Your Favorite One Hit Wonder

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Your Favorite One Hit Wonder

Posted: 11/1/04 at 2:32pm

So...what are they?

Mine are "Magnet and Steel" by Walter Eagan (best non-Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac song ever!)
"Driver's Seat" by Sniff 'n' The Tears
"Groove Is In The Heart" by Dee-lite!
"Tell Me What's On Your Mind" the Information Society

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re: Your Favorite One Hit Wonder

Posted: 11/1/04 at 2:33pm

Brandy
One Toke Over The Line

Top of my head, those are. There are many more, I'm sure I'll be back...

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#3

re: Your Favorite One Hit Wonder

Posted: 11/1/04 at 2:39pm

George Bush I and II: both one-term wonders--or blunders.

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#4

re: Your Favorite One Hit Wonder

Posted: 11/1/04 at 2:40pm

Argh. Just play the game!

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re: Your Favorite One Hit Wonder

Posted: 11/1/04 at 2:40pm

Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)

"Gotta turn it up louder . . . "

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re: Your Favorite One Hit Wonder

Posted: 11/1/04 at 2:41pm

A few I can think of.

Into The Night - My #1 fav
One Tin Soldier
Precious And Few

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Updated On: 11/1/04 at 02:41 PM

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re: Your Favorite One Hit Wonder

Posted: 11/1/04 at 2:41pm

Oh I LOVE Into the Night!!! Great belt-along tune.

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#8

re: Your Favorite One Hit Wonder

Posted: 11/1/04 at 2:45pm

"The Last Song" by Edward Bear

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#9

re: Your Favorite One Hit Wonder

Posted: 11/1/04 at 2:49pm

http://www.onehitwondercentral.com/index.cfm

#10

re: Your Favorite One Hit Wonder

Posted: 11/1/04 at 2:52pm

I've decided I have too many favorites.

Tainted Love
Beds Are Burning

I think I have all 5 of the ones I listed on 45's.

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I hung out with Cheyenne Jackson in his dressing room waayyyyyy before he tickled D2.

"unleash the girly"

Our fingerprints don't fade from the lives we touch.

Puppies are babies in fur coats.

Tinfoil...The Terrorizing Terminator

#11

re: Your Favorite One Hit Wonder

Posted: 11/1/04 at 2:55pm

I have Dominique on a record album! I love that one, too! I give up.

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I hung out with Cheyenne Jackson in his dressing room waayyyyyy before he tickled D2.

"unleash the girly"

Our fingerprints don't fade from the lives we touch.

Puppies are babies in fur coats.

Tinfoil...The Terrorizing Terminator

#12

re: Your Favorite One Hit Wonder

Posted: 11/1/04 at 2:55pm

"The Night Chicago Died" by Paper Lace...

Although a little Debbie Boone "You Light Up My Life" is always a good one-hit karaoke wonder.

#13

re: Your Favorite One Hit Wonder

Posted: 11/1/04 at 3:01pm

Wow, what an interesting site DGrant brought to our attention! I have never had such an experience of heart-breaking nostalgia and gut-contracting revulsion all at once...thanks!

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"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

#14

re: Your Favorite One Hit Wonder

Posted: 11/1/04 at 3:03pm

I had the 45 of You Light Up My Life. Anyone know what the B side was?

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Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

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re: Your Favorite One Hit Wonder

Posted: 11/1/04 at 3:04pm

Hasta Manana on mine darling Rath.

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Updated On: 11/1/04 at 03:04 PM

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re: Your Favorite One Hit Wonder

Posted: 11/1/04 at 3:15pm

Dancing in Heaven by Q-Feel

Fascinated by Company B

More More More by the Andrea True Connection

#17

re: Your Favorite One Hit Wonder

Posted: 11/1/04 at 3:22pm

Beach Baby - The First Class
One Tin Soldier - Coven

Cue up the ear worms!

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re: Your Favorite One Hit Wonder

Posted: 11/1/04 at 3:24pm

Don't know the real title, but I called it "I'm too Sexy".

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re: Your Favorite One Hit Wonder

Posted: 11/1/04 at 3:28pm

I'm too sexy for my shirt, so sexy it HURTS!!!

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Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#20

re: Your Favorite One Hit Wonder

Posted: 11/1/04 at 3:30pm

Rath...did I answer correctly what was on the B side of You Light Up My Life????

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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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re: Your Favorite One Hit Wonder

Posted: 11/1/04 at 3:31pm

No. I thought you were talking about one of your records.

The B side was He's A Rebel. Odd, eh?

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Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#22

re: Your Favorite One Hit Wonder

Posted: 11/1/04 at 3:33pm

Oh. My. Gah.
"Rump Shaker" by Wrecks-nEffects
I had this single!!!

"All I wanna do is amah-zoom-zoom-zoom and a boom-boom!
Just shake ya rump!"
Man I love early nineties rap lyrics!

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#23

re: Your Favorite One Hit Wonder

Posted: 11/1/04 at 3:34pm

How odd. Maybe there were two versions.

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Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#24

re: Your Favorite One Hit Wonder

Posted: 11/1/04 at 3:37pm

Did you have the LP? I only had the single.

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Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#25

re: Your Favorite One Hit Wonder

Posted: 11/1/04 at 3:37pm

Skee-lo
"I Wish"

"I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a baller, I wish I had a girl who looked good, I would call her..."
Man, I LOVE THIS!

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Word. Word, indeed.