{"id":4762,"date":"2018-02-17T17:46:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T17:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/02\/17\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-two-sorts-of-one-hit-wonders\/"},"modified":"2018-02-17T17:46:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T17:46:11","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-two-sorts-of-one-hit-wonders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/02\/17\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-two-sorts-of-one-hit-wonders\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Two Sorts of One-Hit Wonders"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are one-hit wonders whose hits have endured and one hit wonders whose hits have pretty much sunk into oblivion, which is why you need me to prowl the musty mausoleum of moldy oldies for these moth-eaten memories.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Norma Tanega <\/a>and her  Walkin' My Cat Named Dog<\/a> belong to the latter category.  If you remember this curious tune from 1966  I'll buy you a beer.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Another example is Larry Verne's politically incorrect, and therefore good, Mr. Custer<\/a> from 1960. This one goes out to that Cherokee maiden formerly of the Harvard Lore School, Elizabeth Fauxcohantas Warren.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs, Stay<\/a>, 1960. "Woops, la-di-da."  Under two minutes!<\/span><\/p>\n

Ernie K-Doe, Mother-in-Law<\/a>, 1961. "Sent from down below."<\/span><\/p>\n

Bruce Channel, Hey! Baby<\/a>, 1962<\/span><\/p>\n

Acker Bilk, Stranger on the Shore<\/a>, 1962. If you don't remember this lovely tune, you dropped too much acid.<\/span><\/p>\n

David Rose, The Stripper<\/a>, 1962.  An instrumental from an age of instrumentals, with footage and 'leggage' of a period stripper. Tame stuff.<\/span><\/p>\n

Vangelis, Chariots of Fire Theme<\/a>, 1982<\/span><\/p>\n

An example of a one-hit wonder whose hit gets plenty of play is Curtis Lee's Pretty Little Angel Eyes<\/a> from 1961. This one goes out to wifey.<\/span><\/p>\n

Land of a Thousand Dances<\/a> was Cannibal and the Head Hunters' one hit.  Its obscurity lies perhaps midway between the Tanega and Lee efforts.  This one goes out to my old friend Tom Coleman whose hometown is Whittier, California.  He most likely listened to this song some Saturday night while cruising Whittier Blvd. in his beat-to-shit old Chevy, or else while enroute to a dance at the El Monte Legion Stadium<\/a>.  "Be there or be square."<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are one-hit wonders whose hits have endured and one hit wonders whose hits have pretty much sunk into oblivion, which is why you need me to prowl the musty mausoleum of moldy oldies for these moth-eaten memories.  Norma Tanega and her  Walkin' My Cat Named Dog belong to the latter category.  If you remember this curious tune from 1966  I'll … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Two Sorts of One-Hit Wonders”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}