One Hit Wonders-Instrumentally [Import]

One Hit Wonders-Instrumentally (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 20, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• ASIN: B00005OB1Q
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #548,525 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Plantation Boogie - Lenny Dee

2. Moonglow And Theme From Picnic - Morris Stoloff

3. The Happy Whistler - Don Robertson

4. Canadian Sunset - Hugo Winterhalter

5. Week End - The Kingsmen

6. Peter Gunn - Ray Anthony Orchestra

7. Guitar Boogie Shuffle - The Virtues

8. Tall Cool One - The Wailers

9. Bongo Rock - Preston Epps

10. The Rock-A-Teens - Woo-Hoo

11. In The Mood - Ernie Fields Orchestra

12. Tracys Theme - Spencer Ross

13. Asia Minor - Kokomo

14. Last Night - The Mar-Keys

15. Mexico - Bob Moore

16. Take Five - Dave Brubeck Quartet

17. Alley Cat - Bent Fabric

18. Lets Go (Pony) - The Routers

19. Our Winter Love - Bill Pursell

20. Wild Weekend - The Rebels

See all 29 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Instrumental Genre Was Filled With One-Hit Wonders, February 27, 2008

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AvidOldiesCollector (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: One Hit Wonders-Instrumentally (Audio CD)

Like the volumes titled A Group Effort, Ladies Choice, Here Come The Guys and A Novelty Experience, this is brought to you by the same Canadian distributors who produced the multi-volume series Hey! Look What I Found and, in that regard, suffers from the same general negatives associated with that series - i.e., complete lack of liner notes (although all are original renditions and they do show the year and highest Billboard Pop chart finish on the reverse) and varying degrees of sound quality.

As with many other releases supposedly dealing with "One-Hit Wonders," these volumes also take considerable liberty with the term, as most of the artists included here had more than one hit, and in several cases multiple hits. It is, therefore, the definition of "hit" that defines this and other such releases as it appears most consider anything that did not make the Pop Top 20, 30 or 40, or anywhere on the Country, R&B and Adult Contemporary charts for that matter, as a "non-hit."

However, even if you focus only on the Billboard Pop Top/Hot 100, you have to understand that, for every song in any given year that made it into the 100 there were likely 3 or 4 that did not. Indeed, Billboard even created a chart called the Hot 100 "Bubble Under" to reflect the hundreds of tunes that just missed by finishing from # 101 to # 125. Lots more failed to make even that listing.

Here you get just 9 true One-Hit Wonders out of the 29 presented: Lenny Dee (whose Plantation Boogie was the first instrumental of the R&R era in 1955); Morris Stoloff; Don Robertson; The Kingsmen (who were, in reality, Bill Haley's Comets moonlighting on another label); The Rock-A-Teens, Spencer Ross, Kokomo, Bob Moore & His Orchestra, and Bill Pursell. All the rest had at least one other Top/Hot 100 hit. Both Ray Anthony and Hugo Winterhalter, in fact, had multiple hits dating back to the late 1940s, so to regard them as One-Hit Wonders is ridiculous. The Rebels and Robert Maxwell also had significant other hits in 1959 under different names - The Rebels as The Hot-Toddys featuring Bill Pennell with Rockin' Crickets (# 57), and Maxwell as The Mickey Mozart Quintet with Little Dipper (# 30).

It wasn't as if there were not many more true One-Hit Wonders in the instrumental field with which to fill out this volume, as each of the following was able to register only the one chart entry: The Ferko String Band; Eddy Barclay & His Orch; Helmut Zacharias; Elmer Bernstein; Lou Stein; The Gone All Stars; The Daddy-O's; Franck Pourcel; Reg Owens; The Islanders; Tobin Mathews & Co; The Duals; The Phil Upchurch Combo; The Ramrods; Adrian Kimberley; H.B. Barnum; Billy Joe & The Checkmates; Kai Winding; Les Cooper & The Soul Rockers; The Busters; Harlow Wilcox & The Oakies; Charles Randolph Grean Sounde; Whistling Jack Smith; Neil Hefti; Walter Wanderley; Pete Drake; The Pyramids and The Chantays.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PATIENCE, March 10, 2003

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manfred rower (florence, co. United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: One Hit Wonders-Instrumentally (Audio CD)

purchase date: 2/9/03
est. delivery date: 3/19 - 3/28
pony express would have been faster