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From: aland@informix.com (Colonel Panic)
Newsgroups: rec.music.dementia
Subject: Re: One-hit wonders
Date: 2 Oct 92 08:00:21 GMT
Organization: Helen Keller Bondurant's Performance Driving School for the Blind

In article <1992Sep30.224542.15172@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> z9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>
>Here are my contributions to the One Hit wonders
>list: 
>
>Artist                  Song
>++++++                  ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>The Transfusions?       Beep Beep

Hmmmmm. Could you be combining the following:
Nervous Norvus (sp?)     Transfusion     
                 e.g.    "Never never never gonna speed again,
                          slip the blood to me, Bud"

The Playmates            Beep Beep
                 e.g.    "Beep beep, beep beep, his horn went beep, beep, beep"
                         ("race" between a Rambler and a Cadillac)

Neither artist qualifies as a OHW.  Norvus also did another novelty song
(which escapes me at the moment -- lots of gibberish talk) and the Playmates 
also did "What is Love (5' of heaven and a ponytail)", at least.


Others I can think of:

Skylark                  Wildflower
                 e.g.    "She's a free and gentle flower, growing wild."
                         nice song.
The Troggs               Wild Thing
???                      Telephone Man
Maria Muldaur            Midnight at the Oasis

S.F. Bay Area folk: occasionally, KFOG's 10 at 10 does a special on OHWs.


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From: cobra@jab.tucson.az.us (Cobra)
Newsgroups: rec.music.dementia
Subject: Re: One-hit wonders
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 21:28:02 PDT
Organization: Just Another Bbs. Tucson, AZ

joshm@crash.cts.com (Josh Mercer) writes:
> Juice Newton, "Queen of Hearts"

 
Nope..."Angel of the Morning" was a big C&W hit...her first, if I recall...
 
I hope somebody is archiving all of these OHW's...might be an interesting 
list...


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From: awkerr@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Alan Kerr)
Subject: Re: One-hit wonders
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 23:43:12 GMT

In article <1992Oct05.130438.1698@bmerh85.bnr.ca> mhammond@bnr.ca writes:
>Yes! Thank you! *That's* what I'm looking for! (But I *do* think that 
>Katrina and the Waves really qualifies for this! :-) Also, in response
>to people who have gone back to the 60's and 70's, I'd prefer that every-
>thing listed be post-1982, and post-1986 would be even better. I realize
>that this severely narrows down the choices, but I'd like to stick with
>songs that most people my age or older have heard of.

The biggest problem with "post-1986" is that you really shouldn't have
*anything* on the list that is "post-1990" or so.  I'm mean, *anything*
more recent than 1990, hasn't been around long enough to be a OHW
because they haven't had time to "disappear".  Maybe they're just
working on a new album.  Two years between albums is *quite* common.

Even post-1986 is 'iffy' unless you know the band has broken up and
the members of the band haven't joined up with other bands.

Alan


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From: csedlack@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Christopher Sedlack)
Subject: Re: The ``Weird Al'' Yankovic Video Library
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 16:28:34 GMT

mhammond@bnr.ca (Mike Hammond) writes:

>it doesn't nearly begin to cover the breadth of Al's songs. Aside from the
>alleged [:-)] track of UHF, it doesn't contain a single song from the ``UHF
>Soundtrack (and Other Stuff)''. I'd love to see a collection (or three) of

With the fairly good reason that "UHF" was the only video released for that
album.

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From: nivin@llano.cs.tcu.edu (Jeff Nivin)
Subject: Dr D in Ft. Worth, Tx?
Organization: Are you kidding?
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 04:16:06 GMT




OK, so the good Doctor D is back.  But where and when in Texas?  I live in 
the Fort Worth, Texas area and was an avid listener of the doctor until
KZEW went off the air.  Since then I have had to make do with store bought
tapes and recordings I had enough foresight to make.  Can anyone PLEASE tell
me on which station and at what time I can stay demented on down here?

                                                Thanx demetions & dementites,
                                                          Jeffrey Nivin


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From: 910427m@ace.acadiau.ca (JASON MATTHEW MCDONALD)
Subject: Re: One-hit wonders
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:10:57 GMT


Just thought of another few

Tiffany - I think we're alone now
EMF - unbeleivable
Bell Biv Devoe - Poison

Also, please keep in mind that this is from a Canadian point of view, so I 
try to keep as few canadian unknowns as possible on the list, and I find 
that dance groups last longer down in the states than here.
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From: zack@thunder (Zack)
Subject: Re: One-hit wonders
Organization: Encompass
Distribution: rec
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 21:57:23 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.224542.15172@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>  
z9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
> 
> Here are my contributions to the One Hit wonders
> list: 

> Harold Faltermeyer?     Axle F

I don't think Axle F is from the 70's. It came out on the Beverly Hills Cop  
soundtrack c.1984. I't doesn't sound like dementia to me either.  
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From: elliott@lmt.mn.org (David Elliott  MIS x 363)
Subject: Re: The ``Weird Al'' Yankovic Video Library
Organization: LaserMaster Technologies, Minneapolis, MN
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 19:05:47 GMT

mhammond@bnr.ca (Mike Hammond) writes:
> 
> BTW, in the video for ``This Is The Life'', there are some scenes from at least
> one other movie that I don't believe Al was in. The scenes included Michael
> Keaton, what looked like Marilu Henner, Danny Devito, and what looked like
> Robert Duvall. It seemed to be set sometime in the '20s or '40s, and one 
> memorable scene has Michael Keaton tossing his hat at a hatrack, and it goes
> out the window. Can anyone identify the movie and what relation it has with Al?

Sounds like "Johnny Dangerously" to me.  
I don't know how Al would be connected with it, though.
(A thoroughly demented movie--highly recommended!  But don't bother if
they show it on Broadcast TV; they always cut out the ESS segment!)

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From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Re: The ``Weird Al'' Yankovic Video Library
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 14:41:00 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.130910.2972@bmerh85.bnr.ca> mhammond@bnr.ca writes:
>
>BTW, in the video for ``This Is The Life'', there are some scenes from at 
>least
>one other movie that I don't believe Al was in. The scenes included Michael
>Keaton, what looked like Marilu Henner, Danny Devito, and what looked like
>Robert Duvall. It seemed to be set sometime in the '20s or '40s, and one 
>memorable scene has Michael Keaton tossing his hat at a hatrack, and it goes
>out the window. Can anyone identify the movie and what relation it has with Al?

This was from "Johnny Dangerously," a spoof of gangster films. Perhaps it 
was some sort of movie tie-in?


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From: mhammond@bnr.ca (Mike Hammond)
Newsgroups: rec.music.dementia
Subject: Re: One-hit wonders
Date: 28 Sep 92 14:53:19 GMT
Reply-To: mhammond@bnr.ca
Organization: BNR Ottawa, Fibre Systems Development

In article <Bv62ys.CEA@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, pms26964@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Scopes (not PMS)) writes:
|> Men Without Hats did not just have Safety Dance.  They also had a hit called
|> Pop Goes the World.  
|> 
|> One thing I'm not sure about: when you talk about a "one-hit wonder," do you
|> mean that someone only has one hit on the "top 40," or maybe more but only
|> one that goes top-10?  For example, Falco was featured on MTV's "one hit"
|> segment, even though Vienna Calling was on the top-40.  Perhaps this is
|> because most people don't remember Vienna Calling.
|> 
|> 
|> -- 
|> * Phil Scopes (pms26964@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu)
|> * University of Illinois
|> * Champaign/Urbana

I guess I'd better try to clarify myself. (God only knows how difficult
THAT could be! :-) The ``one-hit wonders'' I'm looking for are songs that
everyone remembers, not just necessarily in the top 10. I'll be writing
this parody for a bunch of university students, so I'd like to confine
them to recent years. (Speaking from my own personal experience, I didn't
become an avid listener to the radio until after 1986, when I was 12. Even
then, it was only a sampling of that time. Any hit from 1985 or before isn't
likely to be remembered by me.) However, they can't be *too* recent. For
example, somebody posted Right Said Fred's ``I'm Too Sexy'' as a one-hit
wonder, but they've also hit it fairly big with ``Don't Talk Just Kiss''.

However, anything you can think of would be appreciated. And thanx a lot
for all you who've responded! Remember, post your contributions/suggestions/
flames, because my e-mail doesn't work.

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From: carl.camurca@travel.com (Carl Camurca) 
Newsgroups: rec.music.dementia
Subject: Re: One-hit wonders
Date: 2 Oct 92 20:54:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Travel Online / St. Louis Online - St. Louis, MO
Reply-To: carl.camurca@travel.com (Carl Camurca) 

MK>... minor bitchings...

MK>Nena Hagen, I assume you mean?

MK>1. the song was 99 Luftballons, not red balloons
MK>2. Nena (sp?) is known as "The Mother of Punk".
MK>   While she may not be huge in the US, she's hardly a OHW.

Aaaaargh! What an awful mixing!
First, there is softie Nena (99 dead baboons, sitting in my living
room...oooops, no, this were not the lyrics, anyway, somewhat like that)

Second, there is Nina Hagen, which is a completely different person. She
completely nuts, too. And I love her. She had been very popular in the
end of the '70, but faded somehow since then. Still, she has a song
every once in a while.
She is originally from the GDR, where she benefitted of a training as an
opera singer (yes, that's right). Then she abandoned that career. She
became so obnoxious to the regime in the former GDR, that she was thrown
out of the country right into West Berlin. There, she really bloomed.
The reason, that she's not popular in the US lies partly in the
inability of Americans to appreciate text in other languages than
American. Her German texts are really great.

MK>But why, oh why can't BManilow be a OHW?

Umm, what does OHW mean

MK>Suzanne.

greetinx, Carl.

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From: st17y@elroy.uh.edu (Belding, Troy C.)
Subject: Re: The ``Weird Al'' Yankovic Video Library
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 02:09:00 GMT

In article <BvErLA.DLx@solaria.mil.wi.us>, poohbear@solaria.mil.wi.us (Timothy Winslow) writes...
>>
>>This was from "Johnny Dangerously," a spoof of gangster films. Perhaps it 
>>was some sort of movie tie-in?
> 
>It was the "Song to the movie" when it was in theatres.  But when it went out
>on tape, it was omitted, (I think) because Weird Al was not well known enough,
>so they didn't want to embarass themselves (and pay Weird Al more money for
>the song).  But I think the song should of stayed with the movie.
> 

	When I rented the movie, it still had This is the Life as the 
theme song.  

Also I do not have UHF on my copy of the Video Hits, and I was wondering
if there was a pre-run that may have accidently had UHF on it?  
Also, does anyone have an idea if he is going to have another video 
library or two?

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From: goodridg@husc8.harvard.edu (Andrew Goodridge)
Newsgroups: rec.music.dementia
Subject: Re: Tom Lehrer
Keywords: Tom Lehrer, where is he?
Date: 1 Oct 92 03:48:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Sep30.234843.15986
Distribution: usa
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

In article <BvF39s.4Hy@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth) writes:
>wkm1@nestor.uucp (24102-messer) writes:
>
>>Does anyone know the whereabouts of Tom Lehrer these
>>days?  The political campaign is SCREAMING for a good song
>>or two (or 3)...
>
>Last I heard, he was teaching math to university students in Southern
>California... 
>
>From what I've gathered, he stopped writing songs because they were 
>depressing him... He was so good, whatever he wrote usually ended up
>coming true...
>

Tom Lehrer splits his time between Santa Cruz, CA and Cambridge, MA.
Obviously he chooses the relative warm times of both. When the Demento
Guy was here in Boston, to do a show at the Somerville Theatre (I did his
caricature there and got it signed) he did his show here and interviewed
the fine Mr. Lehrer, mentioning that he was living in these two whacky 
towns. 

It was bizarre... bordering on pathetic. Demento was on Lehrer's case to
do more music, and Lehrer kept saying how the world isn't funny anymore.
He sounded completely disillusioned. It was something.

I'll mention one thing, though... Lehrer is in his early-middle 60's. And
he sounds as rich and full as he always has. Amazing. 

 - Sketch
From: csedlack@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Christopher Sedlack)
Newsgroups: rec.music.dementia
Subject: Re: The ``Weird Al'' Yankovic Video Library
Date: 30 Sep 92 20:26:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.BvErFr.16F
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

Someone once told me that "This is the Life" is actually in the movie "Johnny
Dangerously".  I haven't seen the movie, though, so I don't know for sure.

Chris Sedlack
csedlack@imsa.edu
csedlack@uiuc.edu
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From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Re: The ``Weird Al'' Yankovic Video Library
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 17:34:44 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

In article <j_jzd_-@rpi.edu> dzembj@rpi.edu writes:
>UHF was on "Weird Al's Video Library?"  Hmmm....I don't remember seeing it 
>there.  Gee, I guess I'll have to go back and watch it again...:-)

I don't remember it either on my VHS tape. Hmm, I guess I have to watch it 
again, too! By the way, I paid $14.95 for my tape at Sam Goody - it's quite 
a deal considering you get all of Al's best videos.
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From: darrin@arrakis.engin.umich.edu (Darrin P Cardani)
Subject: Re: One-hit wonders
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 12:26:52 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Originator: darrin@arrakis.engin.umich.edu


In article <joshm.717748274@crash>, joshm@crash.cts.com (Josh Mercer) writes:
> In <Vxz-wN@engin.umich.edu> darrin@arrakis.engin.umich.edu (Darrin P Cardani) writes:
> 
> 
> >Some more I thought of:
> >Soft Cell		Tainted Love
> 
> Not true.  They also did "Sex Dwarf"--not a hit, but it is still played
> now and then.  And Tainted love seems to live forever on college radio...
> 

I have never heard the song, and I really doubt it got played anywhere other
than where you are.

> Others I can think of:
> The Vapors, "Turning Japanese"
> Musical Youth (Whatever the title of that obnoxious song was)
Pass the dutchie (sp?) on the Left hand side.

> Has anyone mentioned A-Ha?
> Survivor "The Eye of the Tiger" (Yeah, I know, they did the song from
> Rocky IV as well)
Oh come on, they've had a ton of (really bad) top 40 hits.

> The Beastie Boys, You gotta fight for your right to party
> ??, "Funkytown" 
Lips Inc. originally, then psuedo echo.

> Kool and the Gang "Celebration"
> Kim Carnes "Bette Davis Eyes"

She re-did some song by a motown group that was top 10 a couple fo years ago. 

> Juice Newton, "Queen of Hearts"
> 
> Huh. I can't remember them like I used to.
> 
> 

Did alphaville ever get popular with anything?

How about Burgeious Tag (sp?) with "I don't mind."

					Darrin Cardani
darrin@engin.umich.edu
From: carl.camurca@travel.com (Carl Camurca)
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Subject: Re: One-hit wonders
Date: 29 Sep 92 11:39:00 GMT
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Reply-To: carl.camurca@travel.com (Carl Camurca)
Distribution: world
Organization: Travel Online / St. Louis Online - St. Louis, MO

ST>Subject: Re: One-hit wonders

ST>I'm not sure how they charted but two faves of mine:

ST>M: "Pop Muzik"
ST>The Buggles: "Video Killed The Radio Star"

Reminds me of
Visage: "Fade to gray"

ST>                -- Stewart "Sire recently reissued 'Pop Muzik' on a CD!

greetinx, Carl.

 * OLX 2.1 TD *  I'm Poogie the Bear, I'm covered with hair...
From: csedlack@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Christopher Sedlack)
Newsgroups: rec.music.dementia
Subject: Re: 2 Live Jews (Review)
Date: 30 Sep 92 20:12:28 GMT
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Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

gasarch@cs.umd.edu (William Ian Gasarch) writes:

>IF you don't know this sort of stuff then it might sound very
>strange to you.  (Imagine listening to Weird Al's
>HOT ROCKS POLKA without knowing the Rolling Stones).

Oh, I don't know, I wasn't too familiar with the Stones when I first heard
"Hot Rocks Polka", and I still liked it.

(Of course, one of the best things about it is that I can piss off one of my
friends, who happens to be a Stones fan, by singing and/or playing "Hot Rocks
Polka".)

Chris Sedlack
csedlack@uiuc.edu
csedlack@imsa.edu

The sigless wonder
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