One Hit Wonders!! Post Them Right Here. Now Is The Time and This Is The Thread

[Tuesday Afternoon]

Indiana Wants Me ~ R. Dean Taylor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoeLOD9zD6A


Indiana wants me, Lord I can't go back there
Indiana wants me, Lord I can't go back there
I wish I had you, to talk to

If a man ever needed dying he did
No one had a right to say what he said about you
And it's so cold and lonely here without you
Out there the law is coming
I've been so tired of running

It hurts to see the man that I've become
To know I'll never see the morning sunshine on the land
I'll never see your smiling face or touch your hand
If just once more I could see
You, our home and our little baby

I hope this letter finds it's way to you
Forgive me love for the shame I've put you through and all the tears
Hang on love to the memories of those happy years
Red lights are flashing around me
Good Lord it looks like they found me

Indiana wants me, Lord I can't go back there
This is the police. You are surrounded. Give yourself up

[Oeditpus Rex]

1. 'Timothy' — The Buoys

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

[LeftyFingerPop]

2. Oh man I used to love that song lol. n/t

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. My God!! What have we done?!

awesome tune :thumbsup: :hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. I still like 'Indiana Wants Me'

It has a non-standard chord progression that I find very appealing. :hi:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. so, that is why that tune haunts me to this very day...

that and the lyrics and the sirens blaring :D

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. For sirens, you need this one-hit wonder:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNyGNjf4EUs



Talk about haunting... :D

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. oh yeah...

remember that one. :rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. I had the 8-track — 'Bloodrock 2'

The label informed us that it was their second album. Yeah, thus the 2. :P



It also had "Fancy Space Odyssey," which I believe might be the only rock song in history to mention the Andrews Sisters.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

11. don't tell me...did you drive the Plymouth Road Runner, too?

http://www.ritzsite.net/Archive/Plymouth_Road_Runner_440+6_coupe_1970.jpg

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. Fuck, no!

I'ze been a Chevy man all my life. :headbang:



I respected MoPars back then, though. I mean, they weren't Fords. :puke:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

14. I knew a guy who drove one and owned that same bloodrock

eight track...it was a zen moment of deja vu for me :smoke:

hey...whatever happened to Renaults...a French car, right?

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. I think they all committed suicide

My uncle had a Renault Dauphine when I was little — 51.5 cubic inches, 32 horsepower. He commuted from here to Monterey, and he once told me it'd barely make it up the hill near Monterey Airport.

[jeff30997]

19. Holly guacamole !

I just finished watching Deathproof and in that movie they have cars that look just like

those !!!

[opiate69]

6. Stillwater - "Mind Bender"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt1io_Z2WOQ

You wouldn't believe the wild-goose chase my ex-brother-in-law put me through trying to get this album about 15 years ago.

[Whoa_Nelly]

8. Maurice and The Cliches--Soft Core

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJlR-viNea0

[bluesbassman]

12. Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3

Quirky little tune from back when MTV really was about music.

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

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

15. One of my old high school favorites

"Games" by Redeye

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqP3r-Jf3vQ

This was on a jukebox we had in the school commons room, and I religiously played it once a day.

[Swede]

17. Reflections of my Life - Marmalade

Howdy Tuesday. :hi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxStBMw8PM0

The changing of sunlight to moonlight
Reflections of my life, oh, how they fill my eyes
The greetings of people in trouble
Reflections of my life, oh, how they fill my mind

All my sorrows, sad tomorrows
Take me back to my own home
All my cryings (all my cryings), feel I'm dying, dying
Take me back to my own home (oh I'm going home)

I'm changing, arranging, I'm changing
I'm changing everything, ah, everything around me

The world is a bad place, a bad place

[Liberal_in_LA]

21. forgot this song existed. Thanks for posting.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

23. Hey Swede!

:hi:

thanks for that one...I always turn up the radio when it comes on. :hug:

[orleans]

18. okay

tracy by the cuff links
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZJ5fy4k3PI

na na hey hey by steam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwnqqj5Q1BU

love grows where my rosemary goes by edison lighthouse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr6H1a7YUac

one fine morning by lighthouse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvVN_KRriTM

(the first post on this thread said timothy--and that was the song i was going to mention)

on edit:
dancing in the moonlight by king harvest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMc8naeeSS8

spirit in the sky by norman greenbaum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLtRzJ0HahE


and here is a song i just thought of that i like (not necessarily a one hitter)
still got the blues by gary moore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUPSYZ7PzuU

[Tuesday Afternoon]

22. wow -- You really know your one hit Wonders!

Thanks for the list. That Lighthouse song is one of my faves!

[Art_from_Ark]

20. Green Tambourine by the Lemon Pipers

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv6GhRDERsk

I don't get the part about beating up on the teddy bears :wtf:

[yellowcanine]

24. "Music Box Dancer" - instrumental by Frank Mills 1978

Actually written in 1974, pop hit single in 1978.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Box_Dancer

[Seeking Serenity]

25. Red Rubber Ball by The Cyrcle

[Tuesday Afternoon]

26. Brandy, You're A Fine Girl ~ Looking Glass

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-tRXewCAmU

(dooda-dit-dooda), (dit-dooda-dit-dooda)

There's a port on a western bay
And it serves a hundred ships a day
Lonely sailors pass the time away
And talk about their homes

And there's a girl in this harbor town
And she works layin' whiskey down
They say "Brandy, fetch another round"
She serves them whiskey and wine

The sailors say "Brandy, you're a fine girl" (you're a fine girl)
"What a good wife you would be" (such a fine girl)
"Yeah your eyes could steal a sailor from the sea"
(dooda-dit-dooda), (dit-dooda-dit-dooda-dit)

Brandy wears a braided chain
Made of finest silver from the North of Spain
A locket that bears the name
Of the man that Brandy loves

He came on a summer's day
Bringin' gifts from far away
But he made it clear he couldn't stay
No harbor was his home

The sailor said " Brandy, you're a fine girl" (you're a fine girl)
"What a good wife you would be" (such a fine girl)
"But my life, my lover, my lady is the sea"
(dooda-dit-dooda), (dit-dooda-dit-dooda-dit)

Yeah, Brandy used to watch his eyes
When he told his sailor stories
She could feel the ocean foam rise
She saw its ragin' glory
But he had always told the truth, lord, he was an honest man
And Brandy does her best to understand
(dooda-dit-dooda), (dit-dooda-dit-dooda-dit)

At night when the bars close down
Brandy walks through a silent town
And loves a man who's not around
She still can hear him say

She hears him say " Brandy, you're a fine girl" (you're a fine girl)
"What a good wife you would be" (such a fine girl)
"But my life, my lover, my lady is the sea"
(dooda-dit-dooda), (dit-dooda-dit-dooda-dit)

"Brandy, you're a fine girl" (you're a fine girl)


"What a good wife you would be" (such a fine girl)
"But my life, my lover, my lady is the sea"

[Zavulon]

27. The Washington Post had a good article on this subject on Saturday.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/05/AR2008090503750.html

[Tuesday Afternoon]

28. cool article. thanks for the link

:)

[Sebastian Doyle]

29. Young Canadians - Hawaii

No way in Hell this would get on the radio now :evilfrown:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KNUnLaRekg

[rurallib]

30. Ah! My ultimate one hiteer is "96 Tears" by Question Mark and the Mysterians!

[DS1]

31. Tubthumping - Chumbawumba

Which is odd, since that song makes me want to hit them repeatedly

[guitar man]

32. Billy Paul

Me and Mrs. Jones. My favorite one hit wonder ever. ;)