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Old June 10, 2003, 10:05   #31
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*Forgot his name* - Bad to the Bone
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Old June 10, 2003, 10:10   #32
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ONLY in Sweden I pressume

I certainly hope so! But it's funny and contaminates your mind for a long time after listening to it.
If you dare, you can listen to it here: http://www.crapfromthepast.com/favor...ds/caramba1.rm
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Old June 10, 2003, 10:37   #36
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could be usefull

One hit wonders

/me hopes this is the right thread
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Can't say they have done any other hit IMHO
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Old June 10, 2003, 10:47   #38
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Can't say they have done any other hit IMHO
They are supposed to be more popular in Asia than in Europe.. However, IMO this was a typical one-hit-wonder
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nice link alva, but it´s got its weaknesses:

Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger
Status Quo - Pictures of Matchstick Men
Janis Joplin - Me And Bobby McGee
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science
Nena - 99 Luftballons (99 Red Balloons)
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax
Kate Bush - Running Up that Hill

some examples. I´d say none of them qualifies as a one hit wonder.
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Old June 10, 2003, 11:24   #41
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I certainly hope so! But it's funny and contaminates your mind for a long time after listening to it.
If you dare, you can listen to it here: http://www.crapfromthepast.com/favor...ds/caramba1.rm
I just got it, auch, wtf , it is pretty funny though, I might keep it
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I know, I went through the whole list and did the on many occasions
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One-hit wonders abound in opera and classical music!

Probably the most famous one-hit wonder is Georges Bizet. Carmen is indisputably among the most popular operas ever written, but does anyone know anything else he did? Not likely. Les Pecheurs des Perles is a good opera, but not often done (although the tenor-baritone duet "Au fond du temple saint" is a regular concert piece).

Two notable OHW are often performed together: the one-act operas I Pagliacci by Leoncavallo and Cavelleria Rusticana by Mascagni. The former is famous for the tenor aria "Vesti la giubba" (the crying clown), the later for its celebrated orchestral Intermezzo and the Easter Chorus. Nothing else these guys wrote ever came close to these works (attempts to elevate clunkers like Zaide and The Cherry Picker to their level are met with derision).

Among other operatic one-hit wonders is Weber's Die Freischeutz, Montemezzi's L'Amore del Tre Re, and Ponchielli's La Gioconda (justly famous for the Dance of the Hours, used in Disney's Fantasia, and the tenor aria "Cielo e mar."). Other composers also ended up with only one successful opera, but had other musical credits to their name (Beethoven, Delibes, Saint-Saens, Stravinsky, Debussy).

The best-known one-hit wonder in non-operatic music I can think of is Carl Orff, with his Carmina Burana. While orchestras have tried to put on the rest of his cantata trio of which it is part, the other two cantatas are met with reactions of bafflement and distaste.

Other classical composers who have single pieces remembered and the rest ignored include Pachelbel ("Canon in D"), Albinoni (Adagio in G Minor), Dukas ("The Sorcerer's Apprentice"), and Kachaturian (the perennially irritating "Sabre Dance").
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Sadly, I remember Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot from my school days. It was quite painfully popular in my class, and I still remember one poor dope who transcribed all the "lyrics", Xeroxed them and passed them around. It's the pain that never quite goes away.

I only remember one Modern English song, Life in a Northern Town, which I still love. And since the USA never heard anything about Dexy's Midnight Runners before or after Too-Rye-Ay came out, I will classify Come On Eileen as a one-hit-wonder for my purposes.
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"I only remember one Modern English song, Life in a Northern Town, which I still love."

You idjit!!! Dream Factory did Life In a Northern Town... modern english did "I Melt With You"...

I am the king of one-hit wonders from the eighties - I guarantee it. I have practically all the songs mentioned, plus ones you've never even thought of.
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That's the first song that came to mind, alva.

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D'oh! Monolith94, I humbly bow down before your superior knowledge and confess that I richly deserve the title of Big Fat Idiot for that mistake. My only defense is that I have "Hubba hubba zoot zoot / Hayba heeba zut zut / A num num" stuck in my head.
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As an Austrian you still get to hear it.
Just like Falco - Amadeus (I guess internationally he was a one hit wonder, maybe you know the Komissar too)
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That song was subject to the weirdest cover I've ever heard in my life. It was done by a Yugoslav band called, IIRC, Laibach, which as near as I could tell was a neo-Nazi outfit of some stripe. They turned a bouncy, meaningless pop tune into a sturm und drang lament for the lost Reich. Verrry interestink...but shtupid.
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Hm anyone know that kind of new song I dont know actor or Title of. It has the Nightrider theme in it and later some orient kind of music (turkey or siminlar comes to mind) and its something you would expect from prodigy.

I suppose it is a one-hit-wonder too. Since I cant remember the group which made it.
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Hm anyone know that kind of new song I dont know actor or Title of. It has the Nightrider theme in it and later some orient kind of music (turkey or siminlar comes to mind) and its something you would expect from prodigy.

I suppose it is a one-hit-wonder too. Since I cant remember the group which made it.
most likely you mean Punjabi MC. time will tell if they will stay successful or we´ll have another one hit wonder.
edit: hi Andz, seems you were faster
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That song was subject to the weirdest cover I've ever heard in my life. It was done by a Yugoslav band called, IIRC, Laibach, which as near as I could tell was a neo-Nazi outfit of some stripe. They turned a bouncy, meaningless pop tune into a sturm und drang lament for the lost Reich. Verrry interestink...but shtupid.
Laibach totally rules. they also have completely covered the Beatles album Let It Be and Queens One Vision.
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