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Greatest 70s One Hit Wonder - "Rock" Edition ?

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Greatest 70s One Hit Wonder - "Rock" Edition ? 24 votes

Never Been Any Reason - Head East
12%
TheHBPurpleThrobberFishpo31 3 votes
Black Betty - Ram Jam
37%
RaceBannonSwayeYouKnowItchuckdfleabiak1DHDIPukeOregonGrellowbooker14 9 votes
All Right Now - Free
25%
DerekJohnsonTequillaLebamDawgWilliams3YellowSnowJoey 6 votes
Smokin' in The Boys Rooms - Brownsville Station
0%
My Sharona - The Knack
16%
whlinderMad_SonAtomicDawghuskyhooligan 4 votes
Mississippi Queen - Mountain
0%
Flirtin' With Disaster - Molly Hatchet
0%
Green Grass & High Tides - The Outlaws
4%
alumni94 1 vote
Rock On - David Essex
0%
F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off
4%
USMChawk 1 vote
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  • Fishpo31
    Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,627
    Never Been Any Reason - Head East
    Memories of football locker rooms, Craig under dash 8 track players, and drinking Rainier out of kegs in the woods…
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,038
    Never Been Any Reason - Head East
    Fishpo31 said:

    Memories of football locker rooms, Craig under dash 8 track players, and drinking Rainier out of kegs in the woods…

    Got pretty fucked up in CDA circa 1982 with the bass player for Head East.

    There may have been Wallace hookers and blow involved. Checking with my attorney on the hookers and blow statute of limitations. Definitely big-haired bitches from Peabody's.

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  • Fishpo31
    Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,627
    Never Been Any Reason - Head East
    PurpleThrobber said:

    Fishpo31 said:

    Memories of football locker rooms, Craig under dash 8 track players, and drinking Rainier out of kegs in the woods…

    Got pretty fucked up in CDA circa 1982 with the bass player for Head East.

    There may have been Wallace hookers and blow involved. Checking with my attorney on the hookers and blow statute of limitations. Definitely big-haired bitches from Peabody's.

    Saw them at the Boone Street Barn, circa 82…L-O-L Peabody’s and big hair!
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,816 Founders Club
    Black Betty - Ram Jam
    My first wife called her mother in law this

    Whoa

    Wham de lam
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  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,739 Founders Club
    edited January 2022
    Black Betty - Ram Jam
    It's fucking Ram Jam or burn it all down. A black work song thrown down by the dorkiest white fucks ever in the most hooky way possible is the shit of legend. This song couldn't even be made today without getting the entire record company cancelled. It's fucking epic.


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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,237 Founders Club
    All Right Now - Free
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bwdMERETac

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU4IEAgukHY
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  • booker14
    booker14 Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 184 Swaye's Wigwam
    Black Betty - Ram Jam
    That's a tough list to pick from. I think I own the album for at least five and probably six of them. I'll go with Ram Jam because they are the most "one hit" to me because I know I've never heard anything else from them. And a salute to Peabody's - I used to own a bunch of their mugs but my last wife hated them and threw them out.
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  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,675 Swaye's Wigwam
    Black Betty - Ram Jam
    Looks like the good guys came out to vote on this one.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,237 Founders Club
    All Right Now - Free
    chuck said:

    Looks like the good guys came out to vote on this one.

    I was pretty torn here. I wanted to go with Ram Jam, but All Right Now is just too much of the perfect song for its moment in time.

    I don't care if it's cliche and ruined by overplay. It basically spawned an entire style of radio friendly, catchy hard rock in a way that Zep, Cream, Sabbath had never attempted.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,237 Founders Club
    All Right Now - Free
    What also love about this list is the prevalence of cowbell. The drummers today just don't know how to lay down some good cowbell.


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  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,785 Swaye's Wigwam
    All Right Now - Free
    Good list but so many not on that list

    One Toke over the Line comes to mind
    Baker Street, Kung Ku Fighting, I am trying to list all the ones that drive me crazy as I drive around and my wife keeps changing to SiriusXM 70's on 7 - the name could be changed to One hit wonders of 70s
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  • USMChawk
    USMChawk Member Posts: 1,800
    F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off
    Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum and/or Cat’s in the Cradle by Harry Chapin would get my vote over any you listed.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,237 Founders Club
    All Right Now - Free
    USMChawk said:

    Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum and/or Cat’s in the Cradle by Harry Chapin would get my vote over any you listed.

    @USMChawk

    https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/94398/greatest-70s-one-hit-wonder-countr-folk-rock-edition#latest
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  • USMChawk
    USMChawk Member Posts: 1,800
    F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off
    YellowSnow said:

    USMChawk said:

    Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum and/or Cat’s in the Cradle by Harry Chapin would get my vote over any you listed.

    @USMChawk

    https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/94398/greatest-70s-one-hit-wonder-countr-folk-rock-edition#latest


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  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,675 Swaye's Wigwam
    Black Betty - Ram Jam
    YellowSnow said:

    chuck said:

    Looks like the good guys came out to vote on this one.

    I was pretty torn here. I wanted to go with Ram Jam, but All Right Now is just too much of the perfect song for its moment in time.

    I don't care if it's cliche and ruined by overplay. It basically spawned an entire style of radio friendly, catchy hard rock in a way that Zep, Cream, Sabbath had never attempted.
    I hate that song with a passion. I didn't want to come in opposite of the board chief but man, that song sucks. I see your point about it though.
    YellowSnow said:

    USMChawk said:

    Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum and/or Cat’s in the Cradle by Harry Chapin would get my vote over any you listed.

    @USMChawk

    https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/94398/greatest-70s-one-hit-wonder-countr-folk-rock-edition#latest
    He has a point about Spirot In the Sky though doesn't he? I didn't see that on the list.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,237 Founders Club
    All Right Now - Free
    chuck said:

    YellowSnow said:

    chuck said:

    Looks like the good guys came out to vote on this one.

    I was pretty torn here. I wanted to go with Ram Jam, but All Right Now is just too much of the perfect song for its moment in time.

    I don't care if it's cliche and ruined by overplay. It basically spawned an entire style of radio friendly, catchy hard rock in a way that Zep, Cream, Sabbath had never attempted.
    I hate that song with a passion. I didn't want to come in opposite of the board chief but man, that song sucks. I see your point about it though.
    YellowSnow said:

    USMChawk said:

    Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum and/or Cat’s in the Cradle by Harry Chapin would get my vote over any you listed.

    @USMChawk

    https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/94398/greatest-70s-one-hit-wonder-countr-folk-rock-edition#latest
    He has a point about Spirot In the Sky though doesn't he? I didn't see that on the list.
    Spirit in the Sky was released in Dec. 1969. I had it pegged to the 60s.
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  • DawgOfTheAges
    DawgOfTheAges Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,748 Founders Club
    Swaye said:

    It's fucking Ram Jam or burn it all down. A black work song thrown down by the dorkiest white fucks ever in the most hooky way possible is the shit of legend. This song couldn't even be made today without getting the entire record company cancelled. It's fucking epic.


    Very funny comments and so true about what record companies would say now about the song today... do like the signature Riff and the music video is an epic cult classic that now that seems like a SNL skit now.
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  • booker14
    booker14 Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 184 Swaye's Wigwam
    Black Betty - Ram Jam
    YellowSnow said:

    chuck said:

    Looks like the good guys came out to vote on this one.

    I was pretty torn here. I wanted to go with Ram Jam, but All Right Now is just too much of the perfect song for its moment in time.

    I don't care if it's cliche and ruined by overplay. It basically spawned an entire style of radio friendly, catchy hard rock in a way that Zep, Cream, Sabbath had never attempted.
    I'm a retard and can't figure out if I got the quote function to work, but I agree on All Right Now. However, to me it seems like it's just Bad Company's first hit. But take that for what it's worth because I went through a Paul Rodgers phase and have all of the original Bad Co albums as well as Willie and the Poor Boys and The Firm's two albums.
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  • Joey
    Joey Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,256 Founders Club
    All Right Now - Free
    All Right Now is on my list of top ten greatest rock songs ever. Everything you want, Sex (quasi-rape) Drugs and Rock and Roll. Some good guitar crunch and one of the best vocalists ever
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,816 Founders Club
    Black Betty - Ram Jam
    booker14 said:

    YellowSnow said:

    chuck said:

    Looks like the good guys came out to vote on this one.

    I was pretty torn here. I wanted to go with Ram Jam, but All Right Now is just too much of the perfect song for its moment in time.

    I don't care if it's cliche and ruined by overplay. It basically spawned an entire style of radio friendly, catchy hard rock in a way that Zep, Cream, Sabbath had never attempted.
    I'm a retard and can't figure out if I got the quote function to work, but I agree on All Right Now. However, to me it seems like it's just Bad Company's first hit. But take that for what it's worth because I went through a Paul Rodgers phase and have all of the original Bad Co albums as well as Willie and the Poor Boys and The Firm's two albums.
    Bad Company is a lost classic
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,237 Founders Club
    All Right Now - Free
    booker14 said:

    YellowSnow said:

    chuck said:

    Looks like the good guys came out to vote on this one.

    I was pretty torn here. I wanted to go with Ram Jam, but All Right Now is just too much of the perfect song for its moment in time.

    I don't care if it's cliche and ruined by overplay. It basically spawned an entire style of radio friendly, catchy hard rock in a way that Zep, Cream, Sabbath had never attempted.
    I'm a retard and can't figure out if I got the quote function to work, but I agree on All Right Now. However, to me it seems like it's just Bad Company's first hit. But take that for what it's worth because I went through a Paul Rodgers phase and have all of the original Bad Co albums as well as Willie and the Poor Boys and The Firm's two albums.
    The funny things about the Bad Company comparison, is that All Right Now came out 4 years before Bad Company.
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  • dflea
    dflea Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,287 Swaye's Wigwam
    Black Betty - Ram Jam
    Black Betty had a child - the damn thing gone wild!
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,237 Founders Club
    All Right Now - Free
    dflea said:

    Black Betty had a child - the damn thing gone wild!

    Shelton gonna Shelton.
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  • huskyhooligan
    huskyhooligan Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,924 Swaye's Wigwam
    My Sharona - The Knack
    Just now saw the additional threads. It was late. I was sexting with @Laocoön and got distracted. FYFMFE
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  • alumni94
    alumni94 Member Posts: 4,862
    Green Grass & High Tides - The Outlaws
    Jerry likes the jam band sound.

    https://youtu.be/WEkJFR69IXw
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,038
    Never Been Any Reason - Head East
    huskyhooligan said:

    Just now saw the additional threads. It was late. I was sexting with @Laocoön and got distracted. FYFMFE

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc4l5EpCMEc&t=3s

    Technically, The Knack had two hits and this one is better. Should be the HH theme song.

    And it's a teenage sadness
    Everyone has got to taste
    An in-between age madness
    That you know you can't erase
    Till she's sitting on your face

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  • TheHB
    TheHB Member Posts: 6,457
    Never Been Any Reason - Head East
    Had to go with Head East. Synchs up with my earliest and fondest memories of smoking weed -- back when you had to smoke quite a bit to get stoned. (Not the kind that feels more like a bad trip down paranoia avenue. "Did I just piss my pants?" "Am I still breathing?" "Are you supposed to feel your heart beat in your toes?")
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  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,675 Swaye's Wigwam
    Black Betty - Ram Jam
    TheHB said:

    Had to go with Head East. Synchs up with my earliest and fondest memories of smoking weed -- back when you had to smoke quite a bit to get stoned. (Not the kind that feels more like a bad trip down paranoia avenue. "Did I just piss my pants?" "Am I still breathing?" "Are you supposed to feel your heart beat in your toes?")

    Keep working at it. The anxiety is easily forgotten. Just look at your signature GIF for a minute.
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