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One Hit Wonders
One-hit wonders are like love affairs – intense, but alas, all-too-brief. Here’s Classic Pop’s rundown of the greatest one-shots ever to earworm their way into the charts and the…
1 Hit Wonder: The Assembly – Never Never
Maybe it’s churlish to describe The Assembly as one-hit wonders, considering the chart hits that two of those who were part of the project were previously and subsequently responsible for,…
One Hit Wonder: The Dazz Band – Let It All Blow
‘Danceable jazz’ was the raison d’être of the group that singer and saxophonist Bobby Harris wanted to form when he left jazz-fusion band Bell Telefunk in 1976 to start afresh…
One Hit Wonders: Adrian Gurvitz – Classic
You have to admire the nerve of any lyricist who claims that the words ‘classic’, ‘attic’ and ‘addict’ rhyme, but veteran rocker Adrian Gurvitz had the songwriting gravitas to do…
One Hit Wonders: Yarbrough & Peoples – Don’t Stop The Music
It was a piano teacher that first brought Cavin Yarbrough and Alisa Peoples together in the early-60s. A lifelong romance began alongside an endearing musical partnership. Forming a funk duo…
One Hit Wonders: Black Slate – Amigo
Black Slate established a huge reputation as a backing band for the most highly-rated reggae singers of the 70s, so there was ample goodwill when they went into the studio…
One Hit Wonders: Will Powers – Kissing With Confidence
Rock photographer Lynn Goldsmith‘s unusual foray into the pop world brought her a wonderful hit single in 1983, aided by some of-its-time vocal technology and a fine guest appearance by…
One Hit Wonders: Cock Robin – The Promise You Made
There’s something endearingly sedate and conformist about Cock Robin’s only UK hit, which made the Top 30 in 1986. The vocals from Peter Kingsbery and Anna LaCazio are very precise…
One Hit Wonders: Susan Fassbender – Twilight Cafe
Twilight Cafe is a genuine lost gem of the 1980s, co-written and performed by a bespectacled Yorkshirewoman who vanished as quickly as she arrived. Susan Fassbender was only 21 when…
One Hit Wonders: Althea & Donna – Uptown Top Ranking
There are one-hit wonders, and then there are No. 1-hit wonders – and Althea & Donna are in that very rarefied latter category. Jamaican singers Althea Forrest and Donna Reid…