these one-hit wonders may ( and likely will ) include groups and artists from the US ( and possibly other places ) who had a single song make it into the top 75 on a major UK Chart…

Top 20 One-Hit Wonders in the UK: 1960-1999

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown – Fire

Zager And Evans – In The Year 2525

Lemon Pipers – Green Tambourine

Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg – Je t’aime moi non plus

Scott McKenzie – San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)

Airport – The Motors

The Lone Ranger – Quantum Jump

Video Killed The Radio Star-The Buggles

Ashton, Gardner & Dyke – Resurrection Shuffle

Spirit In The Sky – Norman Greenbaum

Telephone man – Meri Wilson

Matthews Southern Comfort – Woodstock

Tommy Tutone – 867 5309 (Jenny)

Weather Girls — I’ts Raining Men

Take My Breath Away -  Berlin

Aneka – Japanese Boy

Nick Kamen – I Promised Myself

Enjoy Yourself – A+

Joan Osborne – One of Us

Edwyn Collins – A Girl Like You

the links go to the song we played on Blip…please note that Blip is fickle and may not always have the song available…and…

we may add a UK and Canadian Top Ten One-Hit Wonder at some future date…so stay tuned to this page for updates.

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 90’s

April 18, 1998 Marcy Playground- Sex and Candy Number 8

December 15, 1990 2 in a Room – Wiggle It Number 15

June 1, 1996 Jann Arden – Insensitive Number 12

April 4, 1998 Bitter Sweet Symphony – The Verve Number 12

December 6, 1997 If You Could Only See – Tonic Number 11

August 14, 1993 4 Non Blondes – What’s Up Number 14

September 30, 1995 Silverchair – Tomorrow Number 28

October 30, 1993 Blind Melon – No Rain Number 20

October 30, 1993 Haddaway – What is Love? Number 11

February 8, 1992 I’m too sexy – Right said Fred Number 1

The Ten Most Notable Runner-Ups

September 19, 1992 Shakespeare’s Sister – Stay Number 4

September 14, 1999 Fastball – Out Of My Head Number 20

March 23, 1996 The Tony Rich Project – Nobody Knows Number 2

August 14, 1993 95 South – Whoot There It Is Number 11

May 15, 1999 Everlast – What It’s Like Number 13

April 16, 1994 Crash Test Dummies – MMM MMM MMM MMM Number 4

November 11, 1995 Take That – Back For Good Number 7

March 14, 1998 Jimmy Ray – Are You Jimmy Ray? Number 13

September 5, 1998 Jennifer Paige – Crush Number 3

January 23, 1999 Save Tonight- Eagle Eye Cherry Number 5

the links go to the song we played on Blip…please note that Blip is fickle and may not always have the song available…and…

we may add a UK and Canadian Top Ten One-Hit Wonder at some future date…so stay tuned to this page for updates.

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 80’s

March 16, 1985 Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Relax (Don’t Do It) Number 10

July 2, 1988 Beds Are Burning – Midnight Oil Number 17

June 7, 1980 Gary Numan – Cars Number 9

February 12, 1983 Moving Pictures – What About Me Number 29

July 17, 1982 Soft Cell – Tainted Love Number 8

March 13, 1982 Prism – Don’t Let Him Know Number 39

April 23, 1983 Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Come on Eileen Number 1

March 16, 1985 Autograph – Turn Up The Radio Number 29

June 9, 1984 Icicle Works / Whisper To A Scream(Birds Fly) Number 37

November 29, 1980 The Vapors Turning Japanese Number 36

The Ten Most Notable Runner-Ups

December 11, 1982 Toni Basil – Hey Mickey Number 1

December 27, 1980 The Korgis- Everybody’s got to learn sometime Number 18

May 30, 1981 Get Wet – Just So Lonely Number 39

July 12, 1986 GTR – When The Heart Rules The Mind Number 14

August 4, 1984 Twisted Sister – We’re Not Gonna Take It Number 21

September 22, 1984 Scandal – The Warrior Number 7

May 22, 1982 Charlene – I’ve never been to me Number 3

December 24, 1983 Peter Schilling – Major Tom Number 14

April 28, 1984 Tracey Ullman – They Don’t Know Number 8

August 15, 1981 Joey Scarbury – Theme From ‘Greatest American Hero Number 2

the links go to the song we played on Blip…please note that Blip is fickle and may not always have the song available…and…

we may add a UK and Canadian Top Ten One-Hit Wonder at some future date…so stay tuned to this page for updates.

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 70’s

February 7, 1970 Venus – Shocking Blue Number 1

September 29, 1979 Patrick Hernandez – Born To Be Alive Number 16

July 12, 1975 Pilot –  Magic Number 5

July 24, 1976 Thin Lizzy- The boys are back in town Number 12

May 31, 1975 Ace – How Long Number 3

May 3, 1975 Sammy Johns – Chevy Van Number 5

May 1, 1971 Stay Awhile – The Bells Number 7

September 18, 1976 Wild Cherry – Play That Funky Music Number 1

September 29, 1979 Driver’s seat – Sniff ‘n’ the Tears Number 15

October 28, 1978 Nick Gilder – Hot Child In The City Number 1

The Ten Most Notable Runner-Ups

March 20, 1976 Love Is The Drug – Roxy Music Number 30

April 18, 1970 Mountain – Mississippi Queen Number 21

February 27, 1971 Wadsworth Mansion – Sweet Mary Number 7

October 28, 1978 Stonebolt – I Will Still Love You Number 29

June 2, 1973 Focus – Hocus Pocus Number 9

September 23, 1972 Mott the Hoople – All The Young Dudes Number 37

August 17, 1974 Paper Lace-The Night Chicago Died Number 1

April 7, 1973 Vicki Lawrence – the Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia Number 1

August 26, 1972 Argent – Hold Your Head Up Number 5

November 21, 1970 Mashmakhan – As The Years Go By Number 31

the links go to the song we played on Blip…please note that Blip is fickle and may not always have the song available…and…

we may add a UK and Canadian Top Ten One-Hit Wonder at some future date…so stay tuned to this page for updates.

Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 60’s

May 23, 1960 Harold Dorman Mountain of love Number 21

November 1, 1969 Baby It’s You – Smith Number 5

December 21, 1968 The Magic Lanterns – Shame Shame Number 29

June 25, 1966 Oh How Happy- The Shades Of Blue Number 12

October 25, 1969 Wind – Make Believe Number 28

August 3, 1968 Status Quo – Pictures Of Matchstick Men Number 12

June 22, 1968 Richard Harris – Mac Arthur Park Number 2

December 7, 1963 Barry And The Tamerlanes – I Wonder What She’s Doing Tonight Number 21

May 30, 1964 The Reflections-Just Like Romeo And Juliet Number 6

November 6, 1965 Jonathan King – Everyone’s Gone To The Moon Number 17

The Ten Most Notable Runner-Ups

November 22, 1969 The Flying Machine – Smile A Little Smile For Me Number 5

August 1, 1960 Image of a Girl – The Safaris Number 6

August 30, 1969 The Clique – Sugar on Sunday Number 22

August 7, 1961 Curtis Lee – Pretty Little Angel Eyes Number 7

August 15, 1964 The Chartbusters – She’s The One Number 33

January 14, 1967 The Music Machine – Talk Talk Number 15

May 20, 1967 EasyBeats – Friday on my mind Number 16

March 18, 1967 The Mojo Men – Sit Down, I Think I Love You Number 36

January 20, 1968 Judy In Disguise (With Glasses) – John Fred And His Playboy Band Number 1

October 11, 1969 Motherlode – When I Die Number 18

The Army said the gunman was killed. U.S. broadcast media identified him as Major Malik Nidal Hasan, and said he was a psychiatrist who was facing an upcoming deployment to Iraq. There was no immediate official confirmation of his identity.

U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas told FOX news: “I do know that he has been known to have told people that he was upset about going (to Iraq).” U.S. military officials say the shooter’s motives were still unclear.

The incident at Fort Hood, the largest military installation in the world, was one of the worst killings reported on a U.S. military base. In May a U.S. soldier at a base in Baghdad shot dead five fellow soldiers.

Soldier kills 11 in shooting rampage at Fort Hood army base | U.S. | Reuters

It began to open up in September 2005, when a volcano at the northern end of the rift, called Dabbahu, erupted.

The magma inside the volcano did not reach the surface and erupt as a fountain of lava – instead, it was diverted into the continental rift underground. The magma cooled into a wedge-shaped “dike” that was then uplifted, rupturing the surface and creating a 500-metre-long, 60-metre-deep crack.

While the Mount Dabbahu rift is still hundreds of kilometres inland, Ebinger says it could continue to widen and lengthen. “As the plates keep spreading apart, it will end up looking like the Red Sea,” she says.

Eventually it could reach the east coast of Ethiopia and fill up with seawater.

Ebinger says this won’t happen any time soon – it would take around 4 million years for the crack to reach the size of the Red Sea. Other areas in the Afar region are below sea level, however, and could see flooding before that if similar rifting occurs near the coastal volcanoes to the north and east that form a natural levy against the sea.

Giant crack in Africa formed in just days – environment – 04 November 2009 – New Scientist

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I wrote the following tutorial on Google Adwords strategy for a customer (https://home.mods4.net), and decided to cross post it here, as it may be useful for any budding intrepreneurs out there. You can change the figures/keywords shown here to suit your actual project and budjet, but the thoery remains constant…

Introduction

For each site I wish to promote I create 2 adword campaigns – one called whatever_hi and another called whatever_lo.

The _lo campaign contains very specific keywords (eg “Renault Clio Modification”) that are very low in terms of cost per click (CPC) but also have less predicted traffic. The _hi adverts contain more generic keywords (eg “Car Parts”) that have a much higher CPC but are more commonly typed into Google (so more traffic).

_lo Ads

The very specific keywords in the _lo campaigns should always generate an advert to us. They represent the best chance of a sale because the browser is searching for EXACTLY what we provide. To ensure that this is the case I set the budjet for _lo campaigns artificially high, at £100/day, so that we never lose potential sales on these keywords.

However, Google estimates that the _lo campaigns are likley to generate less than £10 of (well qualified) clicks per day, so even if there were 10 times the normal daily rate of searches on these keywords we would still capture all of them.

_hi Ads

The _hi campaigns contain common (fiercly competitive, which increases the CPC) keywords. These keyords generate a lot of traffic, but require a lot more clicks/actual sale. This is because hundreds of people may type just “subaru” into Google before there is one who both owns the car and who is looking to modify it.

That said, we still need to advertise to people who just type “Subaru” into Google, because any of these searches may be from a potential customer, but from a return on investment (ROI) perspective the larger the proportion of our budjet that can be spent on the _lo ads the better.

Budjet Considerations

So we pay for our _lo ads first, and then we buy as many _hi ads as we can afford from whats left of our budjet afterwards. There will therefore be a continual tweaking process (especially to start) to make sure that we are within our budjet.

If we exceed budjet on a given day we can reduce the _hi budjets for the following day as neccecary. When the daily budjet of a _hi ad is reached Google simply stops showing it till the next day.

[The customer] has suggested a £200/day budjet, so I have also set £100 each on each live _hi ad (Home and Subaru). We will ammend this figure as we see how much we are spending on their respective _lo ads.