The Greatest Novelty Songs

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One hit wonder? No. A double A-side of I Got You Babe and Soda Pop got to no. 5 the following year. Francis also released a single as Keith Lemon called I Wanna Go On You in 2013 for Text Santa, but it didn’t break the top 40.

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The following is a list of aggregate ensemble groups. These are usually put together for charity purposes. The ones listed below are one-hit wonders in their respective line-ups, but most are primarily made up of several chart artists. The following line-ups have all reached number one in their only hit under these umbrella group names: THIS SONG LYRICS COLLECTION includes some of the best know novelty and one-hit-wonder songs ever. Some notable writers are: "Weird" Al Yankovic, Ray Stevens, Stan Freberg, Tom Lehrer, Benny Hill, and Monty Python. Note that some of the songs may have more that one version. Roberts, David. Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums. Hit Entertainment/Guinness World Records Ltd. 19th edition (June 2006). ISBN 1-904994-10-5 The first winner of The X Factor with a cover of the Phil Collins hit. [72] Brookstein is also an album chart one-hit wonder as his album Heart and Soul reached the top on 21 May 2005 and spent five weeks within the Top 75. [73]Another recitation song, and a Top 10 hit in the US as well, shown to me recently. Not much to say, really, other than the American talk show host booms his big monologue out while the music behind him is all hollowed out and bass-less - other than in the choir-sung choruses (the actual song parts). The monologue itself is a prose poem from the 1920s that offers advice on life (so a sort of proto-'Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)' then?) A group consisting of three Spanish sisters, Las Ketchup had a number one hit in over 20 countries with "The Ketchup Song". Their follow-up singles were not as successful, and none of them managed to reach the UK chart. Members of the cast of the Disney movie Encanto, who were all credited on the first original song from a Disney animated film to top the UK Singles Chart. [90] Also credited on the song were Diane Guerrero, who charted with the song " What Else Can I Do?" from the same film, and Stephanie Beatriz who charted with both "What Else Can I Do?" and " The Family Madrigal", also from Encanto. In a way similar to England national team, Manchester United have charted before with different squads and with slight amendments to their football team brand, as listed on the Official Charts database. [156] "Come on You Reds" was a Number One song recorded by the 1994 Manchester United football squad, featuring an uncredited Status Quo (who also wrote and produced the record) [157] with the song spending 15 weeks on the UK charts. Isaac Hayes reached number 1 as Chef with " Chocolate Salty Balls (P.S. I Love You)" in 1998. Hayes had hits under his own name during the 1970s, with "Chocolate Salty Balls" listed under his discography in the hit singles books and online, as part of the Official Charts Company database. [109] Comedy Central's South Park team followed up "Chocolate Salty Balls" with another British Top 10 hit, this time for character Mr. Hankey, in the Christmas chart of 1999. [110]

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Nathan Evans, 220 Kid & Billen Ted | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 20 March 2021. Regarded as a pastime by the two members, follow-up singles failed to chart and the duo split not long after. The song was later covered and reworded as We're Going To Ibiza! by The Vengaboys in 1999, which also reached number 1. [37] The UK Singles Chart is one of many music charts compiled by the Official Charts Company that calculates the best-selling singles of the week in the United Kingdom. [1] Before 2004, the chart was only based on the sales of physical singles. [2] [3] This list shows singles that peaked in the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart during 1979, as well as singles which peaked in 1978 and 1980 but were in the top 10 in 1979. The entry date is when the single appeared in the top 10 for the first time (week ending, as published by the Official Charts Company, which is six days after the chart is announced). Used as the jingle for Levi Jeans and fronted by glove puppet, Flat Eric. This was the only UK hit for Quentin Dupieux who continues a successful career as a musician in France on the underground dance scene. Dupieux like Baz Luhrmann, is best known as a director of a number of feature films, such as 2010's Rubber [64] [65] and 2019's Le Daim (released in the United Kingdom as Deerskin in 2021). [66]The singer-songwriter's follow-up " Stand by You" was a platinum-selling Top 40 hit in her native United States, but it and other singles did not chart in the United Kingdom after the success of "Fight Song". Now resident in Australia, the Ohio-born Dolce was inspired to write this by childhood memories of his Italian mother. Two years later, Dolce returned with the slightly less inclusive 'You Toucha My Car, Breaka You Face'. Strangely, it didn't do as well. Artists who are classed as one-hit wonders within the past twelve months are not yet added to the list, as they may still follow-up their number one with another hit. A one-hit wonder from earlier who now goes on to score another hit will be removed from this list. Despite scoring other hits in her native United States, Kallen never achieved another hit on the UK Chart, which at this point was a mere Top 12. [3]

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Which popular song recorded by Clive Dunn in January 1971 reached number one in the UK Singles Chart for three weeks? The KLF (1988). The Manual (how to have a number one the easy way). [Great Britain]: KLF. ISBN 0-86359-616-9. Sadly, this double A-side was the first Beatles single since the first couple to miss the top spot. But the focus here is on "Strawberry Fields Forever". We all know what it sounds like, and it sounds amazing, but not even that accounts for the true innovations of the production. Editing together two different versions of the song (one of them in a different tempo, mood and key to the other) and then adding tape loops, reversed instrumentation and the like, it's no wonder it was christened the "most unusual and way-out single" Beatles single by the NME, and "a weird record" by Brian Wilson himself, even if, like "Good Vibrations", it's not the strangest sounding song on the list in today's ears.

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Russell, Dave (1997), Popular music in England, 1840–1914, Manchester University Press, ISBN 9780719052613 Hamm, Irving Berlin Early Songs, p. xxxiv: "The text of a novelty song sketches a vignette or a brief story of an amusing or provocative nature. ... noted for portraying characters of specific ethnicity or those finding themselves in certain comic or melodramatic situations, ..." under one X Factor Finalists entry, also giving the act an achievement of its first four records at number one. [181] [182] [183] [184] The Justice Collective

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Hoffman, Dr Frank. "Novelty Songs". Jeff O's Retro Music. Jeff O'Corbett. Archived from the original on February 25, 2008 . Retrieved February 23, 2008. Marvin, an Oscar and BAFTA-winning American actor, recorded the song for his then-current film, Paint Your Wagon. [20] [21] He did not release any further musical recordings. Please note that initially the disc [22] was listed as a double-A side record with the flip side being "I Talk To The Trees" by the American actor-director Clint Eastwood [23] [24] (rather than the reggae deejay). [25] "I Talk To The Trees" charted for two weeks with a peak position of number 18, before the record's sole credit reverted to Marvin and " Wand'rin' Star". A collaboration with Jess Glynne. Route 94 has not released another single that has reached the UK chart since, but did remix MK featuring Alana's "Always", which charted at number 12 in August the same year. Dad's Army Memorabillia - Singles - Grandad / I Play The Spoons by Clive Dunn". Home.btconnect.com.

Spirit in the Sky" [134] is a song sometimes credited as a 'three-time one-hit wonder' [135] as it was also a number one hit for Norman Greenbaum [136] as well as Doctor and the Medics, a band who are not actually a one-hit wonder as they also had a hit with "Burn" in 1986 [137] and charted with a cover of ABBA's "Waterloo" with Roy Wood. [138] Even though Gareth Gates is an artist with four number ones, including his first three releases, The Kumars (comedians Sanjeev Bhaskar, Meera Syal, Indira Joshi and Vincent Ebrahim from the chat show of the same name) [139] [140] have never charted again. I want to make people laugh': Quentin Dupieux, the fun auteur of French cinema". TheGuardian.com. 4 July 2021. This is a list of artists who have achieved one number-one hit on the UK Singles Chart and no other entry on the chart. The list uses the strict The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles definition of " one-hit wonder", a term also commonly used more loosely to refer to any act known primarily for one major hit.