A Conversation for One-hit Wonders
Thomas Dolby
marvthegrate LtG KEA Started conversation Sep 26, 2002
"She Blinded me with Science", Dolby's most well known song came in at number 20 on VH1's 100 top one hit wonders show a year or two ago. http://www.vh1.com/shows/series/100_greatest/one_hit_wonders/list_20-1.jhtml
Thomas Dolby
Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Sep 26, 2002
A little unfair as he also scored pretty well with 'Hyperacrive' and 'Airhead'.
Maybe not the world's greatest chart presence, but certainly more than a one hit wonder, I'd suggest.
Thomas Dolby
marvthegrate LtG KEA Posted Sep 26, 2002
Good point. I disagreed with a lot of that list myself. I think that Devo was somehting more than a one hit wonder myself.
I wonder if The Toy Dolls might count with Nellie the Elephant
Thomas Dolby
Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Sep 26, 2002
Toy Dolls, yes. I saw an off shoot of theirs regular in Sunderland. Wonderful pub entertainment, including punk covers of Gerry Anderson Themes. 
I'd think that you'd be lucky to find that Devo ever had a hit in the Uk. But that may just be me. I certainly wouldn't put them in as one hit wonders. Chart success was *never* their aim.
Mind you. I'd guess writing music for kids cartoons wasn't either...
Thomas Dolby
marvthegrate LtG KEA Posted Sep 26, 2002
Nellie the Elephant was a big alternative hit on one station in Salt Lacke City, Utah but I do not know how popular it was outside of SLC much less in the UK.
Thomas Dolby
Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Sep 26, 2002
Cracked the top ten. A sucess never to be repeated, and rightly so. Olga really was a bit pants.
Thomas Dolby
marvthegrate LtG KEA Posted Sep 26, 2002
Have you ever heard them do "Olga crack corn"? That was a riot.
Thomas Dolby
Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Sep 26, 2002
Can't say I have, but the fact that it presumably is a punk rock cover of a traditional song rather than one of their own, speaks volumes about their lack of long term success I'd wager. 
Thomas Dolby
marvthegrate LtG KEA Posted Sep 26, 2002
It is a cover of sorts. Johhny crack corn is a folk song in the US, and they kind of covered it... sort of.. Hard to explain.
Thomas Dolby
Danny B Posted Sep 27, 2002
On the subject of novelty bands from Sunderland... A Tribe of Toffs had a hit with 'John Kettley is a Weatherman'
Thomas Dolby
Hoovooloo Posted Sep 27, 2002
"Richard Keays, has got no knees"
the amazing cheese and pickle solo
"Andy Crane has got no brain"
H.
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