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21 Aug 10 - 05:00 PM (#2970213) Subject: one hit wonders, whatever happened to ? From: MARINER Oft times I hear a song from the past on the radio, often sung by one hit ,or few hit wonders. The thought often struck me, "What ever happened to him or her?. People like Johnny Restivo "The Shape I'm In" ,Bobby Freeman, "Do you Wanna Dance" , Jimmy Soul, "If you wanna be Happy" ,Jimmy Jones, "Handy Man" and countless others.I know many of the old Doo-Wop groups are still out there gigging, some with the original line ups. But what ever became of the solo artists like the ones mentioned above ? |
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21 Aug 10 - 05:07 PM (#2970217) Subject: RE: one hit wonders, whatever happened to ? From: BTNG One-hit wonders This based on Wayne Jancik's book The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders Hope this helps BTNG |
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21 Aug 10 - 05:11 PM (#2970219) Subject: RE: one hit wonders, whatever happened to ? From: terrier I just Googled 'one hit wonders' and got loads of hits, you could start there if you've got a few days to spare, or maybe a few weeks :) |
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21 Aug 10 - 05:29 PM (#2970226) Subject: RE: one hit wonders, whatever happened to ? From: MARINER Thanks but they seem just to list one hit wonders by the year. None of them say what became of these people .For instance, since my first post I've found out that Johnny Restivo became a Bed Salesman. So who knows what became of some of the hundreds of others who gave us ,mostly, 3 minutes of sheer Rock 'n' Roll magic ?. Just a passing thought |
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21 Aug 10 - 05:37 PM (#2970229) Subject: RE: one hit wonders, whatever happened to ? From: BTNG Mariner, try your local library they may have a copy of Wayne Jancik's book, that's where I found the book, and it does list, whenever known, what the said performer are doing now BTNG |
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22 Aug 10 - 07:13 AM (#2970391) Subject: RE: one hit wonders, whatever happened to ? From: MARINER Thanks BTNG will do that |
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22 Aug 10 - 07:39 AM (#2970400) Subject: RE: one hit wonders, whatever happened to ? From: GUEST,HiLo I believe that Jimmy Jones was at least a two hit wonder..he also had the original hit of Good Timin.I wonder what happened to The Kalin Twins (When) Ketty (sic) Lester (Love Letters) Laurie London (Whole World In His Hands)..Loads of others..imteresting thread, thanks. |
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22 Aug 10 - 08:05 AM (#2970411) Subject: RE: one hit wonders, whatever happened to ? From: Johnny J You just reminded me of this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LjxfNxbZM4 and I could have been doing much more productive things too! |
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22 Aug 10 - 08:08 AM (#2970413) Subject: RE: one hit wonders, whatever happened to ? From: Johnny J Here's Rosie again looking a bit "older in the tooth" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGQEbD4sJoI Compare and contrast... :-) |
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22 Aug 10 - 08:12 AM (#2970415) Subject: RE: one hit wonders, whatever happened to ? From: Johnny J Ach, you've got me going now... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4xNF9uh8SA :-) |
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24 Sep 10 - 09:50 PM (#2993267) Subject: RE: one hit wonders, whatever happened to ? From: GUEST,Frank Ketty Lester became an actress... most notably she played Hester Sue on "Little House On The Prairie." |
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25 Sep 10 - 07:31 AM (#2993385) Subject: RE: one hit wonders, whatever happened to ? From: jacqui.c I just Googled Laurie London and the Kalin Twins (now both dead) and came up with quite a lot of info. |