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Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods recorded the 1974 #1 US Billboard song Billy, Don't Be A Hero. But Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods had two additional US Billboard Top 40 hits: Who Do You Think You Are (#15, 1974) and The Heartbreak Kid (#39, 1974) No. In addition to their year 1972 #1 US Billboard song Brandy (You're A Fine Girl), Looking Glass hit #33 US Billboard in 1973 with Jimmie Loves Marie-Anne. Any record that climbs into the US Billboard Top 40 is by definition a hit. Now, here's a true One Hit Wonder--Barry McGuire with his year 1965 #1 US Billboard record Eve Of Destruction--his only US Billboard Top 40 hit as a solo act; with Child Of Our Times, he went #72 US Billboard in 1965 (the flip side to that 45rpm record is a much better song, in my opinion--Upon A Painted Ocean), and a year later he got to #62 US Billboard with Cloudy Summer Afternoon. Addendum: Of course, as a member of The New Christy Minstrels, Barry McGuire participated in a couple of US Billboard Top 40 records, including one he co-wrote with Randy Sparks--Green Green (#14 US Billboard, 1963). By the way, Barry McGuire gives a wonderful screen performance as a hippy musician in 1967's cinematic release The President's Analyst (starring James Coburn)--specifically, the scene where he strums his acoustic guitar while singing his original composition Inner Manipulations.
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How about if you remember that and the rest of us sit around and reminisce about these great old songs and how happy they made us?
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My comment was intended to reflect the fact that the term "one hit wonder" is frequently regarded as pejorative and disparages the artist.
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I understood what you meant.
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A few favorites, a bit of a toss-up between them, but I'd have to go with the first one:
"Something in the Air" - Thunderclap Newman and "Ride, Captain Ride" - the Blues Image, along with "Vehicle" by The Ides Of March...
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Benny Mardones
Into the night
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Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues (1968)
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"What Do All The People Know?" - The Monroes
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I was going to post the same. Good song and I loved the movie about these one hit wonders |
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Always liked "Spirit in the Sky."
Don't know if this would really be called a "hit" except for in the U.K., but went through a Joy Division phase back in the '80s. |
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Buffalo Springfield “For What it’s Worth “
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5JCrSXkJY |
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Denny Laine, 1965, original Moody Blues.."Go Now" and Brian Epstein grooving
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Here's a one hit wonder from 1968 "I Love You" by "People"
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