Top 10 1960's-70's One Hit Wonders

[hawk11]

Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes - Edison Lighthouse
Burning Bridges - The Mike Curb Congregation
Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye - Steam
Beach Baby - First Class
Come And Get Your Love - Redbone
Undercover Angel - Alan O'Day
Get Together - The Youngbloods
Arizona - Mark Lindsay
Rock Me Gently - Andy Kim
Smile A Little Smile For Me - The Flying Machine

 

[joe]

Psychotic Reaction-The Count Five(1966)
A Question Of Tempature-The Ballon Farm(1967)
Open My Eyes-Nazz(1968)
Venus-Shocking Blue(1969)
War-Edwin Starr(1970)
American Pie-Don McLean(1971)
Spiders And Snakes-Jim Stafford(1974)
Driver's Seat-Sniff 'N the Tears(1978)
Children Of The Sun-Billy Thorpe(1979)
Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft-Klaatu(1976)

 

[LG]

Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes - Edison Lighthouse
Burning Bridges - The Mike Curb Congregation
Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye - Steam
Beach Baby - First Class
Come And Get Your Love - Redbone
Undercover Angel - Alan O'Day
Get Together - The Youngbloods
Arizona - Mark Lindsay
Rock Me Gently - Andy Kim
Smile A Little Smile For Me - The Flying Machine

Psychotic Reaction-The Count Five(1966)
A Question Of Tempature-The Ballon Farm(1967)
Open My Eyes-Nazz(1968)
Venus-Shocking Blue(1969)
War-Edwin Starr(1970)
American Pie-Don McLean(1971)
Spiders And Snakes-Jim Stafford(1974)
Driver's Seat-Sniff 'N the Tears(1978)
Children Of The Sun-Billy Thorpe(1979)
Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft-Klaatu(1976)

Feeling lazy this morning so I will just pick from your two lists.

Of the 20 songs posted, Redbone's "Come and Get Your Love" and Klaatu's "Calling Occupants...." and Sniff & The Tears "Driver's Seat" would be my favorites. I have most of these one hit wonders scattered on various compilation CD's

 

[snowblue]

American Pie-Don McLean(1971)

Wasn't Vincent (1972) a hit in the US or Canada? It was number one in the UK.

 

[LOU/REALM]

Your right Snowblue...this thread is a bit confusing as some songs were one off hits in one country and not another......... "One hit wonders" are generally artists who topped the charts and dissapeared or failed to chart again. So I guess i have to stick to the UK chart.........and do some research....and be back later

 

[Death on Credit]

The whole one hit wonder thing is kind of funny, because all of these are one hit wonders...

1. All Along the Watchtower - the Jimi Hendrix Experience
2. Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed
3. Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon
4. Bang A Gong (Get it on) - T. Rex
5. Because the Night - Patti Smith

And then there are these far less surprising choices...
6. Psychotic Reaction - Count Five
7. We Ain't Got Nothing Yet - the Blues Magoos
8. Dirty Water - the Standells
9. Pushin' Too Hard - the Seeds
10. Hey Joe - the Leaves

 

[rtbuck]

Great lists Joe & Hawk (A lot of great songs)


10 was difficult!! ...first off though hats off to singer Tony Burrows!!

Burrows sang lead vocals for Edison Light House(Love Grows), First Class (Beach Baby), White Plains (My Baby Loves Lovin'), Brotherhood of Man (United We Stand) & the Pipkins (Gimme Dat Ding)!!!!

My Top 10

Love Grows(Where my Rosemary Goes) by Edison Lighthouse

Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' by Crazy Elephant

Hitching a Ride by Vanity Fair

Timothy by the Buoys

Dirty Water by the Standells

How Do You Do by Mouth & McNeal

Little Bit of Soul by the Musical Explosion

Beach Baby by First Class

Chevy Van by Sammy Johns

In No Order Honorable Mentions:

Afternoon Delight by Starland Vocal Band
Tobacco Road by The Blues Magoos
Psychotic Reaction by the Count 5
Little Black Egg by the Nightcrawlers
Moonlight Feels Right by Starbuck
Heartbeat is a Lovebeat by the DeFranco Family
Rock Me Gently by Andy Kim
Walking in Rhythm by the Blackbyrds
Billy Don't Be a Hero by Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods
Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks
Wildfire by Michael Murphy
The Night Chicago Died by Paperlace
Jeans On by David Dundas
I Had Too Much To Dream Last night by Moby Grape
Undercover Angel by Alan O'Day

 

[hawk11]

Great picks Buck and Joe and would say that a lot of these songs bring back memories for us old farts

A few others that I didn't see listed :

Don't Pull Your Love - Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum
One Toke Over the Line - Brewer & Shipley
Ride Captain Ride - Blues Image
Smokin' in the Boys Room - Brownsville Station

 

[snowblue]

This is harder than it looks...................

From the UK charts -

Fire - The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (1968)
Je t'aime...moi non plus - Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg (1969)
Something In The Air - Thunderclap Newman (1969)
Grandad - Clive Dunn (1971)
Eye Level - Simon Park Orchestra (1973)
Barbados - Typically Tropical (1975)
Uptown Top Ranking - Althea & Donna (1978)
Matchstalk Men And Matchstalk Cats And Dogs - Brian & Michael (1978)
Are 'Friends' Electric? - Tubeway Army (1979)
One Day At A Time - Lena Martell (1979)

I remember them all and some I'd love to forget!

 

[R. Evans]

Sorry to be a stickler but Redbone wasn't a one-hit wonder. They charted prior to Come And Get Your Love with this gem: