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"One hit wonders", the allure of plastic flowers (II)

I continue with my journey through large and solitary ephemeral successes of artists who managed to sneak into our musical memory.

Before proceeding to the list, I clarify some points about the selection, or rather, about the criteria I used to rule out some names:

- have rejected soloists whose career is typical of a OHW, but they have done an outstanding job as part of another band. For example, the stage with Jimmy Sommerville Bronski Beat entitles him to a hole in the compilation , but his career with Communards, with more than one or two hits (even if versions), it excludes.

- conversely, a short-lived band that has enjoyed success with a OHW, but in which some of its prominent members (singer, composer, leader) has a considerable musical reputation, is automatically out. A clear representative "Layla" by Derek And The Dominoes.

- I'm not considering the musical genres "specialized", such as flamenco, folk, classical music or jazz. While there are some artists raids in popular genres that could be considered OHW, I think their careers in their respective clubs are to be weighed against those specific points.

Music Disco 1990 (the year up / down) could be worth a full entry on OHW. For this second piece of the collection I have chosen five high-profile issues on the dance floor and the radio formula until we bleed ears.

10) CRYSTAL WATERS: "Gyspy Woman"

"La da di da da, da di da the da ..." . OHW pure. This singer from New Jersey (curiosity is a computer engineer) revolutionized the tracks and stations with a simple song and dance marked by its suggestive voice synthesizer chords and unconventional, were later reused in consumer products undemanding drive.

I sang the chorus with: "the nose to the Lao, the Lao nose ...".

9) EMF "Unbelieveable" Heirs

sound rave half pop half of the Happy Mondays, but without the brilliance of the Ryder brothers, EMF had their OHW with this issue that lives up to its name, for the rest of the album (and their albums) songs are full of discrete and coarse. "Unbelieveable "is a powerful and catchy song that appealed to fans of pop, rock and disco music, hence its brilliant success.

8) C & C MUSIC FACTORY "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)"

Okay, I confess I did not know what to "Gonna Make You Sweat" . "Everybody Dance Now" and point, that's how I looked at YouTube because I do not remember the title original ... or the group. I laughed an egg when the club was singing in falsetto, "Where's my peg?" instead of the original sentence. Try it at home, but you may not come out as funny as me ...

Sometimes confused with "The Power" , Germans Snap! , I suppose because they share a verse persisted in a woman's voice. Snap! were more prolific, so do not count to find the song on this list.

7) Snow: "Informer"

Another clone success with Hispanic ( "I reported" of Sandalwood ). As curiosity got the Snow single in 92, shortly after leaving prison, which he joined for robbery with assault.

"I do not hesitate, trunk, I'm the hardest type of catechesis"

If you plant it in the hearing screening 5 of the Official Language School can go asking for the settlement. The letter says:

Informer, you no say yhat's who I'm gonna blame likky
A boom boom down Detective man
Said Daddy Snow I stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom boom down do

that seems to say "infamous"? If you paste ...

6) Scatman John: Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop) "

finish the review with one of the bombings of 1994, a real OHW category, which also has a nice background story.

John Larkin aka Scatman , stuttered, but he used his voice to interpret scat, which is a subgenre of jazz in which words are sung without much sense syllables are formed by very musical. When did the ability to mix the scat with disco, Larkin took it with the intention of encouraging people who stutter to be overcome in life.

Larkin died of cancer in 1999 but bequeathed us one of the most successful singles broadcasting. Released other songs and other albums, but except in Japan (?) Had little impact.


I say goodbye soon. In short, the end of this series.

A salute Bic Orange (writes fine).