Old Fashioned Sounding Songs That Improbably Became Hits

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  1. JamesD1957

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    Dang. Thought I had one there.....
     
  2. SwollenGoat

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    Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
     
  3. Tony Sclafani

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    Guy Marks' send-up of big band music, "Loving You Has Made Me Bananas," got to #51 in 1968. Ten years later it was reissued in the UK and went Top 30...so it was a throwback twice over the second time around (if that makes any sense).

     
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  4. altaeria

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    There was definitely a lot of nostalgia in 80s Pop.
    To go along with the Stray Cats, Billy Joel, and Phil Collins stuff listed above...
    There was "Just a Gigolo" by David Lee Roth,
    "Puttin on the Ritz" by Taco (?),
    "Sea of Love" by the Honeydrippers...
    and a bunch of other 50s/60s covers.
     
  5. Shilling the Rubes

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    A UK #1 from 1977 which sounds like something Edith Piaf would have recorded in the 1930s


    Manhatten Transfer - Chanson D'Amour
     
  6. JohnnyQuest

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  7. Cassiel

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    "Get Lucky" - Daft Punk. Huge hit in 2013, sounds like it could have come out in 1978.
     
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  8. Steve Hoffman

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    One of my favorites.



    And by the way, two of the nicest people to ever walk the planet.
     
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  9. Kevin W

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    Happy by Pharell Williams
     
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  10. captwillard

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    That Buster Poindexter song.
     
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  11. RayS

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    Out of My Element
     
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  12. RayS

    RayS A Little Bit Older and a Little Bit Slower

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    And some more Brian Setzer:

     
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  13. "Rumour Has It" by Adele.
     
  14. why does this smell like McCartney had a hand in it
     
  15. Damien DiAngelo

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    Anyone remember this song?

     
  16. She is anyway

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    "FourFive Seconds"
     
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  17. JL6161

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    Blurred Lines

    Chelsea Dagger
     
  18. JohnnyQuest

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    One of my mom's favorites.
     
  19. pbuzby

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    Haven't heard the song but I understand former King Crimson vocalist Gordon Haskell had a surprise hit in the U.K. around ten years ago with a crooner ballad.
     
  20. dance_hall_keeper

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    Shout-out...Niagara Falls, NY!

    "Mrs Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter" - Herman's Hermits.
     
  21. Rudi

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    George Michael -Kissing a Fool
     
  22. audiomixer

    audiomixer As Bald As The Beatles

    New Vaudeville Band to be correct.
     
  23. rockledge

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    Gimme Dat Ding sounded like something flappers should have been dancing to.
    Daisy A Day sounds like a Stephen Foster song.
    Rag Mama Rag sounds like something that was written back in the hills when Maybell Carter was young.
     
  24. rockledge

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    Because it is WAAAAY good.
     
  25. BradOlson

    BradOlson Country/Christian Music Maven

    In fact, many of Herman's Hermits songs pay tribute to the Music Hall era in British music.
     
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