Most Memorable 70’s One Hit Wonder

This song came up in a discussion about “Bad songs our parents loved” between me and my friends. Surely the only Top-40 song that ever featured a xylophone solo.

 

Actually, it's a marimba. Similar member of the percussion family.

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Gotta think on this subject ...

 

Wow, had no idea.

 

1) "How Long" – Ace (Lead singer: Paul Carrack, later one of the lead singers for Mike + The Mechanics)
2) "Vehicle" – The Ides of March (Sounds like something from the Blood, Sweat & Tears cutting room floor)
3) "City of New Orleans" – Arlo Guthrie (One of the few non-Eagles tracks people tried to cover in their living room with a guitar.)
4) "You Light Up My Life" – Debby Boone (Could NOT get away from this one ... not a favorite, but just ... omnipresent.)
5) "Ring My Bell" – Anita Ward (One of my regular overseers at the child care center LOVED this track. I've certainly heard worse.)

 

Not for Clapton but for Derek and the Dominos

 

Oh, c’mon. Y’all already know there’s only one correct answer here.

 

My mom loved that song.

 

Baby Come Back was great ... in The Simpsons.

 

I may have shared this here before. I had an editor who had a standalone photo of a little boy and little girl playing on a swing set and she put the kicker "afternoon delight." She was mortified when she found out what it meant.

 

That was how I felt in my early 20's when I finally deciphered it although I had a smile on my face.