One Hit Wonder Day

[Gimme 4]

Someone mentioned "Convoy"? ☺

My collection.

 

[CPR]

The KNACK: My Sharona

 

[scottm18]

The KNACK: My Sharona

Not really...They had another perverted (ha!) hit with "Good Girls Don't"

 

[scottm18]

Someone mentioned "Convoy"? ☺

My collection.
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Love that Train song on the Real C W McCall release--"Silverton" I think it's called. And of course the sound quality on that release, as for most AG material, is perfection. Interestingly, the remake of "Convoy" has the same production team of the original almost 2 decades earlier, many of the same band members, and what appears to be relatives of the original backup vocalists

 

[Gimme 4]

Grammy Award for Best Original Jazz Composition 1964 and Steve's biggest hit I know of...

A jazz tune, originally intro and outro music for commercial breaks..

Gravy Waltz - Steve Allen

How many used to stay up past our bedtime and sneak watch The Steve Allen Show, the Westinghouse syndicated show "from Hollywood and Vine"?

 

[skywaveTDR]

Hurricane sounds like he belongs on the Gong show. We Five was pretty good. You could put Linda Ronstadt in there easy.

 

[Gimme 4]

Inner Circle - Bad Boys

 

[Sonik Wiz]

Grammy Award for Best Original Jazz Composition 1964 and Steve's biggest hit I know of...

A jazz tune, originally intro and outro music for commercial breaks..

Gravy Waltz - Steve Allen

How many used to stay up past our bedtime and sneak watch The Steve Allen Show, the Westinghouse syndicated show "from Hollywood and Vine"?

Oh man that was so good to hear. First time I heard was maybe a 100 years ago, two times tonight. Big fan of Stevearino (SIC?) and all the great people on his show. As I remember he did a piano number every episode & I think there was Peter Gunn, Take 5, Baby Elephants Walk. Not all were his obviously. But I read he is credited with composing over 8,000 songs! Well, Monday night here... me thinks I will go downstairs & look for Steve on YT. Thanks.

 

[Gimme 4]

Frummox - There You Go

 

[Obbop]

"One-hit Wonder" ???????

Technically, I am a one-hit wonder.

Got into a fight with a football jock in high school a few decades ago. One hit by him onto my nose and with that ONE mighty blow accompanied by ample pain I WONDERED "What the hell am I doing here???"

I conceded the fight and walked away pleased that the ONE HIT was ample for his Neanderthal needs.

 

[Gimme 4]

Another one from From the "Frummox" LP. The track I heard on the radio one day which compelled me to buy the record.

Steven Fromholz was a great story teller.

 

[5.1 4 Life]

Here's another 'one hit wonder' (in the USA at least); Focus' "Hocus Pocus".

 

[MidiMagic]

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Oh man that was so good to hear. First time I heard was maybe a 100 years ago, two times tonight. Big fan of Stevearino (SIC?) and all the great people on his show. As I remember he did a piano number every episode & I think there was Peter Gunn, Take 5, Baby Elephants Walk. Not all were his obviously. But I read he is credited with composing over 8,000 songs! Well, Monday night here... me thinks I will go downstairs & look for Steve on YT. Thanks.
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Steve Allen had a hit that most people don't know was his:

"Alley Cat (Bjorn)" by Bent Fabric (1963)

The first 45 I bought with my own money when I was a kid. I still have it.

Bent Fabric is a pseudonym of Steve Allen.
Benny Bjorn is a pseudonym of Steve Allen.

 

[Scott65]

What about these?

Tie a Yellow Ribbon on the Old Oak Tree
Knock 3 Times

Very popular in Tasmania.

 

[Scott65]

Mouth & McNeil -

Covered in Australia by Jigsaw.

 

[Scott65]

Covered in Australia by Jigsaw.

 

[Quad Linda]

A girlfriend of mine sometimes jumbles things, as I often do. She once mentioned "Wilson Pickett and the Union Gap!" According to Discogs, Bent Fabric was a person in his own right:

https://www.discogs.com/artist/340208-Bent-Fabric
Associated Press (AP) reported his death:

https://apnews.com/article/music-denmark-copenhagen-entertainment-794eb8e2f690e1034f949f84879bb418
Steve Allen wrote oodles of songs, as you alluded to.
Here's one of his best known:

This Could Be the Start of Something Big
clip from the Steve Allen Show, featuring
Dinah Shore, Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme, Ann Sothern, Steve and Ol' Blue Eyes:

Steve Allen had a hit that most people don't know was his:

"Alley Cat (Bjorn)" by Bent Fabric (1963)

The first 45 I bought with my own money when I was a kid. I still have it.

Bent Fabric is a pseudonym of Steve Allen.
Benny Bjorn is a pseudonym of Steve Allen.

 

[MidiMagic]

A girlfriend of mine sometimes jumbles things, as I often do. She once mentioned "Wilson Pickett and the Union Gap!" According to Discogs, Bent Fabric was a person in his own right:

https://www.discogs.com/artist/340208-Bent-Fabric
Associated Press (AP) reported his death:

https://apnews.com/article/music-denmark-copenhagen-entertainment-794eb8e2f690e1034f949f84879bb418
Steve Allen wrote oodles of songs, as you alluded to.
Here's one of his best known:

This Could Be the Start of Something Big
clip from the Steve Allen Show, featuring
Dinah Shore, Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme, Ann Sothern, Steve and Ol' Blue Eyes:

Odd. There was a story on the news shortly after the record came out saying it was really Steve Allen. I have thought that it was true for years - so much that I didn't bother to google it.

I wonder where the story came from.

 

[kmacleod]

Red Siren - All Is Forgiven

That was the first Non Linear commercial digital recording. Recorded on Hard Disc Drives.

 

[Doug G.]

My sister-in-law is a cousin of Gary Puckett (NOT Wilson Pickett ).

Doug