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And Kraftwerk’s* Autobahn, probably the worst road song in history, which featured endless repetitions of:
“Wir fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n auf der Autobahn”
Roughly translated, “We are driving on the Autobahn”. Like cosmic, man.
*I know they sold a bunch of albums to deluded people, but this is their only pop hit that I know of.
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:eek: Don’t be dissing Kraftwerk. Those guys are legends.
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Nope
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Yep. His only hit, but he did record a biographical song about Elvis called “He Ate Too Many Jelly Donuts.” I’ve never actually heard it, but someone told me it is replete with gluttonous, munching, chomping sounds.
I don’t like “I’ve Never Been to Me” or “The Ballad of the Green Berets,” but I really don’t mind most of the others posted here.
“Rock Me Amedeus” by Falco
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“Rock Me Amedeus” by Falco
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Dar Commisar
Blinded by science
Twilight Zone
ooohhhh the memories…
[QUOTE=Yookeroo]
:eek: Don’t be dissing Kraftwerk. Those guys are legends.
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Driving songs are supposed to energize you, not induce narcolepsy.
fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n auf der Autobahn…fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n auf der Autobahn…fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n auf der Autobahn…fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n auf der Autobahn…fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n auf der Autobahn…fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n auf der Autobahn…fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n auf der Autobahn…fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n auf der Autobahn…fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n auf der Autobahn…fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n auf der Autobahn…fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n auf der Autobahn…fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n auf der Autobahn
…nod…og SMASH.
As long as I’m pissing off hard-core fandom, I might as well mention Nazareth*, whose plodding, clanking, moaning version of Love Hurts evoked deep spiritual and physical pain, not unlike that generated by a severe case of constipation. Speaking of which, the all-time best song on that subject (Constipation Blues) was recorded by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, who does not by any means qualify as a one-hit wonder, having churned out such enduring greats as I Put A Spell On You and Feast of the Mau Mau.
*It is possible Nazareth had more than one singles hit, but if they did they didn’t deserve it.
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*It is possible Nazareth had more than one singles hit, but if they did they didn’t deserve it.
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You don’t remember? Well, now you’re messin’ with a (BOMP BOMP) son of a bitch. :mad: 
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp]
You don’t remember? Well, now you’re messin’ with a (BOMP BOMP) son of a bitch. :mad:
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Alright, that was OK. But in general, Nazareth is the musical equivalent of canned haggis.
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No kiddding. I LOVE Turning Japanese.
My vote is for Taco’s Puttin’ on the Ritz…yowza what a piece of crap.
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:drops dead:
You just nominated Irving Berlin as a “one hit wonder”?
:drops dead again:
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:drops dead:
You just nominated Irving Berlin as a “one hit wonder”?
:drops dead again:
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Read my next post! I love the song, I just hate Taco’s version of it. If there is anything worse than a song that’s just plain bad, it’s when someone takes a classic and destroys it. Listen to Taco’s recording sometime, and tell me if you think it does the song…or Irving Berlin…justice. 
My vote: The Crash Test Dummies with the song “Mmm mmm mmm mmm.”
I like Qadgop’s answer too
[QUOTE=Jackmannii]
As long as I’m pissing off hard-core fandom, I might as well mention Nazareth*, whose plodding, clanking, moaning version of Love Hurts evoked deep spiritual and physical pain, not unlike that generated by a severe case of constipation.
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It was, however, VASTLY superior to the Everly Brothers version, which had whining instead of moaning and was even slower. However, Nazareth did ruin the dumbest line, making “Love is like a flame/It burns you when it’s hot” out of “Love is like a stove/It burns you when it’s hot.” A little archaic for a song written in 1960, though I’m sure plenty of people will pipe in, like my wife, claiming to have cooked on a wood stove after 1960.
[QUOTE=Jackmannii]
These songs deserve to be mentioned (if they have to be brought up at all) along with Seasons In The Sun, which was a hit at about the same time. I’m surprised that anyone ever listened to the radio again.C.W. actually had at least a marginal hit before this, with a “song” derived from a bread commercial, “The Old Home Filler-Up And Keep On A’Truckin’ Cafe”.
As long as someone had to bring up “Ballad of the Green Berets”, let us not forget the other big popular song from the Vietnam War*, C Company’s “The Battle Hymn of Lieutenant Calley” (of My Lai massacre fame). It reportedly sold 200,000 copies within days of Calley’s conviction, and included these immortal lines (sung to the tune of Battle Hymn of the Republic):
“While we’re fighting in the jungles
They were marching in the street,
While we’re dying in the rice fields
They were helping our defeat.
While we’re facing VC bullets
They were sounding a retreat,
As we go marching on…”
I was fortunate enough to secure a copy years later and it is one of my most valued 45 RPM records. :dubious:
*The only other Vietnam-inspired pop song I can think of, Country Joe and the Fish’s Feel Like I’m A-Fixin To Die Rag is, unlike the other two, a genuine classic.
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CW McCall was Bill Fries, who did the advertising for a bread company that led to the “The Old Home Filler-Up And Keep On A’Truckin’ Cafe”, and Chip Davis, more notably of Mannheim Steamroller fame.
I have a anti Vietnam 45 by Homer and Jethro, I’ll have to look and see what the title is.
And in that box of 45s is “The Monster Mash”, there’s a one hit wonder for you.
Loren Greene’s Ringo
I have not thought of this song in forty years. I now feel so dirty and retched. It’s below “In the Year 2525.”
[QUOTE=Duke of Rat]
And in that box of 45s is “The Monster Mash”, there’s a one hit wonder for you.
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Yet every year Bobby “Boris” Pickett had to take off a month from work (was it Home Depot?) to tour with it.
Early New Years Day, after the “A Prairie Home Companion” special, the local PBS station broadcast a Clint Holmes concert. About halfway through the fifteen-minute rendition of “Playground In My Mind” he started teaching the audience the chorus in case it hadn’t already been branded on their brains for eternity.
[QUOTE=Sarahfeena]
Of course! 
Actually, the song itself is not a loser, it’s just that arrangement Taco used…awful, awful, awful. He ruined a perfectly good old classic. I’m actually quite fond of the old version Fred Astaire sang in Blue Skies.
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Ahhh. Come back a few minutes later to read the rest of the thread and find that my original post was lacking.
Mr. Berlin has stopped spinning in his grave, I’m sure.
You know what really sucks? Paper Lace was a TWO HIT wonder:
Billboard #1 June 15 - June 28: Billy, Don’t Be A Hero - Paper Lace
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Early New Years Day, after the “A Prairie Home Companion” special, the local PBS station broadcast a Clint Holmes concert.
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Oh my God. Are they trying to get de-funded by Congress?
Sure, but in 1974 Al Capone was still a living memory. Since then we’ve learned to embrace our gangster heritage, with tours and theme restaurants and all that. I think the song is ready for . . . Yes! A revival!
Monster Mash is in the odd category of novelty hits that were so popular they spawned their own sequels. Monster Mash spawned Monsters’ Holiday, which charted at Christmas 1962 and technically saves Boris from being a one-hit wonder.
Likewise with Snoopy vs. the Red Baron, which spawned The Return of the Red Baron and Snoopy’s Christmas. The former charted for the Royal Guardsmen, and the latter still gets occasional holiday airplay. Mash and Snoopy are pretty bad, but I sort of think novelty songs should be excluded from this category, because no matter how bad they are they’re never as bad as songs that are trying to be good.
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You know what really sucks? Paper Lace was a TWO HIT wonder:
Billboard #1 June 15 - June 28: Billy, Don’t Be A Hero - Paper Lace
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Probably a typo/copying error. “Billy…” was a hit for Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods that year. See #56 on the first list in your link, the one that dominates the page.
[QUOTE=KayElCee]
Probably a typo/copying error. “Billy…” was a hit for Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods that year. See #56 on the first list in your link, the one that dominates the page.
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Sorry for the double post. Apparently Paper Lace had a hit with “Billy” in the UK.