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Post by tod2 on Jan 29, 2014 14:00:10 GMT
I have been tidying up the study - dust gone, everything in plastic see-thru containers packed neatly on the shelf......One of the items I had to deal with was a CD that had got mixed up somewhere along the line called "One Hit Wonders...38 Original hits from artists that were here one minute and gone the next"
So I thought I would stick it in the computer whilst I carried on sorting stuff - NO CD inside! Darn darn darn!
I was looking forward to RESCUE ME by Bell, Book & Candle, STAY by Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories, MY SHARONA by The Knack, BETTE DAVIS EYES by Kim Carnes, BABY COME BACK by Pato Banton.
And so on and so on...... Wonder why these artists (who's names I don't recall at all only the songs)could not make music careers for them selves. If the song was a hit then I can only think they couldn't write or find other tunes to record.??
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 29, 2014 15:55:13 GMT
Bell Book & Candle?! As soon as I saw the title for this thread, Rescue Me popped into my little head. But it was by Fontella Bass, no? That's the hit version I remember.
Baby Come Back was covered by others -- Hall & Oates, for instance. Don't know which was the first version.
Even though Bette Davis Eyes is the first thing I think of with Kim Carnes, she had a successful musical career.
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Post by tod2 on Jan 29, 2014 17:53:35 GMT
Hey thanks for that Bixa! You might be shocked to know that I was once a Go-Go dancer and my husband and I owned the first Mobile Discotheque in our city of Durban. It was initiated by a friend who had recently returned from the UK where hiring a disco to come into your home and play records for your party.
Those were the 60'S and early 70's and what a refined lot we were!
This is the version I was hearing in my head when I saw 'STAY' ....
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Post by lagatta on Jan 29, 2014 18:16:03 GMT
I'm Too Sexy! (Right said Fred).
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Post by tod2 on Jan 29, 2014 18:41:41 GMT
How about this one!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2014 21:26:12 GMT
Some of the "one hit wonders" have that status internationally but manage to have acceptable careers in their home country, unbeknownst to the rest of the world.
However, speaking of this sort of thing, I am continually annoyed at the running joke in many circles of using Plastic Bertrand's "Ca Plane pour Moi" as an example of French music. Not only is this a Belgian song having nothing to do with France other than being sung in French, but Plastic Bertrand didn't sing it any more than Milli Vanilli sang their "hits."
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 30, 2014 0:45:03 GMT
I never did that, Kerouac, I swear.
Todski, I am not shocked, just a little jealous. Here's the version of Stay that's in my head:
"My" Shout is an older version than the one you posted. (gawd I love this):
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Post by lagatta on Jan 30, 2014 1:19:55 GMT
They are extraordinary. Wow.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 31, 2014 20:01:00 GMT
Aren't they though?!
Don't you want to kick your heels up? Don't it make you want to throw your hands up? Don't it make you want to shout?
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Post by bjd on Jan 31, 2014 20:18:43 GMT
I see Bixa beat me to it -- for me Shout is also the Isley Brothers.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2014 17:04:02 GMT
There was a one hit wonder in France that nobody has ever forgotten but probably more because of the singer's hairstyle than the quality of the song itself, even though the song is not bad. However, now that Justin Bieber has brought back the hair tower as a style, maybe it will begin to seem ordinary.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2014 21:07:26 GMT
SHOUT wants me want to SHOUT!!!!! It was/is a real get up and move tune.
One that makes me wonder, and, I should have googled it before posting is Edie Brickell, and her OTT wonder, WHAT I AM,which I always adored despite it's overplay.
I know she married Paul Simon and lives in a fabulous mansion overlooking the cliffs of the Atlantic out on the far Eastern Coast of L.I. in
Montauk and keeps a low profile.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 1, 2014 21:42:39 GMT
I feel really stupid, because I don't remember that song at all. Just checked it out on youtube & you're right -- it's really great & seems more of today than 1988. I guess this is what she's doing now.  album |
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Post by tod2 on Feb 3, 2014 9:26:38 GMT
Kerouac, I think my son got there first - before Bieber of course, and maybe just around the same time as Desireless(my photo taken in 1994).  |
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Post by questa on Feb 3, 2014 10:20:17 GMT
What about "Boom Boom Baby" by Crash Craddock. He did a full Australian tour on the strength of that one hit, complete with turtle neck sweater and suede ripple sole shoes.
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Post by tod2 on Feb 3, 2014 10:39:15 GMT
Questa, he's not unlike Elvis is he?!
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Post by questa on Feb 3, 2014 11:01:14 GMT
Haven't heard that in 50 years! Thanks.Very like Elvis now you mention it, except the older generation thought he was 'a nice clean boy.'
Certainly no Michael Jackson on the dance floor.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2014 19:06:09 GMT
Now that is someone who certainly never reached the shores of the United States during my youth. Never heard of him.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2014 19:09:03 GMT
Kerouac, I think my son got there first - before Bieber of course, and maybe just around the same time as Desireless(my photo taken in 1994) My brother had a "flat top" for a couple of years around 1965-1966 so clearly this weird style is going to continue to haunt us from time to time. Back then, "gel" had not been invented yet, but I remember that he had a big pot of "butch wax." |
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Post by questa on Feb 4, 2014 2:17:34 GMT
For K2
Billy "Crash" Craddock is an American country and rockabilly singer. He first gained popularity in Australia in the 1950s with a string of rockabilly hits, including the Australian number one hit "Boom Boom Baby". Wikipedia
Born: June 16, 1939 (age 74), Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
albums: Crash's Smashes: The Hits Of Billy "Crash" Craddock, more
Movies: Country Fever Jukebox: Vol. 3
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 4, 2014 4:44:59 GMT
Never heard of Crash Craddock?! You must have just forgotten. When Tod wrote "Crash Craddock", my mind instantly supplied Billy Crash Craddock. (of course my mind prefers to supply stuff like that rather than what I did with the keys)
Tod, now I can see where your grandsons got their looks!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2014 7:20:58 GMT
He must have been banned in Mississippi out of respect for the native son. Or else I am just much too young to have encountered him.  |
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Post by bjd on Feb 4, 2014 8:21:48 GMT
Never mind, Kerouac. I have never heard of him either. I admit I never listened to country music though.
Well, I just listened to the video -- he sounds like he's imitating Elvis. (I was not an Elvis fan)
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Post by tod2 on Feb 4, 2014 14:16:14 GMT
Thanks Bixa - being half Italian does give some boys an advantage  Note: At 16 you didn't just get the barber to take a good half and hour to get it perfect - you got him to hi-lite a few strands in front just to add more bait for the chicks  |
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