The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #49218 Message #742955
Posted By: catspaw49
05-Jul-02 - 01:43 PM
Thread Name: One Hit Wonders
Subject: RE: One Hit Wonders
Well, the first hint would be that I have listed these all here before........and you have one already!!!
Let's see though........Okay, one of them is a solo act AND in a foreign language (but it hit #1 HERE in the USA)...the singer later committed suicide.
The other two are groups. The first one started as a Gospel group in Philly, and when they started doing R&B they were first known as the Thunderbirds. A later group took their name from the song that made it BIG!!!
The last one wasn't exactly a group, but a throw together to record this one song. The main guy wrote this a few years ago:
"For the session, I hired Gaynel Hodge, (the Penguins' piano player), Ronnie Caleco, (Lloyd Price's drummer), and, on bass, Harper Cosby (of Gerald Wilson's Jazz Orchestra).
"Wth these three, I went to American Recorders, where we added Sandy ("Teen Beat") Nelson. We already had a drummer (Caleco), so Nelson played garbage cans and did background screams.
"Dallas Fraizer, Buddy Mize, Scotty Turner, some girl named Diane, and some others whose names I don't remember all sang in the background.
"Other than myself, there were no actual ************. Everyone else on the track was either a friend or a studio musician who I paid $25 apiece for the session. When "##########" suddenly took off and people wanted to book us for concerts, there was no such group.