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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-24-06 12:47 AM
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Name a "one-shot wonder hit" that deserves to be revived.
I'll start with: "Sausalito Summernight" by Diesel (but only the full-length version with the guitar solo).
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Nicole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-24-06 12:49 AM
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1. Afternoon Delight
Not really. :P

I can't think of one.
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-24-06 12:50 AM
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2. Classical Gas by Mason Williams.
:popcorn: :popcorn:
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-24-06 12:57 AM
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3. Oddly, I heard that on the radio earlier this week.
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-24-06 01:02 AM
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4. I've been listening to it on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSxo84Q9VXg&search=classical%20gas
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-24-06 01:48 PM
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13. Would you believe it was once a TV news theme?
at WBAL, channel 11 in Baltimore, early '70s. They'd play it at the end over the credits and some pix of ducks on a pond or whatever.
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Pendrench Donating Member (729 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-24-06 09:41 PM
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20. I remember that well!
Thanks for the memory - do you still live in Maryland? I grew up in Catonsville, but moved to Severn after getting married.

Tim
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-24-06 10:17 PM
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22. No, but I was back in B-town for a meeting earlier this month!
Many other delegates assumed that I knew where everything was -- although I was representing the state agency of Hawai'i and hadn't lived in Charm City (or County, where I grew up) since '75!
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speedoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-24-06 01:23 AM
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5. Louie, Louie.
We need to get back to the sixties and the good, silly times that song represents.

Now.
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-24-06 01:36 AM
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6. "I had too much to dream last night" by the Electric Prunes......
Kick ass r&r masterpiece.

Zager and Evans "In the year 2525" Total dreck but soooooo much fun.

Rich Havens "Here Comes the sun"

and, ESPECIALLY, Brownsville Station and "Smokin' in the boy's room"
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-24-06 09:02 AM
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7. I second Sausalito Summernight
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_(band)
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-24-06 10:16 AM
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8. "Magnet and Steel" Walter Egan
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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-24-06 10:19 AM
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9. MacArthur Park
:evilgrin:
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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-24-06 03:29 PM
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17. I KNEW I shouldn't have jumped in
with a smart-ass answer. On the way home, one of the few stations I can pick up was playing MacArthur Park. x(
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-24-06 10:22 AM
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10. Groovy situation, Gene Chandler
Heard all too briefly on the "Anchorman" soundtrack.
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-24-06 11:10 AM
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11. "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred
It's catchy. It's funny. I like it. So sue me.

:popcorn:
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Inspired Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-24-06 06:15 PM
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18. Shhh....don't tell anyone but I like it too!
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-25-06 02:38 AM
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26. Absolutely the best song EVER for a wedding reception.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-25-06 04:29 AM
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30. It shows up once a year in a commercial
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-24-06 11:11 AM
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12. Strawberry Letter 22
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-24-06 01:53 PM
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14. Starbuck -- "Moonlight Feels Right"
I have the CD. Love that group.
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6000eliot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-25-06 04:27 AM
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29. I do too.
But I can't find the CD anywhere.
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-24-06 02:00 PM
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15. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-24-06 02:09 PM
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16. Ariel.... Dean Freedman.....
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scoey1953 Donating Member (513 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-24-06 09:25 PM
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19. Go All The Way ...by the Raspberries....
That was the biggest hit they ever had...until Eric Carmen went solo.
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-24-06 09:45 PM
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21. A freind of mine cold cocked Eric Carmen.....
Way back in 1972 or 73....

At a Cleveland Teen Club....
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scoey1953 Donating Member (513 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-24-06 10:26 PM
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23. That doesn't surprise me...
I heard he can be an arrogant sob...
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-25-06 02:36 AM
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24. It rocked
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-25-06 02:37 AM
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25. "Absolutely Right" by the Five Man Electrical Band
Even though they had a bigger hit with "Signs," I still think "Absolutely Right" is their best song.
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Wetzelbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-25-06 02:41 AM
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27. She Drives Me Crazy by The Fine Young Cannibals
not really but that just popped into my head. :)
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corporatemedia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-25-06 02:45 AM
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28. "I Shot My Left Nut Off" by Righty and the Whiteys
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SnohoDem Donating Member (915 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-25-06 10:57 AM
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31. Talk Talk by Music Machine
Psychotic Reaction by Count 5

96 Tears by ? and the Mysterians
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-25-06 12:30 PM
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32. Ride Captain Ride by Blues Image
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Giant Robot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-25-06 12:35 PM
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33. And no one has yet said
"Come on Eileen" by Dexy's Midnight Runners???

And you call yourselves progressives!
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-25-06 12:52 PM
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34. "Spirit in the Sky".
By the one and only Norman Greenbaum.
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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-25-06 12:57 PM
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35. Soft Core--Maurice and the Cliches
Fun song :D
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