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| From | "Lawrence Dunn" <thedunns@capecod.net> |
| Subject | Re: One Hit Wonders |
| Date | Sat, 11 Jun 2005 13:23:05 -0400 |
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Goofy thing was, "What I Like About You" wasn't the first song from the
post-Bomp Nemperor/CBS debut that radio was flogging hard in 1980. That honor
went to "When I Look In Your Eyes." At least around Hartford, CT.
I will say that cover bands picked up a lot earlier on "What I Like About You".
----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Harris" <NonStopPop@cox.net>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 12:59 AM
Subject: Re: One Hit Wonders
> > The Romantics are a one-hit wonder, but their
> > one "hit"--"What I Like About You," of course--missed the Top 40 entirely,
> > while their highest-charting hit, "Talking In Your Sleep," is rarely
> mentioned,
> > and their other Top 40 hit, "One In A Million," is largely forgotten.
>
> Which is funny, because I knew the latter two songs before I ever knew "What
> I Like About You." I think I even knew them for their cover of the Kinks'
> "She's Got Everything" before I knew "What I Like About You." (A local
> band, the Plaad, covered it; it was years before I knew it as anything other
> than a Romantics song.)
>
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