Speaker 0:00

If you're old enough to remember when phones had cords and the only thing that went viral was a cold, then you're in the right place. Welcome to the Big Six O with Kaylee Harris and Guy Rowlison. Because who better to discuss life's second act than two people who still think mature is a type of cheese?

Speaker 8 0:36

Oh where the memories are strong, but in this particular episode the artists' names probably are not. Because today we're diving into 70s one-hit wonders. The songs that you probably knew right up until the second verse. And of course, joining me as always is someone who will claim that she knows all the words to every song from the 70s. Pretty much. Kaylee Harris, how are you? Hello.

Speaker 1 1:03

Good, how are you? Yeah, when we started doing research for this, I didn't even ask you, I didn't even wait for your reply. How are you, by the way?

Speaker 8 1:09

I'm well, thanks for asking.

Speaker 1 1:10

Good, good, no worries. Uh, when we started looking into this whole one hit wonder genre, you know, we there was so much material from the 70s and 80s and even in the nineties that we quickly worked out that we could split it up into one hit wonders from the seventies and and a whole nother episode on one hit wonders from the eighties, because there's heaps. So this one today, we're just focusing on the seventies.

Speaker 8 1:33

It could almost be an Encyclopedia Britannica or the Funkin' Wagonals of music because we're not even going to skim the service on just 70s one hit wonders, are we?

Speaker 1 1:43

Yeah, I know. We just can't fit them all in. There are so many of them. And I know we did earlier we did a a podcast on novelty songs. So there's a bit of they tend to be novelty songs tend to only be one-hit wonders.

Speaker 8 1:54

Well, if you're talking David Seville and the chipmunks, or any of those things, I think we probably we touched on. Yes, that's true.

Speaker 1 2:01

But some of the songs we're gonna play for you today, they're they're not novel, they don't come across as novelty songs. They were huge hits in the 70s.

Speaker 8 2:07

They were massive. And and and my memories are probably similar to yours, but oh look, I'm a 70s guy. I know there's 80s guys and 90s girls and all, but I am a 70s guy, and I just love because that's probably those formative years where you're in our case, we were going from infant school to primary school into high school, and a lot was happening, right?

Speaker 1 2:28

And we were real really becoming musically aware in the 70s, weren't we? Yeah, a hundred percent.

Speaker 8 2:33

So should we kick off?

Speaker 1 2:34

Let's get into it. Oh my gosh. This has got to be probably the biggest novelty song from the 70s. Certainly, I think it is.

Speaker 6 2:43

We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun, but the hills that we climb were just seasons out of time. Goodbye, Papa, please pray for me.

Speaker 1 3:00

How morbid was that song? Oh my gosh, it was so morbid. And I've I did a bit of research on this song, and it was it's apparently an English language adaption of a Belgian song called The Dying Man. And Terry Jax, who's a singer, changed some of the lyrics after learning his close friend Roger was suffering from leukemia. So he dedicated this song to Roger. But interestingly, the B side was a song called Put the Bone In.

Speaker 8 3:27

Sorry?

Speaker 1 3:29

It was a song about burying a pet dog. Oh, thank you. So you bury the dog with its bone.

Speaker 8 3:33

Gosh, you clarified that if I was worried there for a moment.

Speaker 1 3:37

But also in 1999, Westlife, remember the big 90s band Westlife? They they had a hit with uh Seasons in the Sun. Missed it. Yes, oh thank goodness.

Speaker 8 3:45

Oh my gosh. The first time I remember hearing that, I was on a school excursion. We were going to old Sydney town. For those that may actually be, you know, living in Sydney area, you'll remember that. It it no longer exists. But I remember it played on the bus on the way home from that excursion. And it just seemed to resonate. Were you in tears? No, I had no idea. Right. No idea. But I remember we had to write a uh a uh essay composition, I think it was called back in the day, about a song that you really enjoyed. And I think probably ninety per cent of the kids all wrote about this song. Really? Yeah.

Speaker 1 4:22

It did have a big impact at the time, didn't it? It was massive.

Speaker 8 4:25

Yeah, massive.

Speaker 1 4:27

Okay, moving on to number two.

Speaker 3 4:29

Everybody was gone for fighting. Those trips were fast as lightning. In fact, it was a little bit frightening. But they fought with expert timing.

Speaker 1 4:46

Oh yeah, they fought with expert timing.

Speaker 8 4:48

Whatever happened to Carl Douglas.

Speaker 1 4:51

Carl Douglas. Now everyone in our vintage remembers this that immortal song by Carl Douglas from 1974. It was released as a disco song and went on to top the British, Australian, Canadian, and American charts. Very Chinese influency, I guess. There's some little um riffs in the song that that have a Chinese vibe to them. But it also, you know, I noted about this one, it also came at a time in the 70s where there were a few Chinese things in the market. Hong Kong fuy.

Speaker 8 5:20

Oh. Is that politically correct anymore?

Speaker 1 5:23

No, I don't think it is. That's a whole nother podcast, politically correct stuff. Um Bruce Lee burst onto the screens and movie screens in the 70s as well. And there was a they introduced a Chinese cook on the TV show Bonanza.

Speaker 8 5:35

Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 5:36

So we were starting to get these Asian influences uh in in Australia in the 70s. So that song kind of really fit, didn't it?

Speaker 8 5:43

And not bad given that it originally was a B-side. And and and it was penned in less than 10 minutes, so the story goes. But also around that time, for those that may remember, we had the Kung Fu trading cards, and there was a show Kung Fu on TV as well. Little Grasshopper. That's it. When you can snatch the pebble from my hand, it is time for you to leave. Yeah. My gosh. Oh, there you go.

Speaker 1 6:09

Is Carl responsible for all this or not? Probably. I don't know. He certainly cashed in on it, didn't he?

Speaker 8 6:14

I think he's getting a few royalties. I think so.

Speaker 1 6:16

And I'm just saying I recently bought a t-shirt I saw sort of popped up on my Facebook feed, and it says on the front, surely not everybody was kung fu fighting. And I love it.

Speaker 8 6:26

I want to know whether it's actually been in a movie because all these 70 songs seem to appear in movies or car advertisements. It's it's if you listen to car advertisements or televisions, these songs are more than 50 years old. And yet they're still appearing on our televisions. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 6:42

Yeah. Okay, what's next?

unknown 6:44

I love them made way.

Speaker 13 6:46

I've got to forget on the discourse.

Speaker 1 7:06

Alicia Bridges, 1978, right in the middle of the disco era.

Speaker 8 7:10

Oh, I'm just feeling glitter. I'm just feeling glitter and a and a mirror ball. I'm getting the vibe.

Speaker 1 7:15

Oh, it was just fantastic, wasn't it? It went to number two in the US, uh, and the Billboard National Disco Action Top 30.

Speaker 8 7:23

And it's just, and it's a staple, honestly, it's a staple for the LGBTIQ Plus. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 7:30

You're right. You know? Yeah, it is.

Speaker 8 7:31

So it's spanned generations and its longevity has been incredible.

Speaker 1 7:36

And it got a re-release in 1994 to a whole new generation who loved it as well. It's just just a fantastic, um, fantastic song.

Speaker 8 7:44

Yeah, look, um, I'm sure Alicia Bridges. Did she go into anything else?

Speaker 1 7:47

I don't think so. No. I don't think so.

Speaker 8 7:50

She probably she probably cheeks into that category of one hit wonder, right?

Speaker 1 7:53

She'd be out there somewhere. She's definitely a one-hit wonder, I think. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 8 7:56

Yeah, okay. Well, look, why don't we move on talking about disco and whatnot? Let's let's let's have a good little listen.

Speaker 1 8:21

Wow. I know in the 70s, came out around the same time as Saturday Night Fever and written by the Bee Gees.

Speaker 8 8:28

Yep, yeah. Yvonne Elliman. Um once again, I sh I think she may have had like a top 50 hit or something after that, but nothing that anyone can remember. But of course, if anyone has watched and who hasn't, actually I do know someone that hasn't watched Saturday Night Fever as a movie. Oh really? Yeah, I know. Like it only came out in 77. Um, but yeah, that that was just one of those iconic songs. In fact, that whole soundtrack from uh Saturday Night Fever, which at the time, um until very recently, was the the biggest selling soundtrack of all time. Um but yeah, that song from Yvonne Elliman penned by the brothers Gibb.

Speaker 1 9:05

Um and and if you were I mean, how lucky was Yvonne Elliman to be able to get a song from the Gibb Brothers because they wrote so many big songs for for big artists, like you know, think Island's in the Stream, Woman in Love, Barbara Streisand, Heartbreaker, Dion Warwick. Uh they wrote Chain Reaction, Diana Ross, and they wrote, you know, Emotions, Samantha Sang, another one hint wonder. So we'll only ever remember Yvonne Ellerman, I think, because of the Bee Gees and that particular song and and and how important it is for uh a song to be a hit to be released at a certain time.

Speaker 8 9:41

Yeah, and and that whole album, uh it was never the movie itself was never meant to be a hit. It it was always a precursor to the movie Grease and uh just to give John Travolta an airing. Uh the BGs came at a bargain basement price um for the producers and and the everyone to actually get employed, they did the soundtrack, and the rest is history, it was just an absolute phenomenal movie, and the soundtrack was even bigger.

Speaker 1 10:07

And for me, the the whole disco era, and we've got a couple of other disco songs in our our list today, the whole disco era seemed to uh last a long time, but it actually was really only 76 to uh 80, wasn't it? And then it disappeared. It was a four and it was a like about a four-year thing, and then it was killed off.

Speaker 8 10:24

Yeah, look, th I mean there there was a little bit of a precursor going there in the you know, late 74, 75. But you're right, like that that whole wave happened from about 76 through to 80 when they had the whole death to disco sort of you know, bring your albums and burn them in the middle of Shea Stadium or whatever it was. That's it. Um but yeah, it seemed like but it but the longevity of the of the genre has lived. Um and yeah, look, would I have it any other way? Nah. It's a it's a fondness that you you re recount.

Speaker 1 10:55

Yeah. And I think that uh with some of these one-hit wonders, some of them stand the test of time, and there might have been a really big hit at the times, others don't. This one definitely stands a test of time for me.

Speaker 9 11:06

I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand. Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain. He was looking for the place called Lee Ho Fuchs. Wanna get a big dish of if Chao Man.

Speaker 1 11:25

Now, I always thought the lyrics were, and that's a whole nother podcast, Lee Hole of Wolfs. But it's actually Le Ho Fuchs, which is a Chinese restaurant in London. Is it a real restaurant? A real restaurant, yeah. And so he actually he sings um, he was looking for a place called Le Ho Fuchs, gonna get a big dish of beef chow min, and it was a Chinese restaurant um that yeah, is Carl Douglas responsible for the Asian flavour of this or something like that?

Speaker 8 11:52

Well, there you go. I mean, there's a lot to be answered. Did you know? I mean, you may notice if you want to have a listen to that song again, the the riff, the piano riff was actually inspired by the song Sweet Home Alabama.

Speaker 1 12:05

Yes, and can't you hear it? And then years later, when Kid Rock went on and did Um All Summer Long, it has the same riff in it.

Speaker 8 12:13

Uh-huh.

Speaker 1 12:14

It's such an easy riff to listen to, but he's he's technically a one-hit wonder because he did have a a bit of a hit with Excitable Boy as well, Warren's Evon. That was a good song.

Speaker 8 12:24

Yeah, it was a good song. So he's on the cusp. We'll put him on the cusp.

Speaker 1 12:27

Okay.

Speaker 8 12:28

Is that okay?

Speaker 1 12:29

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Um and he also, when he was in concert, Warren would often change the lyrics to you better stay away from him, he'll rip your lungs out, Jim. I'd like to meet his Taylor, right? That was the actual lyric. And then he'd change it to, and he's looking to James Taylor.

Speaker 8 12:43

Oh. Hello, James. He probably didn't need the notoriety, James. I think he's uh yeah.

Speaker 1 12:50

And the BBC uh rated it as having the best opening line in a song. I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand. I mean, it's just a great opening line, isn't it?

Speaker 8 12:58

Yeah, look, who sits down and says, I think I'll write a hit song and then go down that path. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the fact that Mc McFleetwood from Fleetwood Mac and John McVeigh was actually featured in that song too.

Speaker 1 13:09

Yeah, absolutely. They got a run in there, and Tom Cruise um slip-synced it in The Colour of Money.

Speaker 8 13:15

Oh.

Speaker 1 13:16

As well. So I've got a rerun back with The Colour of Money in 1986. So yeah.

Speaker 8 13:20

Oh, okay. Hey, listen, how about we move on?

Speaker 1 13:23

Okay. She's got it.

Speaker 14 13:26

Your baby, she's got it. Well, I'm your fetus. I'm your fire, your desire. Well, I'm your fetus. I'm your fire, your desire.

Speaker 1 13:44

Dutch rock band Shocking Blue, who released it in the Netherlands in the summer of 69, but it didn't actually become a hit until February 1970, so it makes our 70s one hit Wonder List today. Uh, another song that's been covered dozens of times by many bands, probably the most notable for us would be Banana Rama, who covered it in in 1986, and again a huge hit.

Speaker 8 14:06

I don't want to bring this up and therefore asterisk, I will. But I'm sure at some stage you tell me you misheard the original lyrics that word Venus was not was that you? No. Was that someone else that thought that was it was something that really shouldn't have been getting airplay because I'm your Venus. Um I'm thinking male anatomy came into the conversation and I'm thinking wasn't me. You sure? Alright, we'll leave that one well alone. But yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I remember seeing the film clip, um, and it was probably one of the first songs I remember as a kid, I must have been about six, yeah, that hearing it on the radio and and thinking, wow, how good is that how good is that?

Speaker 1 14:48

Now the next song on our list, um we're gonna play it from the beginning because it's got the one of the best opening riffs from that genre. What a great song. You can't you can't not move when you hear that song start.

Speaker 8 15:33

If you needed to take any sort of energy drink intake, and you you'd be thinking, wow, what's going on? But that that originally, and and I'm I might be proven wrong, I think that came from an original blues and folks sort of song as well, that whole thing, and it's just amped up.

Speaker 1 15:49

Yeah, and it so and yes it did, and it became a huge hit for Ramjam in 1977, and Tom Jones went on to record a version of it, so did Spider Bait. Um, but apparently it w I always thought the term Black Betty was a woman, but apparently it ref it refers to a nickname given to a number of objects, including a bottle of of whiskey, a whip, or a penitentiary transfer wagon. So if you were getting moved around between jails, the the van that would come and get you wasn't always known as a black betty. Yep, yep. Because they were they were black back back then. So um yeah, it's just just so much interesting history with that song.

Speaker 8 16:24

Well that makes sense because they used to talk about the black Mariah as taking away people in you know in vans. So yeah, the black betty sort of yeah, taking away to yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, I'm on board with that. Okay. But something that I look, we've got to play this one because it's a favourite. I think it was every boy's dream, this film clip. Um look, I think it was from 1978.

Speaker 1 17:06

Yeah, lead singer, wasn't she hot?

Speaker 8 17:09

Oh, look, the guy was playing the keyboards, all he was wearing was braces and no shirts. Yeah, poor bloke, obviously needed to make a bit of money from the music industry. And the girl, well, like I say, I think every 15-year-old boy probably would just be watching that on countdown. Because we didn't have videos or things like that, or YouTube, yeah, they would be watching Countdown just to see just to see her.

Speaker 1 17:32

Well, the band Promises, they were all siblings, the three of them in that band. Yeah, yeah. So that's some that's interesting, isn't it?

Speaker 8 17:39

And the only other song that I remember that they had, or it might have been the B side to that, and whoever remembers, was something to do with golf.

Speaker 1 17:46

Oh, really?

Speaker 8 17:47

Yes, and uh yeah, like oh my goodness. Yeah, I don't want to go there.

Speaker 1 17:52

Well, it was in it uh it became a smash hit around the world, especially in Europe and Australia, but uh mainly thanks to Molly playing it so much on countdown, it got a run, and that's why it it took off here.

Speaker 8 18:01

So I think it just didn't need Molly. I think yeah, yeah it would have taken off Hold on it's a bit lansome.

Speaker 1 18:08

Yes. Well, this next song, we all know the words to this, we can all sing along to this. Oh, who doesn't want a boyfriend like that? You can blame it all on me.

Speaker 8 18:38

Was was the guy that was the lead singer that didn't he go on to a career in daytime soaps, like days of our lives? Yeah, Ron Moss.

Speaker 1 18:46

He was the one of the guitarists, I think, on that. He went on to be uh Ridge, I think, on Bold and the Beautiful.

Speaker 8 18:51

How do I know that? I'm sorry, what's this? I think.

Speaker 1 18:54

I think I recognise the name as well. But so it was released in late 77 uh for their self-titled album for player, and um it achieved a lot of success for the band, and it was written by a guy called Peter Beckett. Now, does that name ring a bell to you at all?

Speaker 8 19:12

I think I used to live next door to him.

Speaker 1 19:14

Right. Yep. No, okay. Not this Peter Beckett, because he went on to write songs for Janet Jackson, Olivia Newton, John The Temptations, and Kenny Rogers, and he also did a stint in the Little River Band. He was he played in the Little River Band for about eight years when they were trying to break into the US market.

Speaker 8 19:28

Wow. So when I was collecting his mail, putting his bins out wrong, Peter Beckett. That's the same thing. Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 1 19:33

Yeah, okay, all right. And the song was written after two of the band members apparently had broken up from their girlfriends.

Speaker 8 19:40

Right, as all good songs should be about heartfelt sort of yeah, okay. Let's have a listen to something that is one of my personal faves. You know what? I've the reason I like this is because w there used to be an under 18s disco at the local YMCA. Mm-hmm. And when they wanted to get kids out at the end of the night, they would play this.

Speaker 1 20:24

Why? I thought they would have got them onto the dance floor. You'd think so, wouldn't you?

Speaker 8 20:27

But when you're cool and you're 15, the last thing you want to hear apparently is Patrick Hernandez.

Speaker 1 20:33

Doing Born to Be Alive.

Speaker 8 20:34

Yeah, I loved it. I loved it.

Speaker 1 20:35

Did you dance to it?

Speaker 8 20:37

Um 15-year-old boys don't dance really, do they? They just sort of look like they're having some sort of, you know, medical episode. Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1 20:45

Because I had this, when you said it was one of your favourite songs, I had this image of you in your, you know, in your in your red satin pants and your shirt with the fluff down the front doing a bit of a You were there, weren't you? Yeah.

Speaker 8 20:55

There you go. You were there. Like, you know, I would have had the stalking you.

Speaker 1 20:59

Yeah, sorry. That was a huge hit uh for n in uh 1979 and goal status in the US, all around Europe, Australia as well. So um he and interestingly with Patrick Hernandez, he was touring the United States at one stage there with the song, and he held auditions in New York for dancers to accompany him on his tour, and the chosen dancers included a young Madonna, who he dated for a short time. Is that right? Yeah. How about that? Isn't that incredible?

Speaker 8 21:27

Wow, Madonna, who would have thought she'd gone on to anything else?

unknown 21:30

That's right.

Speaker 8 21:31

Inspired.

Speaker 1 21:34

Now, this next song, Spirit in the Sky, is a song written by American singer Norman Greenbaum. Never understood his name. Very interesting name. Was released in December 1969, so again out of our decade, but didn't chart in Australia till 1970. Rolling Stone magazine raked Spirit in the Sky, number 333. On its list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. Was also voted one of the top ten one-hit wonders in a Rolling Stone Readers poll.

Speaker 8 22:09

Wow, and not bad for a Jewish guy to write essentially a Christian bass song, really right.

Speaker 1 22:35

Yeah, several religious references in there.

Speaker 8 22:38

There's a lot there. Fortunately, they didn't do a top 1000 and it didn't come in at 666. Yes. You know, so I'm I'm that's a good thing. That that is a that is a good thing. But yeah, just the fact that Greenbaum was uh was Jewish and and chose to write that, I don't know.

Speaker 1 22:54

And I think he I think he got inspired with that song from John Lennon. I think he talks about and says that that Lennon talked about um, you know, when he went through the whole religious thing in his life in the 70s as well. I think that's where it came from. Wow. Let's move along.

Speaker 5 23:13

You think you are a movie. You think you are a movie star.

Speaker 1 23:28

Swedish singer-songwriter Harpo, who apparently wrote the song while sitting by his window, dedicating it to a friend of his who had aspirations of becoming an actor. Apparently, this uh actor tells a story of an individual who believes they are um A-lists working with the likes of Steve McQueen and James Dean, when instead it's been revealed that they only appeared in one television commercial.

Speaker 8 23:50

Bit like myself, really. I mean I think that came out around 76 somewhere in 1970. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember first year of high school, and there was a lot of stuff going on, you know, whether it was ABBA or whether it was Harpo. I don't know what happened to his brothers, Groucho, Chico. No.

Speaker 1 24:09

There you go, no, no. Okay, no. Okay. Speaking about uh dancing and movie stars, dancing in the city.

Speaker 12 24:19

Alice that we run through. Now we've just begun to have fun to dive.

Speaker 1 24:31

Marshall Hain was the name of that band. I thought it was like a band, but it actually comes from it's a duo. Oh. And uh the keyboard player Julian Marshall, and the bass player was Kit Hain. That's where you get your Marshall Hain from. Uh, and they met while they were students in in school, a bit like you and I.

Speaker 8 24:48

I had no idea. I thought Marshall Hain, yeah, it was just a band name, yeah.

Speaker 1 24:52

Yeah, yeah. So that was uh those and and Kit Hayne, the the lady in that song, she has written songs. She went on to write songs for Hart, Cindy Lauper, Peter Satira, and even Chucker Khan.

Speaker 8 25:02

Wow, so Peter Satira from Chicago, right? Yeah. Wow. Did they get around on that? They they've got this job description that's sort of whether it's the Bee Gees or or Marshall Hayes, uh they all do stuff that you just don't realise.

Speaker 1 25:14

They do stuff for other artists. And that's that I mean I'm sure that goes on today as well. But when you we talked earlier about you know Fleetwood Mac playing in a song and um and this they go on to play incredible. They may not have had hits themselves, making them which makes them a one-hit wonder, but maybe their songs were hits for other people.

Speaker 8 25:32

No doubt, sitting in the Seychelles somewhere with a drink with a little umbrella in it, very happy with the royalties.

Speaker 3 25:40

London, Paris, Munich, everybody talk about music, talk about music, talk about music, hot music, music, singing in the subway.

Speaker 5 25:55

Shuffle with a shoe shine. I'm on the hit line. Wanna be a gun player, don't be a rop singer. E meeny many mo, whichever way you wanna go, talk about.

Speaker 1 26:08

English musician Robin Scott fronting the band M, who had a hit with that. It was and again, it was originally going to be an RB hit, but before it just went crazy. And one of Robin Scott's friends suggested they put synthesizers in it, and all of a sudden it went nuts on the disco charts.

unknown 26:23

Yeah.

Speaker 8 26:24

It was one of those early synth sort of hits, wasn't it? Before Synth became a a thing. Um and once again, the memories for me is as I tend to look at these things. It was the first song they would play as you would walk in to this under 18 disco. This is all coming back to me now. Um but it was an amazing song.

Speaker 1 26:44

All of the songs, bar the first one, Terry Jack's Seasons in the Sun, are really good to dance to.

Speaker 8 26:50

Don't you dance to Terry Jack's? No. No, no, no. Nashley dance? No. Okay.

Speaker 1 26:54

I tend to drink a bottle of Chardonnay anyway. Yeah. So um okay, and and it uh Robin Scott in an interview said he was looking at making a song which was a fusion of various styles which would somehow summarise the last 25 years of uh pop music. And it was a deliberate point he was trying to make. Rock and roll created a generation gap disco though brought people together, which is what he wanted to do. And I guess that's true, isn't it?

Speaker 8 27:20

It's true until 1980 when they decided to burn all those albums in the middle of Shea Stadium. But you talk about like synth and and sort of groundbreaking music. I think this one was a little bit out there as well.

Speaker 1 27:56

Lena Lovage, isn't that fun?

Speaker 8 27:58

Oh, how quirky a new wave was that.

Speaker 1 28:01

Yeah, isn't it great?

Speaker 8 28:03

It's amazing.

Speaker 1 28:04

Yeah, and it came out that was actually released as the B-side for um another song that she uh sang, which was I think we're alone now. And that went on to be a really big hit for Tiffany years later in in the 80s.

Speaker 8 28:17

Why is it that this has come up? I mean, I don't know how many DJs back in the day would have been thinking, yeah, we're supposed to be playing I think we're alone now, but yeah, let's play the B side.

Speaker 1 28:26

Let's play whatever it is. Makes sense. Got very positive reviews from music critics and was a commercial success. It was number two here in Australia.

Speaker 8 28:34

Number two. Yeah.

Speaker 1 28:36

Now, this next song we're gonna play, the artist uh didn't like this song. It was one of those cases where he was forced to record something for a record company, uh, which he did. This was a song that he recorded. Do you recognise someone on the backing vocals?

Speaker 8 29:01

Oh, you know, if Stevie Nicks wasn't on that song, would would it have been I think it I just think it still would have made sort of broody, isn't it?

Speaker 1 29:09

It's a broody yeah, 1979 that one was top five in the US, Canada, and Australia. Um and he he used to be in the group Kingston Trio, so he left and went out on his own and and did that song. So yeah, it was it was um great song. A bit bit broody though, not as dancey.

Speaker 8 29:26

And once again, uh my memory of this, I was on a train. I know I'm just boring people with this. I was on a train, I was going to Circular Quay with a group of friends, we're going to the beach as you would. You'd catch three or four trains to get to the beach, and this bloke was trying to impress this girl and he was talking about, oh, I really love this song, gold, you know, by and I'm thinking, he don't. He had no idea. He just wanna throw an arm around that girl and but he had the transistor radio there, and he, you know, but there you go, who has a tranny anymore? Are they called trennies? I don't think you can say that anymore. Let's listen to something else at this point.

Speaker 9 30:03

Hit me should tell off leaving. Hit me, hit me, hit me, hit me with your rhythm stick, hit me slowly, hit me quick, hit me, hit me, yes.

Speaker 1 30:17

We thought we'd close out the podcast today with that song, because I have absolutely no idea what it's about when he goes into a bit of German there, oop bung huh, whatever he says, and hit me is it is is that a metaphor for something else? Hit me with your rhythm stick?

Speaker 8 30:31

No, no, there's there's genuinely rhythm sticks out there. I'm surprised you haven't got one off Timu yet, because you know, you sure they're used for just about anything.

Speaker 1 30:40

Well, hitting people? You can't do that either. No, no, no, Ian Jewry and the blockheads.

Speaker 8 30:45

Yeah, rhythm sticks and yeah, I don't know, let's leave it alone.

Speaker 1 30:48

Yeah, that was his only hit, and well that's pretty much that wraps up our 70s one-hit wonders.

Speaker 8 30:54

And we have not even scratched the songs. I mean, there's just so much were there any memories in there for you?

Speaker 1 31:00

Oh, yeah, all of those songs. Loved them. I mean, we did we haven't touched on things like, you know, um Convoy, C. W. McCall. That was a one-hit wonder for him, and there heaps of stuff out there. But anyway, we we tried to sort of pick a nice mix of weird one-hit wonders that we thought you would enjoy.

Speaker 8 31:16

Yeah, look, if you've got one that's a favourite, why don't you drop us a line as well.

Speaker 1 31:19

Yeah.

Speaker 8 31:19

Yeah.

Speaker 1 31:20

On our Facebook page, thank you.

Speaker 8 31:21

Hey, guess what? What I'm going off on my mirror ball.

Speaker 1 31:24

Uh, you put your red pants back on.

Speaker 8 31:25

Put my red pants back on. Look forward to it. Doing everyone a favor.

Speaker 1 31:28

Send me photos. I'll see you later. Bye.

Speaker 7 31:32

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Speaker 8 31:55

Ah, and before we go, let's give credit where credit is due. Kayleigh Harris and I came up with all the genius content for this week's episode. Our producer, Nick Abood. Well, he keeps the lights on and makes sure we don't accidentally upload a cat video instead of a podcast. So thanks for keeping us on track, Nick. Nick. Nick