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Most of us have a favorite singer or band from whom we eagerly await a new song or CD. But what about those groups who brought us a hit and were never heard from again? This week, Tidbits remembers some of those artists who hit the charts once and only once. • The term “one-hit wonder” usually refers to performers who had only one Billboard Top 40 hit single, or had one song that overshadowed all their other work. • A fictional band recorded one of pop’s most successful songs, “Sugar, Sugar,” in 1969. Ranked as the number one song of the year, it sold six million copies and records were even placed on the back of Post Super Sugar Crisp cereal boxes. The group The Archies was made up of cartoon characters Archie Andrews, Reggie Mantle, and Jughead Jones for an animated TV series, but the music was recorded by session musicians, featuring Ron Dante on vocals. Dante was also the coproducer of Barry Manilow’s first nine albums and sang back-up on many of Manilow’s hits. Dante had another one-hit wonder as the sole singer in the pop group The Cuff Links. In 1969, as “Sugar, Sugar” was sitting at the top of the charts, the million-copy seller “Tracy” was released by Dante, who used his voice in 16 dub-overs. “Tracy” spent 12 weeks on the U.S. chart. turn the page for more!

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ONE-HIT WONDERS (continued): • One of the most popular songs of the disco era, “The Hustle,” was recorded by Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony in 1975, and was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance, selling over a million copies. McCoy’s reason for achieving a one-hit wonder was a tragic one – he died of a heart attack in 1979 at the age of 39. • The British pop group Edison Lighthouse was named for the Eddystone Lighthouse off the southwest coast of England. Best known for 1970’s million-selling record “Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes,” the band was just a group of studio musicians that had been hurriedly put together. The tune enjoyed a brief revival when it was featured in the 2001 film Shallow Hal, starring Jack Black, with Gwyneth Paltrow in the role of Rosemary. •Rolling Stone magazine has ranked 1970’s “Spirit in the Sky” as number 333 on their list of the “500 Greatest Songs of All Time.” Written, recorded, and released by Norman Greenbaum in late 1969, the song spent 15 weeks in the Top 100, with sales of over two million copies. Greenbaum never hit the charts again, but today, Major League Baseball’s Los Angeles Angels use the song to introduce their starting lineup at their Anaheim stadium. • Singer Bobby McFerrin is a ten-time Grammy Award winner, but his chart-topper “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” is probably the only song any of us remember. The song is entirely a cappella, using no instruments at all, the first of its kind to reach Number One on the Billboard chart. The lyrics were inspired by the words of an Indian mystic Meher Baba, who encompassed his philosophy in those four words.

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ONE-HIT WONDERS (continued): • Back in 1968, John Fred and his Playboy Band released “Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)”, a hit that sold over a million copies. The song’s title was a parody of the Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.” The number one hit which spoke of “lemonade pies and cantaloupe eyes,” actually knocked another Beatles hit, “Hello, Good-bye” out of the number one position for two weeks, but it was the one and only hit for the Playboy Band. • The Starland Vocal Band was made up of two married couples who recorded one of 1976’s biggest-selling singles. “Afternoon Delight” was nominated for four Grammy Awards, winning two, including Best New Artist. The Band’s success resulted in a six-week summer variety TV show, which employed the talents of a young writer named David Letterman. The Band’s follow-up album failed miserably, and the group broke up, as did the marriages. • The 2000 movie Rugrats in Paris featured the song “Who Let the Dogs Out?”, performed by the Baha Men, which won numerous awards, including the 1974 Grammy for Best Dance Recording, Billboard’s World Music Artist of the Year, and World Music Album of the Year, and Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Award. Yet this popular tune has been ranked third on Rolling Stone’s •20 Most Annoying Songs, “ number one on Spinner’s “Top 20 Worst Songs Ever, and number two on AOL Radio’s “100 Worst Songs Ever.” Needless to say, the Baha Men haven’t hit the charts again.

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