<p>That’s ok, Driver, you have completely absolved yourself by even knowing who the Amazing Rhythm Aces were.</p>
<p>What’s really amusing about this, though, is that about 7-8 years ago we took our boys on the “grand circle” tour of the western Nat Parks, and while stopping for gas at a little town in Utah we saw posters for a local performance of the ARA just 2 days hence. If we hadn’t been on a schedule we might have stayed… “I’ve never really done this kind of thing before, have you?”</p>
<p>The Aces were the real deal. Raw talent, personality, self-deprecating dry wit. Nice to hear that they’re still out there. I saw them at a ski resort somewhere, a long time ago.</p>
<p>Light My Fire, first made famous by Jose’ Feliciano. Most people only remember the version recorded by Jim Morrison and The Doors, but personally, I like Jose’s better. I’m probably the only one who does, but…LOL!</p>
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<p>Nope, Jose was the SECOND to make this song famous. It was co-written by several members of The Doors and first recorded by them. The Doors version went to #1 for three weeks in 1967. Jose’s version came out in 1968 and made it to #3.</p>
<p>So browsing on iTunes last night…gee, this time sink spawns other time sinks…revealed that while they didn’t have Barry McGuire’s “Eve of Destruction,” they had it by about a dozen other groups/singers, incluidng The Turtles, Hot Tuna, and The Dickies, this last being a pretty punkish group I’d never heard of. (Thank goodness you get 25-30 seconds of sampling per song and don’t have to buy blind.)</p>
<p>I’d already known, to my disgust, that they don’t have “Those Were the Days” by Mary Hopkins. (Nor anything by Led Zeppelin.) But they do have versions by Cream, The 5th Dimension, the Clancy Brothers(!!), and Jerry Vale (ugh!!!), among several others.</p>
<p>Here’s another nomination: “Radar Love” by Golden Earring.</p>
<p>“Radar Love” may be the one-hit wonder that still gets the most airplay. I still hear it all the time (on the radio–not just in my head).</p>
<p>Music on the radio, voices in your head. Check. :)</p>
<p>“Radar Love” is a great song for 16-23-year-old males to listen to while driving stupidly.</p>
<p>Someone already mentioned “Tainted Love”, so how about “In A Gadda Da Vida” by Iron Butterfly? Short version or long version, take your pick.</p>
<p>Bonus absurdity - my high school drill team had a pom pom routine to In A Gadda Da Vida.</p>
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Sounds like a scene that should be in a Bill Murray movie.</p>
<p>Jose recorded “Light My Fire” second? Well blow me down! The first time I heard it was when Jose released it. I only heard the Doors version later.—LOL!</p>
<p>Have to add this one -
“Itchycoo Park” by Small Faces
Husband’s friend came over and downloaded songs last night - this one wound up blasting from two computers and now I can’t get it out of my head. Share my suffering!</p>
<p>“Itchycoo Park”? Now there’s a song I’ve not heard of for a long long time.</p>
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and Tommy Maken.</p>
<p>Those guys are great.</p>
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<p>Does the Ballad of Billy Joe qualify? I can’t even remember who sang it.</p>
<p>“For What It’s Worth”–Buffalo Springfield; did a lot of great songs, but I don’t think any others were hits (this one always makes the soundtrack of any 60’s movie or documentary.)</p>
<p>How about the Legend of Billy Jack, Marite 
“One Tin Soldier” was the name and that was the subtitle. I can’t remember who sang it but she had a pretty voice. Definitely qualifies.</p>
<p>“For What it’s Worth”–hard to think of a band so full of future stars as one-hit wonders, but yeah, that’s one for sure.</p>
<p>Driver, the one I remember was about a boy who jumped over the Tallahachee Bridge. It was made into a movie. The female singer had a rather gravelly voice.</p>
<p>Billy-Jo McCallister yes. Who the heck was that? Definitely a one-hitter. I thought it was a girl who jumped, though.</p>
<p>Bobbie Gentry
“Ode to Billie Joe”
She used to appear as a guest on the Glen Campbell show a lot.</p>
<p>Ah, Tsdad, I have quite a bit of The Clancy Brothers with and without Tommy Makem, Tommy Makem on his own, Robbie O’Connell on his own, and a few others. I used to take my Dad to the Irish Faire for Father’s Day and had the pleasure of hearing both the Clancy clan and Tommy Makem live. Also heard Hal Roach, an execrable Irish comic, but that’s another tale. But I find the notion of The Clancy’s doing “Those Were the Days” to be somewhat boggling.</p>
<p>I commend to your attention Robbie O’Connell’s CD of Humorous Songs or whatever it’s called. Several of them are a hoot, like the one about the IRA man taking refuge in a convent, or the man whose wife doesn’t object to him taking a mistress, etc.</p>
<p>I thought the girl dropped her baby off the Tallahachee bridge.</p>