Are They A One-Hit Wonder?

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Future Quicksilver Messenger Service lead singer Dino Valenti (real name: Chet Powers) wrote and recorded Let's Get Together in January 1964. The recording remained unreleased until 2011 when it appeared on the CD Get Together: The Lost Recordings. The song, also known as Get Together, has been recorded by more than 100 artists including Jack Jones, Hamilton Camp, Ed Ames, Della Reese, Belinda Carlisle, Lobo, Anne Murray, Ray Stevens, Judy Collins, Jefferson Airplane, Big Mountain, Liquid Blue, the Carpenters, the Kingston Trio, the Dave Clark Five, the Indigo Girls, the Staple Singers and the Mike Curb Congregation.

The biggest version of the song is by the Youngbloods, a folk-rock quartet led by Jesse Colin Young. This reached #62 on the Hot 100 in October 1967. In 1969, after the National Conference of Christians & Jews featured the song in a series of public-service TV commercials, it was re-released and got to #5 in September.

 
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I missed another 1970-1993 "two top 40s" act. Hopefully nobody thinks they rank up there with Nirvana and Pink Floyd.

Champaign
#12 "How Bout Us"
#23 "Try Again"

I know them both and knew them both back in the day. I think both songs still get airplay on "old farts in a coma" radio.
 
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Richie Valens
#2 "Donna"
#22 "La Bamba"
#42 "Come On, Let's Go"

I definitely know La Bamba, especially because of the 1987 cover for the film. I barely recognize "Donna". But I know "Come On Let's Go" (again, probably mostly due to the 1987 cover for the film).
 
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I know all three songs. La Bamba did much better here in Los Angeles than it did nationally. On the KFWB Fabulous Forty for the week ending January 10, 1959, La Bamba was #3, Donna was #2 and the Platters' Smoke Gets In Your Eyes was number one. Come On Let's Go reached #13 on the Fabulous Forty in September 1958. KRTH has had an oldies format since 1972. Until 2013 when all the pre-1964 music was dropped, KRTH played La Bamba every day. KRLA 1110 had an oldies format from 1984 to 1998 and also played La Bamba every day

Here is the first recorded version of La Bamba, by El Jarocho, 1939. His real name was Alvaro Hernando Ortiz. Jarocho is a nickname for anyone from Veracruz. It literally means "brusque" or "ill-mannered."

 
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Ryan Tedder
#7 "Rocketeer" (w/ Far East Movement)
#25 "The Fighter" (w/ Gym Class Heroes)

This is kinda like calling Lyndsey Buckingham and Pete Townshend two-hit wonders. As a solo artist, Ryan has two top 40s. But as OneRepublic he's got 9 of them.

I know the second one, but not the bigger hit.
 
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Sgt Barry Sadler
#1 "The Ballad Of The Green Berets"
#28 "The A Team"

I only know the first song, and only from SXM.

Dude has quite a story. Shot his lover's ex-boyfriend between the eyes and planted a gun in his car. Later he got shot in the head in a taxi cab and was left paraplegic.
 
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Hot Chelle Rae
#7 "Tonight Tonight"
#28 "I Like It Like That" (w/ New Boyz)

2011. No clue.

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