Most Memorable 70’s One Hit Wonder

[qtlaw]

The most memorable to you, not of all time.

For me it was Hues Corporation, “Don’t rock the Boat”; just a good time of my youth, summer time mid 70’s.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Hooked on a Feeling - Blue Swede

 

[DanOregon]

 

[heyabbott]

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Not a one-hit wonder exactly, but their biggest hit by far.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

Anything by Tony Burrows: was the lead singer on four one-hit wonders: Love Grows by Edison Lifehouse; My Baby Loves Loving by White Plains; Gimme Dat Thing by the Pipkins and Beach Baby by First Class.

 

[User 150927]

Sometimes When We Touch. That is all.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Sandford-Townsend Band, 'Smoke From a Distant Fire."

 

[lakefront]

 

[Songbird]

This has gotten a ton of play among the YouTube League of Reactionaries. It's better now than it was then.

 

[MTM]

 

[FileNotFound]

This song came up in a discussion about “Bad songs our parents loved” between me and my friends. Surely the only Top-40 song that ever featured a xylophone solo.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Actually, it's a marimba. Similar member of the percussion family.

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Gotta think on this subject ...

 

[qtlaw]

Anything by Tony Burrows: was the lead singer on four one-hit wonders: Love Grows by Edison Lifehouse; My Baby Loves Loving by White Plains; Gimme Dat Thing by the Pipkins and Beach Baby by First Class.

Wow, had no idea.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

1) "How Long" – Ace (Lead singer: Paul Carrack, later one of the lead singers for Mike + The Mechanics)
2) "Vehicle" – The Ides of March (Sounds like something from the Blood, Sweat & Tears cutting room floor)
3) "City of New Orleans" – Arlo Guthrie (One of the few non-Eagles tracks people tried to cover in their living room with a guitar.)
4) "You Light Up My Life" – Debby Boone (Could NOT get away from this one ... not a favorite, but just ... omnipresent.)
5) "Ring My Bell" – Anita Ward (One of my regular overseers at the child care center LOVED this track. I've certainly heard worse.)

 

[Spartan Squad]

Not for Clapton but for Derek and the Dominos

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Oh, c’mon. Y’all already know there’s only one correct answer here.

 

[Neutral Corner]

 

[Spartan Squad]

Oh, c’mon. Y’all already know there’s only one correct answer here.