|
|
Post by CentreHice on May 26, 2009 9:20:31 GMT -5
My current settings on Internet Explorer allow most to be embedded. For the ones that don't, I just click once underneath the "Embedding Disabled by Request" message, and a new browser page opens on youtube and plays the vid there.
|
|
|
|
Post by Disgruntled70sHab on May 26, 2009 10:27:04 GMT -5
A one-album band I guess. They were noted for the "Hey St Peter" tune, but here's the one I I liked listening to from the original "Flash in the Pan" album.
And "Hey St Peter."
Cheers.
|
|
|
|
Post by CentreHice on May 26, 2009 11:01:48 GMT -5
I don't know if he had any lesser hits....(I don't recall any).....but this one has done very well for him.
|
|
|
|
Post by franko on May 26, 2009 12:34:36 GMT -5
nope, his one and only . . . during what I call "the religious year or radio" [was wondering if anyone would post it]
Andy Kim [Who Has the Answers], Ocean [Put Your Hand in the Hand], Jubilation [Paul Anka], Johnny Cash [Will the Circle Be Unbroken], Ray Stevens [Everything is Beautiful] quickly come to mind
|
|
|
|
Post by clear observer on May 26, 2009 12:49:50 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by franko on May 26, 2009 18:16:35 GMT -5
ahh . . . love song to a dead dog . . . is there anything more romantic?
let's get obscure . . .
|
|
|
|
Post by franko on May 26, 2009 18:38:32 GMT -5
fighting for obscurity with Henry Gross . . .
|
|
|
|
Post by CentreHice on May 26, 2009 19:02:21 GMT -5
I wanted to put Maria Muldaur's "Midnight At the Oasis" (#6 in 1974) on here....but she had "I'm a Woman" reach #12 in 1975.
|
|
|
|
Post by franko on May 26, 2009 20:45:29 GMT -5
Yup . . . caught once means I gotta check every time . . . which is frustrating because it shows my memory isn't as good as I thought it was.
Was going to put the Jimmy Castor Bunch "Troglodyte" up . . . but nope . . . who knew they had a few minor songs that made it? Same with the Big Bopper -- I didn't know there was a follow-up to Chantilly Lace.
So how about . . .
coulda gone with Charlie Ryan who wrote it too
|
|
|
|
Post by franko on May 27, 2009 5:55:14 GMT -5
Was humming a tune last night and my daughter asked me "Where do you come up with this stuff?
For some [like this] I go remember old albums in my collection
but not like this:
|
|
|
|
Post by CentreHice on May 27, 2009 9:55:14 GMT -5
Sappy one-hit wonder from 1973.
|
|
|
|
Post by cigarviper on May 27, 2009 10:00:52 GMT -5
My current settings on Internet Explorer allow most to be embedded. For the ones that don't, I just click once underneath the "Embedding Disabled by Request" message, and a new browser page opens on youtube and plays the vid there. Me too, I just have that insatiable need to know why. |
|
|
|
Post by CentreHice on May 28, 2009 0:29:24 GMT -5
Other singles...but no others in the Top 40 that I know of. Little River Band started the same year, 1975....and they share the same kind of sound.
==============================================================
Since this one hit #36 and is their big hit, I'm going to assume that "The Girl Who Loved Me When" didn't end up in the Top 40.....so I'm putting it on here.
===============================================================
I don't think Skylark (Canadian band, BC) had any other Top 40 hits....but 1973's "Wildflower" is an amazing pop ballad. Great guitar sound. And Donny Gerrard's voice is outstanding. David Foster certainly went on to fame and fortune. He's on keyboards in this band...that's him walking down the beach in the video with his first wife, B.J. Cook (vocalist in the band). She's obviously pregnant with their daughter, Amy (b. 1973) who is a songwriter, collaborating with Michael Buble and others.
|
|
|
|
Post by franko on May 28, 2009 6:08:36 GMT -5
Not only was this a one-hitter ["Is That the Way" was not a hit by any measture], this was the only song a buddy of mine could play on the guitar . . . and it was bad!
A bad "love song"
|
|
|
|
Post by CentreHice on May 28, 2009 9:25:46 GMT -5
Been gigging since the 1960s.....
One major hit that I know of. 1976
===========================================================
1970 Bobby Bloom - Montego Bay
==============================================================
Stories - "Brother Louie" Reached #1 for two weeks in 1973. A cover of a Hot Chocolate hit in the UK. Never had another song break the Top 40. Ian Lloyd, the singer, was artistically frustrated that the song, as a cover, didn't represent their music and direction. But it was a smash hit. He stuck around for another album....two songs reached #50 and #88 respectively....but that was it.
|
|
|
|
Post by CentreHice on May 28, 2009 10:19:00 GMT -5
From the "Non-Singers Who Capitalize on their Fame and Producers More Than Willing to Cash In" category. This song reached #2 in 1985.
===============================================================
Novelty song, for sure....but it reached #17 in 1978. Henry Winkler brings out the cardboard background.
|
|
|
|
Post by CentreHice on May 28, 2009 18:08:29 GMT -5
Coven "One Tin Soldier".
Used as the theme song for the movie "Billy Jack", 1971. Reached #26.
Coven studied the occult at the time and were reportedly the first in rock/pop to use the "devil horns" hand gesture.
|
|
|
|
Post by Disgruntled70sHab on May 28, 2009 18:54:22 GMT -5
Coven "One Tin Soldier". Used as the theme song for the movie "Billy Jack", 1971. Reached #26. Coven studied the occult at the time and were reportedly the first in rock/pop to use the "devil horns" hand gesture. I remember seeing "Billy Jack" when it first came out. I think it was rated "R" and if it was I had to try and pass myself off as an 18-year-old. Anyway, I saw it regardless. I remember there not being a dry eye in the house when they took Billy away in the police car. I have it in my DVD collection today. "Afternoon Delight" is also a very powerful trigger; it reminds me of who I was dating at the time. Cheers. |
|
|
|
Post by CentreHice on May 28, 2009 19:46:45 GMT -5
Good job getting in to "Billy Jack", Dis....as you would have been only 13 in 1971.
|
|
|
|
Post by Disgruntled70sHab on May 28, 2009 20:18:17 GMT -5
Like I was saying, I saw it anyway. I think it might have been at the old Rialto Theatre on Bank St in Ottawa. Kind of theatre where you got three movies for $1.25/$1.50. LOTS of "B" movies.
Got in to see "The Longest Yard" too. I think I was 16 then.
Oh yeah ... the thread ...
Great triggers throughout. I remember "How do you do" as the song they played almost hourly when we were traveling through NS.
"Flash in the Pan" was indeed a flash in the pan. Hit the music scene with a blast though. Petered out pretty quickly.
Cheers.
|
|
|
|
Post by franko on May 28, 2009 21:30:35 GMT -5
Still trying to figure out the paramaters of this thread. Is it "one-hit pop hits"? What if the band did well overseas but didn't do well in North America? Is it top 100 or top 40?
Questions, Questions [oops, can't find that one -- musn't have been any more than a local hit]
keeping with the water theme . . .
[is that Alice Cooper?]
|
|
|
|
Post by Disgruntled70sHab on May 28, 2009 21:47:44 GMT -5
I honestly don't know if they were a one-hit wonder kind of band. But I only knew one of their songs.
Ten Years Later ... I'd love to change the world.
|
|
|
|
Post by CentreHice on May 28, 2009 22:16:19 GMT -5
Still trying to figure out the paramaters of this thread. Is it "one-hit pop hits"? What if the band did well overseas but didn't do well in North America? Is it top 100 or top 40? I'd say the way it's been going, the band/artist has to have had only 1 Top Forty Hit in the U.S. If they have another one from 41-100, it still counts. What the heck....it's fun to hear and see these people in action again. Some of these vids, I've never seen. That's why I didn't post Looking Glass' "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)"....because their "Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne" reached #33. |
|
|
|
Post by CentreHice on May 28, 2009 22:22:21 GMT -5
I honestly don't know if they were a one-hit wonder kind of band. But I only knew one of their songs. Ten Years Later ... I'd love to change the world. Ten Years After scored big at Woodstock with "I'm Goin' Home". They were more of an FM band. Awesome group. Alvin Lee's a great guitar player. They've got a lot of stuff on youtube. |
|
|
|
Post by CentreHice on May 28, 2009 22:53:41 GMT -5
1970. Hotlegs "Neanderthal Man". Reached #22 U.S.
Hotlegs became 10cc and they had 3 Top Forty U.S. hits.
1. "I'm Not in Love" #2 1975
2. "The Things We Do For Love" #5 1976
3. "People In Love" #40 1977
==================================================
I want to post "Africa" by Thundermug from 1972. I know it cracked Canada's Top 30....but I can't find out how it did in U.S.
|
|
|
|
Post by franko on May 29, 2009 5:45:49 GMT -5
That's why I didn't post Looking Glass' "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)"....because their "Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne" reached #33. Totally forgot about "Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne+ -- of course, it was totally forgettable! T Rex: Bang a Gong -- anything else in NA? Know they were big across the pond. |
|
|
|
Post by Polarice on May 29, 2009 6:26:59 GMT -5
Here's one of my favs!!!
|
|
|
|
Post by CentreHice on May 29, 2009 9:21:47 GMT -5
That's why I didn't post Looking Glass' "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)"....because their "Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne" reached #33. Totally forgot about "Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne+ -- of course, it was totally forgettable! T Rex: Bang a Gong -- anything else in NA? Know they were big across the pond. All I can find on "Bang a Gong (Get it On)" is that it was their only major U.S. hit....reaching #10 in January of 1972. You're correct...they had other hits in the U.K. I was holding off on them because of "Jeepster". So that's good enough, wouldn't you say. |
|
|
|
Post by franko on May 29, 2009 12:09:49 GMT -5
A little Canadiana . . .
sure they made other attempts but nothing flew
actual video pulled
|
|
|
|
Post by cigarviper on May 31, 2009 13:11:26 GMT -5
I honestly don't know if they were a one-hit wonder kind of band. But I only knew one of their songs. Ten Years Later ... I'd love to change the world. I wore out the Live at the Filmore East album. Classic stuff. I saw them live once in the old forum opening for Ozzy Osbourne of all people. Talk about an eclectic lineup, but one hell of a show. |
|
