A one hit wonder is a song that hits big it's a catchy tune that may or may not have reached number one on the music charts but it definitely charted and was extremely popular
My husband’s best friend told us he wants Season’s in the Sun played at his funeral. That was many years ago. We’re all in our 60’s now. He still wants it played.
AI pissing me as well.... I first heard this song in the combination "OOH child/redemption song" by Molly johnson. So I considered it as a complete Bob Marley thing
My research on that one show it didn't make it to number 1 ... it peaked at number 6 on the billboard. Do you see something else I missed? Soooo appreciate your comment!
Gary Glitter, Lee Michaels, Ram Jam, Billy Swan, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Dr John, Dobie Gray, Argent, Steam, Sugarloaf, Mountain. These are some of the ones I remember from the 70's.
Sugarloaf had two hits with Green Eyed Lady and Don't Call Us, We'll Call You. The Ozark Mountain Daredevils had two hits as well with Jackie Blue and If You Want To Get To Heaven.
Gary Glitter is very far from being a one hit wonder... he was the first artist in history to start his career with 10 top ten hits in the UK, he was huge in almost the entire world, in Africa, Asia, Oceania and Europe, in North America it only had 2 hits. But in South America it sounded a lot.
@@OnlyGoodMusic_ That might be true in the UK, but Glitter never made the same impact in America where, at best, glam rock was seen as a curiosity. I have never heard another Glitter song on US radio.
Oh, pleeze! I almost didn't listen to this video, because I was so sure that it would have the same few songs that every other video cites- including Spirit In The Sky. We need some REAL forgotten oldies- like Jimmy Loves Maryanne by Looking Glass (of Brandy You're A Fine Girl fame)...as opposed top the same worn-out crap that everyone's already done to the hilt a million times over.
@@bobbylibertini This upload is not "forgotten oldies". It's "One-Hit Wonders". If "Jimmy Loves Maryanne" by Looking Glass was a hit - forgotten or not - then it wouldn't qualify for this list because it would not be a One-Hit Wonder thanks to "Brandy(You're A Fine Girl}".
@@petermildren5326 But...but... It spent two weeks at #33.... Nah, I get it- I'm not saying that that's what THIS video should be about..I was rather just making a general statement. One gets tired of hearing the same few songs over and over again for the last 50+ years. It's what killed radio.
I graduated high school in 1974. I loved music! My parents loved music from the 40s and before. Times were much simpler back then. Agent 86 from Get Smart had a shoe phone, but the rest of us didn’t have cell phones. So we listened to the radio. Our family sang in the car all the time. We enjoyed many songs from different decades. We lived in metro Atlanta and would go to beaches in Florida at least annually. Daddy preferred the older music, but in LA (Lower Alabama) it was hard to get a clear signal on the radio. He was always complaining about music that my sisters and I enjoyed. But when “In the summertime” was played on the only station that would come in clearly, Daddy loved it! It became a family favorite and we loved that daddy finally loved one of our songs. Our family regularly sang it when we were all in the car together. GOOD TIMES INDEED! ❤❤❤
The singer of the First Class ( Tony Burrows ) had exactly five ( 5 ) one hit wonder songs.My baby loves loving as White Plains, Love goes( where my Rosemary grows ) as Edison Lighthouse, Brotherhood of man ( United we stand ) Gimme dat ding ( Pipkins ) all 1970 and the great song beach baby ( try the longest version you can find ) from 1974. And a dozen other singles
@@fcamsterdam8941You beat me to it. I heard an interview with Burrows where he made the claim that he appeared with three groups on one show, but by 'Top of the Pops" records this never happened. He did appear once with two groups, and four weeks later he appeared with a third group, but he never appeared with three different groups on the same show. By the way, Edison Lighthouse is an interesting story, as the band didn't actually exist when their single came out. The song was created by a group of studio musicians that included Burrows as the lead singer. Needing a group name to stick on the record label, they came up with "Edison Lighthouse." When the song became a major hit, they suddenly realized a band had to be formed for TV appearances, so new musicians were recruited to lip sync to the record. A video was also put together with a hunky guy lip syncing the song, as apparently Burrows wasn't hot enough. 😊
Just for information, Seasons in the sun by Terry Jack was a cover (re-arranged and half translated) of a song by Belgian singer Jacques Brel (in French) "Le moribond" (i.e. The dying man).
The first English Language version was by Rod McKuen (circa 1963) Other versions that preceded Jacks' include, The Kington Trio that same year and the British band The Fortunes in '68
To translate a Brel song with as much poetic Left Bank sensitivity as he possessed, while retaining the song's meaning, has become a sort of benchmark for lyricists.(Marc Almond, Momus, and Scott Walker have done great ones)
Not a one hit wonder. BDAH was followed by another song called 'Who Do You Think You Are?'- (originally by the British band Jigsaw),that same year. ruclips.net/video/9fUEJVhAs_Q/видео.html The "Billy.." song was first recorded by Paper Laceruclips.net/video/6RvG5bJsu5Q/видео.html
Rupert Holmes had another cut called 'Him' and it's way better than 'Escape'. I loved that song since I was 8 years old & I'm almost 53...I play it often.
What about "Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted"? "I'll Meet You Halfway"? "I Woke Up in Love This Morning"? And My favorite single of theirs, "One of Those Nights (Yes Love)"? NOT ONE-HIT WONDERS.
Here's a few others not mentioned: 1. "Brandy" by Looking Glass. The Tune was pleasant and catchy. The reason it was a one-hit wonder is because Looking Glass broke up shortly after the song's release. 2. "Telephone Man" by Meri Wilson. You want to talk about your suggestive lyrics! It makes "Afternoon Delight" look like Sunday School! My dad worked for the phone company when this song was released, and my mom actually bought it for him. 3. "Midnight at the Oasis" by Maria Muldaur. This is a song that I rolled my eye to whenever it came on the radio. There was something about her voice that - to me - sounded like nails on a chalkboard.
It seems like a lot of music from the 70s still stands up today,and sounds just as great today as it did then.they don't make music much like they used to anymore.
We always played “Beach Baby” when our kids were small- they called it “baby beach” because of the ending 😂😂😂 they sure loved it, they danced every time we played it.
Paper Lace had a second hit in Australia with Billy don’t be a hero. Seasons in the Sun was the first record I bought when I was about 12. Originally sung in French as was My Way. Not a fan of Afternoon Delight. I know all these songs bar one so not forgotten
Robert John - The Lion Sleeps Tonight 1972 Top #3 hit. Robert John - "Sad eyes" 1979 Top #1 hit. The Knack - Good Girls Don't. 1979 Top # 11 in the U.S. hot 100. The Knack - "My Sharona"1979 Top #1 hit.
To hear Bill Danoff tell it, AD made him so much in royalties, that it allowed him to live his life in a way that suited him without having to worry about money. True fact. Straight from his lips. Additionally, Bill and Taffy originally hit it big with "Country Roads," with lead John Denver. (You may remember it.)
I like all the songs that were picked out for this video of One Hit Wonders, I heard every one of them when I was younger and growing up back in the 70's..
Paper Lace scored their first #1 in the UK with their original version of "Billy Don't Be A Hero" covered in the USA by another band, Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods. "Chicago Died" was their second #1, and they had two more hits after that.
He said Capone wasn't in Chicago when the song was written. Yeah, because he died in '47. I think some foreigner compiles this crap and pays somebody to just read copy... but others on here think AI is doing it. This kind of stuff has been on YT longer than AI has been available.
Rupert Holmes had a few hits. Also, Seasons in the Sun was a cover of a Jaques Brel song. It didn't translate well from French. It was more "tongue-in-cheek" in French.
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Paper lace had another hit.Billy don't be a hero became it's second hit after The night Chicago died.
You're wrong about Paper Lace. They also had Billy, Don't Be A Hero. That song became popular again in the 90s when it was featured on the soundtrack of Priscilla Queen of the Desert.
There's was alot of songs in the 80s that were considered lame by some people but they were still successful one hit wonders they were bands that came and went but you still hear those songs on classic rock stations
I haven't played this yet but will make 2 predictions: 1. Paper Lace will be here becausd "The Night Chicago Died" was their only hit. 2. Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods will not be on this list because "Who Do You Think You Are" was not their only hit. But try telling this to people who listened to Top 40 radio in the Washington, DC, area when the song "Billy Don't Be a Hero" was making it all the way to #1 on Billboard. The stations there played a version of this song by Paper Lace, not the huge hit version by Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods. 50 years later, to me, Paper Lace is a two-hit wonder, while Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods are a one-hit wonder.
@@MetFan37 The Danoffs had already written most of it. The wonderful Denver helped them finish it. It was typical at that time - and still is - for the star to get writing credit so that they could receive royalties. John Denver, being the incredible class act that he was declined any writing credit, but apparently the Danoffs are also a class act and insisted.
I was 7 when the 70s started and I remember many (not all) of these from when they first came out. Especially "In The Summertime", which was one of the first contemporary popular songs I fell for.
One of the songs in this video is NOT a one-hit wonder! The song that I am referring to is "ESCAPE (THE PINA COLADA SONG)" by Rupert Holmes. He also had a top 10 hit with a song called "HIM" in 1980.
a bit of trivia, the 5 stairsteps were named cuz they were a family and each one was born a year apart so when they took the family pictures each one were a head taller than the younger and with the 5 together it was a set of stairs with the height.
@@chrispeak6707 A great, bubbly, sunshiny one-hit wonder. Fun fact: in the UK, Daniel Boone's first hit was "Daddy, Don't You Walk So Fast". Wayne Newton covered him and beat him to the punch here in the US.
In an interview the Starland Vocal Band said that Afternoon Delight came from a Washington DC diner that called there afternoon special that. Learned that last year.
Paper Lace a 1 hit wonder? "Billy,don't be a hero", "Hitchin a ride" and more. AI not only did the narration, but also the research? How about A-B-B-A - Waterlo-o?
I remember all of those songs! And sometime within the last 10 or 15 years, one of my children told me, regarding the night Chicago died, I think that was originally supposed to be released by Bo Donaldson and the haywoods, but there was some drama and paper lace ended up doing it. Also in this video I learned that the five stair steps did Dear Prudence on the flip side of oooh child, so I'm going to go check that out now!
Late 70's, Heavy Rock/Disco/Boogie type beat, where they sang "right now, -- -- -- --"into the chorus riff. Never found out who it was, but still hear it in my head. P.S. When i saw Beach Baby,- i thought i was watching the evil dude from "No country for old men" He's identical!!
As far as the Starland Vocal Band is concerned, two of the band members wrote Country Roads. I know that doesn’t erase their one hit wonder ness. But that’s still worth mentioning.
No, it's not, because to this day everyone thinks it's a John Denver-composed song (and let's be fair - John DID co-write it). But just because they did one good song doesn't erase the CRAP they went to #1 with. But thank goodness they won the Grammy for Best New Artist (the award of DOOM).
I was born in 1964. I turned 5 years old in 1969 and I learned how to safely cross the street in order to get to the elementary school for kindergarten. Meanwhile, I discovered how much fun it could be to sing along with America's top 40!! Yeah! I mangled the lyrics, but it was a fun childhood from 1970 to 1979!!
Sky High by Jigsaw Moonlight Feels Right by Starbuck Beautiful Sunday by Daniel Boone Come And Get Your Love by Redbone Dream Weaver by Gary Wright Precious And Few by Climax
Tell us! Was there a one-hit wonder you remember?
I thought a one hit wonder mean't a "one hit band or artist" but not necessarily having a #1 hit .
@@BTritone hmmmmm could be
Drivers seat. Sniffin the tears
The greatest one of all times is Brandy of course by Looking glass
A one hit wonder is a song that hits big it's a catchy tune that may or may not have reached number one on the music charts but it definitely charted and was extremely popular
My husband’s best friend told us he wants Season’s in the Sun played at his funeral. That was many years ago. We’re all in our 60’s now. He still wants it played.
Same with me. I met my best friend when I was ten and my wife's name is Michelle, my little one
stop calling it O, O, O, H, Child! It's oo-oo-child...jeez
AI generated speech is flawed still, but there will come a point where it will mimic human speech perfectly. God help us then!
You caught that too
AI pissing me as well.... I first heard this song in the combination "OOH child/redemption song" by Molly johnson. So I considered it as a complete Bob Marley thing
This is what happens when you hand things over to a robot.
Fartificial intelligence.
For anyone that is over 60, and knows music at all, will NOT have forgotten these songs !!!
Yeah, baby! (in the shagadellic Austin Powers kinda way, lol). Oh, if I only invested in Microsoft.
Oh yeah,,I'll be 65,,I remember too well all the good songs they had back..my favorite year of the songs were back in 1972...❤❤😂
Rupert Holmes wasn't a one hit wonder ,who also had a major hit with a song called "Him"
My research on that one show it didn't make it to number 1 ... it peaked at number 6 on the billboard. Do you see something else I missed? Soooo appreciate your comment!
Him,him,him what's she gonna do without him.....I enjoyed that ditty too!😎👍
He also had a hit in the 1970s called Jennifer Tompkins under a group name
@michaelrochester48 He also wrote the song "Timothy."
I also like Morning Man
Far too much talk and not enough music.
I remember all these songs because well I am old lol
Same man same 😂
Me too. I like these oldies 😊
Me too but I'm so glad I was alive when these songs came out the 70s was the best decade musically imo ❤
Me too
Music and TV also was great in the 70’s
Gary Glitter, Lee Michaels, Ram Jam, Billy Swan, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Dr John, Dobie Gray, Argent, Steam, Sugarloaf, Mountain. These are some of the ones I remember from the 70's.
Sugarloaf had two hits with Green Eyed Lady and Don't Call Us, We'll Call You. The Ozark Mountain Daredevils had two hits as well with Jackie Blue and If You Want To Get To Heaven.
Gary Glitter is very far from being a one hit wonder... he was the first artist in history to start his career with 10 top ten hits in the UK, he was huge in almost the entire world, in Africa, Asia, Oceania and Europe, in North America it only had 2 hits. But in South America it sounded a lot.
@@OnlyGoodMusic_ That might be true in the UK, but Glitter never made the same impact in America where, at best, glam rock was seen as a curiosity. I have never heard another Glitter song on US radio.
Lee Michaels sang "Happy Birthday" to me, on my 15th birthday. How did I forget being so embarrassed, I wanted to crawl under the carpet?
I remember in my 1970s listening to Slade,Sweet, David Essex, ABBA, wizard, Gloria Gaynor Jackson 5 😊🤷♀️
Six words - Norman Greenbaum "Spirit In The Sky"
Another great song
Oh, pleeze! I almost didn't listen to this video, because I was so sure that it would have the same few songs that every other video cites- including Spirit In The Sky. We need some REAL forgotten oldies- like Jimmy Loves Maryanne by Looking Glass (of Brandy You're A Fine Girl fame)...as opposed top the same worn-out crap that everyone's already done to the hilt a million times over.
@@bobbylibertini This upload is not "forgotten oldies". It's "One-Hit Wonders". If "Jimmy Loves Maryanne" by Looking Glass was a hit - forgotten or not - then it wouldn't qualify for this list because it would not be a One-Hit Wonder thanks to "Brandy(You're A Fine Girl}".
@@petermildren5326 But...but... It spent two weeks at #33.... Nah, I get it- I'm not saying that that's what THIS video should be about..I was rather just making a general statement. One gets tired of hearing the same few songs over and over again for the last 50+ years. It's what killed radio.
1970, Indiana Wants Me
R. Dean Taylor
That song is still a favorite of mine.
But I can't go back there...
R.Dean Taylor
Rupert Holmes had a second hit with "Him"
And a third hit called “Answering Machine”
@@paulailey5373 I don't remember that one, but I remember "Him".
@@paulailey5373 I used the chorus of "Answering Machine" as my introduction back when I had an answering machine.
Amswering Machine got far enough up the Hot 100 to be considered a hit, number 32.
@@mcmlxii4419 'Him" is my favorite Rupert song
Rupert Holmes had more than one hit song
Yes, and a #6 placing on the Billboard Hot 100 was nothing to shake a stick at.
You can tell this narrator is computer generated, O O HCHILD, YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING, IT'S OOH OOH CHILD
Turns out I do like pina coladas and getting caught in the rain lol
Its pina colada o’clock somewhere 🌴 🌊 ☀️ 😎 🧉
@@WaybackUSA that guy had more that one hit
@@matthewanacleto7885 yes “Him” went to #6 on the billboard ☺️
I believe that song was number one at the very tail-end of the 70s and first week of the 80s.
it stunk
I graduated high school in 1974. I loved music! My parents loved music from the 40s and before. Times were much simpler back then. Agent 86 from Get Smart had a shoe phone, but the rest of us didn’t have cell phones. So we listened to the radio. Our family sang in the car all the time. We enjoyed many songs from different decades. We lived in metro Atlanta and would go to beaches in Florida at least annually. Daddy preferred the older music, but in LA (Lower Alabama) it was hard to get a clear signal on the radio. He was always complaining about music that my sisters and I enjoyed. But when “In the summertime” was played on the only station that would come in clearly, Daddy loved it! It became a family favorite and we loved that daddy finally loved one of our songs. Our family regularly sang it when we were all in the car together. GOOD TIMES INDEED! ❤❤❤
Thank you so much for sharing your memories ❤
1974. Plant City High
The singer of the First Class ( Tony Burrows ) had exactly five ( 5 ) one hit wonder songs.My baby loves loving as White Plains, Love goes( where my Rosemary grows ) as Edison Lighthouse, Brotherhood of man ( United we stand ) Gimme dat ding ( Pipkins ) all 1970 and the great song beach baby ( try the longest version you can find ) from 1974. And a dozen other singles
That's true. In interviews, Burrows would joke that he was a one-hit wonder five times!
It was claimed (without proof) that Tony Burrows fronted 3 different bands in a single episode of Top Of The Pops on TV.
@@brianvogt8125 And that s not correct. It was not in a single episode but within a month in 3 epsodes. Maximum was two in one.
@@fcamsterdam8941You beat me to it. I heard an interview with Burrows where he made the claim that he appeared with three groups on one show, but by 'Top of the Pops" records this never happened. He did appear once with two groups, and four weeks later he appeared with a third group, but he never appeared with three different groups on the same show.
By the way, Edison Lighthouse is an interesting story, as the band didn't actually exist when their single came out. The song was created by a group of studio musicians that included Burrows as the lead singer. Needing a group name to stick on the record label, they came up with "Edison Lighthouse." When the song became a major hit, they suddenly realized a band had to be formed for TV appearances, so new musicians were recruited to lip sync to the record. A video was also put together with a hunky guy lip syncing the song, as apparently Burrows wasn't hot enough. 😊
I had the 45 of Gimmee Dat Ding, lol. My Dad and I loved novelty songs
Just for information, Seasons in the sun by Terry Jack was a cover (re-arranged and half translated) of a song by Belgian singer Jacques Brel (in French) "Le moribond" (i.e. The dying man).
Love this information … thank you!
The first English Language version was by Rod McKuen (circa 1963)
Other versions that preceded Jacks' include,
The Kington Trio that same year and the British band The Fortunes in '68
@@chrismulwee4911the Kingston Trio version was produced by Jacks.
To translate a Brel song with as much poetic Left Bank sensitivity as he possessed, while retaining the song's meaning, has become a sort of benchmark for lyricists.(Marc Almond, Momus, and Scott Walker have done great ones)
@@chrismulwee4911 and Pearls Before Swine
"Billy, Don't Be A Hero" Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods 1974
Oh man YES definitely needs to be on the list … loved this!
Not a one hit wonder. BDAH was followed by another song called 'Who Do You Think You Are?'- (originally by the British band Jigsaw),that same year. ruclips.net/video/9fUEJVhAs_Q/видео.html
The "Billy.." song was first recorded by Paper Laceruclips.net/video/6RvG5bJsu5Q/видео.html
Paper lace had a #1 hit with Billy don't be a hero
@@colinsim1497 In the UK, Ireland and Australia, not the US, where the Paper Lace version peaked at #96.
Billy, Don't be a Hero falls in with The Night Chicago Died an Brother Louie.
They all SUCKED!!!
Mungo Jerry's summertime is still one of my all-time favorite songs.
Didn't they sang The Push-bike song as well? 🤔🤔🤔
Rupert Holmes had another cut called 'Him' and it's way better than 'Escape'. I loved that song since I was 8 years old & I'm almost 53...I play it often.
I listen to "Him" and not ""Escape", that song has staying power.
I think I love you. Partridge Family.
The Partridge Family was not a one hit wonder. They had a hit called I Woke Up In Love This Morning that made it to #13.
What about "Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted"? "I'll Meet You Halfway"? "I Woke Up in Love This Morning"? And My favorite single of theirs, "One of Those Nights (Yes Love)"? NOT ONE-HIT WONDERS.
Here's a few others not mentioned:
1. "Brandy" by Looking Glass. The Tune was pleasant and catchy. The reason it was a one-hit wonder is because Looking Glass broke up shortly after the song's release.
2. "Telephone Man" by Meri Wilson. You want to talk about your suggestive lyrics! It makes "Afternoon Delight" look like Sunday School! My dad worked for the phone company when this song was released, and my mom actually bought it for him.
3. "Midnight at the Oasis" by Maria Muldaur. This is a song that I rolled my eye to whenever it came on the radio. There was something about her voice that - to me - sounded like nails on a chalkboard.
Looking Glass floowed with the #33 "Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne". Maria Muldaur followed with a Top 20 cover of Peggy Lee's "I'm A Woman".
Chicory Tip: Son of my Father.
There's some controversy there. Was Chicory tip's version the hit or was Giorgio's version the hit?
I was 13 in 71 and I remember calling the local am radio station and requesting Led Zeppelin, Black Dog.
I realize War was by no means a one hit wonder, but you are on a summertime flashback mode, Summertime Is Here 1976
That great song was just called "Summer."
Dancing in the moonlight has always been my favorite. Love it, love it!
It seems like a lot of music from the 70s still stands up today,and sounds just as great today as it did then.they don't make music much like they used to anymore.
I remember them all!!! Good times!
I had a lot of these songs on 45 rpm vinyl and I still have some of them to this day. ❤❤❤
I've heard of all of these AM rock and pop artists and
the one hit wonders that they put out thanks for the memories.
🎵🎶🎼🎤🎸🎸🎹🥁🎼🎶🎵
Half of these are on my play list.
Danced to them all. Wonderful wonderful times never to be repeated 😢😂😂🎉🎉❤❤❤
I know all these songs !!❤
We always played “Beach Baby” when our kids were small- they called it “baby beach” because of the ending 😂😂😂 they sure loved it, they danced every time we played it.
Paper Lace had a second hit in Australia with Billy don’t be a hero. Seasons in the Sun was the first record I bought when I was about 12. Originally sung in French as was My Way. Not a fan of Afternoon Delight. I know all these songs bar one so not forgotten
Their follow-up, "The Black-Eyed Boys" peaked just outside of the Top 40.
I was 13 years old in 1970, I so remember these songs. I really liked Mongo Jerry!
Ohh Child was great then and NOW! Are you kidding it’s great!
The night Chicago died was my favorite
Seasons in the sun is friggin out of this world good.
Mungo Jerry had loads of hits,'Baby Jump' 'Lady Rose' 'Long Legged Woman' etc
"Sad eyes" and "My Sharona", both from ´79
Robert John first released a song in 1961 and waited 18 years before finally hitting #1
The Knack was not a one hit wonder. They had a hit with a song called Good Girls Don't.
Robert John - The Lion Sleeps Tonight 1972 Top #3 hit.
Robert John - "Sad eyes" 1979 Top #1 hit.
The Knack - Good Girls Don't. 1979 Top # 11 in the U.S. hot 100.
The Knack - "My Sharona"1979 Top #1 hit.
@@ricknibert6417 The Tokens released in 1961. Robert John released in 1972
I wasn't referring to The Lion Sleeps Tonight. He had another release under a different name back in the 1960s.
To hear Bill Danoff tell it, AD made him so much in royalties, that it allowed him to live his life in a way that suited him without having to worry about money. True fact. Straight from his lips. Additionally, Bill and Taffy originally hit it big with "Country Roads," with lead John Denver. (You may remember it.)
Shannon by Henry Gross, Chevy Van by Sammy Johns
I like all the songs that were picked out for this video of One Hit Wonders, I heard every one of them when I was younger and growing up back in the 70's..
All good songs which I still listen to on a regular basis. Of course, there's so many more one hit wonders which are great as well.
I know … more to come on this topic!
😂"Stuck in the Middle With You" by Stealers Wheel, Gary Rafferty and Joe Egan.
Terry Jacks may have been a 1 hit wonder solo but had quite a few hits as part of ' The Poppy Family '
My older sister had the Terry Jacks album. I love 1 hit wonder's.
Paper Lace scored their first #1 in the UK with their original version of "Billy Don't Be A Hero" covered in the USA by another band, Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods. "Chicago Died" was their second #1, and they had two more hits after that.
Seasons in the Sun was one unique song
I remember 'Afternoon Delight' since when I was a kid. The song would be played after a firework show in the late 70s.
sweet city women by the stamper's
You mean Stampeders. They were by no means a one hit wonder band. Remember their Ray Charles cover "Hit the Road jack".
@@michaelbrandt5416 I remember it. Have a Canadian CD of their best with it and another Canadian hit "Ramona" on it.
Al Capone was definitely in Chicago, as were gangs. You might want to check your facts. That song was spot on. Only the year was off.
The only thing real about that song was Al Capone and Chicago. Everything that happened is fiction.
He said Capone wasn't in Chicago when the song was written. Yeah, because he died in '47. I think some foreigner compiles this crap and pays somebody to just read copy... but others on here think AI is doing it. This kind of stuff has been on YT longer than AI has been available.
But there is no East side of Chicago. Wouldn't you be in the river ?
Forgotten? What are you talking about? All these songs are still in heavy rotation, everyone knows them.
I think you're an European. The Americans think USA is the Center of Music. We in Europe don't forget these Hits.
Rupert Holmes had a few hits.
Also, Seasons in the Sun was a cover of a Jaques Brel song. It didn't translate well from French. It was more "tongue-in-cheek" in French.
Paper lace had another hit.Billy don't be a hero became it's second hit after The night Chicago died.
Redbone - "Come And Get Your Love."
You're wrong about Paper Lace. They also had Billy, Don't Be A Hero. That song became popular again in the 90s when it was featured on the soundtrack of Priscilla Queen of the Desert.
Paper Lace wasn’t a one hit wonder. They did Billy Don’t Be A Hero in the UK.
Paper Lace also had Billy Don't Be A Hero as a hit as well
Indeed 😊
Come and get your love by Redbone will make everyone smile!🎶🎶🎶
Redbone had another hit "Witch Queen of New Orleans".
There's was alot of songs in the 80s that were considered lame by some people but they were still successful one hit wonders they were bands that came and went but you still hear those songs on classic rock stations
I remember hearing most of these on Ktel records!
Paper Lace had a number of big hits. One of them being Billy don't be a hero. There are other places in the world apart from the USA thankfully.
Yep, this one hit wonder thing just shows how ignorant people are assuming that is the only record they ever put out!
I haven't played this yet but will make 2 predictions:
1. Paper Lace will be here becausd "The Night Chicago Died" was their only hit.
2. Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods will not be on this list because "Who Do You Think You Are" was not their only hit.
But try telling this to people who listened to Top 40 radio in the Washington, DC, area when the song "Billy Don't Be a Hero" was making it all the way to #1 on Billboard. The stations there played a version of this song by Paper Lace, not the huge hit version by Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods.
50 years later, to me, Paper Lace is a two-hit wonder, while Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods are a one-hit wonder.
The Afternoon Delight's Bill and Taffy Danoff also wrote John Denver's "Take Me Home Country Road."
They CO-WROTE it with John Denver.
@@MetFan37 The Danoffs had already written most of it. The wonderful Denver helped them finish it. It was typical at that time - and still is - for the star to get writing credit so that they could receive royalties.
John Denver, being the incredible class act that he was declined any writing credit, but apparently the Danoffs are also a class act and insisted.
Season's in the Sun is and always will be my all time favorite
Margaritaville by the late, great Jimmy Buffett will always make me think of summer.
But he WASN'T a one-hit wonder.
I know. All I was saying is Margaritaville makes me think of summer. I didn’t know going off topic was against the rules. My sincerest apologies.
Definitely against the rules! Without rules we will have anarchy in the streets.
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Love these songs. Especially seasons in the sun and Mongo Jerry! Beach Baldy blew! Pina colada song was great!
What about magic? By Pilot!!..Alan Parsons production 🎙️🎙️
Pilot had a number 1 hit in the UK with 'January' other hits were 'Call me round' and 'Just a smile, so that's a 4 hit wonder!
Box Tops, Ticket For a Airplane
Box Tops weren't a one hit wonder, also had "Cried like a baby"
Ticket For An Airplane also known as Letter came out in 1967.
You mean, "The Letter"???
I was 7 when the 70s started and I remember many (not all) of these from when they first came out. Especially "In The Summertime", which was one of the first contemporary popular songs I fell for.
Carl Douglas? As in Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting? And Pina Colada AND Play that Funky Music forgotten, too? XD What a joke...
Seasons in the sun was a masterpiece !
The best one -hit wonders were from the 1960's, not the 70s.
Mungo Jerry In The Summertime was from the 1970's, have a look at their Wikipedia page.
Love all these songs❤
It. Was. A. Very. Good. Songs. All. Back. Then. It. Was. Great. Songs. By. Then
One of the songs in this video is NOT a one-hit wonder! The song that I am referring to is "ESCAPE (THE PINA COLADA SONG)" by Rupert Holmes. He also had a top 10 hit with a song called "HIM" in 1980.
O o h child? I thought it was Ooo Child.🤨
a bit of trivia, the 5 stairsteps were named cuz they were a family and each one was born a year apart so when they took the family pictures each one were a head taller than the younger and with the 5 together it was a set of stairs with the height.
Forgotten? No. Forgettable? Yes.
Every single one of this songs use Tobe still is and will be some of the greatest songs!
Rupert Holmes actually had more than one hit.
"Fire rarely strikes twice"... I didn't know fire could strike once
What about BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY by Daniel Boone?
One of my favorites
@@chrispeak6707 A great, bubbly, sunshiny one-hit wonder. Fun fact: in the UK, Daniel Boone's first hit was "Daddy, Don't You Walk So Fast". Wayne Newton covered him and beat him to the punch here in the US.
Love love love Seasons in the Sun!!
"Moonlight Feels Right", by Starbuck.
Thank you ... I'm making request lists and adding this one 🎼
They had a second hit "Everybody Be Dancing".
In an interview the Starland Vocal Band said that Afternoon Delight came from a Washington DC diner that called there afternoon special that. Learned that last year.
Paper Lace a 1 hit wonder?
"Billy,don't be a hero", "Hitchin a ride" and more.
AI not only did the narration, but also the research?
How about A-B-B-A - Waterlo-o?
Vanity Fare had another gold record with "Early in the Morning" ("Hitchin' A Ride" was their second), and come on, ABBA???????
O O H Child. I just can't!
paper lace, what about their #1 hit. billy don't be a hero
That was in the UK. Channels like this act like America is the only country in the world.
I remember all of those songs! And sometime within the last 10 or 15 years, one of my children told me, regarding the night Chicago died, I think that was originally supposed to be released by Bo Donaldson and the haywoods, but there was some drama and paper lace ended up doing it. Also in this video I learned that the five stair steps did Dear Prudence on the flip side of oooh child, so I'm going to go check that out now!
I like O O H Child 😊 by the Five Stair Steps. Thanks for the video.
Summertime is not forgotten.
Late 70's, Heavy Rock/Disco/Boogie type beat, where they sang "right now, -- -- -- --"into the chorus riff.
Never found out who it was, but still hear it in my head.
P.S. When i saw Beach Baby,- i thought i was watching the evil dude from "No country for old men"
He's identical!!
As far as the Starland Vocal Band is concerned, two of the band members wrote Country Roads. I know that doesn’t erase their one hit wonder ness. But that’s still worth mentioning.
No, it's not, because to this day everyone thinks it's a John Denver-composed song (and let's be fair - John DID co-write it). But just because they did one good song doesn't erase the CRAP they went to #1 with. But thank goodness they won the Grammy for Best New Artist (the award of DOOM).
I was born in 1964. I turned 5 years old in 1969 and I learned how to safely cross the street in order to get to the elementary school for kindergarten. Meanwhile, I discovered how much fun it could be to sing along with America's top 40!! Yeah! I mangled the lyrics, but it was a fun childhood from 1970 to 1979!!
Sky High by Jigsaw
Moonlight Feels Right by Starbuck
Beautiful Sunday by Daniel Boone
Come And Get Your Love by Redbone
Dream Weaver by Gary Wright
Precious And Few by Climax
Playground In My Mind by Clint Holmes
Jigsaw's follow-up "Love Fire" went to #30.
"Play that funky music" reminds me on "Real mother for ya" (released one year later)
O o h child come on
LOL yea...
Paper Lace also did the great song Billy Don't Be A Hero