I HAD NO CHOICE IN WHAT I WANTED TO LISTEN TO!
THEY WOULD ALWAYS LISTEN TO ROCK-N-ROLL!!!!!!
THIS WAS AT A TIME WHEN THE BEATLES CAME TO PERFORM ON THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW.
DURING THAT TIME!
THERE WERE SO MANY GREAT ONE HIT WONDERS BACK THEN AND OVER THE YEARS AS WELL.
I DO HOPE THOSE OF YOU FELLOW SPACE TRAVELERS.
CAN PROVIDE SOME INSIGHT AND INFORMATION ON THOSE WHO HAVE COME!
AND GONE!
I HEARD THAT MOST ARTISTS EITHER LEFT OR BROKE UP EITHER BECAUSE OF ARTISTIC DIFFERENCES!
OR BECAUSE THEY RECORDED ON SMALL LABELS THAT THE "BIG BOYS"!
MADE SURE THEIR MUSIC DID NOT GET PLAYED ANY OR AT ALL.
THE LIST OF ARTISTS/GROUPS/DUOS/SINGERS.SONGWRITERS!
HAD THEIR MOMENT IN THE SPOTLIGHT.
AT THE TIME I WAS GROWING UP!
I DID NOT KNOW THESE THINGS AT ALL.
BUT! OVER THE YEARS!
FROM HAVING THE RADIO,RECORD PLAYER, 8-TRACK(S), CASSETTE(S), BILLBOARD (YES! YOU HEARD RIGHT THIS WAS WHEN IT COST $1.00 PER COPY).
THAT REALLY GOT INTO THE MUSIC SCENE.
HOWEVER! THERE WERE ALSO 2-HIT WONDERS AS WELL!
THE ONT THAT COMES TO MIND!
IS THE STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK!
THEIR HITS WERE: BAREFOOT IN BALTIMORE AND INCENSE PEPPERMINT'S.
THERE WAS AN INTERESTING SONG BY THE GROUP OF THE SAME NAME!
YELLOW BALLOON BY THE YELLOW BALLOON.
THE LABEL IT WAS ON "CANTERBURY RECORDS".
WHEN THE VINYL 45 RPM CAME OUT.
IT WAS ON BOTH SIDES!
THE "A" SIDE HAD IT IN NORMAL RECORDING!
BUT! THE "B" SIDE WAS RECORDED BACKWARDS!
ONE HIT WONDERS OF THE 50'S
ON HIT WONDERS OF THE 60'S!
ONE HIT WONDERS OF THE 70'S
IF THE NAMES OF THESE ACTS DON'T SEND YOU TO THE FLOOR ROTFLOL!!!!!
NOTHING WILL!
IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE!
THAT THERE WERE ARTISTS THAT WANTED TO MAKE REAL ROCK-N-ROLL!
BUT! ONLY MADE SOFT SOUNDS (PRE-SOFT ROCK!).
THEN!WE HAD GROUPS THAT SNUCK ON SOME RELIGIOUS SONGS
PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC-ARE YOU READY?
THE WEDDING SONG (WHERE THERE IS LOVE) BY NOEL PAUL STOOKEY AND OTHERS.
SONGWRITER WHO WROTE FOR THE MONKEES
THIS!!!! WILL SURPRISE YOU!!!!!
THERE IS A SONGWRITING TEAM OF BOYCE & HART.
THEY ALSO WRITE THE THEME (WITH OTHERS!) OF THE SOAP OPERA "DAYS OF OUR LIVES"!
ANOTHER TYPE OF ARTISTS!
WERE 3-HIT WONDERS!
ANOTHER!
KEITH:AIN'T GONNA LIE, 98.6, THE TEENY BOPPER SONG.
I LOVED HOW THE SONG 98.6 STARTED!
IT STARTED WITH A PIANO INTRO SOUNDING LIKE AN OPENING THROUGH THE GATES OF HEAVEN!
THEN! IT BEGAN WITH THAT ROCK SOUND.
THERE WAS ANOTHER TYPE OF!!!!!!!
I GUESS YOU COULD SAY SEMI-ONE HIT WONDERS!
THERE WERE OR ARE!
SONGS BY THE SONGWRITERS THAT ALSO RECORDED AS WELL.
BUT! THE WAY THE RECORDING INDUSTRY PROMOTED THEM!
WELL! IF YOU HEARD SOME OF THEIR SONGS!
YOU WOULD BE SHOCKED TO FIND OUT WHO WROTE IT!
LIKE! BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN'S BLINDED BY THE LIGHT!
MAN FRED MANN RECORDED IT!
BUT! IF YOU HEARD "THE BOSS'S" VERSION.
WELL!!!!!!!!!!
THE FIRST RECORDING OF THE SONG DO WAH DITTY WAS BY THE EXCITERS.
BUT! MANN FRED MANN WANTED AN EXTRA DITTY TO IT AND MADE IT HIT! DO WAH DITTY DITTY:
DO WAH DITTY DITTY
