[78-L] It's One-Hit Wonder Day! (must be some 78s that qualify)

Sun Sep 25 12:03:09 PDT 2011

Ma! (He's Making Eyes At Me) ? Is this the exact same song (lyrics version) that Annette Funicello did in either 1959 or 1960 which was the flip side of Taul Paul? I just wondered....

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>> Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:33:28 +0100
>> From: ampex354 at gmail.com
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] It's One-Hit Wonder Day! (must be some 78s that qualify)
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>> I can think of a one-hit wonder who didn't record a 78 but whose hit 1974
>> single contained two songs which both dated from the 78 era:  Lena
>> Zavaroni's 'Ma! (He's making eyes at me)' b/w 'Rock-a-bye your baby with a
>> Dixie melody'; the former from 1921, the latter from 1918.
>> 
>> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Rockined1 <rockined1 at aol.com> wrote:
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>> >
>> > the obvious one------Near You by Francis Craig on Bullet [1947]
>> > Open the Door Richard- Jack McVea BLACK & WHITE  1947
>> >
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>> > From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> > To: 78L <78-L at 78online.com>
>> > Sent: Sun, Sep 25, 2011 10:24 am
>> > Subject: [78-L] It's One-Hit Wonder Day! (must be some 78s that qualify)
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>> > National One-Hit Wonder Day Comes Sept. 25 (VIDEO)
>> > irst Posted: 9/23/11 01:07 PM ET  Updated: 9/23/11 11:28 PM ET
>> > ttp://
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>> > ndy Warhol said everyone gets 15 minutes of fame, but if you ask one-hit
>> > onders, they'll say you're lucky to get 3 minutes and 30 seconds.
>> > Before reality TV started turning ordinary folks into stars, there was no
>> > aster path to the peak of celebrity -- and no more direct route back to the
>> > epths of obscurity -- than being a one-hit wonder.
>> > Granted, there are probably good reasons why folks like Los Del Rio, the
>> > two
>> > iddle-aged Spanish guys who took "Macarena" to No. 1 in 1996, never
>> > followed
>> > p their big hit, and the world was surely okay with making C.W. McCall's
>> > 1976
>> > it "Convoy" the only No. 1 song dedicated to CB radio.
>> > But we come here to praise one-hit wonders, not to bury them. For every
>> > ne-and-done novelty like "Disco Duck" by Rick Dees or annoyingly catchy and
>> > loying tune like Charlene's 1983 smash "I've Never Been To Me," there is a
>> > tone-cold classic like "Funkytown" by Lipps Inc. or "Sex And Candy" by
>> > Marcy
>> > layground.
>> > Music writer Steve Rosen thinks all of them have a place and deserve a
>> > special
>> > ay: Sept. 25 to be exact, which he declared as National One-Hit Wonder Day
>> > in
>> > 990.
>> > Rosen has a special love for those acts who came in, made their statement
>> > and
>> > idn't hang around -- even the embarrassing songs like the aforementioned
>> > Macarena" or even "Afternoon Delight" by the Starland Vocal Band.
>> > "You have to take the kitsch with the classics," he told HuffPost Weird
>> > News.
>> > It's interesting to hear a song like 'Disco Duck' and wonder what people
>> > were
>> > hinking."
>> >
>> > hile many people associate the phrase "one-hit wonder" with what they were
>> > oing when songs like "Seasons In The Sun" by Terry Jacks (1974) or
>> > Unbelievable" by EMF (1991) were big on the charts, Rosen believes their
>> > eyday was the early years of rock.
>> > "Back in the 1950s and 60s, independent record labels ruled rock and there
>> > were
>> > ll sorts of avenues where a catchy song could get played on the radio,"
>> > Rosen
>> > aid. "It left a lot of good music, more than we probably can catalog."
>> > Rosen stopped openly promoting National One-Hit Wonder Day in 2001 after
>> > the
>> > /11 attacks, but the day has lived on without him.
>> > "I was driving from Los Angeles to Las Vegas one time on Sept. 25 -- which
>> > is
>> > lso my birthday -- and I heard a disc jockey announce it was 'National
>> > One-Hit
>> > onder Day,'" Rosen said proudly. "So it's taken a life of its own."
>> > Early on, Rosen had rules about what constitutes a true one-hit wonder.
>> > "I used to be a purist," he confessed. "To me, only a band that had one
>> > chart
>> > it and disappeared could count as a one-hit wonder. However, I've modified
>> > hat opinion. Take Looking Glass. They hit No. 1 in 1972 with 'Brandy
>> > (You're A
>> > ine Girl),' and while they had another hit, 'Jimmy Loves Mary Anne,' a year
>> > ater, it only went to No. 33.
>> > "So, no, the letter of the law says they weren't one-hit wonders, but the
>> > pirit of the law says they were because no one is calling a radio station
>> > sking to hear 'Jimmy Loves Mary Anne.' People don't remember the follow-up
>> > it, they remember the impact of the first song," said Rosen.
>> > Former Looking Glass leader Elliot Lurie, who wrote and sang "Brandy,"
>> > nderstands why he gets lumped into the one-hit wonder box, but has this
>> > hilosophy: "One is better than none."
>> > "If you know the technical definition of a one-hit wonder, we don't
>> > qualify,
>> > ut 'Brandy' just keeps coming back. I don't take offense to the term.
>> > 'Brandy'
>> > till has an impact and it worked. All the parts came together. If I knew
>> > how
>> > o do it again, I would," Lurie said.
>> > By the same token, Rosen doesn't consider the Grateful Dead or Jimi Hendrix
>> > to
>> > e one-hit wonders, even though they had only one song each that hit the top
>> > 40
>> > harts.
>> > And then there are those musicians who have recorded more than one one-hit
>> > onder. For instance, British singer Tony Burrows sang lead on five early
>> > 1970s
>> > op classics: Edison Lighthouse's "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes),"
>> > White
>> > lains' "My Baby Loves Lovin'," The Pipkins' novelty song "Gimme Dat Ding,"
>> > The
>> > irst Class' "Beach Baby" and The Brotherhood of Man's "United We Stand."
>> > Billy Vera is one artist who gets lumped into the one-hit wonder category
>> > ecause his 1986 No. 1 hit "At This Moment" looms so large in his career.
>> > In truth, Vera had four top 40 hits in the 1960s and 1970s before "At This
>> > oment" was played on the popular sitcom "Family Ties" and hit it big. But
>> > he
>> > oesn't mind being miscategorized as a one-hit wonder.
>> > "It doesn't bother me. Every time it gets used -- even on a one-hit wonder
>> > pecial on VH-1 -- I make money," said Vera, who is able to look bemusedly
>> > at
>> > he one-hit wonder tag because he's had a long, varied career that has
>> > included
>> > riting hits for Dolly Parton, leading the house band on George Lopez's
>> > ecently canceled talk show and producing reissue albums of his favorite
>> > bands.
>> > Vera also doesn't think having just one hit is a bad thing.
>> > "A lot of people only have one great hit in them," Vera said. "I suspect
>> > many
>> > f those one-hits were huge, and there is nothing harder to follow than a
>> > big
>> > it because expectations are so high. Sometimes, the follow-up is just a
>> > ewrite of that big hit."
>> > Steven Greenberg is another musician who knows the elusive joy of having
>> > that
>> > ne big moment. In 1980, he was the mastermind behind Lipps Inc., which gave
>> > he world one of the all-time great one-shots with "Funkytown," a dance hit
>> > hat is still played regularly all over the world.
>> > "I don't mind having that one hit," he said. "I call it 'one-hit
>> > wonderful.'"
>> > Greenberg won't discuss how much money he's earned from the song, except to
>> > say
>> > t's allowed him "some creative freedom." For instance, he was able to
>> > produce
>> > nd direct a 1998 documentary called "Funkytown," which followed the careers
>> > of
>> > ive bands from his home town of Minneapolis.
>> > "[The song] is a nice calling card with a certain segment of the
>> > population,"
>> > reenberg acknowledged. "Everyone has a positive response to it. It opens
>> > oors."
>> > Pop culture historian Brent Mann worked in radio during the 1980s, a
>> > fertile
>> > eriod for one-hit wonders like Thomas Dolby, Dexys Midnight Runners and
>> > even
>> > ump N' The Saddle's Three Stooges-themed novelty "The Curly Shuffle."
>> > "Every time I played a one-hit wonder, the phones would ring," said Mann,
>> > uthor of the 2003 book "99 Red Balloons And 100 Other All-Time Great
>> > One-Hit
>> > onders."
>> > Although Mann is a lifelong lover of one-hit wonders and considers Marc
>> > Cohn's
>> > 991 hit "Walking In Memphis" to be the pinnacle, he is pessimistic about
>> > the
>> > uture of this unique part of pop culture history.
>> > "If a radio station can break a song, it gives hope to indie labels, but
>> > the
>> > ormula for ranking has changed," he said. "Now a song can be a hit, but
>> > never
>> > e played on radio -- like Selena Gomez. She gets tons of downloads, but you
>> > on't hear her on the radio."
>> > So if one-hit wonders are a dying breed, Mann believes they should be
>> > enjoyed
>> > nd celebrated -- especially on Sept. 25.
>> > "I say go to YouTube -- it's now the world's largest jukebox -- and plug in
>> > homas Dolby's 'She Blinded Me With Science,' Katrina and the Waves'
>> > 'Walking
>> > n Sunshine' and even Rick Dees' 'Disco Duck,' and just enjoy."
>> >
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