True, but that hit didn’t come along until he had already built an empire on “Danke Shoen.”
Definitely agree. My own appreciation was a bit delayed, though. I loved their debut (and still think it’s one of the greatest albums of the '80s) but I was bitterly disappointed by their follow-up, which I bought the day of its release. It took me a few years and a bit more maturity before I was able to appreciate Hallowed Ground as a great album in its own right.
Yep. I think he’s played here at the Fallsview Casino at least 3 times and each time his shows have sold out and garnered great reviews. I’ve sworn that I’m going to get tickets the next time he comes through town.
Oh uh huh, Honey don’t.
Also, to defend Chris Isaak (who I am a huge fan of), he had a second sizeable hit back in 1999 with the rockabilly-infused “Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing,” which was featured prominently in the horrible film Eyes Wide Shut (but also had a video in regular rotation and a good bit of radio airplay). Plus he’s done lots of touring, recording, acting, and had the awesome Chris Isaak Show, which I wish was available on DVD.
Jimmy Buffett has had many, many great songs, even if they were not all top 40 hits. And the name of that Don MacLean song is Vincent.
Well, the humour is so lifeless it’s more like flopping, really.
Britney Spears.
She has reworked, or rather her producers have reworked, that same stupid hit song of hers way WAY past its 15 minutes of fame…
Two pages and no mention of Billy Ray Cyrus and Acky Breaky Heart?
“Heaven” by Los Lonely Boys is on the radio right now, and I’m guessing they’ll get another decade out of that song, at least.
The question was not about one hit wonders or many, many great songs that didn’t make the top 40. Buffet has a whole career based on Margaritaville, and I think even the most die hard Parrothead has to admit it.
Sorry about the song title mishap.
ETA: A little Googling reveals that Maragritaville was co-witten with Alan Jackson, who mentioned it in one of his own songs: It’s 5:00 Somewhere.
I can’t believe no one has mentioned Tommy Tu-Tone yet. That’s the first artist I thought of when I clicked the thread. 864-5789
Tommy Tutone had a huge career? Did he ever do anything else? Is he still touring on the one song? I would have thought he was more of a flash in the pan (no disrespect to the actual Flash And The Pan, who were really a flash in the pan).
I don’t think that’s right. Jackson would’ve been 19 the year Margaritaville came out (1977).
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My Bad. He & Buffet did a duet of the song.
My vote is the Danke Schoen dude…Wayne Newton. I still don’t believe a man is singing that, nor do I want to know what kind of deal he had to make with the devil for his voice to never, ever change.
I guess I should pull out my soapbox and defend Jimmy Buffett. While I understand what people say about Margaritaville, it does seem to have a life of its own. Ok. Point taken. Yes, Jimmy can live his entire life eating coconuts and drinking margaritas because of it.
But as far as I’m concerned, he has many, many, much better songs. Little Miss Magic, Island are two.
I worked in an island style restaurant and I swear, every 3rd person came in and asked us to play Margaritaville. We hid the CD.
One of the biggest one hit wonders, where everyone knows the phone number and you typed it wrong?!?!? :rolleyes:
867-5309/Jenny
Well, Bobby “Boris” Pickett was able to cash in every Halloween since the early '60’s.
Monster Mash.
Fortunately, he wasn’t **all ** about that. Chubby’s 1971 album New Revelation (also entitled *Chequered * in the UK) is one of the more amazing–and unexpected–forays into fuzzed-out psychedelia. Heavy acid-laced guitars, raw vocals, reverb–the songs “Stoned in the Bathroom” and “Goodbye Victoria” alone are worth the price of admission! Not a hint of twist to be found on the entire record. It has yet to be reissued, but hopefully soon that will be remedied. Apparently Chubby himself doesn’t like to talk about this record anymore, which is a shame, because it’s by far the best thing he ever did, and totally unique…
What about “Baby got Back” by Sir Mix a Lot?
Saying Escape was the defiining work of Holmes career would be like saying One Night in Bangkok was Murray Head’s “moment in the spotlight”. He just happened to be the guy in the original production of the musical Chess and that was one of the songs he sang in the show. Quite nifty that it got radio play, but he was solidly entrenched in the theatre and that was just a flukey little tangent to a weighty career in a different branch of the arts.