Do you like one hit wonders?

[Cidknee]

Here's one for you from 1977.

RAM JAM

https://youtu.be/I_2D8Eo15wE?is=u0HE_sbPO8pPf131

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Yep, Sugar and Brandi. Love both those songs.

[FunkyMonkee]

Without opening the video. Black Betty.
My singer, Bobby Porter, was black and we'd sometimes sing that song to him but changed it, Black Bobby.
One or more of the guys in this band was originally in either The Ohio Express "Chewy Chewy" and "Sweeter Than Sugar" or The 1910 Fruitgum Co. "I, 2, 3, Red Light" and "Indian Giver".

[Cidknee]

Cool, thanks!

[Cidknee]

All to do with gum?

[FunkyMonkee]

AND, the style oof music was called, Bubblegum!!

[Cidknee]

Qule

[FunkyMonkee]

Vari!

[Dargil]

Black Betty. Ohhhhhh Nohhhhhhhh. Is just more racim and sexism by fascist White Christian Nationalist Patriarchs? (Did I miss anyone?)

[FunkyMonkee]

@Dargil HEAVENS TO MURGATROYD!! WE MUST START RAM JAM BONFIRES AND BURN EVERY COPY!!

[Cidknee]

Yes, I am white, Christian, and I care for my country! You damn right!!

[FunkyMonkee]

So do I!

[Dargil]

Some just get inspiration just one time. Norman Greenbaum. Spirit In The Sky. The most popular Christian pop song in history and composed by an Orthodox Jew. It may have started as a parody (?) but the song blew up and it is still popular after about 60 years.

[Cidknee]

I love that song and By the River of Babylon.

[Dargil]

G0d moves in strange ways

[FunkyMonkee]

But, wasn't Jesus, son of god, a Jew?
Are you a Christian or a Jew?
What's the difference? They both worship the same thing!

[Dargil]

@FunkyMonkee Zionist Christian. I believe Christianity is fulfilled messianic Judaism. That's why formerly anti-semitic Evangelicals have flipped.
Yes, Jesus was an Essene Jew. The apostles may have been the first Christians.

[FunkyMonkee]

Right! So, what's the difference?

[Dargil]

@FunkyMonkee Most observant Jews do not believe the Messianic prophesy is fulfilled.

[FunkyMonkee]

I've never been much into all that religious hubbub so, hardly any of means a thing, to me. So very much of it contradicts itself, it's just too confusing to bother keeping track of, especially when it's completely made-up.
I'll just stick to my records and music!!
I'm a moral enough person that, I don't need any of that hogwash. Do as thou wilt but harm none. Good enough for me!! I don't need a 2000 page book of fairy tales to tell me that!!

[Dargil]

@FunkyMonkee I have 50 pounds of vinyl.

[FunkyMonkee]

You actually weighed them? I've never heard of anybody doing that before.
I've got over 62,000 record spanning the past 120-some years. I have no idea how much that'd weigh!! A ton or two?

[Dargil]

@FunkyMonkee They whey feel like a big bag of dog food but harder to carry

[FunkyMonkee]

I know. I took at least 50 pounds of records to a radio station, once, to help out a friend of mine that was doing the oldies show that night.
And, I'm PRETTY SURE that each of my album crates weighs about 50 lbs.!! At least 125 albums in each crate.

[AI Opinion]

“Black Betty” is such a banger 😄 That guitar riff still feels wild and gritty, even today. I definitely enjoy one hit wonders, they’re like little time capsules. You hear them and you’re instantly in a specific era, vibe, and mood.

I love putting songs like this into road trip or party playlists. Pure fun, zero overthinking 🎸✨

[Lliam]

Yeah, here are a few I am familiar with but there are lots, lots more:

Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum
Sugar Sugar - The Archies
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
Brandie (You're a Fine Girl) - Looking Glass
In a Big Country - Big Country
My Sharona - the Knack
In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
Whip It - Devo
Wipe Out - The Surfaris

[sage2021]

I liked one hit wonders, but at the time the song was popular, I thought the band would have more than one hit

[Badtobad]

Some like dead or alive

[NathanDavis]

sure thing... lots of them

[NathanDavis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL7-CKirWZE

[NathanDavis]

this was 1998/1999...

and this was going to be our End of The World, song...

[thegreenyogi]

I do.