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My countdown list of one hit wonders- 1. Play That Funky Music (Wild Cherry) (3 Viewers)

Rove! said:
Focus - Hocus Pocus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV0F_XiR48Q

 amazing song...nit sure how I forgot about it...
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Glad you posted this - thought of it awhile back when this thread started, but forgot about it.

Great tune - as is the entire Moving Waves album is . Jan Akkerman is one of the more underrated guitarists in classic rock history, and Thijs van Leer was a terrific front man.

Love this old performance back in 1973 on Midnight Special when van Leer gets really zany.

 
zamboni said:
Not sure unless it was in my baby formula. :shrug:
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Soory, I was bein' too subtle...

"Blue Cheer" was the name of a variety of LSD made by chemist and Grateful Dead patron Owsley Stanley[13] and the band was probably named after that, although the name existed earlier, as the name of a laundry detergent[14] after which the LSD variety itself was named.
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Source: Blue Cheer - band

My cousin tuned me in to this sometime in the '70's - he was about 10 years older & was around for the original batches - I was just an imitation - but - it worked.

 
Man of Constant Sorrow said:
Soory, I was bein' too subtle...

Source: Blue Cheer - band

My cousin tuned me in to this sometime in the '70's - he was about 10 years older & was around for the original batches - I was just an imitation - but - it worked.
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Wasn't too subtle - I knew what Blue Cheer was. :thumbup:  Was just saying that I was too young unless my parents spiked my formula. They were at Woodstock, so who knows.

 
Mr. Irrelevant said:
Among the other albums that I purchased at this particular Tower Records located just around the corner from the AMC theater in Little Rock, AR, just off the top of my head:

Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?

Before These Crowded Streets

3eb

Villains

Sister Hazel

Marcy Playground

I'm not necessarily proud of this list, but I'm not necessarily not proud of this list.
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Sister Hazel - All for You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J95gaG7MYQY

Another OHW...

 
northern exposure said:
Let's just say this qualifies as a OHW too from a guy that worked with Jackson Browne,Warren Zevon and others:

https://youtu.be/URm7Ze9a56o
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No offense, but how was this a hit? It's a song that's been covered many times over the past 50 years. Lindley's version was released as a single and did not chart on any of the official charts. Are we at the point in this thread where people can just toss out songs that they like and call them a OHW?

 
Uruk-Hai said:
This record kicks all kinds of ###. With very few changes, this one could have come out of Stax.

The freaking BRIDGE is at 1:30 or so, and it wraps up in under 3:00. The Dead wasn't even done tuning their instruments that quickly. 
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Spirit did a pretty good remake of the tune in 1984, with the original lineup and adding a whole bunch of other musicians: Bob Welch, Skunk Baxter (plus a few of the other Doobie Brothers), and a few of the guys from REO Speedwagon.

 
Speaking of Spirit, there is tale of where Deep Purple was ready to embark on a US tour when Blackmore got ill.  Randy California of Spirit was a potential sub along with Al Kooper.  Kooper tells the tale below

Subj: Re:Al Kooper involvement in DP 
Date: 96-03-21 16:42:29 EST 
From: AlFonts

This is an excerpt from my next book which will answer your question:

Three weeks after I got out of the hospital, my agent called me. "You have got to help me out of a jam, " he pleaded. " I have a million dollar tour booked for Deep Purple starting in two weeks and Richie Blackmore (lead guitarist) just went in the hospital with mononucleosis. Can you go down and audition with them tomorrow afternoon ?" I was dumbfounded. First of all, I was a keyboard player, a fair one at that, who dabbled on guitar. Richie Blackmore was a master of the genre he participated in - light years from where I would ever end up on guitar. Secondly, I barely knew any of their songs and most of all, I had just finished a tour that had put me in the hospital.

There was no way I was gonna do this. I told him so and he begged me to go to the audition anyway just to buy him some time to secure someone who really was capable.

I pack up my trusty Epiphone Wilshire guitar and go to the rehearsal studio where they are practicing. I know some of these guys from the circuit and we exchange happy hellos. They start playing something pretty simple and I join in. Having spent many years as a studio musician, I am able to learn things extremely quickly. Everyone's smiling and frankly, I'm amazed. They play a song next that is REALLY fast and I wave off the guitar solo. It was simply too fast for me to play a solo. "That's OK, Al." Ian Gillan, the lead singer says to me "We'll just have a longer organ solo there. Not to worry. " These guys really think I'm gonna do this. Incredible. I finish playing with them and everybody is smiles. The road manager walks me to the door. "That was great, Al. You passed the ultimate test. The roadie's all loved it. And in that first song, you even started the solo on the same note Richie does. See ya tomorrow."

On the cab ride home, I actually considered it for five minutes, but common sense prevailed before I arrived home. I called the agent and threatened him. I had fulfilled my end of the bargain and he had to tell them I really couldn't do it. He was actually in tears on the phone. "What am I gonna do? Who can I get to do this ? Please at least suggest someone!" I pulled out the name of one of my favorite guitarists - Randy California from the group Spirit. He thanked me profusely and that was the last I heard of it for a month. Then a third party told me that Randy had rehearsed with them and that it was magnificent.

The first date of the tour was in Hawaii. The night of the show, I'm told, Randy barricaded himself in his hotel room and refused to play. The tour was cancelled. Which reminds me of a Grace Slick lyric: "The human dream doesn't mean #### to a tree".
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Rove! said:
Ram Jam - Black Betty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_2D8Eo15wE

 hit number 18...Lead Belly is credited as the writer, but the song may an be older foo tune

Lead Belly version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUSGuNxt-4 1939

Iron Head Baker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4XFXJSQQOI 1933

The lyricical meanining open for debate and not without some controversy, but, musically, this is a good performance.
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Love this, Rove. 

In the Louisville martial arts community, this became a standard tune to perform shtick katas to because of Kung Pow! Enter the Fist

It's a totally stupid MA parody that ain't for everyone, but we loved it, and kata'd the hell out of it. It's mostly overdubs on top of a serious MA movie.

From wiki - "uses footage from the 1976 Hong Kong martial arts film Tiger & Crane Fists (also called Savage Killers)"

The major baddy was named Betty. 

Unfortunately, there are no good free vids that I could find. 

This is the best I could do:

Kung Pow! - Black Betty

For anyone into this kinda shtick, I highly recommend. I still watch it at least once a year. 

 
Anarchy99 said:
No offense, but how was this a hit? It's a song that's been covered many times over the past 50 years. Lindley's version was released as a single and did not chart on any of the official charts. Are we at the point in this thread where people can just toss out songs that they like and call them a OHW?
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No offense taken. The song was a staple on a local FM station when it first came out and I remember there being a lot of buzz about the album. But, admittedly I did not research where it charted. Given some of tim's questionable inclusions/exclusions I thought Mercury Blues would fly here. My mistake.

 
northern exposure said:
No offense taken. The song was a staple on a local FM station when it first came out and I remember there being a lot of buzz about the album. But, admittedly I did not research where it charted. Given some of tim's questionable inclusions/exclusions I thought Mercury Blues would fly here. My mistake.
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Hey, like I said, if we are at a point where we are all throwing good song suggestions that may or may not be OHW's I'm down with that. At this point, I would almost be in favor of there being a different thread for good songs that not many people know or remember, whether they were considered hits or not hits, whether they charted or didn't chart, or even if the performer had 30 charting singles.

 
zamboni said:
There's another former member of Traffic that had a one-hit wonder, albeit in the '80s. Didn't see it yet in Anarchy's thread, so won't divulge here.
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Obviously I wasn't really as aware of Traffic as I thought I was because the first person I think of is Steve Winwood.When the Dave Mason song was first released I didn't realize he was part of Traffic and I forgot about the Jim Capaldi song.

 
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