Okay fine!
new thread:
All Time Worst Science-Fiction Dystopia One Hit Wonders
Happy now?
Hmm. Sounds like AllMusic needs to shore up their copyediting staff. From the AllMusic entry on Archie Bell and the Drells, as opposed to the Archie Bell bio page you quoted:
It does mention before that that he’d been sent to Vietnam. Anyway, the point’s the same – he was unable to tour with the group except during leaves for the period of their greatest success, which may have prevented them from enjoying that success longer.
Hey-anybody remember;
-the “LEMON PIPERS” (“green tamboureen”??
-“LOVE BEAT”-by the “DeFranco Family”
-“Indian Lake”-by the “Cowsills”?
The Cowsills had multiple hits including “The Rain, The Park And Other Things” and, I believe, a version of “Hair”.
Hey, “Cantaloupe eyes, come to me tonight” is one of the classic lines in rock n’ roll.
I guess we’ll just take your glasses. 
There was a rumor, when bubblegum music was big, that Lemon Pipers, Ohio Express, 1910 Fruitgum Company and others were, in fact, the same session players recording under different group names for Buddah Records. If you look up their biographies, they all sound like something an written by a committee of PR hacks. The genre even has its own web site but I’d be awfully skeptical of any “information” the site offers about the groups it profiles.
And I apologize, you guys – but I’m a pop music geek, I work in radio – I just can’t help myself!
I too, looked specifically for many of the songs listed here when I got iTunes.
One too many.
Or “Heartbeat, it’s a Lovebeat,” by the DeFrancos. Doesn’t really matter; just seeing it there means my day is shot. Thank you so much.
For those who were fortunate enough never to hear of the DeFranco Family, I’ll share the misery. They were part of the early 70s wave of family groups who all seemed to be headed by 12-year-old boys whose voices hadn’t yet changed (the Osmonds, the Jackson Five, and a few years later, the Sylvers). But at least Donny Osmond and Michael Jackson could sing. The De Franco’s lead boy singer basially shouted “Heartbeat” in comparison. In a high-pitched child’s voice. I can recall the ear-grating effects of too much AM radio play to this day.
There could be a grain of truth to that with regard to the Ohio Express and the 1910 Fruitgum Co., who were both part of the Kasenetz-Katz stable of bubblegum acts. But the Lemon Pipers were a serious psychedelic rock band who had a garage-punk type single out under the same name before signing with Buddah, and who later played a Fillmore gig on a bill with Traffic. They hated “Green Tambourine,” and only recorded it under the threat of being dropped from the label. Their two albums include, among the bubblegum-vaudeville tracks, a couple of extended psychedelic jams and some growly, Steppenwolf-sounding numbers, which are apparently more representative of the band’s live sound.
And “Green Tambourine” is a great slice of psychedelic pop whimsy, and anyone who sez different is ugly and their mother dresses them funny.
And since your day is already shot, I present “Abracadabra” by the selfsame group. As you said, annoying in the extreme, only with an even dumber chorus than “Heartbeat, it’s a Lovebeat”.
This brings back memories; when i was an undergrad, i knew a guy who worked for a record company. his job was to push up-and-coming rock group’s records on the college AM radio station. He had records from groups i NEVER heard of! As for the COWSILLs: how on earth did they come up with a name like that? They should have called themselves the "Psychadelic hangover’-or something like that-bu the “COWSILLS”? It sounds like a farm equipment supplier. anyway, i heard that this group made a LOT of money-but then (as they matured and their voices broke), they fell out of favor-and began the inevitable lawsuits against eachother-last i heard, they had lost most of the money sueing eachother!
They were a family with the last name of Cowsill and chose to call themselves the Cowsills. I doubt they would have sounded any better or worse under a made-up name.
The Cowsills have a website where you can read all about their fascinating history. I would link to it except that God might punish me.
Four pages in and no one has yet mentioned “Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning?” that loathesome, treacly, cynical cash-in on the WTC disaster?
But I suppose the wound is too raw yet.
Nuff said.
Hey he’s another good nominee-
“The Curly Shuffle” by the “Jump In The Saddle Band”
Hey Moe, Hey Moe, Hey nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk
Hey now! I put the little winking smilie guy in my post so you wouldn’t take my comments as harsh. 
And there is another smiley to show you I’m not being a bitch in this post. Truce?
This thread makes me see that the term One Hit Wonder is pretty vague. I have read other posts since mine regarding the same issue. People post the song and others come along to point out there were indeed more hits from that band. Honestly, in MY world, I have never heard another song by those bands I listed, nor anything about the bands themselves once those hits faded away. I was a teenager in the 80’s, so I spent plenty of hours with MTV and the radio when those songs were popular, but that’s all I heard from those two groups.
One hit or not, I still hate those songs I listed
Hmmm…each charted for a song they didn’t write called “I Write the Songs”. It’s nice to see the universe prefers irony to justice (then again, I always hated that pompous little song, so maybe there is justice after all)…
I agree that crap song was written to make a buck off the tragedy, but it was recorded by Alan Jackson who has had way more than one hit. (At least in the US)
Sgt Schwartz
Source: I Write the Songs - Wikipedia
“Informer” by Snow.
A-licky-boom-boom-down.