Post your favorite one, two, or three-hit-wonders of the 60's and 70's

[steve2470]

Can anyone relate to that dancing and the dress ? I was too young in 1970, only turned 12 that year.

Post yours.

[Warpy]

1. I was the right age and I had the legs for it

but I lived in jeans. Still do. I never liked being that exposed. If I ever wore a thing like that, I had tights under it, not bare legs. It was too fucking cold most of the year in Boston to dress like that.

[Iggo]

15. God, I love Southern California! I do! I do! I do!

[Warpy]

18. I figgered I'd be bored shitless by it

so when I finally left Boston, I got as far as NM and stayed here.

We get snow at this altitude but it doesn't hang around forever like it did in Boston.

[Glorfindel]

2. Here's mine, from 1968...

Maybe the ultimate one-hit wonder, and many people don't like it, but I always have:

[steve2470]

3. not sure I've heard his version but...

I damn sure have heard Donna Summer's version I love it. I need to listen to the original.

[Glorfindel]

4. Richard Harris was one of the greatest actors of all time

From "A Man Called Horse" to "Camelot" to "Gladiator" to the first two Harry Potter films. I hope you enjoy his rendition of "MacArthur's Park."

[steve2470]

10. it's a nice song, he sings it well, thanks! nt

[Skittles]

5. Thunderclap Newman's Something in the Air

timeless

[Kittycow]

34. That's my favorite song of my hippie youth.

It breaks my heart today for its poignancy and idealism.

[Skittles]

62. was listening to an interview with Andy Newman, who passed away last year

he said when they did the initial demo for this song, it was the first time he met Jimmy McCulloch, who was only 14 when Pete Townsend selected him to be in the band

Jimmy later played with Paul McCartney in Wings, and died of a drug overdose at age 26.

[Freddie]

6. "The Cheater" by Bob Kuban and the In-Men, 1965

"Look out for the cheater" - remember that one? An ear worm for sure. So life imitates art...the handsome lead singer, Walter Scott, was cheating on his wife during the group's very brief fame. He eventually got a divorce and married the girlfriend. Fast forward to the 80's and he's making a living singing at Holiday Inns and his (new) wife is cheating on him. One day Walter mysteriously disappears. His body is found in a cistern on the property of his widow and her boyfriend, who is now serving life in prison. It's pretty obvious the widow had lots to do with it but there was not enough evidence and she was never charged.

[steve2470]

9. no, but going to look it up now

or

[GP6971]

7. San Francisco

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[PearliePoo2]

33. Oh yeah, had to hear it so...

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

49. You mean Philip Wallace Blondheim III

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McKenzie
Scott McKenzie (born Philip Wallace Blondheim III; January 10, 1939 – August 18, 2012) was an American singer and songwriter. He was best known for his 1967 hit single and generational anthem, "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)".

That's one of my favorites.

[AmandaRuth]

8. tons, tons of them

but I'll tell ya, this song does not get played enough

[Alice11111]

11. Aretha, R.E.S.P.E.C.T;Temptations, My Girl; & Jerry Jeff

Walker, Mr. BoJangles& #1 of all, Me and Bobbie Mc Gee, sung Janis Joplin, written by Kris Kristoferson

[kwassa]

46. Aretha, Temptations, and Janis all had major careers, not just a few hits.

Very important figures in modern popular music.

[brewens]

12. Mouth and Macneal.

[jberryhill]

13. Here's a real turd I liked....

[Iggo]

14. I turned nine that year. However...

...I was well aware of the girls in those skirts and the dancing that they did.

Mm-Hmm.

[steve2470]

58. lucky you, I was too sheltered to know these things

damn However, I made up for lost time later

[NBachers]

16. Susan Jacks and the Poppy Family - It's worth exploring other numbers they recorded, too.

That's Where I Went Wrong

Which Way You Goin' Billy

And I gotta add Sonny Charles and the Checkmates - Black Pearl

[Doc_Technical]

17. Here goes

[TuxedoKat]

39. LOL!!!

I remember that song Fire from when I was a kid -- always intrigued me -- to see that there was a "music video" of it is fantastic!!!
Thanks for sharing that!!!

[NBachers]

19. From Detroit- The Young Sisters "Casanova Brown"1962; Nathaniel Mayer-"Village of Love" 1963

The Young Sisters backed up Del Shannon on a few of his hits.

From Detroit's Fortune Records:

Nathaniel Mayer has some bizarrely great stuff - "I'm a Lonely Man" sounds like it belongs in a Tarantino movie:

[MFM008]

20. In the year 2525

Zager/Evans.
It was always playing when I was at the pool in the 60s.

[Rhiannon12866]

22. And I was in a play at summer camp that used that song, always found it haunting

It's actually even more relevant today, especially this version:

[Rhiannon12866]

21. "Little Bit O' Soul" - The Music Explosion - 1967

This was HUGH when I was at summer camp. I had no idea what they looked like though!

[area51]

23. Seatrain's 1970 song

13 Questions was unusual.

[steve2470]

24. I sure don't remember this but......it's great!

[chelsea0011]

27. Great Song. Great singer. But Leslie Gore was no one hit wonder. But thanks for posting.

One of my favorite singers of all time.

[steve2470]

30. Yes I realized that after I posted :). nt

[oberliner]

25. Anyone remember Smyle?

Sound like the Beatles - lead singer has a very John Lennon-y voice.

Here's my favorite song:

[chelsea0011]

26. Spirit in the Sky...Norman Green baum

[Cartoonist]

51. I dig it, and I'm an atheist.

I like Ave Maria as well

[chelsea0011]

54. Aaron Neville does a great Ave Maria...and I am an atheist also.

[workinclasszero]

91. I love that song

That dirty fuzz tone is killer and I got a friend in Jesus too!

[jberryhill]

28. Back in 1970, they didn't have effective medication to treat that poor lady

These days, there are a range of options for tardive dyskinesia

[steve2470]

55. she is so spastic because "Dancing Troll" took 5 seconds of a 1970 Army training video and created..

that loop with her. If you are especially bored today, look at the training video in my post. Talk about a look into the past!



https://www.democraticunderground.com/1018962434#post50

[John1956PA]

29. Vanilla Fudge's version of "You Keep Me Hangin' On" (1967)

[Kittycow]

35. I have that album!

[John1956PA]

38. I have read that several of the album tracks, including "You Keep Me Hanging' On," are monaural.

The rousing 1968 live performance which I linked to above is a treasure.

The band still tours with three of its four original members. The fourth, the extremely talented Tim Bogert, is active with another band.

[chelsea0011]

31. And one more because I have been listening to Eddie Holman albums. Guy has a great voice

[Zoonart]

32. The Strawberry Alarm Clock

[Kittycow]

36. That song was first one I thought of when I read the post title !

I remember buying the 45 for my brother's Christmas present. I think of it every Christmas instead of Silent Night

[Zoonart]

37. Isn't that funny...

I associate it with Halloween.
I was walking to a party at a friends house and as I crossed town, the kids were all flying around in their costumes, the Jaco lanterns were lit on porches, and I was listening to Incense and Peppermints on my transistor radio. (Yeah, I said that).
Every Halloween, I think of that night and the Strawberry Alarm Clock. I guess that s the definition of a real hit and a one-off at that. Thanks for sharing.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

40. There's a backstory to that. I'll see if I can dig it up. NT

[Zoonart]

42. COOL

That will be fun.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

43. One of the members lives in Arlington County, Virginia. He's RW.

Google says he has moved to Alexandria.

I remember the song well. I think I went into this earlier at DU. The lead singer is not listed as such. Searching....

Here's the story:

Strawberry Jam
A guitar, a chance encounter and a serendipitous rise to fleeting fame
June 23, 2014 Madelyn Rosenberg

You might not recognize Greg Munford on the street, but if you like ’60s psychedelic pop, you know his voice. That one-hit wonder about incense and peppermints, the color of time? The one that made a brief comeback in the 1997 movie soundtrack for Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery? Munford, who has called Clarendon home for the last 25 years, sang the lead vocals.
....

Munford wasn’t actually a member of the Strawberry Alarm Clock, the group he would go on to record the hit song “Incense and Peppermints” with in the mid-’60s. His band was called the Shapes. But both bands shared the same manager in Bill Holmes and happened to be in the studio at the same time one day. “[Holmes] was a supermarket manager before hitting ‘the big time,’ ” Munford says. ... Enter music producer Frank Slay, who had heard the Strawberry Alarm Clock’s catchy tune as an instrumental. Sensing its potential, he brought in his own people to flesh out some lyrics. There was just one problem in Slay’s mind: He felt the Alarm Clock’s lead singer had the wrong sound. “[Holmes] said, ‘Well I’ve got this kid from another band. He sounds all right,’ ” Munford recounts with an easy laugh.

The next thing he knew, he was laying down the tracks. The single was released as a B side, then rereleased as an A side. Munford recalls driving into the California hills after school to drop it off at small radio stations. “That was the way it worked back then,” he says. “You started a record in places like Bakersfield and Fresno. Their signal carried to Santa Barbara. If you could get your album to play in Santa Barbara, the signal would carry to L.A.”
....

Eventually he got into direct advertising and moved with his wife to D.C., where he worked with Stephen Winchell & Associates and then Richard Viguerie, a conservative spokesman and pioneer in the use of direct-mail fundraising for conservative causes.

I've got a picture to go with this. The group is standing around in East Falls Church. I remember it, because I found this wide leather belt at a thrift store that is a dead ringer for one being worn by someone in the picture.

40 Years Ago, Arlingtonian's Voice Was at the Top of the Charts
by KRISTEN ARMSTRONG, Staff Writer Oct 19, 2007

It might be on here somewhere:

http://strawberryalarmclock.com/image-galleries/1960s-gallery/

[Zoonart]

44. It was fun reading that.

It reins me of an interview with Stephen Stills that was recently in Rolling Stone where he talks about how in the 60's there were talent scouts trolling the local bars and small venues to sign talent and bemoaning how it does not work that way anymore and it is almost impossible to get "discovered" or even make money in the industry unless you can tour and fill an arena.

The best movie I ever saw about what the business was like in the 60's was "That Thing You Do".

Thanks so much for sharing. I'm always happy when we can share on subjects like this to break the tension of having to deal with the political realities of the day.

[Laffy Kat]

73. I remember the skating rink where I hung out playing this...

And I always rolled out to skate to it because it was Soooo Coool and psychedelic! LOL.

[yallerdawg]

41. This one gets my motor runnin'!

[MiltonBrown]

45. The number 1 record of 1961

[sarge43]

47. Mine

In my white corvair, volume at 11, heading east on I-10 out of San Bern - good times.

[jberryhill]

56. Banned song at my junior high school dances

[John1956PA]

63. Great song by the Raspberries, but I think their song "I Wanna Be with You" is just as great. n/t

[kwassa]

48. Cool Jerk, Flowers on the Wall, Psychotic Reaction

I know I'm the heaviest cat you ever did see.

that don't bother me at all.

I feel so lonely all night and day.

[steve2470]

50. Steam - Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye (1969)

totally off-topic but the young woman in ALL "Dancing Troll" videos is Kam Nelson, identified in the comments repeatedly.

Her dance is only like 5 seconds long, at this link:

Go to 2:51 at the video.


Talk about editing magic.

[John1956PA]

64. This week, we lost Gary DeCarlo, the co-writer and singer of "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye."

I have read that the song, "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye," was intended as the "B" side of the 45 rpm phonograph record. Gary and two fellow performers basically winged the recording to meet the deadline. I do not know if the odd channel fade and resurgence half way through the recording was intended, if it was accidental due to the rush in recording and producing.

When he passed away on Wednesday of this week, Gary DeCarlo was 75 years of age. Having been a teenager when the song was released, and having heard it at numerous sports events in my junior and senior high school days, I will always have warm feelings toward this nifty top 40 hit.

[jpak]

52. Shocking Blue - Venus

[jpak]

53. Timothy - The Bouys

[lastlib]

57. Signs!

One of the great songs of the decade!

Also loved this one:

Cool video, too!

[rurallib]

59. I'll play - Sally go Round the Roses - to start

by the Jaynettes

for #2 Sukiyaki by Kyu Sakamoto

And let's end with A Walk In The Black Forest by Horst Jankowski

[Duppers]

94. #3 👍

And I like Sukiyaki.

Thx for posting these.

[Tikki]

60. Kasenetz Katz .."Quick Joey Small"

One hit wonder...

Tikki

[Tikki]

61. These by The Left Banke..

Tikki

[NBachers]

65. Liz Damon's Orient Express: "1900 Yesterday"

[Special Prosciuto]

66. The Night Chicago Died by Paper Lace

They did a few other atrocities like Billy Don't Be a Hero

[whistler162]

97. Still comes up in my mental play list once

in awhile.

[Special Prosciuto]

67. disco tex and the sexolettes get dancing

[steve2470]

69. I really liked that one! nt

[Special Prosciuto]

88. That was the only song in history to mention Rona Barrett

[Special Prosciuto]

68. Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band - Cherchez La Femme

[steve2470]

70. Napoleon - They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! (1966)

[The_Casual_Observer]

76. THe flip side of the 45 has the song played backwards.

[steve2470]

71. anyone else ? nt

[John1956PA]

72. From a decade or two later: Lisa Layne's 1989 "All I Want for Christmas is You."

The band credited for the recording is Vince Vance and the Valiants, a semi-comical show band with a country side. Vince signed Lisa on in the 1980s. Not long after, Vince (under the name Andy Stone) and band guitarist Troy powers wrote "All I Want for Christmas is You," a simple but catchy tune ideally suited for Lisa's brassy voice. The song was recorded and released in 1989 without much notice. It was re-released in 1993 when it began garnering play on country stations during the Christmas season. By the follow year's Christmas season, it attained crossover status. Since the mid 1990s, the recording has been played on many pop music stations during the Christmas Holiday season.

[Laffy Kat]

74. Does anyone have any idea what this one's about?

Still can't figure it out.

[Laffy Kat]

75. Oh and this one that I still love and don't understand:

Yes,"Reservoir Dogs" kind of ruined it for me. LOL.

[Mike Nelson]

77. In the Summertime...

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[rzemanfl]

78. "Brandy" Looking Glass.

[FuzzyRabbit]

79. Merilee Rush "Angel of the Morning"

A big hit in 1968, and a big hit again for Juice Newton a few years later.

[BarbaRosa]

80. The Seeds

Blues Magoos

[WePurrsevere]

81. One Tin Soldier by Coven ...

It still gets me every single time...

[jaxind]

82. Coven

Can't think of Coven's song without thinking about the Billy Jack movie!

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

83. Clearly, this is the best song of ALL time, still played thosands of times:

[steve2470]

84. I actually liked and like that song!

Not all the time, mind you, and not when I want something different LOL

[Special Prosciuto]

85. Great dancer. Where's the band?

[Special Prosciuto]

86. There was a band called Paper Lace, for some reason. They did Billy Don't Be A Hero and

The Night Chicago Died, and a few other atrocities

[Special Prosciuto]

87. The unforgettable Mouth and MacNeal. How Do You Do, 1972

[lpbk2713]

89. 1966 -- Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels

Devil with a Blue Dress

[VOX]

90. "Have I The Right" by The Honeycombs (1964) and "You Were On My Mind" by We Five (1965)

[Special Prosciuto]

98. That was satellite inspired rock, like the Ventures' Telstar

?list=RDD6DmtPQv7V8

[workinclasszero]

92. Here's a couple....

[Special Prosciuto]

95. Roxette - Dangerous. She could have done more with some 18 million viewers

[Tikki]

96. "Stuck in the Middle With You' ..Stealer's Wheel and "Dancing in the Moonlight"...King Harvest

Tikki

[Special Prosciuto]

99. Claudine Longet had a brief singing career

Doing Sopwith Camel's Hello Hello

[Special Prosciuto]

100. mungo jerry in the summertime live

Talent dripping from their fingertips

[WheelWalker]

101. Sam the Sham...

[SeattleVet]

102. The Sensations, "Let Me In"

Hard to listen to without moving!

[Special Prosciuto]

103. Put on your seat belt for Disco Duck by Rick Dees. This was taken seriously by many at that time.

[Adsos Letter]

104. Blues Image

Ride Captain Ride

[Va Lefty]

105. Walk Away Renee The Left Banke