Are They A One-Hit Wonder?

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I think I have heard Last Song.

 

[Aaron]

In some interview somewhere, Quentin Tarantino referred to Edward Bear as “Canada’s Beatles” (tongue-in-cheek)

I know Last Song

 

[sadchild]

Simple Plan
#24 "Perfect"
#40 "Welcome To My Life"

They've had ten top 40s in Canada from 2003-2012 (five broke into the top 10) but only two here in the US.

I don't know either one. Listened to each one briefly. Too emo for me. But I do have their xmas song "My Christmas List" and it's ok.

 

[sadchild]

Johntá Austin
#9 "Shortie Like Mine" (w/ Bow Wow)
#22 "Outta My System" (w/ Bow Wow)

She's written songs for Mariah Carey, Usher, Jennifer Hudson & Jermaine Dupri. But I don't know her own songs at all.

 

[sadchild]

Starbuck
#3 "Moonlight Feels Right"
#38 "Everybody Be Dancin'"
#43 "I Got To Know"
#43 "Let Me Be"

 

[scotchandcigar]

Starbuck
#3 "Moonlight Feels Right"
#38 "Everybody Be Dancin'"
#43 "I Got To Know"
#43 "Let Me Be"

100% OHW. Moonlight is a big classic hit, with an oddly amazing marimba solo. I never heard Dancin, and didn't bother with the other 2.

 

[HecticArt]

I only remember ever hearing Moonlight.

That's more than I remember for close to half of the entries on this thread.

 

[Channel98]

Public Announcement. R. Kelly's former backing band, reached #5 on the Hot 100 and #4 on the R&B chart in May 1998 with Body Bumpin' Yippie-Yi-Yo. Does anybody remember Mamacita, which got to #7 on the R&B chart in January 2001 but stalled at #39 on the Hot 100? I think not!

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Public Announcement. R. Kelly's former backing band, reached #5 on the Hot 100 and #4 on the R&B chart in May 1998 with Body Bumpin' Yippie-Yi-Yo. Does anybody remember Mamacita, which got to #7 on the R&B chart in January 2001 but stalled at #39 on the Hot 100? I think not!

I don't remember either.

 

[sadchild]

Wikipedia says they had four top 40s...

#5 "Body Bumpin' (Yippie-Yi-Yo)"
#31 "Dedicated"
#39 "Honey Love"
#39 "Mamacita"

...and I don't know a single one! Zero hit wonder?

 

[sadchild]

Boy George
#15 "The Crying Game"
#40 "Live My Life"

Another artist with a ton of hits with his band who then went solo and only had two top 40s. I know "Crying" but not "Live".

 

[sadchild]

Ronny & The Daytonas
#4 "GTO"
#27 "Sandy"

Had their hits during Beatlemania. I don't know either song.

 

[HecticArt]

Who????

 

[sadchild]

No, Ronny & The Daytonas. Not the Who!

Evidently "GTO" was one of several muscle-car hits of the early 60s.

 

[scotchandcigar]

I used to hear G.T.O. on the oldies station, when I was working at my dad's shop in the 70s. The "whah whah's" stand out.

 

[HecticArt]

The Who I know! It's the other yahoo's who I don't know.

 

[Channel98]

I know both songs. Here in Los Angeles, G.T.O. got to #5 on the KFWB Fabulous Forty and #11 on the KRLA Tune-dex in September 1964 and was played on oldies stations in the 1970s-80s-90s-2000s. I never heard Sandy on any oldies stations, though. They mostly played top-ten hits. Here is a remake of G.T.O. from the 1998 CD Mike Love, Bruce Johnston & David Marks of the Beach Boys Salute NASCAR:

 

[sadchild]

Cataracs
#1 "Like A G6" (w/ Far Eat Movement)
#26 "Backseat" (w/ Newboyz)

I don't know either one. In 2010, 34 of the 52 weeks had either Kesha, Katy Perry or Rihanna in the #1 spot, so not a good year for chart-toppers anyway.

 

[scotchandcigar]

Cataracs

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Hope JDHK is not reading this. May take 3 pages of explanation.