Are They A One-Hit Wonder?

sadchild said:
I didn't listen to WRXV 92.5 The River much in the 90s (I was more into the Active Rock stations) but I had it as a preset to check when the harder stations played something I didn't want to hear. I could see them playing it back then - they probably did once in a while.

They even had their own live-in-studio version of it. I think it's the recording where someone tells a story about a lady that yelled at him that day, and mentions "Fruit Roll-ups".

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Various - WXRV Presents: Live From The River Music Hall V.1

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1998 CD release of "WXRV Presents: Live From The River Music Hall V.1" on Discogs.
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But back in the 90s, I don't remember the song being well-known. Just a few people I knew knew it. Kinda obscure-ish.
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I've discussed that CD somewhere, it's fantastic. And aside from the fruit rollups version, there's the one with dijon ketchups. I listened to the river quite a bit over the years.
 
CW McCall
#1 "Convoy"
#40 "Wolf Creek Pass"

We was sittin' there suckin' toothpicks
Drinkin' Nehis and onion soup mix
And I says, "Earl, let's mail a card to mother
And then send them chickens on down the other side
Yeah, let's give 'em a ride"

Wolf Creek Pass way up on the Great Divide
Truckin' on down the other side

Gonna go with subjectively a OHW on this one.
 
I am one of those ten. I have always listened to both top-40 and country. McCall (real name: William Fries) had nine top-40 country hits in the 1970s. I know every one of them. By the way, the uncredited background singers on Convoy were Mannheim Steamroller. Mercy sakes, good buddy, here is Round The World With The Rubber Duck, McCall's sequel to Convoy:

 
I'm guessing that my mom got it for my brothers and me.
I was 6 or 7 years old at the time, but knew all of the lyrics.
 
Kim Wilde
#1 "You Keep Me Hangin' On"
#25 "Kids in America"
#41 "You Came"

Not sure. I think most under-35s don't know she ever existed. But I don't know if the 35+ mainstream (aka not music nerds, not people who wake up every day and listen to 80s music) know "Kids In America" - first time I ever heard it was about 15 years ago.
 
sadchild said:
Kim Wilde
#1 "You Keep Me Hangin' On"
#25 "Kids in America"
#41 "You Came"

Not sure. I think most under-35s don't know she ever existed. But I don't know if the 35+ mainstream (aka not music nerds, not people who wake up every day and listen to 80s music) know "Kids In America" - first time I ever heard it was about 15 years ago.
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I'd say most people only know her from Kids in America. Hangin' On is a cover, after the initial airplay people forget she even did it.
 
You guys are probably right.

But as always, there will be people who jump to the OHW conclusion because they only know the chart-topping cover song...

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Per Wikipedia:

Kim Wilde (born Kim Smith, 18 November 1960)[2] is an English pop singer, DJ and television presenter. She first saw success in 1981 with her debut single "Kids in America", which reached number two in the UK. In 1983, she received the Brit Award for Best British Female solo artist.[3] In 1986, she had a UK number two hit with a reworked version of the Supremes' song "You Keep Me Hangin' On", which also topped the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1987. Between 1981 and 1996, she had 25 singles reach the Top 50 of the UK singles chart. Her other hits include "Chequered Love" (1981), "You Came" (1988) and "Never Trust a Stranger" (1988). In 2003, she collaborated with Nena on the song "Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime", which topped the Dutch charts.

Worldwide, Wilde has sold over 10 million albums and 20 million singles. She holds the record for being the most-charted British female solo act of the 1980s, with seventeen UK Top 40 hit singles. Starting in 1998, while still active in music, she has branched into an alternative career as a landscape gardener, which has included presenting gardening shows on the BBC and Channel 4. In 2005, she won a Gold award for her courtyard garden at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show.

Doesn't sound like the resume of a OHW to me, though most of her success didn't cross the pond.
 
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