Who Was Your Favorite One Hit Wonder

I don't think "Seven and Seven Is" ever cracked the top 100. Pretty good album, though.

Ha! Ha! "even in the midwest..."! We got to hear all the good bands back then...even the Beatles and Moby Grape!

One of the best songs of all time: "Billy, Don't Be a Hero"

Anyone remember who made it?

Oh yeah, also: "They're Coming to Take Me Away" by Napoleon the 5th

And "Yellow River" by The Christies

I think to qualify for this thread the band has to have NOT had a hit or popular album from which the song came. Lots of bands (like The Band) had a single Top 20 hit but at least three great albums.

"Heart feelin' sad cuz...love's gone bad" What an absolutely great song! The Underdogs actually had another "hit" with "The Man in the Glass" and I saw them perform a few times back in the day. They were a local band here in the Detroit area and performed at all the Artist Music Centers Battle of the Bands in '66 through '69.

Further, I have "Love's Gone Bad" on a Cd called Michigan Memories which includes the finest version ever of "In the Midnight Hour" done by The Wanted. Those were some fun days with truly creative, and hard driving garage bands.

...and we must! The Rationals - "Respect"

Hey! Anybody remember any song titles from Mac Davis?

Yes, Mac Davis was in "North Dallas Forty".

Jerry and the Pacemakers also had "Don't Let the Sun Catch Crying".

Sam the Sham and the Pharohs also had "The Jolly Green Giant" but it wasn't a real big hit.

Din't Love also have a hit with the song "Talk Talk"?

Damn! "Wooly Bully" was the big hit! Still a great party song.

I, too, remember well the Cryin' Shames and Shadows of Knight. Actually heard their version of 'Gloria' far more often back then than Them (Van Morrison, who wrote it). My "music mind" in the 60s was filled with James Brown (who rarely made it into the top 20), Hendrix (I don't think Purple Haze or Foxy Lady made it into the top 20), The Underdogs, The Rationals, etc. I think a one hit wonder is that song which most people will remember 10-40 yrs later. Everyone who had a hit did more songs which, just by name recognition alone, would make it into the top 100. They usually died on the vine quite quickly and I don't think these qualify for second or third hits.

? and the Mysterians are a perfect example as are The Looking Glass which had a hit in 1972 with 'Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)'. And let's not forget my boys from here in Detroit, The Amboy Dukes - 'Journey to the Center of Your Mind'. What a great song!!

Hey Mike! How old are ya? Sad thing is, I remember all those songs. Don't forget the Singing Nun!!

Not that I know of. Song was done by Betty Something-or-other about 1971.

Believe it or not, when I play "Wooly Bully" at a party people love it. Of course, this is in a set with "The Twist", "Mony, Mony", "Gimmie Some Lovin", "Nobody But Me", etc.

Hey, "Nobody But Me" by the Human Beinz...one hit wonder!

Mwilson, thanks for the turn on to allmusic.com.

I have to agree - '64 through '73 were the best 10 yrs in rock/pop. Beatles, Stones, Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Hendrix, Procul Harum, CCR, CSN&Y, Grateful Dead, Clapton, all the Motown stuff, James Brown, Aretha, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, hundreds others from a dozen styles of pop, rock, soul, R&B, etc. Never a time like it before (even though the genre had only been around 10-12 yrs) and none since.