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?

[rose2008-2008]

They may have done an album but yes im sure that was the only hit!!!. Catchy that one was.

[calibra101]

Apart from most of the X Factor winners I will go for .....

Charlene.....Ive never been to me. I actually like this song 🙂

[saasher2012]

Yes very, I don't recall her making another hit over here, but I loved her hair very in vogue at the time.

[saasher2012]

I'm not sure about this one but it has me in tears every time I hear it! Sniff,gulp, waaaaaaaa!
Un break my heart, Tony Braxton.

[wskneil]

"Thank you very much "  was by The Scaffold, who also had hits with Lily the Pink and Liverpool Lou. And they also recorded the theme tune to the Liver Birds. 

[calibra101]

A few more I can think of.

Kelly Marie.....It Feels Like I'm In Love

Bloodhound Gang.......Bad Touch  (Do it Like They Do on the Discovery Channel)

Jim Diamond....I Should Have Known Better

Nina.......99 Red Balloons.

My my they take me back a bit lol.

[rose2008-2008]

Marilyn -- Im calling your Name.

Sabrina --  Boys

Althea and Donna --- Uptown Topranking (i used to adore that record)

O.K Fred --  Errol Dunkley (another fav of mine)

[wskneil]

Thanks for reminding me of "Uptown Topranking" . Just spent a happy half hour listening to
1) Im still in love with you by  Alton Ellis, leading to

2) Im still in love with you boy by Marcia Aitken leading  to
3) Three piece suit and Thing by Trinity

And then to various other obscure bits of dancehall / bluebeat /ska /rocksteady and dub. Forgot how much I love reggae... time to dig out the trojan boxed sets!

[rose2008-2008]

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@wskneil wrote:

Thanks for reminding me of "Uptown Topranking" . Just spent a happy half hour listening to
1) Im still in love with you by  Alton Ellis, leading to

2) Im still in love with you boy by Marcia Aitken leading  to
3) Three piece suit and Thing by Trinity

And then to various other obscure bits of dancehall / bluebeat /ska /rocksteady and dub. Forgot how much I love reggae... time to dig out the trojan boxed sets!

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Power to you wsneil. My favourite music is Reggae. And i loved Ska,The Specials especially. All those Two Tone Records!!. Memories awww. I used to like that Reggae song Money in My Pocket aswell, thats a good one.

[bantara-161]

Three six nine

The monkey drank wine etc...

The Clapping Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfmpykW-IfY

[bankhaunter]

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@5129frederick wrote:

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.

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That was taken from a children's playground song.

[ginap.123]

My favourite music is still reggae, play it all the time from the original 70s ska/two tone/reggae to all the UB40 tracks. Seen them many times in concert but not so keen since Ali Campbell left

[wskneil]

Had a girlfriend living in Stoke Newington in the early 80s and in the evenings she worked in a pub with a reggae sound system ... deafeningly loud with all the latest white labels from Jamaica, and a string of DJs toasting over them. What with that and sharing a house with a DJ who got regular deliveries of white labels from St Pauls in Bristol, and far to many nights spent at blues around Bradford drinking Red Stripe  or Guiness, eating goat curry or saltfish and akee and inhaling the fragrant herbal substances being smoked, I got heavily into dub reggae. And then started moving back to its roots. Lost my collection of whites a long time back but youtube is helping me rediscover them.

[calibra101]

i love ska as well. In fact one of the first records I bought was The Specials....Gangsters.

I also love this track although not ska it was Steves only no.1 UK hit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpJ0cyXbMbI

[rose2008-2008]

I had a listen to Money In My Pocket on Youtube yesterday. It was by Dennis Brown. And Janet Kay singing Silly Games,,ohhh i love them. I also love UB40 and i listened to their song Impossible Love,, its such a Beautiful Song and it got me singing along. Ali Campbell is such a great singer too in his own right!!.

[wskneil]

Forgot to post this earlier in the week but for all the FHG Reggae fans, try David Rodigans show on R2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0495p81

[carolyorkie2010]

I like "Red, Red, Wine" by UB40; am a big fan of Reggae.

Apart from "Sugar, Sugar" (which I still love for personal reasons) did the Archies sing anything else?

[5129frederick]

Talking about children's playground songs, does anybody know the title to the song sung at the start of the police series - a few years ago now, Rockcliff's Babies?  Listened hard as I could, I couldn't understand one word of what they were singing.  Whatever it was, though, it sounded quite catchy.

[wskneil]

Rock-a-bye baby in a tower block
Your mum's on the social , dads in the dock
Your mums in arrears so the council will call
Down will come mother, baby and all.

Rock-a-bye baby you're not to blame
Your dad's doing time and mums on the game
When Dads let out your mother will fall.
You'll have a kid sister, cradle and all.