"One Hit Wonder" follow-up attempts

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  1. katieinthecoconut

    katieinthecoconut Forum Resident

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    Jennifer Rush is a borderline case. She certainly only had one solo mega hit, her cover of The Power of Love, but she did also do well with a duet with Elton John, which may disqualify her to some, although it's hard to argue that song's success wasn't more Elton than her (and it was modestly successful by his standards). She also had a minor 1989 success in the UK with Plácido Domingo. Anyway, this follow-up to The Power of Love did keep her in the charts in Central Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), but did nothing in North America or the United Kingdom.

     
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  2. geo50000

    geo50000 Forum Resident

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    Christie's rather good followup to "Yellow River" only hit #100 in Billboard;
     
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  3. chacha

    chacha Forum Resident In Memoriam

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    Always dug this record. Liked it much more than Brandy.
     
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  4. pbuzby

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    Ides of March "L.A. Goodbye." Here they put aside the BS&T sound of "Vehicle" and instead sound like CSN.

     
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  5. Crimson Witch

    Crimson Witch Roll across the floor thru the hole & out the door

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    Bobby Pickett's follow up to "Monster Mash" .. The "Monster Swim"
     
  6. MikeM

    MikeM Senior Member

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    I got Norma’s album not to long after it came out (as a cut-out, no doubt) and remember liking it. But I hadn’t listened to it in a long time until a few months ago. It’s really really good. My favorite is the last track, “I’m the Sky,” which a was also a B-side.
     
  7. John54

    John54 Senior Member

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    Great song! I think Rice is Nice and Jelly Jungle are both miles better than Green Tambourine, which isn't bad.
     
  8. John54

    John54 Senior Member

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    Tin Tin's Is That the Way was a fine follow-up to Toast and Marmalade for Tea:

     
  9. Oatsdad

    Oatsdad Oat, Biscuits, Abbie & Mitzi: Best Dogs Ever

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    Definitely the case in the US. ATF's version made to #5 US - Falco's only got to #72...
     
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  10. Oatsdad

    Oatsdad Oat, Biscuits, Abbie & Mitzi: Best Dogs Ever

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    That's a territorial issue. In the US, Falco had 2 top 20 hits, so he doesn't qualify, but he didn't have a bunch of US hits...
     
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  11. Drifter

    Drifter AAD survivor

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    So he went from sounding kinda like Sting to sounding kinda like Stevie Winwood?
     
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  12. misterdecibel

    misterdecibel Bulbous Also Tapered

    Canned Ham - Norman Greenbaum:

     
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  13. Surly

    Surly Bon Viv-oh-no-he-didn't

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    I really love this song, and Tommy's "unique" voice is the big selling point for me. When he sings "You better run..." and he stretches it out to "You'd bet-ter ruh-ayy-uhhhn!" - it's great!

    Same with "867-5309" - where they get to for "For a good time, for a good time, call" and he sings "time" as "toooime!" - I love it!
     
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  14. Manapua

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    Hurricane Smith - Who Was It

    Could lightning hit twice? Not so much - #49

     
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  16. misterdecibel

    misterdecibel Bulbous Also Tapered

    Well then that's why they call them "one hit wonders" isn't it?
     
  17. Mark Snowden

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  18. Celebrated Summer

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    This was the follow-up to the Neon Philharmonic's #17 hit in 1969, "Morning Girl." Not bad per se, just a bit too slow-moving and ponderous to be a hit. Didn't chart in the Hot 100, which made them a true one-hit wonder (unless you count "Heighdy-Ho Princess" from 1970, which hit the Bubbling Under The Hot 100 chart).

     
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  19. halfjapanese

    halfjapanese Gifs moider!

    Lovelier than oil rights?! That’s when I bailed. Never heard that song back in ‘69 and never will listen to the rest. ( Well maybe in the year 2525.)
     
  20. Celebrated Summer

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    Speaking only in terms of the Hot 100, Lou Reed is a one-hit wonder. His only entry is "Walk On The Wild Side" which hit #16 in 1973.

    The followup single "Satellite Of Love" only got to #119 on the Bubbling Under chart. Sad, because "Satellite" has one of Reed's best melodies. Maybe people didn't find the deadpan humor of lines like "I like to watch things on TV" funny. Then again, maybe he wasn't trying to be funny. Which makes it funnier.
     
  21. carlwm

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    She did have a top twenty UK hit before The Power Of Love, called Ring Of Ice so I suppose she is a two hit wonder. :)

    It's not a bad song. Would have fit nicely onto any of the big rock soundtracks of the era.
     
  22. EdwinM

    EdwinM Grumpy old man

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    In Europe however, this was an even bigger hit than that Amadeus tune:
     
  23. Dondy

    Dondy Forumaniac

    Duffy's follow-up to her monster smash "Mercy".

    I do like it, wonder why it didn't really take off.
     
  24. katieinthecoconut

    katieinthecoconut Forum Resident

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    She followed it up with Warwick Avenue, which itself did very well in the UK and everywhere but America, so I wouldn't call her a one-hit wonder beyond the U.S., although her pop run can be condensed into a single year.

    I was going to call her a one-album wonder, actually, but her second album supposedly did reasonably alright. She was definitely a flash in the pan though, and it's crazy to think her debut album was considered a classic at the time.
     
  25. bRETT

    bRETT Senior Member

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    This actually was a hit, if a smaller one. And a better song, written by Gilbert O'Sullivan.
     
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