Well... it's like they say: There are 3 good reasons to teach public
school... June, July, and August! Had this discussion come up in, say,
February, I probalby would have been less dedicated to my reply...
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Kevin Lentz
(859) 948-5159
http://www.toymania.com/334archives/ojshut
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>You obviously have too much time on your hands, Kevin! ;-)
>
>Steve
>
>
>Kevin Lentz wrote:
>>I've got some issues with that list myself. Granted, some songs got more
>>play in non-U.S. markets, but it's a U.S. radio station, so I can let them
>>focus on U.S. hits. From a wide perspective, you could look at top-40
>>hits, and define a one-hit wonder as any group that only had one top 40
>>hit. If you do that, only 13 of the 31 artist qualify (and that's letting
>>Ace slide in, even tough Paul Carrack would have later hits with Mike +
>>the Mechanics): Sir Mix-A-Lot, Bobby McFerrin, Right Said Fred, Nena, M,
>>Proclaimers, Deep Blue Something, Ace*, Nick Gilder, Marcy Playground,
>>Crash Test Dummies, Minnie Ripperton, and Rembrants.
>>
>>However, looking at the bands' other songs that charted, many of them were
>>in the lower half of the chart, and I haven't heard a lot of them. So, I'd
>>be willing to broaden the criteria and say any band with only one top-ten
>>hit could qualify, which would add the following artists to the list:
>>Tommy Tutone, Chirs DeBurgh, Paula Cole, Snow, Mr. Big, Alannah Miles, Bob
>>Welch, Matthew Wilder, and Men Without Hats (sorry!), which lets in 22 of
>>their 31 artists. Of course, by that measure, the Rembrants should fall
>>out, because their song only reached #17, but, whatever.
>>
>>The real issues come in with the other 9 artists. First of all, two of
>>them (Weather Girls and Trio) never charted in the top 40 at all. "Raining
>>Men" peaked at # 46, and I can't find any information that "Da Da Da"
>>charted in the U.S. at all. Of course, you could argue that "Raining Men"
>>was a big dance number, or that everyone knows "Da Da Da" from that
>>commercial, but somehow a hit has to be a hit.
>>
>>Even worse, the remaining seven bands not only had other charting hits,
>>they had more than one top ten hit: Nelson, Kris Kross, Jesus Jones,
>>Escape Club, Cutting Crew, C&C Music Factory, and Martika.
>>
>>It's clear to me that WRAL's list is purely arbitrary. I guess it attempts
>>to be a list of bands that most people will only remember one song from,
>>but it's imprecise and faulty even to that end. I know the hits by Nelson
>>& Cutting Crew, even though I don't much care for them.
>>
>>The ultimate irony in WRALs list, though, is that one artist is actually
>>on their one-hit-wonders list TWICE: Martha Wash sings on both C&C Music
>>Factory's "Gonna Make You Sweat" and on Weather Girls' "Raining Men." If
>>that doesn't sum up the inadequacies of their list, I don't know what
>>does.
>>
>>Here's all the gritty details, if anyone cares to look them over: Except
>>where noted, all information is from the 7th Edition of Joel Whitburn's
>>_The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits_, which is current up to 1999 (and a
>>great book to own
Ive had an edition of the book on my shelf since
>>1987).
>>
>>1. Tommy Tutone is listed for "867-5309/Jenny" (#4 1982); they had
>>previously charted with "Angel Say No" (#38 1980).
>>2. Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back" (#1 1992) is his only top 40 hit.
>>3. Paula Cole is listed for "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" (#8 1997);
>>she also charted with "I Don't Want To Wait" (# 11 1998) and "Me" (#35
>>1998).
>>4. Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry Be Happy" (#1 1988) is his only top 40
>>hit.
>>5. Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy" (# 1 1992) is their only top 40 hit.
>>6. Chris DeBurgh is listed for "The Lady In Red" (#3 1987); he previously
>>charted with "Don't Pay the Ferryman" (#34 1983).
>>7. Nena's "99 Luftballons" (#2 1984) is their only top 40 hit.
>>8. Nelson is listed for "Love and Affection" (#1 1990); they also charted
>>with "After the Rain" (#6 1991).
>>9. M's "Pop Muzik" (#1 1979) is his only top 40 hit.
>>10. Kris Kross is listed for "Jump" (#1 1992); they also charted with
>>"Warm It Up" (#13 1992), "Alright" (#19 1993), and "Tonite's Tha Night"
>>(#12 1996)
>>11. The Rembrandts are listed for "I'll Be There For You" (#17 1995); they
>>had previously charted with "Just The Way It Is, Baby" (#14 1991)
>>12. The Proclaimers' "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" (#3 1993) is their only
>>top 40 hit.
>>13. Jesus Jones is listed for "Right Here, Right Now" (#2 1991); they also
>>charted with "Real, Real, Real" (#4 1991).
>>14. The Escape Club is listed for "Wild, Wild West" (#1 1988); they also
>>charted with "Shake for the Sheik" (#28 1989) and "I'll Be There" (#8
>>1991)
>>15. Deep Blue Something's "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (#5 1996) is their only
>>top 40 hit.
>>16. Cutting Crew is listed for "I Just Died In Your Arms" (#1 1987); they
>>also charted with "One for the Mockingbird" (#38 1987) and "I've Been in
>>Love Before" (#9 1987).
>>17. C&C Music Factory is listed for "Make You Sweat" (#1 1991); they also
>>charted with "Here We Go (#3 1991), "Things That Make You Go Hmmm" (#4
>>1991), and "Do You Wanna Get Funky" (#40 1994).
>>18. Ace's "How Long" (#3 1975) is the band's only top-40 hit; vocalist
>>Paul Carrack would later chart 4 times (including 3 top tens) with Mike +
>>The Mechanics.
>>19. Snow is listed for "The Informer" (#1 1993); he also charted with
>>"Girl, I've Been Hurt" (#19 1993)
>>20. Mr. Big is listed for "To Be With You" (#1 1992); they also charted
>>with "Just Take My Heart" (#16 1992) and "Wild World" (#27 1993).
>>21. Nick Gilder's "Hot Child In the City" (#1 1978) is his only top 40
>>hit.
>>22. Alannah Miles is listed for "Black Velvet" (#1 1990); she also charted
>>with "Love Is" (#36 1990)
>>23. Marcy Playground's "Sex and Candy" (#8 1998) is their only top 40 hit.
>>24. Crash Test Dummies' "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" (#4 1994) is their only top 40
>>hit.
>>25. Bob Welch is listed for "Sentimental Lady" (#8 1978); he also charted
>>with "Ebony Eyes" (#14 1978), "Hot Love, Cold World" (#31 1978), and
>>"Precious Love" (#19 1979).
>>26. The Weather Girls' "It's Raining Men" did not make the top 40
>>(according to Wikipedia, it peaked at #46 1982).
>>27. Matthew Wilder's is listed for "Break My Stride" (#5 1984); he also
>>charted with "The Kid's American" (#33 1984).
>>28. Men Without Hats are listed for "Safety Dance" (#3 1983); they also
>>charted with "Pop Goes the World" (#20 1988).
>>29. Trio's "Da Da Da" does not seem to have made the top 40 in the U.S.
>>(according to Wikipedia it was a chart hit in the U.K. and Germany in the
>>1980s, and was "popular" in the U.S. in 1997 after its inclusion in a
>>commercial).
>>30. Minnie Ripperton's "Lovin' You" (#1 1975) is her only top 40 hit.
>>31. Martika is listed for "Toy Soldiers" (#1 1989); she also charted with
>>"More Than You Know" (#18 1989), "I Feel The Earth Move" (#25 1989), and
>>"Love... Thy Will Be Done" (#10 1991).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>-
>>
>>Kevin Lentz
>>(859) 948-5159
>>http://www.toymania.com/334archives/ojshut
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>From: Andrew <awerling@???>
>>>Reply-To: "You can dance,if you want to."
>>><men-without-hats@???>
>>>To: "You can dance, if you want to."
>>><men-without-hats@???>
>>>Subject: Re: [Men Without Hats] local tv station's "weekend list" ...
>>>Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:02:59 -0600
>>>
>>>Maybe we can just blame MtV and everything will be okay again! LOL
>>>
>>>On 7/23/06, moose <moose@???> wrote:
>>>>On 22/7/06 10:19 PM, "Andrew" <awerling@???> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Of course, Men Without Hats wasn't a "one-hit wonder." "Pop Goes the
>>>> > World" made it into the top thirty in the U.S. anyway.
>>>> >
>>>> > Pet peeve I guess.
>>>>
>>>>it amazes me who are classed as 'one hit wonders'... the biggest one
>>>>that
>>>>annoys me is gary numan. maybe he had one big hit over here in the US
>>>>but
>>>>has had 20+ albums in europe and a bucket full of chart singles... and
>>>>is
>>>>still going 28 years later!
>>>>
>>>>'right said fred' on this list had 4 or 5 uk hits... cant remember any
>>>>others.
>>>>
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