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Post by Vienna on Apr 13, 2015 17:57:57 GMT
A great one hit wonder and No.1 single from 1968:
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Post by Gene Hunt on Apr 13, 2015 18:26:34 GMT
Great idea for a thread Vienna !
How about....
1969 and The Archies with Sugar Sugar.
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Post by Sam Tyler on Apr 13, 2015 19:35:54 GMT
Crikey, what made you dream this thread up?
Well what's good for the goose...:
"Little Arrows" - Leapy Lee
"Batman Theme" - Neal Hefti
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Post by Vienna on Apr 13, 2015 20:57:32 GMT
Good choices there, boys, especially Gene's clip of The Archies' 'Sugar Sugar'. Stayed at no.1 for 7 weeks I believe in 1969. Sam, the simple answer is: we've had a thread like this for the '80s so we need one for the '60s
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Post by Vienna on May 25, 2015 15:05:09 GMT
Although not strictly a one-hit wonder - she had a another small hit called 'Golden Lights' in 1965 - Twinkle (Lynn Annette Ripley) is best remembered for her 1964 chart hit 'Terry', a song about the death of a boyfriend in a motorbike crash. The controversial single was later banned by the BBC. Sadly, after a five year battle with cancer, she passed away last week, aged 66
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Post by Steve Austin on May 26, 2015 20:51:13 GMT
Again, not a one hit wonder as such but one you won't have heard too often but was played a lot when I was a kid:
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Post by Tyne Tees Colour on Jun 3, 2015 9:16:29 GMT
Some eclectic choices there
Arthur Brown is still very much with us. I wasn't there, but he played at a venue local to me last year.
He didn't quite have the high profile career his worldwide hit single hinted at, but he & the record are well remembered by the youth (& probably a few horrified parents) of that time. It certainly was an energetic performance on that TOTP. We are very, very lucky the clip survives at all, most 60s TOTPs are missing.
He also performed on the 'This Is Tom Jones' TV show. And we are lucky that this survives in colour. The initial piece of music, 'Fire Poem', can be a bit overblown if you are not a keen fan of psych:
Members of TCWOAB went on to careers in Atomic Rooster and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. In particular, Atomic Rooster were in effect a continuation of the TCWOAB sound with their Hammond organ, brass riffs etc.
Arthur himself continued with a moderately successful prog rock band, Kingdom Come, in the early 70s. He also appeared as 'The Priest' in the Who's 'Tommy' (1975). Arthur had originally been under the same management (Lambert/Stamp) as The Who.
He drifted out of the music business for a while in the 80s. But he was highly appreciated by fellow musicians and well remembered by fans. From this came a new appreciation of his music and around 20 years ago he re-emerged to performing.
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Post by John Steed on Aug 28, 2015 19:54:28 GMT
Cheers Tyne Tees Colour for some interesting info on Arthur Brown, always liked the track "Fire."
Steed
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Post by Tyne Tees Colour on Sept 1, 2015 8:47:15 GMT
He was very radical for 1968. But it proved popular and 'Fire' was a big hit in various places around the world, including North America.
I think he became overworked and over-indulgent in the substances on their USA tour of 1969. There was also band mate Vincent Crane's mental illness. These issues clouded his vision when he was offered a lucrative contract with a USA record company.
Crane and Carl Palmer left to form Atomic Rooster. This band probably took the direction that CWOAB would have done into the early 70s, and of course Palmer joined ELP who had a decade and more of great success.
However, 'Fire' has resonated in the years since and Arthur is far from forgotten. Always interesting to see him in interviews now, and live clips of him on You Tube etc tend to show good current performances.
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Post by Ministrone on Mar 4, 2016 20:31:26 GMT
A little bit of thread resurrection here, but I think we need to enjoy the sounds of Keith West and the Except from a Teenage Opera. This is the most famous of the handful of tracks to escape from the Teenage Opera project, which producer Mark Wirtz is still working on
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