Anybody know/like these?

Mouth and MacNeal - How Do You Do? (1972 - U.S. #8)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYNMKZ90jtA

Mac and Katie Kissoon

Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep (1971 - U.S. #20)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrMyM2xj8xk

Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks (1974 - U.S. #1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uONPQmpIVzk

Anybody know/like these?

Mouth and MacNeal - How Do You Do? (1972 - U.S. #8)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYNMKZ90jtA

Mac and Katie Kissoon

Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep (1971 - U.S. #20)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrMyM2xj8xk

Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks (1974 - U.S. #1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uONPQmpIVzk


I love " How do you do" by Mouth & MacNeal !;)

Another good one hit wonder from that time period was " Ma Belle Amie " by the Tee Set! A really cool, catchy song ! :)

Anybody know/like these?

Mouth and MacNeal - How Do You Do? (1972 - U.S. #8)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYNMKZ90jtA

Mac and Katie Kissoon

Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep (1971 - U.S. #20)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrMyM2xj8xk

Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks (1974 - U.S. #1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uONPQmpIVzk

I know all of them and have 45 RPM records of all three.

Ma Belle Amie is a good tune and I have the 45 RPM record.

In 1970, Christie had a hit song with "Yellow River", he followed it up with a lesser known tune called "San Bernadino" but I actually like it a little more than Yellow River.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw4n1cD6NkU

I love " How do you do" by Mouth & MacNeal !;)

Another good one hit wonder from that time period was " Ma Belle Amie " by the Tee Set! A really cool, catchy song ! :)

I like all of those songs but I really like HDYD. I like the end where they really get into it. I'd never seen that video--I assume it's a later video sync'ed to the hit.

Yellow River and Ma Belle Amie are great songs from that time too.

I think Yellow River was rejected by the Tremeloes and picked up by Christie.

Yellow River is Jeff Christie's song, he wrote it and I believe the story is that he originally offered the song to another band but they didn't want to record it, so he just went ahead and recorded it himself.

Yellow River is Jeff Christie's song, he wrote it and I believe the story is that he originally offered the song to another band but they didn't want to record it, so he just went ahead and recorded it himself.

Thanks for that explanation. I'm pretty sure it was the Tremeloes that rejected it.

Yellow River - Christie, written by Jeff Christie (1970 - U.S. #23)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5gzTi-j8jU

Another great one-hit wonder.

Why are they "odd"?

Ma Belle Amie - The Tee-Set (1970 - U.S. #5)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d91tTVJH9_k

Here's another one-hitter:

Green Tambourine - Lemon Pipers (1968 - U.S. #1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGjvgvqOx7c

Why are they "odd"?

They're not, now that you mention it--I changed it.

Anybody know/like these?

Mouth and MacNeal - How Do You Do? (1972 - U.S. #8)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYNMKZ90jtA

Mac and Katie Kissoon

Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep (1971 - U.S. #20)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrMyM2xj8xk

Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks (1974 - U.S. #1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uONPQmpIVzk

Of these original mentions, I know 2 of them (somehow Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep has managed to avoid me all these years)


There's a ton of one hit wonders out there, I'll toss in Spirit In The Sky, Norman Greenbaum. It seems to be fairly well remembered to this day, dont think I need to link it.

Thanks for that explanation. I'm pretty sure it was the Tremeloes that rejected it.

You're right about The Tremeloes, I believe they did record their version of Yellow River and intended to release it, but later decided not to release it so Jeff Christie then recorded his version and that's the one that was released.

Of these original mentions, I know 2 of them (somehow Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep has managed to avoid me all these years)


There's a ton of one hit wonders out there, I'll toss in Spirit In The Sky, Norman Greenbaum. It seems to be fairly well remembered to this day, dont think I need to link it.

Yeah, that's another one. I thought of Mungo Jerry (In The Summertime), too.

I heard Chirpy... on Dick Bartley's radio show a few years back, and hadn't heard it in years.

You're right about The Tremeloes, I believe they did record their version of Yellow River and intended to release it, but later decided not to release it so Jeff Christie then recorded his version and that's the one that was released.

Right, I saw theirs on Youtube--but at the time they recorded it, as you say they decided against putting it out. Somebody must have found the tape and put theirs on Youtube.

I collect promo 45's and although these didn't chart well (if at all) in the U.S. they're still very good IMO. The last 2 are my own uploads and I apologize for the sound quality. The comments from their relatives were definitely worth the effort.


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I have some promos, having a radio background from around 1970. Some of them are interesting in that they're abbreviated versions compared with the stock (commercial) 45. One is the stereo side of Do it Again by Steely Dan, which is the only place that has the edited version of the song in stereo.

And some 45s are different mixes or sometimes different takes than the LP version. There are loads of them, but one I always think of is Rhiannon by Fleetwood Mac.

Many of the acts mentioned are foreign acts, they may have had other hits in their home country.

For example, Terry Jacks had other top 10 hits in his native Canada. In the U.S. he and his former wife Susan Jacks had a number 2 smash, "Which Way You Goin Billie" and one other top 40 hit, "That's Where I Went Wrong", they billed themselves as The Poppy Family.

I think without looking it up that Mac and Katie Kissoon were from the U.K. and had other hits there.

This isn't from 1970, but in the spring of 1976, Henry Gross had the popular hit song "Shannon". Then later in the fall of '76, he followed it up with a less popular tune called "Someday (I Didn't Want To Have To Be The One)". I actually like it better than Shannon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSzUXkxiLGk

Here's another one:

It Never Rains in Southern California - Albert Hammond (1972 - U.S. #5)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meDpNwem0Vo

Here's a great one shot tune from 1972, "Summer Sun" by Jamestown Massacre. It only reached the #90 spot on the Billboard chart but it deserved to do much better. In Chicago it did do better and it was a top 40 hit, reaching the #20 spot on the WCFL chart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM9Ry95c3yc

Here's another one:

It Never Rains in Southern California - Albert Hammond (1972 - U.S. #5)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meDpNwem0Vo

Albert is a great talent, he co-wrote "The Air That I Breathe" which became a big hit for The Hollies. He's technically not one hit wonder, he had another top 40 that peaked at #31, I'm A Train. He actually had a number 1 hit on the Easy Listening Charts, 99 Miles from L.A. (great record, Art Garfunkel covered the song, but Hammond's version is better). In the early 80's Julio Iglesias covered another Hammond number "Moonlight Lady", Iglesias knocks the song out of the park. At the end of the recording Julio does a little bit of the song you mentioned, "It Never Rains In Southern California" and is joined by Albert Hammond.

Albert is a great talent, he co-wrote "The Air That I Breathe" which became a big hit for The Hollies. He's technically not one hit wonder, he had another top 40 that peaked at #31, I'm A Train. He actually had a number 1 hit on the Easy Listening Charts, 99 Miles from L.A. (great record, Art Garfunkel covered the song, but Hammond's version is better). In the early 80's Julio Iglesias covered another Hammond number "Moonlight Lady", Iglesias knocks the song out of the park. At the end of the recording Julio does a little bit of the song you mentioned, "It Never Rains In Southern California" and is joined by Albert Hammond.

On our college radio station we played "The Free Electric Band", which I thought was a good song by Albert, but my guess is it just missed the top 40.

Tighter, Tighter - Alive N Kickin' (1970)

The song reached number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Tighter, Tighter by Alive & Kicking is a good tune, it's included in my favorite hits of the 70's collection which has 470 songs, 457 with lyrics and 13 instrumentals.

Two more from 1970 that I like are No Time and Hand Me Down World by The Guess Who. I like both of these much better than American Woman.