Top 10 - 1970's one hit wonders We'll Never Forget
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
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10 one-hit wonders of the 1970s! Which one is your favorite? Did we miss any of your top picks?
1. "In the Summertime" - Mungo Jerry
2. "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" - Vicki Lawrence
3. "Hooked on a Feeling" - Blue Swede
4. "Dancing in the Moonlight" - King Harvest
5. "My Sharona" - The Knack
6. "Spirit in the Sky" - Norman Greenbaum
7. "Come and Get Your Love" - Redbone
8. "Afternoon Delight" - Starland Vocal Band
9. "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" - Looking Glass
10. "Play That Funky Music" - Wild Cherry
thanks so much for watching! ☺ - Zábava
Which one is your favorite? Did we miss anything?
Hot Child in the City by Nick Gilder.
'Emotion' Samantha Sang and 'Dancing in the City' Marshall Hain also 'Substitute' by Clout and 'Sometimes When We Touch' by Dan Hill.
Frijid Pink -House of the rising sun (1970) ,Daniel Boone - Beautiful Sunday (1972),Billy Swan - I can help (1975)
Redbone had Witch Queen before Come &Get Your Love.It's a Halloween standard now
Redbone had multiple hits
Redbone had 2 hits in the Top 40
The Knack had *3*
Looking Glass also had 2.
Blue Swede also had 2.
Fact checking on this list was HORRIBLE.
All great tunes.
Redbone also had The witch queen of New Orleans in 1971.
Oh sir, talk about hitting the nail on the head with these hits. They were all great! I really really miss the 70's. Thanx again!
Johnny rivers was not a 1 hit wonder
Brandy by Looking Glass was their biggest and most popular song in 1972 but they had another Top 40 song a year later with 'Jimmy Loves Maryann' #33 in 1973
I wasn't expecting to hear 3.4 seconds worth of these hits. Barely enough time to jog the memories. Live and learn.
sorry about that, copywrite issues, can't play much of the songs.
I've loved "In the Summertime" since it first came out when i was a kid. But it took me 25+ years, until the Internet came along, to learn the actual lyrics! Now I enjoy the song even more!
The Knack had another minor hit with "Good Girls Don't"
Spirit in The Sky😀
Looking Glass was not a one-hit wonder. In 1974, they hit #33 with “Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne”. The Knack hit #11 with “Good Girls Don’t”. Blue Swede hit #7 with “Never My Love”. This video is all wrong!
Trippy man. Like; really really like really trippy. man.
These videos ALWAYS get The Knack wrong! Glad to see someone else calling them out!
Glad to know I’m not the only one who picked up on those facts. The Knack were even simultaneously in the Top 20 with their 2 main hits in the Fall of 1979
@ianman15 I was 14 in ‘74 and remember‘Jimmy Loves Mary Anne’,but up until now was convinced I’d made it up cos no one else did.Thanx.I can sleep now.
Seasons in the sun?
Beach baby, beach baby?
Pina colada?
Rock Me Gently?
Just to name a few…🤔
Nothing quite like making out in the back seat of your Chevy, only to hear (You're) Having My Baby playing on the radio,followed by a 'Got pregnant?Need help?' PSA. Not very good timing.Thanks, 104 FM!
oh yeah that reminds me--'Devil Woman',lol.
@@deliveryguyrx 😆
Rupert Holmes had a Top 10 hit with "Him" (the follow-up to "The Piña Colada Song") and a Top 40 hit with "Answering Machine."
@@Prof_Jeffgreat songs 👊
@@aronkelley8634 Andy Kim had several Top 40 and Hot 100 Hits, but most of them were before "Rock Me Gently": he hit #9 with "Baby, I Love You" in 1969 and #17 with "Be My Baby" (cover of the Ronettes' classic) in 1970. Nothing very memorable, for sure.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Kim_(singer)
However, Terry Jacks and First Class never broke the Top 40 any other time, although both had a couple of tracks make the Hot 100.
Thanks for including us,did you know that we wrote Take Me Home Country Roads?
ohh my thats amazing, and no I never knew that. thank you so much for stopping by and leaving a comment :)
@starlandandmore I knew that! Such a classic song. And I still love Afternoon Delight. You are amazing songwriters ❤❤❤
@@FrenchQuarterBelle thank you kindly
@@starlandandmore 👍👌
Smoking In The Boys Room--- Brownsville Station.
NOT applicable - Brownsville Station had *3* hits in the top 40, and a pair IN the 40s.
The Knack were not a one hit wonder. The song Good Girls Don't was also a high charter.
Mungo Gerry had about half a dozen hits in uk & lreland...!!!
Craig Kilbourne used the Wild Cherry song on and off his Late Late Show With Craig Kilbourne as his walk-in music . He had some royalties issues with the band for awhile . The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia song was an inspiration for a movie with the name . It starred Kristy McNichol , Dennis Quaid and Mark Hammill . It obviously bombed because so few people even know about the movie .
Good list. All GREAT one hits!!!!!!!
Afternoon delight is so cheese .
BUT genius vocal arrangement
Mus b the greatest load of smalwtzy cheese ever put tohether....!!! Sorry !!
My ex-wife would play that album endlessly...really grew to truly hate it.
It was embarrassing they won Best New Artist.
@@joerosa8378ls that why she's yur ex !!!????
Brandy! A favorite of mine to this day. The night the lights went out in Georgia, Vicki Lawrence. Mungo Jerry, unique tune.
At the time when Come And Get Your Love by Redbone and Hooked On A Feeling (an original by BJ Thomas) was playing on the radio, I thought those performers were black.
Redbone had a top-40 song in early 1972 called The Witch Queen Of New Orleans. That song is quite intriguing to hear. Give that one a listen!
I have ALL of them downloaded. Except Mungo Jerry
thats awesome! I want to get a couple of the records.
You forgot the song Shannon by Henry Grosss that was a huge one hit wonder hit song!
Henry Gross was not a one hit wonder. His follow-up, “Springtime Mama” hit the Top 40.
FLAG on the play with a few artists but the one that jumps out as Redbone. They were not a one hit wonder. Witch Queen of New Orléans is considered a hit. It hovered around 19 to 23 on some charts.
I got sick of hearing most of those in movies and commercials. My Sharona and Hooked on a Feeling are the only ones I didn't grow to hate.
I wonder how carol Burnett a frustrated singer felt when Vicki crushed it. I bet jealous as hell
@@user-gl6py1ni2h From everything I heard,she was delighted.As far as I know,Carol Burnett never released a single.
That was a song that Cher turned down always wonder how a artist feels when they turn it down and it hits no.1 ?
Yup, despite trying to forget them, they live on, insidiously. Especially Vicki Lawrence, Starland Vocal Band, and King Harvest.
Mungo Jerry is NO one-hit wonder!!! Several hits world wide after "In the Summertime", like "Baby Jump", "Lady Rose", "Alright Alright Alright", "Open up", "Feels like I´m in Love", "Hello Nadine", "You don´t have to be in the army", "Long legged Woman dressed in black" etc.
I'd say the biggest one hit wonder from the '70's as far as chart success goes was Debbie Boone's You Light Up My Life. It was #1 for 10 weeks.
Who was the other woman that had this song first?
Groovy was a 60's saying.
Far Out was more 70's.
When it comes to great,,, "one hit wonders of the 70s", I'm surprised these songs weren't on the list: "Pillow Talk" (by Sylvia) "Suavecito" (by Malo) "Woodstock" (Matthew Southern Comfort Version) "Gypsy Woman" (by Brian Hyland),, "Young Hearts" (by Candy Station) "MoonLight/feels right" (by Starbuck), "Walking in Rhythm" (by BlackByrd) "I want to do something freaky to you" (Leon Haywood),, "Emotion" (by Samantha Sang) and "Keep on Dancing" (by Gary's Gang).
i'll definitely look to add some of these on the next list.
@@ChatNoirVibes Perhaps you should do a list of 2 hit wonders.
Procol Harem should probably be #1 on THAT list.
English Congregation - Softly Whispering
Every time I see The Knack on one of these lists, I pretty much stop reading/watching right there. Same when Men at Work shows up on "one hit wonders" of the 80s. Nope.
Hard agree. My blood pressure goes up every time one of these lists includes The Knack. "Good Girls Don't" was #11, a pretty solid follow-up to "My Sharona." On top of that, even "Baby Talks Dirty" was Top 40.
The Hustle by Van Mccoy
Brandy You’re a Fine Girl tells the story of a waitress named Brandy, who was a fine girl.
Billy Don't Be a Hero----Heart Beat Its a Love Beat..
Hurricane Smith-Oh Babe
Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods had other hits. So did the DeFranco Family.
If Darwin ever saw Mungo Jerry, he'd swear he found his missing link. PS Ride Captain Ride by Blues Image was a pretty good 1HW song about the USS Pueblo if any here remember that event
thanks for the info, I put it down on my list probably will add it to the next OHW vid.
How about David Geddes' "Run Joey Run"? 1976-ish.
ahh man i forgot about "Run Joey Run" next list will definitely have it on
He had a follow up hit with Last Game of the Season (Blind Man in the Bleachers). It's not much remembered today but it did make the top 40. David Geddes' only hits were both death songs.
I,DONT THINK SO
Oh, how can you not include Jungle Fever by Chakachas, I guess is how you spell it. Hmm . . . There's something, I don't know, orgasmic? About that song?
"Jungle Fever" for sure i'll put it on the next one.
The Sanford towns band Smoke from a distant fire.
The best 1 hit ever.
Also I Found Someone of My Own by Free Movement
Afternoon Delight sucks! It should never be on any top music list.
Sanford-Townsend band - a shortlived LEGITIMATE one-hit wonder.
Less TALK and more Music would have been a good idea, I switched off before number 6.
thanks for the feedback. :)
I disagree with Redbone being a "one hit wonder". They had several hits during the 70's. Maggie, The Witch Queen of New Orleans, When you got Heartache, and so on.! Get BETTER!
Yes, these people need to do better. Regarding Redbone, "The Witch Queen of New Orleans" made #21, so the video poster failed here; that's just using Top 40. If one expands to using Hot 100, then "Maggie" counts, too!
Too much talk, not enough music. 👎🏻 2/10
thanks for the feedback :)
I figured #1 would be "You Light Up My Life' by Debby Boone. 10 weeks at #1. Sure, she had a Country #1 and went Xtian after that but that hardly counts.
Not too much wonder these were once-and-dones. Most of them pretty stupid songs!
I'll tell you plain and simple what the problem with this f######! vlog is, just when we think we know the song the bloody commentary starts again!
Wont be watching another of these!!!!!!!
A few of the guys from Redbone were in demand session players
thats crazy!
"Spirit In The Sky" a religious song mentioning Jesus, was written and sung by a Jewish dairy farmer. That's what makes it a memorable song.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Greenbaum
Redbone was not a one hit wonder. they also did the song "Witch Queen Of New Orleans" released in 1971. "Come And Get Your Love" was released 1973
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redbone_discography
thanks for the info, definitely will keep that in mind.
bottom line is they were "a hit" because the radio stations wouldn't stop playing that CRAP! nobody in their right mind wanted to listen to that crap as much as they played it. With today's (ever since the internet) technology you can find literally 100's and 100's of songs that the radio stations never played that VERY clearly show that the radio stations played CRAP and that especially includes most all of your so-called one hit wonders. CRAP
After reading your comment, I wonder why they call ME psycho...