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Hadn't heard the following one hit wonder hit for years until just yesterday on the car radio...

Dargo wrote: ↑July 1st, 2023, 5:29 pm Hadn't heard the following one hit wonder hit for years until just yesterday on the car radio...

Hello....Thunderclap Newman. I think I read about this song due to the Pete Townshend connection before I
heard. While it was a big hit in the UK, it was much less so here. I really don't recall hearing it on the radio
when it first came out.

Andree wrote: ↑July 1st, 2023, 9:28 pm

Hello....Thunderclap Newman. I think I read about this song due to the Pete Townshend connection before I
heard. While it was a big hit in the UK, it was much less so here. I really don't recall hearing it on the radio
when it first came out.

After just now checking how high it hit on the American charts, it appears you have a good point here, as it peaked at only #37.

(...and which kind of surprises me here, as I remember hearing it quite a bit on the L.A. Rock radio stations back then)

Hey, and speaking of slightly later first generation British Invasion/one hit wonder bands (at least in the U.S. anyway), how about this little ditty here...



(...kind'a makes ya wonder where Alice Cooper might've gotten his shtick from, doesn't it)

I still have this on vinyl:

Dargo wrote: ↑July 1st, 2023, 9:57 pm Hey, and speaking of slightly later first generation British Invasion/one hit wonder bands (at least in the U.S. anyway), how about this little ditty here...
...
(...kind'a makes ya wonder where Alice Cooper might've gotten his shtick from, doesn't it)

Sure it wasn't this guy...?

I think I first heard the Thunderclap Newman song on one of those "hip" big city FM stations a little while
after it was released. I do remember Fire when it came out. Pretty good tune. Lord Sutch was another
English act I read about but never heard any of his songs. From the same time period, Desmond Dekker had a
pretty big hit with an early reggae song The Israelites, which some people had trouble understanding
all of the lyrics. Dekker was also at one time a co-worker of Bob Marley's.