Needed, pls … band and/or artist, name of song … of these “one hit wonders”. They might have had follow up songs, earlier, even minor hits but once this song was at or near the top of the charts … that was it for them.
Elevenses quiz today
unherdable cats
this is blog hq for nourishing obscurity and unherdable cats
15. A month earlier, end of August 1962, my new wife and I took the night ‘Motor Rail’ [as it was called IIRC] from King’s Cross to Edinburgh for our honeymoon. We returned two weeks later on the daytime run and had fresh Salmon for lunch on the train. I had a Standard Vanguard Ph 1.
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JH: New wife, DAD. You didn’t use to trade them in every so often?
#4 is the Dutch band Shocking Blue. Lead singer, Mariska Veres, sadly died of cancer at just 59. They were constantly played on the pirate stations back in the day…
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JH: N4 is the Newbeats, MD, with Larry Henley of later fame.
https://youtu.be/Iw53esk0mZc?si=vRzNeL6DdT6_wbRU
Hints … she’s an angel this afternoon, had a gf named Judy, he sang of his journey after dying.