Mike + The Mechanics - All I Need Is A Miracle (I don’t think The Living Years is as well remembered, despite going to #1 in America.)
Peter Schilling - Major Tom
King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
Joey Scarbury - Believe It Or Not
Simple Minds - Don’t You Forget About Me
Michael Sembello - Maniac
Lionel Ritchie - All Night Long
The Tubes - She’s A Beauty
Sonny & Cher - I Got You Babe
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
Laurie Anderson - Excellent Birds
In the UK at least:
Scottish Band **Simple Minds **had loads of hits - Waterfront, Alive and Kicking, Promised You A Miracle amongst them.
The Tubes are best known for Prime Time and White Punks on Dope.
Lionel Ritchie had loads of solo hits including **Hello, Dancing On The Ceiling **and Running With The Night
Laurie Anderson is better known (probably only known other than by her own fans) for O, Superman
Mike + The Mechanics are definitely best known for The Living Years here and also for Silent Running
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Thinking about it, I’m surprised nobody’s made an AC/DC joke yet.
In the US, I would also think “The Living Years” as being the main Mike + Mechanics song.
I thought Laurie Anderson’s one hit was “O Superman.”
mike and co is also known for “all I need is a miracle”
Joseph “Afroman” Foreman is a very talented artist who is known almost exclusively for “Because I Got High” which is not one of his better songs.
“Back in Black”, “You Shook Me All Night Long”, “Highway to Hell”, “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap”, “Whole Lotta Rosie”, plus many many others…
…unless the “joke” you’re suggesting is that those are all the same song?
Peter Frampton…Wikipedia lists many albums, and he *was *well known in the 70s, but these days everyone knows him as the guy with the talking guitar bit in “Do you feel like we do?” (a song I love to listen to–as soon as I hear that intro riff on the radio I smile and settle in for a long ride).
A distant second is “Baby, I love your way”
When I think of Mike + Mechanics, “Silent Running” (“Can you hear me? Can you hear me running?”) and the crazy “My Dad is an alien emissary” music video is what always comes to mind.
Yes, there’s a long-standing joke that all AC/DC songs are the same.
The supposed band response is usually along the lines of “We may only know one song, but it’s a hell of a song!”
That was Lorne Armstrong’s’s original point, that they are more well known in the US for that particular song. (The words used were “I don’t think The Living Years is as well remembered.”) I think both songs are well remembered. I think of them for “The Living Years,” but that may be because of my age. “The Living Years” came out when I was 13, so it’s probably more memorable than something that came out when I was 10.
Willie Nelson. 72 studio albums, but known almost exclusively for “On the Road Again”.
There’s another Willie song, can’t remember the name but it’s always on my mind…
While I do agree with you that that is what I would consider his best known song (along with “Always on My Mind”), it’s not even in the Top 10 Billboard hits of his, surprisingly. :eek:
Based on requests during my years playing in bar bands:
Good Hearted Woman (with Waylon)
Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys (also with Waylon)
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
Funny How Time Slips Away
Always on My Mind
Nighlife
And City of New Orleans. Nelson’s version topped the singles charts and won a Grammy.
“Bang A Gong” is the best-known hit but I would have added “20th Century Boy” and “Children of the Revolution” just off the top of my head.