One Hit Wonders

[Crazy Ed]

   How's 'bout a Song that made 2 Groups into One Hit Wonders!?

   One Tin Soldier, First by The Original Caste the later by Coven

[Snake45]

.Laura Branigan also did a cover of it a year after titled Deep in the Dark with completely differnt lyrics

 

I'd never heard or even heard OF that before. It's not bad but a little slow. I think I like the other two versions better. But thanks for posting that!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=823aeo0WU_k

[Can-Con]

I'd never heard or even heard OF that before. It's not bad but a little slow. I think I like the other two versions better. But thanks for posting that!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=823aeo0WU_k

Same here. But I think it barely counts as a cover any more than "Ice Ice Baby" counts as a cover of "Under Pressure" or "Can't Touch This" counts as a cover of "Super Freak". 

[Harry P.]

Sorry, Tom... had to hide your post.

Did you actually watch the video you posted? Not exactly in compliance with forum rules.

[Harry P.]

[Harry P.]

Written by Tommy James (yes, that Tommy James... as in Tommy James and the Shondells)...

 

[madhorseman]

This may have only been a minor hit for Status Quo

 

 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=velvet+revolver+fall+to+pieces

[Snake45]

Oh that was a good one! Do you remember one called Did You See Her Eyes? The band might have been Elephant's Memory or some weird name of that kind.

[Harry P.]

I don't remember a band called Elephant's Memory, but I do remember another one hit wonder by Crazy Elephant...

[RAT-T]

Sorry, Tom... had to hide your post.

Did you actually watch the video you posted? Not exactly in compliance with forum rules.

SORRY HARRY, NO, I DIDN'T WATCH THE WHOLE VIDEO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1T71PGd-J0

[afx]

Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum

Great choice Tom, one of my favorites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cXrEPNvRO8

[afx]

I really like Camper Van Beethoven's cover of this song. CVB went on to become Cracker.

Edited December 6, 2015 by afx

[afx]

Nena -99 Red Luftballons  I prefer the german version.

English version.

Edited December 6, 2015 by afx

[madhorseman]

Oh that was a good one! Do you remember one called Did You See Her Eyes? The band might have been Elephant's Memory or some weird name of that kind.

The song: "Did You See Her Eyes" was by a group called Illusion, or The Illusion.

[RAT-T]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCEexG9xjw

[Snake45]

The song: "Did You See Her Eyes" was by a group called Illusion, or The Illusion.

You're absolutely right. Now I have to figure out what I was thinking of with Elephant's Memory.

[madhorseman]

There was a band called Elephants Memory, I believe they played on Plastic Ono Bands' :"Give Peace a Chance"??

[wku88]

How about this one?

 

[Aaronw]

Wall of Voodoo Mexican Radio

 

[1972coronet]

Basically , any-thing from the original , 1972 release  (disc 1 on the compact disc release) of Nuggets .

[martinfan5]

Best "One Hit Wonder" song right here folks

 

[martinfan5]

[martinfan5]

[martinfan5]

Just as an FYI,  One Hit Wonder means that a group or artist had one song that reached number one on the charts, or having a signature song that over shadows all their other songs.   There is also the consideration that if the song breaks into the top 40, but if the group of artist has another song that breaks into the top 100, then they are no longer considered a One Hit Wonder( from the internet, you research may vary)

 

Music journalist Wayne Jancik, whose book, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, defines a one-hit wonder rather conservatively, as "an act that has won a position on Billboard's national, pop, Top 40 just once." He therefore includes influential performers such as Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix solely on the basis of their Top 40 performance on the Billboard Hot 100 (the criteria thus ignores competing charts such as those published by Mediabase and the now defunct Cash Box and Radio & Records). In his definition of an "act", Jancik distinguishes between a solo performer and any group he or she may have performed in; thus Roger Daltrey is distinguished from The Who, Joplin is distinguished from Big Brother and the Holding Company and Ted Nugent is distinguished from The Amboy Dukes. He restricts his reporting time to the period from the start of the "rock-and-roll era" (defined by the author as 1 January 1955) to 31 December 1992. The latter date was picked to allow a five-year "lag time" before publication for a listed one-hit wonder to produce a second hit; this unfortunately does not allow for a longer hiatus between hits for a particular performer. For example, Lenny Kravitz is listed for "It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over" (No. 2, August 1991);^[1] the book therefore misses subsequent hits, such as "Fly Away" (which hit number 12 on the Hot 100) and "Dig In" (which hit number 31 on the Hot 100).

Jancik's The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, because of the publisher's limitation on size, only includes the top twenty One-Hit Wonders, or roughly half of the one-hit wonders that made the Top 40 from 1955 through 1992. The author has published a website "One-Hit Wonders," The Book, which now includes all the one-hit wonders profiles he had originally written for the book.

Fred Bronson, a journalist and former writer for Billboard magazine, in his book Billboard's Hottest Hot 100 Hits, uses the criterion that if an artist has another song hitting the Billboard Hot 100, is ineligible to be considered a one-hit wonder.^[2]

Edited December 9, 2015 by martinfan5

[madhorseman]

Nena -99 Red Luftballons  I prefer the german version.

English version.

Mmmm, as long as she's in the video....either version is great!! Noice!!