What a disappointment... and what lost opportunities. Seemingly the results of public votes for the greatest One Hit Wonders of all time, it was amazing to note what the public HADN'T voted for.Such as the greatest ones of all - Eve Of Destruction and They're coming to take me away.
I emailed Barry McGuire in Australia a few times and he told me he agreed the song IS as relevant today as it ever was which is why its still in his act of what are now Gospel songs.
Some one hit wonders I find unlistenable-the appalling Crazy Frog, ,Jilted John and Shaddap ya face but if, as they said on the programme, Crazy Frog was also voted most annoying, then how did it get any votes?
I was surprised that Louie Louie was there, as I would never have thought the public today would have known of the Kingsmen, but it was one of the highlights of a programme with few highlights. They did a whole documentary of Louie Louie in the 90s before Richard Berry passed away.
Whoever wrote the script should have done it properly and told the viewers that Monster Mash had been a No 1 hit in 1962 but it came through as if it was a 70s song-another highlight here as Bobby Pickett was seen as he is today.
Pump Up The Volume made no mention of the fact that it DID involve real musicians among the sampling-they were from 2 different 4AD bands-neither did it explain a great deal about why it ended up with over 20 writer credits.
Nor was there any mention of the Doctor & the Medics connection to Alice in Wonderland (interesting to hear him say he was proud to be a One Hit Wonder and think about it... this is an exclusive club where its members have done something not that many could do! I mean the Beatles could never do it ; neither could Jonathan King!)
I was also amazed my neighbour Neil Reid was missing.The music magazines don't know where he is but I won't blow his cover.(Neil was also a One Hit Wonder on the LP charts as well when he became the first solo male to top that chart with his first album).