One Hit Wonders Part Two
Posted: October 22, 2013 Filed under: ART, SONGS | Tags: 80s disco, favourite songs, hit songs, one hit wonders, Player - Baby Come Back, radio friendly 70s songs, S-S-S-Single Bed Noosha Fox Film Clip Countdown Australia, sexy songs, the golden age of disco music, tragic 70s and 80s music Leave a commentI forgot so much fabulous music in my original post I could’t live with myself if I didn’t highlight other neglected 70s classics like Pussyfoot’s 1976 hit The Way That You Do It, Noosha Fox’s S-S-S-Single Bed and Lene Lovich’s Lucky Number. Or what about Patrick Hernandez’ Born To Be Alive or Player’s Baby Come Back from the golden age of smooth disco? My current favourite is Divine’s 80s hit You Think You’re A Man? My list of wonder hits is so very, very long if I read it out loud the accompanying soundtrack would be the Bee Gees’ song Tragedy (except they were no one hit wonders). What are your favourite 70s and 80s tragic tunes? Or 50s, 60s, 90s or current one hit wonders?
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Smells like a one off disco hit
Posted: September 25, 2013 Filed under: ART, SONGS, Theme Songs | Tags: Benny Hill - Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West), brilliant songs, disco, Eye of the Tiger - Survivor, Farewell Aunty Jack, favourite songs, funk, Jimmy & The Boys - They Wont Let My Girlfriend (1981), love songs, lovelorn radio songs, My Sharona - The Knack, One Hit Wonder Day, one hit wonders, Racey, Right Said Fred, Running Man, Shaddap You Face - Joe Dolce, tragic 70s and 80s music, tragic music Leave a commentI have tragic taste in music, if a song smells like a bad 70s or 80s hit I will be up on the dance floor from the opening bars. And I don’t mind a ballad that I can murder all alone in the car late at night singing along to a gut-wrenching radio station playing hits for the lovelorn either. In honour of One Hit Wonder Day I present you with my favourites (in no particular order):
The Knack – My Sharona
I’m Too Sexy – Right Said Fred
Eye Of The Tiger – Survivor
Don’t Worry Be Happy – Bobby McFerrin
99 Luftballons – Nena (the German version)
You Get What You Give – The New Radicals
Only For Sheep – The Bureau
Black Betty – Ram Jam
Feelings – Morris Albert
All By Myself – Eric Carmen
Farewell Aunty Jack – Graeme Bond
Ice Ice Baby – Vanilla Ice – thank you for bringing ‘Running Man’ to the masses
Video Killed The Radio Star – The Buggles
Play That Funky Music – Wild Cherry
Benny Hill – Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West)
It’s Raining Men – The Weather Girls
Because I Got High – Afroman
Teenage Dirtbag – Wheatus
Rose Garden – Lynn Anderson
Young Hearts Run Free – Candi Staton
Baby Got Back – Sir Mix A Lot
They Wont Let My Girlfriend Talk To Me – Jimmy and The Boys
Lay Your Love On Me – Racey
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