Rolling Stone's Weekend Rock Question: "Who is the Best One-Hit Wonder of All Time?"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

My vote would be for Martika's "Toy Soldiers."

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/16907957/Martika+7.jpg

:toast:

Weekend Rock Question: Who is the Best One-Hit Wonder of All Time?

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[RandomThoughts]

1. Emenem handled a terrible situation with a song about that.

There was an attempt to divide a cultural group by starting a violent war, while some made money off it.

And while it kept a group from working for better goals.

Eminem put out this song, overcoming that attempt.

The other side of that manufactured attempt also did the same thing and did not let something wrongly manufactured to divide people and get them to fight for no reason.

Eminem - Like Toy Soldiers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lexLAjh8fPA


That was the song you were requesting played wasn't it?


Maybe you were thinking of this one.

One Tin Soldier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTKx2f44tDo



Side note, research Berek Halfhands decision and how he treated the mountain people, when many perceived them as an enemy to fight. Note the story is told from perception of war in how they were seen, but Berek saw them differently.

And no this does not have to do specifically with current events, it is a choice many people make many times over many years.



And I am still due beer and travel money and many experiences.

[RandomThoughts]

3. Dark and Red.

Wish You Were Here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCQTr8ZYdhg

Loreena McKennitt- Beneath a Phrygian Sky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siXe7bKt1q0

Time - Pink Floyd + Lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYiahoYfPGk

Celtic Woman - The Voice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaqQnhBtxaI







The Girl In The Fireplace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vennL6I8hck

[RandomThoughts]

6. Also remember.

Gesture is a hand motion.

So it is how you see it.

And go onto different lands, many see that wrong from the statement before and after it.

You don't have to look for what is in your heart.

And of coarse the long and slender body, is from the post of feet on the ground, head in the clouds.

[Faygo Kid]

2. We Five, "You Were On My Mind."

Now I've done it. Those of us of a certain age won't be able to get this song out of our head all day.

[astral]

9. But Sylvia Fricker wrote that song (Tyson).

I would think of a one-hit-wonder as someone who wrote their own song. Will post my suggestion in a separate post if I don't see it here.

[astral]

10. DELETE -- duplicate post

x

[astral]

11. Norman Greenbaum -- Spirit in the Sky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umQCgaZnO0o

: )

[abq e streeter]

4. Having grown up in an era loaded with them, the first one that popped into my mind is The Robbs

Race With The Wind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lnjKtJmFO0

[abq e streeter]

5. Or maybe the Soul Survivors---Expressway to Your Heart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQpTEaPFHXQ

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. And you already know I O.D.d on that one last week in the Lounge...

...if there are any cover versions left on YouTube, I must have missed them.

:rofl:

:toast:

[abq e streeter]

14. Oops--, no I didn't know that

haven't been here all that much lately.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

15. I think I posted 7 threads with that song

I would have kept going but I ran out of clips.

[abq e streeter]

19. Well, it is a classic, but no, I never saw any of those threads

or maybe I did, but somehow don't remember... short term memory loss, ya know....I paid good money for that over the years...might as well use it. (and apparently may have):hippie:

[pacalo]

7. Keith -- "98.6" or Norma Tanega's "Walking My Cat Named Dog".

[Bennyboy]

12. STEAM:Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye...

still is out there 40 yrs later.

[some guy]

48. Probably a good choice.

Longevity should be a factor.
Probably anyone who pays attention to sports is aware of this song, so that should weigh in its favor as well.
And, to me at least, it's as obnoxious as hell, so that also qualifies it.

:applause: on your choice.

[MrMickeysMom]

13. Hokus Pokus by Focus

This came out the year I graduated highschool... I love it... Your basic basement jam full of bearded guys and yodeling...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw7qS9OCAPc

[JCMach1]

16. ? and the Mysterians- 96 Tears

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeolH-kzx4c

[KamaAina]

21. Technically not an OHW

they had several other minor hits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_Mark_%26_the_Mysterians#Singles

edit: also true of several other standards in these threads, such as the Blues Image ("Ride Captain Ride), Sugarloaf ("Green Eyed Lady") and Looking Glass ("Brandy").

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

17. There are a lot of really good OHW's

but this is one of my all time favorite songs....

The Vogues Five O'clock World

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSIGwAY2JBs

[hifiguy]

26. That is a cool song.

:)

[ProfessorGAC]

18. I'm Partial to Republica's "Ready To Go"

I always loved that song, and never heard another word about them.
GAC

[meegbear]

20. M - "Pop Musik"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HaAOCGb3bw

[KamaAina]

22. Hawai'i's beloved Bruddah IZ was actually a posthumous OHW with respect to the mainland

he dominated the Hawai'i charts for years, of course, but only charted nationally after his death with his medley of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World".

[WinkyDink]

23. "Come On, Eileen"----Dexy's Midnight Runners.

[S_E_Fudd]

59. +1

[gratuitous]

24. That group that had one Top 40 hit with "Touch of Grey"

I really thought they were on their way with that one, but then their lead singer died. Had kind of a thin voice, but that's not totally deadly to a band.

[denbot]

50. Your killing me...

[hifiguy]

25. Great. Now I have earworms of obscure/weird songs

The Steam track gets my vote, but now I am cursed with remembering

"Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" (Mac and Katie Kissoon? - I didn't google, honest)

"They're Coming to Take Me Away (Ha-Haa!)" (Napoleon XIV)

and

"Tennessee Birdwalk" (Misty something and some guy).

:grr:

"Der Kommisar" was decidedly more tolerable, though the German version was cooler and doesn't strictly count.

[Lionel Mandrake]

44. "Der Kommisar" was one of the favorites in my family.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w4Xulsjo5I

Another was "She Blinded Me With Science"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IlHgbOWj4o

[CBGLuthier]

53. Both of those artists had other hits

Rock Me Amadeus by Falco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVikZ8Oe_XA

Hyperactive by Thomas Dolby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmGxh1FhtxE

[ArnoldLayne]

27. Modern English-"I'll Melt With You"

[digonswine]

31. I thought that was

the Cure until last year---not a Cure fan apparently

[DiverDave]

28. My Sharona

does nobody remember..
The Knack??

and the weirdly hypnotic My Skarowtom

[LynneSin]

29. Obscure LynneSin factiod #47:

In junior highschool my music project was how The Knack was going to be the next big music Supergroup.

I kid you not.

[fizzgig]

45. love that song

even if i learned it from the chipmunks

[LynneSin]

30. Norman Greenbaum: "Spirit in the Sky"

:D

[BlancheSplanchnik]

32. Golden Earring--Radar Love

Love that song. Looooove the drum solo. :D

[Glorfindel]

33. They also had a hit with "Twilight Zone"

Maybe that makes them a two-hit wonder?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

36. I did not know that!

I guess you're right--TWO hit wonder!

(Is Twilight Zone as good as Radar Love?)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

37. Yep...I think I prefer "Twilight Zone" over "Radar Love."

Love 'em both, but for me, T.Z. is a little more "air guitar-y"

:toast:

[geardaddy]

34. A-Ha: Take On Me

[Glorfindel]

35. "Green Tamborine" by the Lemon Pipers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BjQKMxJNEc

[flvegan]

38. Rush. They had that "Tom Sawyer" thing.

That's about it.

:hide:

[NewJeffCT]

39. +1

whatever happened to them?

:hide:

[flvegan]

42. I heard that Geddy Lee is the new AFLAC duck voice.

Neil Peart still teaches the gods how to play drums, however.

[TZ]

51. I vaguely recall some group

From the 80,s with some hit about partying or something? Beast brothers or something? :P

[Dr. Strange]

54. You dumbass--that wasn't their one hit!

http://toponehitwonders.com/rock/new-world-man-rush/

[Gabi Hayes]

40. how many of them have their own stamp:

''There's a Man in the jungle that we all know

He lived way back a long time ago''

[Lasher]

41. The Easybeats - Friday on my Mind

It gets into you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBJLoYd8xak

Edit: Well OK maybe The Lion Sleeps Tonight by the Tokens. A timeless work of art, that is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LBmUwi6mEo

[Aristus]

43. My vote is for "Toy Soldiers" as well, if for no other reason than because

a cousin of mine was one of Martika's backup singers on that song.

[TransitJohn]

46. The Dream Academy.

Life in a Northern Town.

[fishwax]

47. My standard answer is Marmalade ("Reflections of My Life")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79NiN7ISW7E

[Pryderi]

49. 92% of every disco group from the 70s

[hifiguy]

52. The Peppermint Rainbow's "Will You Be Staying After Sunday?"

From the short lived (but charming, IMHO) genre now called "Sunshine Pop" of the late 1960s. For some reason I LOVED that song when I was about 12. I also liked "In A Gadda Da Vida," so I was a pretty weird kid. :dilemma:

IIRC the PR's producer was Paul Leka, responsible for the Lemon Pipers' "Green Tambourine" and a lot of other similar stuff back in that bygone day.

And I double dog dare the older Lounge denizens to to top these:

"Hot Smoke and Sassafras" by Bubble Puppy

"Morning Girl" by Neon Philharmonic

and the immortal "Incense and Peppermints" by the Strawberry Alarm Clock. :P

[Bennyboy]

55. Grateful Dead: Touch of Grey!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmT6udys8Tc

[NeoConsSuck]

56. Friday on my mind

The Easybeats.

[NeoConsSuck]

57. Also...

Killer Joe - Rocky Fellers
Talk, Talk - Music Machine
Gloria - Shadows of Night

Yes, I LOVED the 1960's Garage Band sound!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

58. She Drives me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals

Not 60s but I remember it.

SPIRIT - I Got a Line On You Babe.

Eastern Boys and Western Girls - can't remember the band name

Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe

The Cyrkle - Red Rubber Ball (written by Paul Simon)

Those were the Days - Mary Hopkins (on Apple)

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax Don't do it

Melanie - Brand New Key

Tiny Tim (Herbert Khoury) -- Tiptoe Through the Tulips

Mason Williams - Classical Gas

Brewer & Shipley - One Toke Over the Line

Larry Groce - Junk Food Junkie

Images of Heaven (EP) - Peter Godwin

Rubber Duckie - Jim Henson

Jackie Blue - Ozark Mountain Daredevils

Judy in Disguise - John Fred and his Playboy Band

Psychotic Reaction - Count Five

Mother-in-Law - Ernie KDoe

The Letter - The Box Tops

Soft Cell - Tainted Love (originally done by the Supremes)

Convoy - C.W. McCall

Disco Duck - Rick Dees and his band of idiots

King Tut - Steve martin and the Toot Uncommons

Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport - Rolf Harris

Don't Worry, be Happy - Bobby McFerrin

Snoopy vs the Red Baron - the Royal Guardsmen

Telstar - The Tornados

Rappin' Rodney - Rodney Dangerfield



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