80s "omg I loved that one" one hit wonders mix tape thread

Good call on "Piano in the Dark."

Will to Power-"Baby I Love Your Way/Freebird"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5bludP3TVU

That one is GROTESQUE.

To their credit, Will to Power recorded several awesome freestyle hits before and after "Baby I Loved Your Way." Remember "Dreamin'," "Say It's Gonna Rain," and "Fading Away"?

Jump 'N the Saddle Band-"The Curly Shuffle"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuTzsi6WT6Q

Re Will to Power, I recall there being an even more grotesque version that tacked "I'm Not in Love" to the front of the medley. Maybe I'm mis-remembering though.

xp: I don't think I like this path we are on

I recall there being an even more grotesque version that tacked "I'm Not in Love" to the front of the medley

Nope -- that was another hit, and a top ten in '90!

I found a large number of these songs on 12" for $1-$3 dollars yesterday. Seattle peeps desperate for One Hit Wonders and the unsuccessful records that followed, hit me up. I'll tell you where they are stashed.

Ugh Will To Power late 80s jamz please go away

I really, really hate Londonbeat

I thought I hated Londonbeat too, but then I just relistened to it and those guitars are pretty delirious and basically I could listen to them all day.

Matos is absolutely right in arguing that those guitars are pure Congolese rumba/soukous.

I can totally hear that now. Also it's not entirely unlike some of the stuff Fine Young Cannibals were doing. Obviously there are the vocal similarities but also those bright fluid guitar sounds over that machine-like backing track.

they were the FYC's backup singers, I think.

Oh really? That would obviously explain a few things!

I dunno...theyre too smooth-sounding. Like if there is a smooth jazz equivalent for pop, that is Londonbeat. and that damn song is an earworm of the highest order

I want every single one of these songs on my iPod and I want to listen to them non-stop for the next six months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rbMt2-U7TU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK5y91US4Zk

Ooh, this one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN5OgiwprP8

87. johnny hates jazz - shattered dreams

I almost forgot that song existed. O.O

Danny Wilson- marys prayer

Deon estus - heaven help me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezFgMfL39c4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g06TP17rSA4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

The Immortal Swayze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVi4PUx8bXk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FBUbv2LUEc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3Ui8_oqc9Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcC5NKmzK54

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgYveDE5BHw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8dCZ_cLAPQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2rYozbfEV4

i love the rusty griswald in the womack and womack video.

Eric Carmen and Jermaine Jackson (unfortunately) not one hit wonders.

Style - Telefon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72eT7L_3WIw

Holy shit I totally forgot about this song...lol late 80s was such a weird time for music

Grayson Hugh "Talk It Over"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiQofU5nvVM&sns=em

Also have we done Baltimora, Tarzan Boy yet? Forgot how much I love that one.

lol yes we have, in the first post of this thread /facepalm

the "16 years old" part is ew creepy but damn I really love Benny Mardones "Into The Night"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bpOBAwrFVw&sns=em

Grayson Hugh "Talk It Over"

I posted that somewhere upthread, but I just wanted to point out that I love it too. Let's hang out and listen to records, VG!

When he slummed as a terrible pop music critic, Leonard Pitts, Jr. used to promote Grayson Hugh as one of the great underrated artists of our time.

Ah, here we are:

Hugh's third album Road to Freedom (MCA Records, 1992) was voted "one of the year's top-ten albums" by Billboard Magazine and received rave reviews. Leonard Pitts, Jr. of the Miami Herald said: "Have I heard any newcomer in the last decade who excites me as much as this guy? No."[1]

Wow, in the last decade. That's a big call.

Is Charlie Sexton mentioned yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7QPBzAJ_io

<3 Charlie

"Talk It Over" is such a blatant ripoff of "Come and Get Your Love" that I can't believe Redbone didn't sue.

for Charlie i meant Beat's So Lonely of course, but perhaps Impressed charted well too.
in any case it has probably the most archetypal video of a certain 80s vibe (that i can't quite quantify otherwise)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOJWVB2sYpo&feature=relmfu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yahBtp_1jWE

Man, you could cut a steak with Sexton's cheekbones.

Also: all his songs have that thud-thud-thud.

Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSv3kSK41Oo

^^^ for JoBoxers - Just Got Lucky, Grayson Hugh - Talk It Over, and The Vapors - Turning Japanese

Alot of new-wavey one-hit-wonders I thought of had their one hit in 1979 so don't count, darn.

God... Charlie was one of my top 5 pinup guys. Forgot those lips! Damn. He was like a hotter, taller Roland S Howard. Slightly goth :D

Face to Face: "10, 9, 8"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmp9kxNZwN8

Bouregois Tagg: "I Don't Mind At All"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gUDMeIEMMI

er, Bourgeois

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMg2keerNHo

Was that a hit in the US? Cause it wasn't even their biggest hit in Canada. That would probably be "It Doesn't Really Matter" or "Crying Over You" or "Situation Critical".