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Most Memorable 70’s One Hit Wonder

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by qtlaw, May 31, 2021.

  1. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Boogie Nights was good - Groove Line was better..

     
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  2. Mngwa

    Mngwa Well-Known Member

    No, it apparently reminded her of an affair she had with a married man when she was 19 and they met in the afternoons.
     
  3. Spartan Squad

    Spartan Squad Well-Known Member

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  4. Machine Head

    Machine Head Well-Known Member

    The album this song is on was in a lot of albums I bought at auction.

    Shitty design on the front cover and the picture on the back is weird.

    That's all I got.
     
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  5. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Bill Danoff of Starland Vocal Band wrote "Take Me Home, Country Roads" for John Denver. That's all I got.
     
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  6. maumann

    maumann Well-Known Member

    And Danoff had never been to West Virginia.
     
  7. qtlaw

    qtlaw Well-Known Member

    This weeks Parade Magazine in the Sunday paper (yeah I still get the papers on the driveway) said the lyrics were originally about Maryland but changed to West Virginia for the rhymes.
     
  8. Tarheel316

    Tarheel316 Well-Known Member

    Saw them live in Hilton Head in 1987.
     
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  9. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    I got you a stone classic 70's One Hit Wonder right here.

     
  10. I Should Coco

    I Should Coco Well-Known Member

    For those of us who were a bit younger in the 1970s ...

     
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  11. Slacker

    Slacker Well-Known Member

    Neither had the local band I saw play it live.

    At an outdoor wine festival. In Germany.
     
  12. Slacker

    Slacker Well-Known Member

    Massachusetts, according to Wiki. Danoff is from there:

    Danoff has stated he had never been in West Virginia before co-writing the song, having written it in a house in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. He had even briefly considered using "Massachusetts" rather than "West Virginia," as both four-syllable state names would have fit the song's meter.
     
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