we try our best not to duplicate songs but as our lists grow there’s more of a chance of duplication…so even though we try our best to avoid it, some of these songs may also be found on other lists…

and, as always, these are songs we have Blipped in the past…and all links go to the Blip…however, as always, Blip may not always have them available.

Generally speaking we don’t Blip a lot of ‘ new ‘ songs…we tend more toward older songs and classic oldies…and more specifically one-hit wonders and rare songs…

why?

Because the ‘ new ‘ popular stuff gets played all the time…whereas the stuff we play sometimes doesn’t even get played at all.

And it’s cool giving the new generation a taste of our music, the stuff we grew up on…and sparking a few memories for our generation in the process.

This will be our final music collection…we’ve created 20 lists ( including this one ) with hundreds of songs…most of which are one-hit wonders and classic rock oldies…

17 of these lists are complete…as of right now…at the time of this post.

We hope you’ve enjoyed listening to these songs as much as we have playing them and creating these lists.

Rock: Can You Dig It, Baby: Present meets the Past

Smash Mouth – Then the morning comes

Savage Garden – Crash and burn

3 Doors Down – Kryptonite

Mark Anthony – You sang to Me

The Korgis – Everybody’s got to learn sometime

Blondie – The Tide Is High

Westlife – Swear it again

Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars

Hoobastank – The Reason

Samantha Mumba – Gotta Tell You

Mikaila – So in love with two

Crazy Town – Butterfly

Jessica Andrews – Who I Am

The Corrs – Breathless

Led Zeppelin – Immigrant Song

Soundgarden – Flower

Alice in Chains – Would

U2 – Pride In The Name Of Love

The Bangles – Walk Like An Egyptian

Tom Petty – Refugee

Van Halen – Runnin’ With The Devil

Blondie – One Way or Another

J. Geils Band – Centerfold

Whitney Houston – I wanna dance with somebody

Sweathog – Hallelujah

Sneaker – More Than Just The Two Of Us

Kiss – Rock n’ Roll All Night

Alice Cooper – No more Mr. Nice Guy

Billy Idol – Rebel Yell

Robert Palmer – Simply Irresistible

Jimi Hendrix – Foxy Lady

The Doors – Love Me Two Times

38 special – Rock & Roll Strategy

Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels – Devil With The Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly

Meredith Brooks – Bitch

Cher – If I Could Turn Back Time

Jackson Browne- Running on Empty

Kansas – Dust In the Wind

The Hollies – Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress

Roxy Music – Love Is The Drug

Eric Clapton – Cocaine

Golden Earring – Radar Love

Bullet – White Lies, Blue Eyes

Counting Crows – On A Tuesday In Amsterdam Long Ago

Five For Fighting – 100 Years

Celine Dion – That’s The Way It Is

Rush – New World Man

The Righteous Brothers – Rock ‘n Roll Heaven

Roger Daltrey – Without Your Love

Three Dog Night – Mama Told Me (Not To Come)

Paul Simon – Kodachrome

George Thorogood – Love Doctor

Carl Carlton – Everlasting Love

Shania Twain – Don’t Be Stupid

Stone Temple Pilots – Plush

Incubus – Drive

You might want to check out our one-hit wonder collection lists:

One-Hit Wonders: Popular and Rare

One-Hit Wonders of the 60’s: Popular and Rare

Top Twenty One-Hit Wonders in the UK: 1960-1999

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 90’s

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 80’s

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 70’s

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 60’s

also our number-one hit collections:

Number One Hits in the UK: 1960s

Number One Hits in the UK: 1970s

Number One Hits in the UK: 1980s

Number One Hits in the UK: 1990s

also our hit collections:

Canadian Rock Classics

100 Greatest Rock Classics: 1960-1999

Rock Classics: Remembering the Classics…songs that never made our other lists

Rock Classics: Remembering the Classics…songs that never made our other lists : Part Two

Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore

Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore: Part Two

Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore: Part Three

Weird and Wacky Rock Classics: sometimes NSFW

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With kind permission from Valhallen we are glad to be able to host this tutorial of his on The TAZ.


Ok this tut will use the old Flash 5 way of coding (may work in earlier versions to tho not sure) simply for the fact I taught myself in Flash 5 and have still not completly transfered to Flash MX coding

Ok basically what this will allow you to do is have a cross hair follow the mouse around the screen – in the example I have used it to find locations on a map but really is just to show you a little of how to use flash’s ability to move movieclips (mc) depending on mouse postion.

In the example you can see there are 5 main elements

Crosshair

Vertical bar

Horiz bar

Map

I know I said 5 and there are only 4 there but the crosshair is actiualy made of tewo parts the inner circle and the lines.

ok lets set up our movie -
your gonna need 8 layers :::

Map

Border

Horiz bar

Vert bar

circle

lines

Buttons

actions

ok the first 2 are self explanitary as is the two bars (just make sure they are long enough) also as we will be applying actionscript to the bars please make sure they are movieclips

the circle and lines mc’s will contain the animation for when you mouse over an active area

the first frame in each mc should be when it is at rest make sure to also add a

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stop();

function on the first frame
now animate it when you rollover and rollout making sure to add another stop at the end of the rollover animation (not following me – take a look at the .fla while reading this tutorial for a better idea)

ok once you have your mc made add them to the main timeline on the correct layers (by giving everything its own labeled layer and mc now it makes editing one element at a later time alot easier and is good practice for when you try more advanced flash projects)

right now we got to add our buttons – i drew roughly round the different areas on the map but if you want (and are better at geography than me) you could add lil dots for actual places etc

once you have your buttons made set their alpha to 0 (unless you want them to be seen)

ok time to add our code :::

click once on the horiz bar mc and add this code

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onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
_y += (_parent._ymouse-_y);
}

This tells flash to move the mc along with the mouse along the Y axis

ok now the vert bar :::

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onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
_x += (_parent._xmouse-_x);

}

exactly same thing but now is getting postion along X axis

ok adding the code to our circle and lines mc is just the same except we need it to get both the X & Y postions – the code for both movies is the same

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onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
_x += (_parent._xmouse-_x);
_y += (_parent._ymouse-_y);
}

dont forget to give your mc’s instance names (i just used circle & lines) as we will be refering to them in our code a little later

now we have got to tell the flash movie what to do when you move over one of our buttons

the code is the same for all the buttons :::

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on(rollover){
_root.circle.gotoAndPlay(2);
_root.lines.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
on(rollout){
_root.circle.gotoAndPlay(6);
_root.lines.gotoAndPlay(8);
}

now the frame numbers are just waht i used in my .fla and these will need to be changed depending upon the set up og your own mc’s

a quick break down of the code :::

on(rollout){ – tells flash to perform the following function when the mouse is placed over the button

_root.circle.gotoAndPlay(6); – this means that flash is to look for the mc (instance) name circle and go to the 6 frame and play

simple

***Flash Mx only***
I’m not sure as I have not tested but if you wanted to code it in flash MX i think instead of placing the rollover & rollout code on each button you could use

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display = function () {

and then define the function before using

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display.apply(button);

to attach the function to each button?

****End of Flash MX only****

Ok if you test it now you should see that the horiz line, vert line and both mc’s follow the cursor but lets get rid of the cursour as well

in your actions layer place the following code

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Mouse.hide();
stop();

so there you go thats it now there are other things that could be done with this – add a mc at the bottom to display different flags depending what country you are over etc – it could even be used as the basis of a lash shooting game!!

v_Ln

for our Top Ten List please refer to:

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 60’s

One-Hit Wonders: Popular and Rare

This list is just a random collection of one-hit wonders and may include a few anecdotes about the group or artist. This is not meant to be an all-inclusive listing as we are very particular as to what songs we want to list.

We try our best not to duplicate, but occasionally you might find a song on other lists as well…the more song pages we add the more likely duplication will happen.

The links go to ( as with our other lists ) the song we Blipped on Blip.

Adam Faith and The Roulettes – It’s Alright

Crabby Appleton – Go Back

The Glass Bottle – I Ain’t Got Time Anymore

Susan Jacks & The Poppy Family – That’s Where I Went Wrong

Rainbow – Stone Cold

Toni Basil – Mickey

Benny Mardones – Into The Night

Billy Swan – I Can Help

Shirley and Company – Shame Shame Shame

Jonathan Edwards – Sunshine

Jessi Colter – I’m not Lisa

Jo Jo Gunne – Run, Run, Run

The Chakachas – Jungle Fever

Teegarden & VanWinkle – God, Love & Rock And Roll

100% Proof – Somebody’s been Sleeping in my Bed

Bobby Bloom – Montego Bay

Godspell – Day by Day

People! – I Love You – a classic one-hit wonder…with a great beat

Michael Nesmith & The First National Band – Silver Moon

Mike Nesmith and The First National Band – Joanne

Canada, A Centennial Song / Une Chanson du Centenaire (1967)

TV Commercial – Buy the World a Coke

You might want to check out our other one-hit wonder collection lists:

One-Hit Wonders of the 60’s: Popular and Rare

Top Twenty One-Hit Wonders in the UK: 1960-1999

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 90’s

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 80’s

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 70’s

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 60’s

also our number-one hit collections:

Number One Hits in the UK: 1960s

Number One Hits in the UK: 1970s

Number One Hits in the UK: 1980s

Number One Hits in the UK: 1990s

also our hit collections:

Canadian Rock Classics

100 Greatest Rock Classics: 1960-1999

Rock Classics: Remembering the Classics…songs that never made our other lists

Rock Classics: Remembering the Classics…songs that never made our other lists : Part Two

Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore

Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore: Part Two

Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore: Part Three

Weird and Wacky Rock Classics: sometimes NSFW

‘ Oh, yeh, I remember that one ‘…

this list will be updated as Blip makes these songs available…some of the songs I’d like to add are not presently available…

as always, Blip is fickle…these songs were available at the time we Blipped them…but that does not mean they will continue to be available.

Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore

The Village Stompers – Washington Square

Savoy Brown – Hellbound Train

Stone The Crows – Niagra

The Aerovons – World Of You

Mongo Santamaria – Watermelon Man

Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames – Yeh, Yeh

Barry McGuire – Eve of Destruction

The Spokesmen -­ The Dawn Of Correction – the answer song to ‘ Eve of Destruction ‘

The Underdogs – Love’s Gone Bad – yep…this came out of Motown

Terence Trent D’Arby – Wishing Well

Spider – New Romance (It’s a Mystery)

Sylvia – Nobody

Saga – On The Loose

Vandenberg – Burning Heart

JoBoxers – Just Got Lucky

Lipps Inc – Funkytown

The Promise – When In Rome

Ann Peebles–I Can’t Stand The Rain

Kon Kan – I Beg Your Pardon

Crow – Evil Woman Don’t Play Your Games With Me

Balance – Breaking Away

Diesel – Sausalito Summernight

Tane Cain – Holdin On

Gary Glitter – Rock and Roll Part 2

Billy J Kramer – From a Window – a Lennon/McCartney song…both were managed by Brian, and BJ Kramer later acknowledged them as being responsible for his success

Dave Loggins – Please Come To Boston

The Silver Beatles – Like Dreamers Do

The Applejacks – Like Dreamers Do – one of the few occasions that the cover is better than the original

The Ivy League – Funny How Love Can Be

Cupids Inspiration – Yesterday has gone

George Harrison – Got my mind set on you – OK, need to play this first…

James Ray – I’ve Got My Mind Set On You – so I can get to the original

Chilliwack – Watcha Gonna Do

Five Man Electrical Band – Werewolf

Cyrkle – Red Rubber Ball – Tom Dawes of The Cyrkle wrote the famous “plop plop fizz fizz” jingle for Alka-Seltzer

Lesley Gore – Sunshine, Lollipops And Rainbows – Lesley Gore appeared in two episodes of the TV show Batman in 1966. She played the role of “Pussycat”, one of Catwoman’s henchwomen

Rick James – Super Freak – Rick is the nephew of Temptations vocalist Melvin Franklin

The Raspberries – Nobody Knows – their 1972 debut album sported a raspberry scented ’scratch and sniff’ sticker

The Majors – A Wonderful Dream

The Outlaws – Ghost Riders in the Sky

Janie Grant – Triangle

The Stereos – I Really Love You

The Flares – Foot Stompin’ Part 1

Mary Hopkin – Those were the Days – the song was produced by Paul McCartney

Lovin’ Spoonful – Younger Girl

Vibrations – My Girl Sloopy – This is the original of the song later called Hang On Sloopy by the McCoys

The Troggs – With A Girl Like You

The Grass Roots – Midnight_Confessions – only 9 other groups have charted more hits in the top 100…and the group holds the record for the largest turnout for a one-act US concert…600,000

Chad and Jeremy – A Summer Song

The Royal Guardsmen – Baby Let’s Wait – Probably best known for their Snoopy songs…but this was their best

Gene McDaniels – Chip Chip – had a string of quirky fun songs

Deon Jackson – Love Makes The World Go Round

Unit 4+2 – Concrete and Clay – charted the same week as Eddie’s version

Eddie Rambeau – Concrete and Clay

Buddy Starcher – History Repeats Itself – OK, this isn’t really a song…but it is very rare…and very interesting, so take a listen…and it was a hit

Illusion – Did You See Her Eyes

Brian Hyland – Gypsy Woman

Crazy Joe and the Variable Speed Band – Madam Palm

The Raspberries – Overnight Sensation

Edwin Starr — Agent OO Soul - This song was originally released under his real name Charles Hatcher…mostly remembered for his song ‘ War ‘

This list has 60 songs.

You might want to check out our one-hit wonder collection lists:

One-Hit Wonders: Popular and Rare

One-Hit Wonders of the 60’s: Popular and Rare

Top Twenty One-Hit Wonders in the UK: 1960-1999

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 90’s

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 80’s

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 70’s

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 60’s

also our number-one hit collections:

Number One Hits in the UK: 1960s

Number One Hits in the UK: 1970s

Number One Hits in the UK: 1980s

Number One Hits in the UK: 1990s

also our hit collections:

Canadian Rock Classics

100 Greatest Rock Classics: 1960-1999

Rock Classics: Remembering the Classics…songs that never made our other lists

Rock Classics: Remembering the Classics…songs that never made our other lists : Part Two

Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore

Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore: Part Two

Weird and Wacky Rock Classics: sometimes NSFW

As always the links go to the Blip where we played the song. And as usual Blip may or may not have the song available.

Number One Hits in the UK: 1990’s

3 Feb 1990 – Sinéad O’Connor – Nothing Compares 2 U – her only number one hit in the UK, the song was written by Prince

31 Mar 1990   -   Snap    -  The Power

15 Sep 1990   -   Steve Miller Band   -   The Joker - from 73′ but became a hit again after used in a jean commercial

3 Nov 1990  –    Righteous Brothers   -   Unchained Melody – this song became a hit again after the movie ‘ Ghost ‘

5 Jan 1991   -   Iron Maiden   -   Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter

19 Jan 1991   -   Enigma   -   Sadness Part 1

30 Mar 1991   -   Chesney Hawkes   -   The One And Only

8 Jun 1991   -   Color Me Badd   -   I Wanna Sex You Up

13 Jul 1991   -   Bryan Adams   -   (Everything I Do) I Do It For You – this song broke the record previously held since 1955 for the most consecutive weeks at number one…it charted at number one for 16 weeks

2 Nov 1991  -    U2  -    The Fly

25 Jan 1992   -   Wet Wet Wet   -   Goodnight Girl

22 Feb 1992   -   Shakespears Sister   -   Stay

5 Dec 1992 – Whitney Houston  -   I Will Always Love You

13 Feb 1993   -   2 Unlimited   -   No Limit

22 May 1993   -   Ace Of Base   -   All That She Wants

1 Aug 1993   -   Freddie Mercury   -   Living On My Own

23 Oct 1993   -   Meat Loaf   -   I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)

9 Apr 1994   -   Take That   -   Everything Changes – they had 8 number one hits

1 Apr 1995   -   Outhere Brothers   -   Don’t Stop (Wiggle Wiggle)

6 May 1995   -   Oasis   -   Some Might Say – even though they only achieved one-hit wonder status in the US ( Wonderwall was their only song that reached the top 10 ) they did much better in the UK with this being their first number one hit of 8

26 Aug 1995   -   Blur   -   Country House

27 Jan 1996   -   Babylon Zoo   -   Spaceman

2 Mar 1996   -   Oasis   -   Don’t Look Back In Anger

27 Jul 1996   -   Spice Girls   -   Wannabe – the first of 9 number one hits in the UK

25 Jan 1997   -   White Town   -   Your Woman

22 Feb 1997   -   No Doubt   -   Don’t Speak

5 Apr 1997   -   Chemical Brothers   -   Block Rockin’ Beats – their 2nd and last number one

12 Apr 1997   -   R Kelly   -   I Believe I Can Fly

20 Sep 1997  –    Elton John    -  Candle In The Wind / Something About The Way You Look – a remake of his song about Marilyn Monroe to raise funds for the Diana, Princess of Wales charity after her death

1 Nov 1997   -   Aqua   -   Barbie Girl

21 Feb 1998   -   Celine Dion   -   My Heart Will Go On – her second and last number one in the UK

16 May 1998   -   Aqua    -  Turn Back Time – their 3rd and last number one

11 Jul 1998   -   Billie   -   Because We Want To – she was just 15 years old at this time

5 Jul 1998  –    Jamiroquai   -   Deeper Underground

5 Sep 1998   -   Manic Street Preachers   -   If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

31 Oct 1998   -   Cher   -   Believe – she was 52 at this time and had a career that spanned more than 33 years

30 Jan 1999   -   Offspring   -   Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)

13 Feb 1999   -   Blondie   -   Maria – at the age of 54 she became the oldest female to reach number one, this was also her 6th number one

20 Feb 1999    -  Lenny Kravitz   -   Fly Away

27 Feb 1999   -   Britney Spears   -   Baby One More Time

1 May 1999   -   Westlife   -   Swear It Again

15 May 1999   -   Backstreet Boys   -   I Want It That Way – this was their only number one in the UK, however they did have 7 previous top tens

26 Jun 1999   -   Vengaboys   -   Boom Boom Boom Boom

16 Oct 1999   -   Christina Aguilera   -   Genie In A Bottle

6 Nov 1999   -   Five   -   Keep On Movin’

20 Nov 1999   -   Robbie Williams   -   She’s The One

4 Dec 1999   -   Cliff Richard   -   Millennium Prayer – this was his 14th number one hit over a career spanning 40 years since his first number one

Note: some songs may have been omitted because they can be found on our other lists. 47 number one songs of the 90’s are presently on this list.

You might want to check out our one-hit wonder collection lists:

One-Hit Wonders: Popular and Rare

One-Hit Wonders of the 60’s: Popular and Rare

Top Twenty One-Hit Wonders in the UK: 1960-1999

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 90’s

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 80’s

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 70’s

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 60’s

also our number-one hit collections:

Number One Hits in the UK: 1960s

Number One Hits in the UK: 1970s

Number One Hits in the UK: 1980s

also our hit collections:

Canadian Rock Classics

100 Greatest Rock Classics: 1960-1999

Rock Classics: Remembering the Classics…songs that never made our other lists

Rock Classics: Remembering the Classics…songs that never made our other lists : Part Two

Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore

Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore: Part Two

Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore: Part Three

Weird and Wacky Rock Classics: sometimes NSFW

As always the links go to the Blip where we played the song. And as usual Blip may or may not have the song available.

Number One Hits in the UK: 1970’s

6 Jun 1970   –   Christie   -   Yellow River – the Tremeloes turned this song down so Jeff Christie recorded it himself

30 Jan 1971   -   George Harrison   -   My Sweet Lord – George was successfully sued for plagiarism by the Chiffons for copying their song ‘ He’s so Fine ‘

6 Mar 1971   -   Mungo Jerry  -   Baby Jump – their 2nd and last number one

24 Jul 1971   -   T Rex  –   Get It On – was their 2nd of 4 number one hits in the UK, their first number one was ‘ Hot Love ‘

19 Feb 1972 – Chicory Tip – Son of my Father – the first number one hit to have a Moog Synthesiser

11 Mar 1972   -   Nilsson   -   Without You – this is a song about suicide, and ironically the  two members of Badfinger that wrote it committed suicide

17 Jun 1972   -   Don McLean   -   Vincent

9 Sep 1972   -   Slade   -   Mama Weer All Crazee Now

27 Jan 1973   -   Sweet   -   Blockbuster

3 Mar 1973   -   Slade   -   Cum On Feel The Noize – their 4th number one hit, a song later covered by Quiet Riot

19 May 1973   -   Wizzard   -   See My Baby Jive

17 Nov 1973   -   Gary Glitter   -   I Love You Love Me Love

26 Jan 1974   -   Mud   -   Tiger Feet

16 Mar 1974   -   Paper Lace   -   Billy Don’t Be A Hero

19 Oct 1974   -   Sweet Sensation   -   Sad Sweet Dreamer

28 Jun 1975   -   10 CC   -   I’m Not In Love – their 2nd number one

6 Sep 1975   -   Rod Stewart   -   Sailing – his third number one

29 Nov 1975 – Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody

14 Feb 1976   -   Slik   -   Forever And Ever

21 Feb 1976   -   Four Seasons   -   December ‘63

24 Jul 1976   -   Elton John & Kiki Dee   -   Don’t Go Breaking My Heart

25 Dec 1976 – Johnny Mathis – When A Child Is Born

15 Jan 1977   -   David Soul   -   Don’t Give Up On Us – most people remember him as Hutch from the TV show ‘ Starsky and Hutch ‘…but most people think he was an actor turned singer, when in fact he was a singer who turned actor

19 Feb 1977   -   Leo Sayer   -   When I Need You

8 Oct 1977   -   David Soul   -   Silver Lady – his 2nd and last number one, but he scored 5 songs in the top 12 in his career

13 May 1978  – Boney M  – Rivers Of Babylon

30 Sep 1978   -   John Travolta  & Olivia Newton John   -   Summer Nights

18 Nov 1978   -   Boomtown Rats   -   Rat Trap

3 Feb 1979   -   Blondie   -   Heart Of Glass

17 Mar 1979   -   Gloria Gaynor   -   I Will Survive

28 Jul 1979   -   Boomtown Rats   -   I Don’t Like Mondays – their 2nd and last number one

17 Nov 1979   -   Dr Hook   -   When You’re In Love With A Beautiful Woman

Note: some songs may have been omitted because they can be found on our other lists. 32 number one songs of the 70’s are presently on this list.

You might want to check out our one-hit wonder collection lists:

One-Hit Wonders: Popular and Rare

One-Hit Wonders of the 60’s: Popular and Rare

Top Twenty One-Hit Wonders in the UK: 1960-1999

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 90’s

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 80’s

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 70’s

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 60’s

also our number-one hit collections:

Number One Hits in the UK: 1960s

Number One Hits in the UK: 1980s

Number One Hits in the UK: 1990s

also our hit collections:

Canadian Rock Classics

100 Greatest Rock Classics: 1960-1999

Rock Classics: Remembering the Classics…songs that never made our other lists

Rock Classics: Remembering the Classics…songs that never made our other lists : Part Two

Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore

Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore: Part Two

Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore: Part Three

Weird and Wacky Rock Classics: sometimes NSFW

Some of these songs you’ll remember…some will surprise you…and some are just funny as hell.

Yep, even artists/groups you normally associate with great hit songs have produced some really far-out wacky stuff.

Some of these songs are just odd-ball classics and some are off-the-wall classics…enjoy!

OH…they might not all be considered ‘ rock ‘…but we don’t care.

And don’t mistake this for a list of quirky fun songs like Wooly Bully or Alley Oop…nah, these are much stranger than that.

Weird and Wacky Rock Classics: sometimes NSFW

Banjo & Sullivan – I’m at Home Getting Hammered (While She’s Out Getting Nailed) a love song

Pink Floyd – Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered – yep, even groups that were mega stars had some real weird songs

The Notorious Cherry Bombs – It’s Hard to Kiss the Lips at Night That Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long – another love song

Leonard Nimoy – Highly Illogical – Scotty, we need more power!!! This song is causing a warp flux in the dimension vertigo

The Bears - The Super Bowl Shuffle – The Bears – OK, OK, nuff’s enough… I sincerely apologize to football fans everywhere for playin’ this nonsense

Roger Alan Wade – Butt Ugly Slut – I apologize in advance for this…do not listen if you don’t have a healthy sense o’ humor…not for the kiddies…but funny as ell’ 

Queen -  Bring Back That Leroy Brown – yep…even Queen had some real weird n’ wacky songs…surprise surprise

You might want to check out our one-hit wonder collection lists:

One-Hit Wonders: Popular and Rare

One-Hit Wonders of the 60’s: Popular and Rare

Top Twenty One-Hit Wonders in the UK: 1960-1999

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 90’s

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 80’s

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 70’s

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 60’s

also our number-one hit collections:

Number One Hits in the UK: 1960s

Number One Hits in the UK: 1970s

Number One Hits in the UK: 1980s

Number One Hits in the UK: 1990s

also our hit collections:

Canadian Rock Classics

100 Greatest Rock Classics: 1960-1999

Rock Classics: Remembering the Classics…songs that never made our other lists

Rock Classics: Remembering the Classics…songs that never made our other lists : Part Two

Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore

Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore: Part Two

Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore: Part Three

this is a work in progress as we back-track through our Blips…as said, every one of these songs we have Blipped…if we haven’t Blipped them before they won’t be on this list…

this list may or may not contain ‘ all ‘ the songs we’ve Blipped that are not on our other lists…we’ve Blipped a lot of songs…far too many ( even eliminating the songs on other lists ) for this page alone…if necessary we will add additional pages as we don’t like to have more than 100 songs on a page…

most of these songs were very popular at one time or another, and you should be able to remember most of them…even if you are very young you’ve probably heard them played someplace at sometime…

these songs are random and do not reflect any specific time period…this will be, for all intents and purposes, our most disorganized and chaotic list…

in other words, our garbage list…without the garbage…

Note: a couple of these may not be considered ‘ classics ‘ yet…but they were included because we did Blip them, and they certainly will be classics.

We try not to duplicate songs…but as we add songs there may be some songs on more than one list.

Rock Classics: Remembering the Classics…songs that never made our other lists

King Harvest – Dancing in the Moonlight

Just Us – I Can’t Grow Peaches On A Cherry Tree – a unique cover of Ian and Sylvia’s Four Strong Winds

The 5 Stairsteps – OOH Child – also known just as The Stairsteps

The Doobie Brothers – Black Water

Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Lucky Man

Ohio Express – Yummy Yummy Yummy

Gary U.S. Bonds – Quarter To Three

Dusty Springfield – Son of a preacher man

Little Anthony & The Imperials – Going Out Of My Head

Mungo Jerry – In The Summertime

J. Frank Wilson And The Cavaliers – Last Kiss – You’ll probably remember the remake by the group Wednesday in 74′ or the cover by Pearl Jam…but the original excels

The Marathons – Peanut Butter – Actually done by the Vibrations pretending to be a group called The Marathons…as it was recorded by a different record label than they were under contract with

Daniel Boone – Beautiful Sunday

Nazareth – Bad Bad Boy

Uriah Heep—Easy Livin

Warren Zevon – Werewolves Of London

Great White – Once Bitten twice Shy

Melanie Safka – Brand New Key

Edison Lighthouse – Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)

Ides of March – Vehicle – Written by member Jim Peterik who wrote the song to/about his girlfriend ( who he eventually did marry ) who, when they were dating, would refuse to see him unless she needed a ride to go someplace

Terry Jacks – Seasons In The Sun – it was originally done by the The Kingston Trio – The Fortunes and Pearl Before Swine also did it previous to Terry’s release

Carl Douglas – Kung fu fighting

Steve Forbert – Romeo’s Tune

The Ozark Mountain Daredevils – Jackie Blue

Alan O’Day – Undercover Angel

Country Joe McDonald and the Fish – Fixin’ to Die Rag

Miguel Rios – A Song Of Joy (Himno A La Alegria)

Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs – Stay

Shep and the Limelites – Daddys Home

The Contours – Do you love me (Now that I can dance)

Reunion – Life Is a Rock But the Radio Rolled Me

Point Blank – Nicole

GTR – When The Heart Rules The Mind

Georgia Satellites – Keep your hands to yourself

Divinyls – I Touch Myself

Shana – I Want You

Sheriff – When I’m With You

RTZ – Until Your Love Comes Back Around

Gowan – Criminal Mind

Steppenwolf – The Pusher

Van Morrison – Into The Mystic

Carla Thomas – B-A-B-Y

Ted Nugent and The  Amboy Dukes – Journey to the Center of Your Mind

Steve Winwood – Back In The High Life Again

Jethro Tull – Bungle In The Jungle – Jethro Tull was a name  suggested by their manager, after the name of a British barrister and farmer who, in the mid-1700s, invented a device called the seed drill

Fleetwood Mac – Black Magic Woman – most people associate this song with Santana who covered it about a year after Fleetwood did

Carlos Santana – Black Magic Woman – originally done by Fleetwood Mac, but an excellent cover

Them – Gloria – the group was headed by Van Morrison

Jimi Hendrix – Gloria – Jimi did this cover of Gloria by Them, the 45 release had no B side at all, it was just blank

Crowded House – Something so Strong

EMF – You’re Unbelievable

Procol Harum – Conquistador

5 Man Electrical Band – Absolutely Right

CCR – Midnight Special

Traffic – Dear Mr. Fantasy

Jay and the Americans – There goes my Baby

Fludd – Brother and Me

UB40 – Kingston Town

Styx – Renegade

Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit – When Jerry Garcia heard the finished tape of JA’s newest album, he remarked “Sounds like a surrealistic pillow,” and the album’s name was born

Led Zeppelin – Heartbreaker – Led Zeppelin is the only band to have every one of their albums reach the Billboard Top Ten

Eric Burdon & The Animals – San Franciscan Nights

Simple Minds – Don’t you (forget about me)

Moody Blues – Your Wildest Dreams

Dion & The Belmonts – I Wonder Why

The Byrds – Turn! Turn! Turn!

Phil Collins – Another Day in Paradise

Kansas – Carry On Wayward Son

Foreigner – I Want to Know What Love Is

Fleetwood Mac – Go Your Own Way

John Mellencamp – Little Pink Houses

Billy Preston & Syreeta Wright – With You I’m Born Again

Scott McKenzie – If You’re Going To San Francisco – This song was written by John Philips of the Mama’s and Papa’s

Carly Simon – Thats The Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be

The Raspberries – Go All The Way/I Wanna Be With You

Bowling For Soup – 1985

Janis Ian – Society’s Child

Heart – Barracuda

Martha Reeves & The Vandellas – (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave

George Michael – Faith

Cyndi Lauper – Time After Time

Queen – Another One Bites The Dust

C & C Music Factory Freedom Williams- Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)

Robert Palmer – Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)

Percy Sledge – When a Man Loves a Woman

Peter Frampton – Show Me The Way

Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb

Long John Baldry – Let The Heartache Begin – this blues singer’s band at one time included several big names like Rod Stewart, Elton John ( the John is taken from Baldry ), and Mick Jagger before they made a name for themselves

The Sunrays – I Live For The Sun

The Dixiebelles – Down At Papa Joes

Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band – Urban Spaceman

Clocks – She looks a lot like you

Harlequin – Innocence

Face To Face – 10-9-8

Bobby Day – Rockin Robin

Cat Stevens – Moonshadow

Nazereth – Love Hurts

Billy Paul – Me And Mrs Jones

Gene McDaniels – Tower of Strength

Rick Dees – Disco Duck

There are 100 songs on this list.

You might want to check out our one-hit wonder collection lists:

One-Hit Wonders: Popular and Rare

One-Hit Wonders of the 60’s: Popular and Rare

Top Twenty One-Hit Wonders in the UK: 1960-1999

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 90’s

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 80’s

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 70’s

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 60’s

also our number-one hit collections:

Number One Hits in the UK: 1960s

Number One Hits in the UK: 1970s

Number One Hits in the UK: 1980s

Number One Hits in the UK: 1990s

also our hit collections:

Canadian Rock Classics

100 Greatest Rock Classics: 1960-1999

Rock Classics: Remembering the Classics…songs that never made our other lists

Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore

Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore: Part Two

Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore: Part Three

Weird and Wacky Rock Classics: sometimes NSFW