![]() “Hooked on Classics”/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Naughton starred in the sitcom for which this was the theme.Ī harbinger of a lot of what was to come in the 80s, although I don’t think we credit it enough now. “Smoke” is the best thing on this whole list and whatever’s second isn’t close. ![]() “Smoke From a Distant Fire”/Sanford-Townsend Band ![]() That there are a lot of novelties or near-novelties on this list, and not just in 1974, should surprise nobody.Ī summer record that synergistically blasted up the chart as Good Times went into reruns of its most successful season, and when Jimmie Walker’s “dynomite” was on the lips of every kid between the ages of eight and 15. But in a good way.”Ĭanadian band led by future super-producer David Foster, and produced by Eirik the Norwegian, one Eirik Wangberg, who got his nickname from Paul McCartney. Many years ago I wrote, “As I drove to work at a job I hated, on a rainy morning … ‘Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues’ made me want to get out of the car, stand by the side of the road in the rain, and look up into the sky until I drowned. “Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues”/Danny O’Keefe Two spoken-word hits recorded by famous DJs, and a demented novelty number. “What the World Needs Now Is Love-Abraham Martin and John”/Tom Clay We like “Gimme Dat Ding” around here a lot more than we should. This and “In the Year 2525” made 1969 an especially great year for one-hitters. After his TV talk show became a success, he restarted his singing career with a handful of albums in the middle of the 60s. “The Men in My Little Girl’s Life”/Mike Douglasĭouglas had been a radio singer and later joined up with the Kay Kyser Orchestra. ![]() Produced by John Lennon with Paul McCartney on guitar and George Harrison on tambourine. “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away”/The Silkie Whether it actually happened that night or some other night I do not know, for the story is sketchy and incomplete wherever it’s told. The original session for “Midnight Mary” was set for the night of November 22, 1963, and was to include a bunch of studio musicians including Paul Simon and Jim (Roger) McGuinn. Bill Pursell, a composer and longtime professor of music, died of COVID in September at the age of 94. “Sally Go Round the Roses” fell out of radio fashion when girl-group music did. “Pipeline” and “More” remained on the radio for years after 1963. “Shout! Shout!” is probably the best-known among these, although you may recognize “Percolator.” “Percolator (Twist)”/Billy Joe and the Checkmates “Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself Out)”/Ernie Maresca The Little Dippers are actually the Anita Kerr Singers, so they get an asterisk. “Yogi” is a novelty record about meeting a meditating maharishi that is annoyingly performed and kinda racist. “Mule Skinner Blues” was cut at Cuca Records in Sauk City, Wisconsin-a label whose legend looms large up here. Jim Sundquist and Phil Humphrey joined up as the Fendermen at the Univerity of Wisconsin. Franck Pourcel was a French orchestra leader whose classy cover of “Only You” was billed, in dorky American marketing fashion, to “Franck Pourcel’s French Fiddles.” The Tarriers recorded a famous version of “The Banana Boat Song,” so “Cindy Oh Cindy” needs an asterisk.īy the late 50s, the woods were full of lightly rockin’, coyly kittenish, come-on-and-love-me songs, of which “I’m Available” is one.īoth “Get a Job” and “Little Star” were #1 hits, but they were nosed off of my earlier list by Laurie London’s “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands.”Ĭhris Barber and Reg Owen were jazz players and orchestra leaders in England. Robertson wrote or co-wrote some famous country songs: “I Really Don’t Want to Know,” “Please Help Me I’m Falling,” and “Ringo,” the #1 spoken-word hit by Lorne Greene. “Cindy Oh Cindy”/Vince Martin and the Tarriers Valente was an international singing sensation who performed alongside the likes of Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, and Perry Como, and is still with us today at the age of 89. Again, this is far longer than I like my posts to be, but insert shrug emoji here. If a year is missing, the song shown on the other list was the only Top-10 one hitter in that year. Later, I fell down a rabbit hole looking at other one-hit artists who made the Billboard Top 10 during the same period. It maybe knows better what’s worthwhile.)īack on One Hit Wonder Day, my post included the top one-hit wonder in each year from 1955 through 1986. (Before we begin: if you indicated interest in my e-mail thing last week, check your e-mail today for something from jb titled “Hello and Welcome to the Sidepiece.” Check your spam filter, too.
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