Are They A One-Hit Wonder?

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Well, I guess I'll just leave it alone. Because we can't see eye to eye. There ain't no good guy. There ain't no bad guy. It's only that Canada musta totally slept on that song. It's an absolute classic and radio staple here in Des Etats Unis.

As I have mentioned before, I did not actively listen to radio until 1978. I just checked this song was in 1977. It's not one of the classics that got played again on top 40 radio so I likely missed it. If you want to go by chart positions, he's a 2 hit wonder.

 

[Channel98]

RPM magazine – the initials stood for "Records, Promotion, Music" – was published weekly in Toronto from 1964 to 2000 and featured Canadian music charts, eh? We Just Disagree reached #14 on the December 3 1977 Top 100, eh? (Debby Boone's You Light Up My Life was number one.) We Just Disagree got to #10 on the RPM adult contemporary chart, eh?

A version by Billy Dean reached #9 on Billboard's country chart in February 1994. Bob Dylan sang the song in several of his concerts in 1980-81.

 

[sadchild]

As I have mentioned before, I did not actively listen to radio until 1978. I just checked this song was in 1977. It's not one of the classics that got played again on top 40 radio so I likely missed it. If you want to go by chart positions, he's a 2 hit wonder.

Just to let you in on the joke, earlier when I said, "Well, I guess I'll just leave it alone. Because we can't see eye to eye. There ain't no good guy. There ain't no bad guy." - those are the lyrics to the song. I wasn't being testy!

 

[scotchandcigar]

Just to let you in on the joke, earlier when I said, "Well, I guess I'll just leave it alone. Because we can't see eye to eye. There ain't no good guy. There ain't no bad guy." - those are the lyrics to the song. I wasn't being testy!

That I understood.

 

[sadchild]

I was saying to IRBS who is unfamiliar with the song.

 

[HecticArt]

Just to let you in on the joke, earlier when I said, "Well, I guess I'll just leave it alone. Because we can't see eye to eye. There ain't no good guy. There ain't no bad guy." - those are the lyrics to the song. I wasn't being testy!

I chuckled. We don't have a COL emoji, so you didn't know it.

 

[sadchild]

Robin Gibb
#15 "Oh Darling"
#37 "Boys Do Fall in Love"

The second one is on today's VJ Big 40. He doesn't sound like a BeeGee at all. Sounds like a Brit-pop rocker like Julian Cope or Richard Butler.

I don't know the first one (it's a Beatles cover featured in the Sgt Pepper movie).

 

[sadchild]

Tony Carey
#22 "A Fine, Fine Day"
#33 "The First Day of Summer"

I don't really know (or like) either of these songs. Didn't know 'em back then either. The second one is on today's VJ Big 40.

But his not-top-40 song "Why Me?" (under the name Planet P Project) is awesome! I loved it back then and still love it now.

 

[Aaron]

Robin Gibb
#15 "Oh Darling"
#37 "Boys Do Fall in Love"

The second one is on today's VJ Big 40. He doesn't sound like a BeeGee at all. Sounds like a Brit-pop rocker like Julian Cope or Richard Butler.

I don't know the first one (it's a Beatles cover featured in the Sgt Pepper movie).

I only know Robin’s version from the Sgt Pepper movie, which was a crappy movie lol

 

[Aaron]

Tony Carey
#22 "A Fine, Fine Day"
#33 "The First Day of Summer"

I don't really know (or like) either of these songs. Didn't know 'em back then either. The second one is on today's VJ Big 40.

But his not-top-40 song "Why Me?" (under the name Planet P Project) is awesome! I loved it back then and still love it now.

I don’t recall either song from back in the day, but I’ve heard the higher ranked song a few times on the countdowns.

 

[sadchild]

Blackbyrds
#6 "Walking In Rhythm"
#19 "Happy Music"

Grew up liking the #6. Don't know the #19.

 

[Aaron]

Same here

 

[Channel98]

Walking In Rhythm got to #6 on the KHJ Thirty, April 19 1975 – but KHJ never played Happy Music. Neither did KIIS. Neither did KRLA. Neither did KIQQ. I know the song because it was played on Los Angeles' three R&B stations. In April 1976 It got to #4 on KGFJ and #5 on KDAY and was also played on "Kute 102" KUTE (which was actually at 101.9). KUTE published a weekly list of the top 25 R&B albums. The Blackbyrds' City Life got to #8.

 

[sadchild]

Lil Zane
#15 "Anywhere" (w/ 112)
#21 "Callin' Me" (w/ 112)

I know "Callin' Me" and a couple other singles from that album. But I don't know "Anywhere" (which was on 112's album and he's the guest)

 

[Channel98]

Diana King

Shy Guy reached #13 in July 1995 and was included on the soundtrack of the Will Smith/Martin Lawrence movie Bad Boys. Her only other top-40 hit, I Say A Little Prayer, was a remake of a Burt Bacharach/Hal David song that was a #4 hit in 1967 for Dionne Warwick and a #10 hit in 1968 for Aretha Franklin. King's version was part of the soundtrack to the Julia Roberts movie My Best Friend's Wedding. This got to #38 in September 1997.

 

[sadchild]

Earlier in the thread we talked about bands with more than two top 40s that have been called a one-hit wonder.

Information Society fits into that category.

From Pop Matters:
Information Society was, essentially, a one-hit wonder in the late 1980s with “What’s on Your Mind (Pure Energy)”...

Actual stats:
#3 "What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)"
#9 "Walking Away"
#28 "Think"

 

[scotchandcigar]

Earlier in the thread we talked about bands with more than two top 40s that have been called a one-hit wonder.

Information Society fits into that category.

From Pop Matters:
Information Society was, essentially, a one-hit wonder in the late 1980s with “What’s on Your Mind (Pure Energy)”...

Actual stats:
#3 "What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)"
#9 "Walking Away"
#28 "Think"

I only know What's On Your Mind. The other 2 may get play on First Wave, but they don't sound familiar to me.

 

[sadchild]

I hear "Walking Away" once in a blue moon on narrow broadcasts (like 80s on 8/VJ Big 40, First Wave, synthpop-related podcasts/playlists, etc). I heard "Think" on the radio almost daily for a couple months when it came out, then never again (unless I'm the one playing it).

 

[sadchild]

Addrisi Brothers
#20 "Slow Dancin' Don't Turn Me On"
#25 "We've Got To Get It On Again"

The #20 song was on this week's extra Casey Countdown. I don't know either song and have never heard of these guys. Subjectively a zero hit wonder?

 

[Channel98]

I know both songs. KHJ in Los Angeles played them. Slow Dancin' Don't Turn Me On never made their Top 30 but We've Got To Get It On Again reached #14 in the week of June 7, 1977. Don and Dick Addrisi wrote trhe Association's 1967 #2 hit Never My Love. They recorded their own version for their 1977 album Slow Dancin'.