Reply With QuotePEACHES & HERB hardly qualify as a one hit wonder.
Having had a career before the disco boom.After SHAKE YOUR GROOVE THING ; they had other hits namely REUNITED,ROLLER SKATIN' MATE,FREEWAY,I PLEDGE MY LOVE and others from their run on POLYDOR.
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I was talking to my colleague today about disco music and he commented that a lot of bands had one big hit then were never seen or head of again. It got me thinking and I looked back at my recent playlists and indeed a lot of tracks I play are from bands or solo artists that had huge Disco hits BITD but then faded away....I thought it would be fun (on a rainy and slow Friday afternoon in London!) to start a list of them (I am assuming it hasn't been done here before!)...so to start off....
Shake Your Groove Thing – Peaches & Herb
How Sweet Is Your Love – Rhyze
Delirium – Frances McGee
Everybody’s Singing Love Songs – Sweet Thunder
Do It – Hilary
Ma Ma Ma Mexico – Sunfire
Anyone care to add?.....
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PEACHES & HERB hardly qualify as a one hit wonder.
Having had a career before the disco boom.After SHAKE YOUR GROOVE THING ; they had other hits namely REUNITED,ROLLER SKATIN' MATE,FREEWAY,I PLEDGE MY LOVE and others from their run on POLYDOR.
KRIS
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Born to Be Alive by Patrick Hernandez was huge and the rest he did no one remembers - A true One Hit Wonder
(By the way - I love Rhyze. Hardly no one I know, not even my old DJ colleagues remember them)
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Re: One Hit Wonders
Off the top of my head......
Troiano - We all Need Love (1 of my Favorites)
Masterjam - Dancin' All Night (the actual title) (1 of my Favorites)
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???Originally Written by Headlamp
How 'bout Salsoul Orchestra, the BeeGees, and James Brown, then...
"Reunited" was a GIGANTIC hit in L.A. when it came out. Granted, it was on the same LP as "Shake your groove thing", but they had other successful releases, and something like 3 distinct LPs, plus Best-Ofs. I guess you just started with a counterexample, to show what not to post...
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"Back to Boogie", anyone? "You turn me on"? Both had extensive airplay, maybe not to the groundbreaking records BTBA attained, but hardly a one-hit wonder either...
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Patrick Hernandez released 'Disco Queen' which was i think rather a big hit in Europe.
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Now you mention it they did do Reunited, but Roller Skatin Mate, Freeway, I really don't recall...but just as KoolKris says about Patrick Hernandez, these bands had one massive hit that caught the wave at the time and have stayed in the consciousness of Disco afficiandos. Come on...more!!
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Two Man Sound! They made a lot of stuff but in Discoland they'll always be remembered for "Que Tal America", by many musicians considered as one of the ultimate bass-lines in Dancemusic!
Fern Kinney 's"Groove Me" was a floorbuster, other outputs didn't have the same impact!
Azoto's "San Salvador", their landmark track!
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Venus Dobson-Night Rider
Herman Kelly & Life-Dance To The Drummer's Beat
Damon Harris-It's Music
"Everyone knows the real reason why you got that part it was the time you spent on that casting couch"--Antoine Merriwether
"Excuse me, Miss Thing, but both of us spent time on that couch"--Blaine Edwards
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I think it'd be easier to list disco artists who actually had more than one hit!
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Carl Douglas: "Kung Fu Fighting"
Hemlock: "Disco Break"
Alicia Bridges: "I love the Nightlife (disco round)"
Solar Flare: "Boogie Fund"
William DeVaughn: "Be thankful for what you've got"
Mike Anthony: "Why can't we live together"
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I've always wondered about...
Antonia Rodriguez- "La Bamba"- who was she? where was the song recorded? Germany? Canada? USA?why the uncorrected change of name on the Buddah label (AntoniO Rodriguez)??
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I think you have a point. Although it seems definitions are unclear. I thought "one-hit wonder" signified a singer or band having released one single, making a major hit, then having disappeared. Like many of those '80s acts: Fox the Fox, Captain Sensible, etc... One hit single, if lucky a follow-up album with fillers and an attempt to prolong the single's succes, then....pffft. Nothing.I think it'd be easier to list disco artists who actually had more than one hit!
In fact, it seems any performer with only one single having made the Billboard charts would apply, even if they'd released subsequent tracks with airplay and following, only not important enough to reach the top sales.
So that would mean a performer with 5 albums out, a small fanbase, but only 1 major hit would apply. So Sandy, it seems you're even more right.
The only thing is that with such a specialized group as ourselves, few acts will apply, because everyone will know 2 or 3 successful tracks (be it only in clubs) by groups nobody else (in the mainstream) will know, and that would apply, in stricto sensu...
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Re: One Hit Wonders
Let's see if these qualify.....
9.9 - All of Me
Flakes - Sugar Frosted Lover
Love Deluxe - Here Comes That Sound
Heaven And Earth - I Really Love You
Jan Leslie Holmes - I'm your Superman
LaChandra - Just Started
Vicki D - This Beat is Mine
The Ring - Savage Lover
Stargaze - You Can't Have It
Laurice Hudson - Feel My Love
Brenda & The Big Dudes - Weekend Special
Orbit - The Beat goes On
21st Creation - Tailgate
Xavier - Work That Sucker To Death
These are all artists, of whom I've never heard any more from after these initial releases, and this includes the follow up LP's most of these artists released containing these songs, but maybe I'm wrong....
But this is not to say that their respective LP's don't have some smoking joints on them, just that I never heard any of it on the radio:icon_lol:
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Oh, time to pull out the LP and listen to "Olé El Toro"! I LOVE that track!!!
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I was never sure about 'Jump' by The Ring; what a strange track that is!:icon_confused: It's certainly different & nothing like Savage Lover.
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A couple of songs to add to the list
All Night Thing - Invisible Mans Band
I think we are alone Now - Scott Allan
Centepede - Rebe Jackson
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