The Wonderful World of One Hit Wonders (WWOOHW) #88 The Champs.

Claustrophobes: reduce the risk of a panic attack when entering a lift by looking through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars. The Champs are an American rock and roll band, most famous for their Latin-tinged instrumental Tequila. The group took their name from that of Gene Autry’s horse, Champion, and was formed by

The Wonderful World of One Hit Wonders (WWOOHW) #87 Guess Who

I’ve got a book about a German composer who beats people up. It’s a hard Bach. Today’s OHW is American Woman by Canadian rock band the Guess Who, released January 1970, from the album of the same name. The music and lyrics of the song were improvised on stage during a concert in either Southern

The Wonderful World of One Hit Wonders (WWOOHW) #86 Erma Franklin

Keeping tropical fish at home can have a calming effect on the brain. This is due to all the indoor fins… Today’s OHW is Piece of My Heart by American gospel and soul singer Erma Franklin. Despite the song, written and produced by Bert Berns, being recorded in 1967 (and was also nominated for that

Artists With Self-titled Songs (AWSTS) #14

There is the quark gluon plasma. In the heart of the beginning, before there were atoms, in the first three hundred thousand years there was the quark gluon plasma, where the sound of the subatomic turned into the watery atomic nevermore where atoms could not evolve. The quark gluon plasma – boiling to the nth

The Wonderful World of One Hit Wonders (WWOOHW) #85 The Art Company

I think that the enemy of my enemy’s enemy’s enemy’s enemy’s enemy’s enemy, might be Kevin Bacon. Eurovision is fast approaching upon us and I was thinking about featuring some  acts that qualify for this section. However most of them are awful and I don’t have enough booze to deal with them right now, so

Artists With Self-titled Songs (AWSTS) #13

Let the rain fall on my tombstone and wash away my name, and let me lie in my unmarked grave in the earth revolving around the sun: unconscious, skinless, and at complete rest. Let the atoms that make up my bones dissipate and return to the earth; unconscious in rest returning to mother earth. Free

The Wonderful World of One Hit Wonders (WWOOHW) #84 Tonight

Shocked to find out this morning that a local barber has been arrested for dealing drugs. I’ve been a customer of his for years and I had no idea he was a barber. Tonight were an English five piece new wave band, from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England and were active from June 1977 to January 1979.

Artists With Self-titled Songs (AWSTS) #12.

After two thousand years of scientific discovery, all of creation can be explained by twelve subatomic particles plus five carriers of four forces. BOW YOUR HEAD TO THE UP QUARK! BOW YOUR HEAD TO THE DOWN QUARK! BOW YOUR HEAD TO THE CHARM QUARK! BOW YOUR HEAD TO THE STRANGE QUARK! BOW YOUR HEAD TO

The Wonderful World of One Hit Wonders (WWOOHW) #83 Bimbo Jet

I advertised a python for sale in the paper, a man rang up and said “What size is it?” I replied “It’s quite big” “How many feet?” he asked, “None, it’s a snake…” Bimbo Jet was a French euro disco group led by Claude Morgan and Laurent Rossi (22 May 1948 – 20 August 2015),

The Wonderful World of One Hit Wonders (WWOOHW) #82 Violinski

I just met someone else who doesn’t know what a globe is.It’s a small world. Violinski was a rock band formed in 1977 by Electric Light Orchestra violinist Mik Kaminski with former member Mike de Albuquerque on guitar and vocals. The rest of the band included Barry Dunnery (formerly with Necromandus), John Hodgson (drums), Paul