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I sometimes think one hit wonders are or at least can be the real heoes of our collections. People who had the yputhful energy and belief to gt just so far but then for whatever reason disappeared and probably finished up as teachers or removalists... I was once moved by the guy who use to be in Unit 4 Plus 2 and who wrote Concrete And Clay!
Now, the only restriction I'd like to put on this is I don't mean bands who sold zillions of albums and never put out singles until...
I really mean those genuinely unsung heroes of the deepest reccesses of the racks. And please put the name and title in the subject line...
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How about "seasons in the sun" Terry Jacks or "hooked on a feeling"Blue Suede or "Kunfu Fighting" Carl Douglas ?
Must be an after Halloween hangover.
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heard it today and it was a great song, I had forgotten it myself.
I think Stevie Nicks did background vocals on this? And Lindsey Buckingham was also involved with Walter's album.
Nuggets Vol I & II, as well as the Pebbles Vol I-8 are also great slices of onehitwonderness, if there is such a word. Perhaps, I just created it.
Must also mention, Feeling Good on Sunday, by Scrubbaloe Caine.Brian
digidty-dank?
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The 60s classic.
- http://www.content.loudeye.com/scripts/hurl.exe?clipid=002277901030006900&cid=600111 (Open in New Window)
What is he up to if anything there days... he must be about 85, but I remember mmmm Animal God Of The Streets and Snake Dance Mascarade and something else as great slabs of neo-Lou Reed trashy r'n'r.
his name was Jerry Samuels . He was a recording engineer from New York.
maybe my old addled brain is tricking me, but was it not "john zacherley", who, for a whole lot of years, starting in 1959 or so hosted a horror film show at 11:00 on saturday night? perhaps you have his 'real' name? maybe it was Jerry Samuels. oh, well. another piece of trivia
John Zacherley was also a DJ at WNEW-FM in NYC during the early seventies. Creepy voice, played great music. NEW was a great station back then.
Fowley recorded a version of Take Me Away and had a hit in Denmark and a pirate radio hit in Britain which is where I probably remember it from. See my above post about Fowley...
Looking Glass: Brandy
The Cornelius Brothers & Sisters Rose: Treat Her Like a Lady
Blues Image: Ride Captain RideAnd my favorite...
Dobie Gray: Drift Away
Dean.
What a track that is/was.
I like those too and...Tighter and Tighter - Alive and Kickin
Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale
I Got a Line on You - Spirit (not a one hit wonder)Matter of fact Cornelious Brothers and Sister Rose had a hit with It's Too Late to Turn Back Now which I prefer to Treat Her Like a Lady.
Give me rhythm or give me death!
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I don't quite know why, but that's my favorite OHW. Diesel's "Sausilito Summer Night" might be if I could spell it!Good listening,
David
I agree. There is somthing about this song. I think it is the sound of the electric and acoustic guitars and the fabulous mixing.
My White Bicycle - Tomorrow
In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly
Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo - Rick Derringer
Rock On - David Essex
Never Been Any Reason - Head East
Hey St. Peter - Flash & the Pan
Driver's Seat - Sniff & the TearsMark
No Time To Lose by The Tarney-Spencer BandWhat's Right by David Werner
Rock 'N' Roll Party In The Streets by Axe
No Turning Back by The Sherbs
Last Chance by Shooting Star
circa 1977
if it ain't them incognito, it's CLONES.
R.I.P.
Awesome song. And I dig the video too!
The worst offender on that was a three minute version of "Bat out of hell" by Meatloaf...
Cheers,
Dman
GREAT GEAR DESTROYER!!!
The band/song kind of reminds of how the group Boston would have sounded like with more-imaginitive songwriting.... But to my knowledge, it was Extreme's only real hit song.
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And their lead singer Gary Cherone was the fill-in singer for Van Halen a few years back on the album VH III and the tour.Off the top of my head, Extreme songs that I've heard on the radio are More than Words (huge hit,) Rest In Peace, Stop the World, Hole Hearted, Tragic Commic, and Get the Funk Out.
Have always been an Extreme fan. One album to check out that is EXCELLENT, and IMO is a absolute classic is III sides to every story. It flows from beginning to end and is like a rock- opera.
Cory
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Sure "Louie, Louie" qualifies as a hit but "Jolly Green Giant" got significant airplay in my neighborhood (WLS)too.
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#5 The Vagrants" "Respect". In 1965 and 1966, this group, from Forest Hills, Forest Hills High School, Queens, NYC, almost 'made it' with their version of RESPECT.
At the time, The Vagrants, and The Young Rascals, were running neck and neck in NYC and Long Island (often playing at the dearly departed Barge). The Vagrants had as lead guitarist the great fat man Lesle West(real name: Weinstein, a member of the tribe, who has now become the relatively skinny man), his brother Larry on rhythm guitar and Jerry "Doc" Storch, the former NY State junior bowling champion on organ and Pete Sabatino on vocals. Can't remember the drummer--- Roger something or other. Oh well. Damn they were fine. Or was it that i was 18 yo and doing substances. whatever.Unfortunately, some women named Aretha Franklin came out with a mediocre version of RESPECT (lololol), and that was all she wrote for the band. They could never pull it off after that. So close, but so far... another historical factoid.
No doubt New Yorker Inmates of my ggggggg generation will remember the dearly departed Vagrants
We all know that Leslie then moved on, got even physically larger if that was possible and teamed up with Corky and Felix and became Mountain.
...no Lothar & The Hand People on the ceedees? ;-)My LP original Nuggets is in pretty bad shape anyway.
you remember them, as well?You, that theremin, and I could have made beautiful music together!
... even if there were few hits here... well there are a few.
I own both but the ones I have are the only ones I have ever sen.
They seem to have gained some kind of legendary status or at least they had in Britain.
...when I was back East last summer, I borrowed his set of 5CDs of the Nuggets series which is now out of print.There were a few great songs, a few mediocre songs and a lot of pretty bad garage band stuff.
But it was a great flashback to the mid-1960s.
A garagey, psychedelic 60s wonder. The band disbanded in order to concentrate on college education.
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his hit was Elusive Butterfly but CGH was a pop masterpiece, done to an amazing degree of perfection by The Blues Project.
Lind's album has not ever been on CD, it was called Don't Be Concerned, produced by Jack Nitzsche, engineered by Bruce Botnick. I have a mono copy, World Pacific...WP1841.
It took a long time to find it.
Is this limited to one artist per inmate?
I have dozens!!!
John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett used to do a fantastic version od CGH.
of Lind, this from the Nitzsche CD
... is it the title of one of Jack's records/
I like the sound of that.
Far away and long ago.
Lind's version is on this CD. Thanks for the tip, the Otway thingie is on the wish list , along with...97 other CDs.
My Friend The Chocolate Cake that is.
Perhaps I should burn you a CD of tracks by some Aussie bands so they can jump up your wish list...
honest to god, I have 6 racks of CDs and a new sub woofer that is making them all brand new again.
However a sampler would be cool and it would allow some cutting into line!!
If you have the time....thanks.
A beautiful early almost psychedelic slice of baroque pop.
Very British as well I think.A tenement, a dirty street
Walked and worn by shoeless feet
Inside it's long and so complete
Watched by a shivering sun
Old eyes in a small child's face
Watching as the shadows race
Through walls and cracks and leave no trace
And daylight's brightness shunsThe days of Pearly Spencer
The race is almost runNose pressed hard on frosted glass
Gazing as the swollen mass
On concrete fields where grows no grass
Stumbles blindly on
Iron trees smother the air
But withering they stand and stare
Through eyes that neither know nor care
Where the grass is goneThe days of Pearly Spencer
The race is almost runPearly where's your milk white skin
What's that stubble on your chin
It's buried in the rot gut gin
You played and lost not won
You played a house that can't be beat
Now look your head's bowed in defeat
You walked too far along the street
Where only rats can runThe days of Pearly Spencer
The race is almost run
The days of Pearly Spencer
The race is almost run
The race is almost runA tenement, a dirty street
Remember worn and shoeless feet
Remember how you stood to beat
The way your life had gone
So Pearly don't you shed more tears
For those best forgotten years
Those tenements are memories
Of where you've risen fromThe days of Pearly Spencer
The race is almost won
I think they had one FM "hit", "The City." Totally laid back guitar and sax, 1971 era. Soft, slow and tasteful stuff.
Even now as soonas I hear that intro, I can just smell 1964 (or whenever it was) "I listen to the rythmn of the fallin' rain, tellin' me just a fool I bin" (soory I think it needs the pronounciation).Nice guitar break as well.
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