Playground- Sex and Candy
House of Paine- Jump Around
Georgia Satellites- Keep your hands to yourself
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen- Hot Rod Lincoln
Ram Jam- Black Betty

Had to look up a list of one hit wonders but these are ones I liked from that list.

Wow, Dog, you were in Salty Dog? I remember them, had the CD, that song rocked. There was another song on that CD that I liked too, can't remember the name though, something like, Ring My Bell? Anyways, cool that you did something anyways. What did you play? Vocals, drums, guitar, or bass?

Hey Rabid,
I played bass in Salty, I'm the vocalist/bassist in American Dog check out my profile to find our site (I don't think I can post our website on here).

"Ring My Bell" was the song.

90's- The Heights- "How Do You Talk to an Angel?"

80's- Terri Gibbs- Somebody's Knockin'
Devo- Whip It
Roseanne Cash- Seven Year Ache
Gary Numan- Cars (synthesizers baby!)
Soft Cell- Tainted Love
Karla Bonoff- Personally
Aldo Nova- Fantasy (I loved this song)
Dexy's Midnight Runners- Come on Eileen
Elmo & Patsy- Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
(how many are we supposed to pick again???)

70's- Hillside Singers- I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (in Perfect Harmony) remember the Coca Cola commercials??
Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell- Dueling Banjos
Terry Jacks- Seasons in the Sun


OMG.....I can't stop....there are soooooooo many!!!

I do have one more that's probably fairly obscure. It was 70-72. In there somewhere.........................

Joe Tex- I Gotchya!

How about these....

Country Joe and the Fish - "Fish Cheer & I Feel Like I'm Going to Die Rag"
Mungo Jerry - "In The Summertime"
Lynn Anderson - "Rose Garden"
Coven - "One Tin Soldier"
The Hollywood Argyles - "Alley Oop"
Lemon Pipers - "Green Tamborine"
Jeannie C. Riley - "Harper Valley P.T.A."

and my personal favorite.....
Iron Butterfly - "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"

Well,sadly,I'm old enough to know ALL of those songs!


Country Joe and the Fish - "Fish Cheer & I Feel Like I'm Going to Die Rag"
Mungo Jerry - "In The Summertime"
Lemon Pipers - "Green Tamborine"
Iron Butterfly - "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"



Funny thing about growing up if you listenned to "Top 40". Which untill I was about 13 or 14,was what I was surrounded by most other than at home.

But then the University of Dayton's WVUD got hold of me.


But those songs from back then were played over and over and over. I mean you either REALLY like the song a LOT or you would get SO tired of it,just hearing it made you wanna puke!



Now,the one's I listed,I really like,still. So I guess ya know where I'm going with the rest of them.


JMHO

I think Iron Butterfly - Inagaddadavida and Ramjam - Old Black Betty are the winners here. Those are two ageless songs.

late 50s the Kalin Twins - When

Some for us old timers from the 70's

Spirit in the Sky-Norman Greenbaum
Mississippi Queen-Mountain
Vehicle-Ides of March
Timothy-The Buoys
Smokin' in the Boys Room-Brownsville Station