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  3. Which is the best "One Hit Wonder" of all time?

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    I don't think that BW Stevenson had any other hits beside hs monster "My Maria."

    The Sanford Townsend Band never had another hit after "Smoke From A Distant Fire" even with a band name as easy to remember as theirs (???)

    An interesting story on the one hit of Morris Albert that I just found out today. He was a Brazilian living in the USA and "borrowed" a fifty year old Brazilian copywrited melody into which he injected his lyrics titled "Feelings." He was prosecuted and for a brief time imprisoned in Brazil for his breach of propriety. This pretty much ended his career as a musician, though he made millions from "his" song.

  8. does the flute "poison" rock?

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    If musicianship or instrumental virtuosity counts for anything in rock & roll, then one cannot discredit Ian Anderson because he doesn't pluck at a bass or some other stringed instrument. This man's flying fingered tonal accuracy and vanguard musical stylings belong alongside any other groundbreaking event in a genre noted for pushing the boundaries of convention.

  12. On a night like this

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    The candles are lit, the wine is chilled

    the vase in the middle of the table is filled

    such a cozy scene, the only thing I miss

    is you here with me on a night like this.

    to my head and my thoughts about you are turning me on

    Great thought for a song or lyrical poem. That first stanza is a great one! It has rythmn and flows so well. That solo line I put in quotes above does not have the same rythmn or flow. Feels a little awkward. If you could get that in the same meter as the rest of this fine piece, you will have a winner!

  13. A thought from someone new...

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    Geoff, writing your feelings helps on so many levels. You are smart to transfer your emotions to paper as soon as possible. I also write. Here are two observations I have made over half of a hopefully very long lifetime that might be of some consolation to you at this time. The first is untitled, while the other is appropriately titled.

    Passion that results in pain

    Is infinitely better than

    Solitude that realizes solace.

    One indicates a flame

    That will never die.

    The other gathers kindling

    That will never light.

    Learned

    We fell in love with ideas of love;

    Living life, our hearts were torn apart.

    We should have sought integrity .. character,

    Let hearts find the love therein.

    Youthful fantasy and reality is a volatile mixture.

    Decisions should never be made near a wishing well.

    All the best to you, my friend.

  16. Funny Misheard Lyrics

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    There is no Elton John song that I understood all the words the first, second or third time I heard it. Yet Taupin's lyrics are splendid and deserve to be understood.

    I found THIS site through a lyrics google because I finally went so crazy trying to understand the line "Jai Guru Deva, Oohm" in Lennon's Across The Universe. For years I thought he was saying "Like a new day love .. home" (sort of.) But I have at various times heard that song covered by 3 different artists and every one said the same unintelligible line. After finding out that line on this site, I was relieved to find I am no more crazy than originally diagnosed.

  19. Which is the best "One Hit Wonder" of all time?

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    :: You must be thinking of another band; Marmalade were never one hit wonders. They hit the UK #1 spot in 1968 with a cover of The Beatles "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da" and continued through to the early seventies with more hits like "Rainbow" and the one you quoted, "Reflections of My Life". They would never have been drafted for Vietnam as they were a UK band. They faded into obscurity after the UK newspaper, The News of the World, exposed their scandalous activities with under age groupies. :thumbsup:

    Thanks for the heads-up Edl. I apparently got bum info from a guy I met in the service who claimed to have been in boot camp with the drummer from Marmalade. But, now that you mention it, I HAD heard they were a UK band, but it did not register. They just never had another hit in the U.S.

  21. What happened to the meaning of music?

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    I feel the sentiment of lost culture has been with every generation since time began. I remember my father telling me the Beatles were just a bunch of noise. HIS father probably said the same about Woody Guthrie. I am sure more than a few parents have reviled U2. The messages we need to assimilate in order to fulfill our role will always be available to us. Sometimes they are whispers and other times, shouts.

  24. untitled

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    Suicide is neither romantic nor bold; a solution nor resolution. It is he ultimate form of selfishness. It says, "Here, you that I leave behind, clean up all my messes for me; the old ones, the immediate ones and a sardonic good luck on the problems that won't be manifesting themselves for a good long while yet. I can't, so you handle them in my place."

  25. John Lennon vs Paul Mcartney

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    Add their separate solo discographies and the qualitative total isn't even close to their combined force and talent as symbiotic songwriters. Each influenced the other by what was inside their personalities and though polar opposite in many areas, their match filled the gaps of the other; musically, lyrically, socially and ethically. Though usually writing separately even while Beatles, they both editorialized one another's work and lent additional dynamics to almost every song attributed to that team. Truly the sum was greater than its parts.

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