IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
Know "The Morning After". Don't know the other.
Are They A One-Hit Wonder?
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scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
That was used in the movie The Poseidon Adventure.
Channel98
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I wrote about Edward Meeker after Mister sadchild wrote about Henry Lee Summer and I called Meeker "Henry" instead of "Edward." Now you can see how easily distracted I am. I can.....umm......what are we talking about again? Oh yeah, one-hit wonders. Here is another one: King Floyd. Yes, that was his real name. He was actually King Floyd III. After releasing seven unsuccessful singles, 1965-69, he finally had a hit with Groove Me, which went to number one on the R&B chart and #6 on the Hot 100 in January 1971. Three months later he reached #5 on the R&B chart and #29 on the Hot 100 with Baby Let Me Kiss You. Does anyone remember Baby Let Me Kiss You? I don't think so.
Some trivia for you: Floyd's first single, Walkin' & Talkin', was released on Art Laboe's Original Sound label in September 1965. It was re-released in January 1966 by Uptown Records, which was a subsidiary of Tower Records, which was a subsidiary of Capitol.
Some trivia for you: Floyd's first single, Walkin' & Talkin', was released on Art Laboe's Original Sound label in September 1965. It was re-released in January 1966 by Uptown Records, which was a subsidiary of Tower Records, which was a subsidiary of Capitol.
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
I don't think I have seen that movie in it's entirety. I have seen pieces of it. I watched the scene with Leslie Neilson on the bridge as captain and kept waiting for him to deliver his deadpan one liners. He never did.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
I think it was the first big-budget disaster film. And it made Shelly Winters a household name.
Jon
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He was actually a serious actor before Airplane, just the deadpan humor was what made the role in that movie. He played a similar role in a guest spot in
M A S H where there was little humor involved.
Channel98
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Leslie Nielsen played Colonel Buzz Brighton in the January 21 1973 M*A*S*H episode "The Ringbanger." The title is a corruption of "ringknocker," a pejorative term for graduates of the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. Nielsen was billed as "special guest star." No other guest star on M*A*S*H was ever given that honor.
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M*A*S*H S01E16
Hawkeye and Trapper operate on a famous Colonel - after discovering that he is particularly ruthless about sacrificing his men, they come up with a scheme to get him sent back to the states with a little unwitting help from Frank, Margaret, and a drunk Henry.
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Aaron
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Agreed that it’s the movie she’s remembered for, less remembered is that she had already won 2 Oscars before that for A Patch of Blue, and the Diary of Anne Frank.
sadchild
Dude
That's how I feel when I watch the film Nuts with Barbra Streisand and Richard Dreyfuss. She's a hooker, Leslie's the john. I just can't see him in a film without waiting for the joke.... but it never happens.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
I remember she was considered a "big name" (or perhaps a has-been) to appear in the movie, but I was too young to know what she was famous for.
Aaron
Moderator
No recollection of them either.
sadchild
Dude
Mims
#1 "This Is Why I'm Hot"
#32 "Like This"
Billboard knows he had two top 40 hits but still called him a one-hit wonder:
MIMS told the world “This Is Why I’m Hot,” and sizzled at the No. 1 spot for two weeks in March 2007. The Jamaican rapper’s next single, July 2007’s “Like This,” only went as high as No. 32. Not quite as hot.
#1 "This Is Why I'm Hot"
#32 "Like This"
Billboard knows he had two top 40 hits but still called him a one-hit wonder:
MIMS told the world “This Is Why I’m Hot,” and sizzled at the No. 1 spot for two weeks in March 2007. The Jamaican rapper’s next single, July 2007’s “Like This,” only went as high as No. 32. Not quite as hot.
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
If a hit is forgotten, is it still a hit? It was a hit but once designated a hit does it remain a hit?
sadchild
Dude
Good hit question hit I'm hit not hit sure hit.
Kidding... a hit remains a hit, but subjectively it can be forgotten and no longer considered popular. And in reverse, some songs are subjectively hits that never made the top 40 like "What I Like About You", "I Melt With You" and "Stairway To Heaven" (the last one never charted and wasn't even a single)
Kidding... a hit remains a hit, but subjectively it can be forgotten and no longer considered popular. And in reverse, some songs are subjectively hits that never made the top 40 like "What I Like About You", "I Melt With You" and "Stairway To Heaven" (the last one never charted and wasn't even a single)
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
Stairway would have been if Billboard used playlists of high school dances as input as well as radio airplay and sales.
Channel98
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I remember Crispian St. Peters' The Pied Piper but I never heard his version of You Were On My Mind, That song was first recorded by Ian & Sylvia in 1963 and was a #3 hit for We Five in September 1965. The Pied Piper was originally a hit for the Changin' Times in November 1965. It reached #8 on the KFWB Fabulous Forty, #9 on the KHJ Boss 30 and #14 on the KRLA Tune-dex but got to only #87 nationally. KFWB and KRLA played Crispian St. Peters' version in 1966 but KHJ never did, even though the song got to #4 nationally. There were many big national hits that KHJ never played.
Aaron
Moderator
I know the #4 song from 60’s radio