One hit wonders

[5129frederick]

Making that quip about Rolf Harris' Two Little Boys got me wondering about other celebrities who sang a couple of numbers and then feded into the sunset never to be heard of again.

Let's start off with Two Little Boys, then

Grandad with Clive Dunn,

All Around My Hat - an Irish group,

Whispering Grass with Bon Estell and Windsor Davies,

Thank You Very Much (for the Aintree Irons),

Winchester Cathedral,

Domonique, by some singing French nun with a guitar,

The chimes of Suki Yaki - a Japaneses group, sung in both Japanese and English,

I remember Natalie, by Bob Monkhouse.

Any others?

[dark_castle1]

Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum

[dark_castle1]

Or the one that reached number one in the UK charts on the year I was born  just the day before -

Little Things Mean A Lot - Kitty Kallen

[5129frederick]

Shud Ubber Your Face - don't take it personally!

Let's twist again - Pinky and Perky piglets

Hard Day's Night - Peter Sellers

She Loves You - Peter Sellers

My Ding a Ling - Chubby Checker

Stand By Me - Kenny Lynch

[5129frederick]

Can't remember that one - it might be before my time.  I was born in 1948.

[dark_castle1]

It reached number one in 1954 fred

[5129frederick]

That's why I can't remember it - we were out in Cyprus at the time.  I did part of my schooling out there in Nicosia.  I attended an English speaking school where all the troops used to send their kids to school called, how imaginative, THE ENGLISH SCHOOL!  They must have put so much thought into that one!

My father wasn't a soldier.  He worked for B.E.A. - British European Airways at Cyprus Airways but we lived directly behind the army barracks.  I was out there between '48 - '59.  Bill Haley and the Comets were the big thing out there.  Top female singers were Alma Cogan and Maureen Evans - Goodbye Jimmy Goodbye.

[fishpieface]

I have a double CD somewhere with all those cheesy songs like The Birdy Song,

Ernie to name a couple.  We used to listen to it in the car, often wondering if the

next song could be any worse than the current one and it usually was!

[5129frederick]

Chirpy, Chirpy, Cheep, Cheep - 1970

[5129frederick]

I've exhausted all the one hit wonders I can think of, but one in particular has to stand head and shoulders over all the rest - The Clapping Song by Shirley Ellis.  Why?  Because of the words - they are rubbish in capital letters

First verse goes  Three, six, nine, the goose drank wine,

                              The monkey chewed tobacco on the streetcar line,

                              The line broke, the monkey got choked,

                              And we all went to Heaven in a little row boat.

And so it goes on.  Not one single word makes any sense.

[carolyorkie2010]

It was a very catchy song though, Fred; you've got me singing it now, LOL

[cookiecookuk]

freda payne with band of gold was a one hit wonder...

[stroppy*cow]

"All around my hat" wasn't an irish group, it was by Steeleye Span. They also had another record in the charts - Gaudete, and I'm assured by "himself" that Blackjack Davy (the other side of All around my hat) also made the charts.

[rose2008-2008]

I liked All Around My Hat,,, that was good,, and i liked the Clapping song by The Belle Stars in about 1981 or 82 i think?.

I was going to say i dont think it was number one but The Macarena by The Three Tenors. I know they sing in their own right but i liked this catchy tune.

You Think Your A Man by Divine,,he was an actor aswell.

The Ketchup Song by Aserege,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, that was another one i like,never heard of them since,well i have not.

[m25jet]

The Chicken Song - Spitting Image

Just sounds more like a load of random sentences put together so as to make a verse that rhymes - no proper meaning to the song at all! 

[fishpieface]

I was amazed to discover that I could remember that all the way through the other day M25jet.

[023mjc]

Hang on sloopy - the McCoys 1965 (I think)

[saasher2012]

It must have been love! Sorry I can't remember the girl singers name, I liked it !

[rose2008-2008]

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@saasher2012 wrote:
It must have been love! Sorry I can't remember the girl singers name, I liked it !

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Was that the one by Roxette in the eighties Saasher?. It might be,,she was foreign, the blonde i think.

[saasher2012]

Yes Rose that's her! I loved that song, am I right was that her one& only hit over here?