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They had a big summer hit, and then they disappeared... do you know the artists ant the name of the songs that can be put in that category? 'Mumbo No 5'...? More...?

― mefitopol, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

OMC - "How Bizarre"

― Garfield Odie (garfield), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)

culture beat: 'mr vain'

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 10:58 (twenty years ago)

MC Mikey G and DJ Sven - Holiday Rap

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 10:58 (twenty years ago)

Baltimora - Tarzan Boy
Ryan Paris - Dolce Vita (great record!)
Spagna - Call Me
Sabrina - Boys (Summertime Love)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 10:59 (twenty years ago)

but sabrina had more hits after that one, and culture beat lasted more than one summer...

― arbion, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

Sabrina's follow-up "All Of Me" reached #25 in October 1988. I challenge anyone to sing it from memory without looking it up on slsk or similar.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

It was a hit in May, but I always think of Owen Paul's 'My favourite waste of time' as the summer hit of 86.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

Culture Beat had a second hit, "Got to Get It".

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:21 (twenty years ago)

And it was just as big as "Mr. Vain" at the time, though "Mr. Vain" is probably what they'll always be remembered for.

My vote goes for "Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Deep Blue Something. That song's deeply ingrained in my memories of the summer of 1996, a memorable one to me for several reasons. That was also the summer of "Wannabe".

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

The Connells- 74/75

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

Culture Beat also had a third, fourth, fifth and sixth hit - Anything, World In Your Hands, Inside Out and Crying In The Rain respectively.

Back in '86 there was Brother Louie by Modern Talking.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

The First Picture Of You by the Lotus Eaters - stopped at #15 in 1983 due to disastrous decision by TOTP producer to obscure group with Legs and Co dancing to something else entirely in front of them.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

Culture Beat also had a third, fourth, fifth and sixth hit - Anything, World In Your Hands, Inside Out and Crying In The Rain respectively.

i really hope that isn't from memory!!

stardust: 'music sounds better with you'

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)

unfortunately, henry, it was.

asperger's - don't try it, kids.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

even worse, i've just suddenly remembered how "all of me" by sabrina goes...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

Matthew's Southern Comfort - Woodstock
Thunderclap Newman - Something In the Air

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)

Crash Test Dummies - "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm"

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

Crash Test Dummies - "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm"

Ah, but they also had that song about TS Eliot.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

Typically Tropical - "Barbados (Woh, I'm going to..)"

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

Bob Sinclair- I Feel For You (#9, August 2000)

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

"Susanna" by the Art Company
"Live Is Life" by Opus
(essentially the same Euro bierkeller song but 12 months apart)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

Culture Beat also had a third, fourth, fifth and sixth hit - Anything, World In Your Hands, Inside Out and Crying In The Rain respectively.

'Anything' >>>>> 'Mr Vain'

'Got To Get It' was really annoying.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

i think 'mmm mmm mmm mmm' was earlier in the year.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

2 Crash Test Dummies Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Apr 1994

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

Does Seaside Shuffle by Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs (#2 on its second release, 1972) count even though it was really Jona Lewie?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

Diana King 'Shy Guy'

I'm sure she had at least one follow up single (maybe a cover?) but barely anyone would remember it surely.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

Pseudo Echo - Funkytown

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

Sabrina's follow-up "All Of Me" reached #25 in October 1988. I challenge anyone to sing it from memory without looking it up on slsk or similar.

BOY OH BOY
DON'T WANT A PART TIME LOVER
ALL OF ME
WANTS ALL OF YOU

(PWL Hits Factory Vol.2, cassette, autumn 1988, second song on side 2, possibly)

― Alex in Sheffield (Alex in Doncaster), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

(sixth song on side 1, even. and you addressed this, in fact. sorry)

(LAS KETCHUP)

― Alex in Sheffield (Alex in Doncaster), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

Len "Steal My Sunshine"

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

spiller/groovejet

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

Starland Vocal Band struck gold in the summer of '76 with "Afternoon Delight".

― p.j. (Henry), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Hey, Macarena. Oi.

― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

I can actually remember the 'All of me wants all of you' part of Sabrina's follow-up now but no more than that and this is only because of Alex's prompting.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Nina Sky - "Move Your Body"
Lumidee - "Never Leave You (Oh-Oooh)"

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Rihanna "Pon De Replay"

― Rich (Rich), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

That remains to be seen.

This is a GREAT thread!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Rednex: Cotton Eyed Joe
Eiffel 65 : Blue (da ba dee)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

This is a GREAT thread!

You mean list ;)

Was Sixpence None The Richer's 'Kiss Me' a Summer release? I know they had other songs but I doubt anyone in the world has heard them.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

Fastball "The Way"

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Olive: "You're Not Alone"

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

Kaoma - Lambada
Ten Sharp - You

― Mind Taker, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

Crash Test Dummies - "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm"

I vividly recall watching this video on a day when school was cancelled due to a snowstorm.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

Wreckx N Effect "Rump Shaker"

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

Righeira - Vamos A La Playa

(oh, oh-oh-oh-oh!)

― blunt (blunt), Saturday, 20 August 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

Tarzan Boy had Jungle Life, didn't they?

― The Original Jimmy Mod: Kind Warrior (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, 20 August 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)

This is one of my favorite songs: New Radicals - You Get What You Give

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Saturday, 20 August 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

Rednex: Cotton Eyed Joe

Old Pop In An Oak might have been exactly the same song, but they're still a two-hit wonder.

― kit brash (kit brash), Saturday, 20 August 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

What about that slacker dude with the "I'm a loser everyone should kill me" thing that sampled Dr John? Remember seeing it on TOTP just before Britpop.

― A.C.M.E. (A.C.M.E.), Thursday, 25 August 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

stardust: 'music sounds better with you'

yeah one of those guys had a group "daft punk"????? who?

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 25 August 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

Beach Baby by.....First Choice? (Help me here Marcello)

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 25 August 2005 10:43 (twenty years ago)

First Class, I think.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 25 August 2005 10:58 (twenty years ago)

eleven years pass...

good (and worth bumping) thread but i'm ngl i found this looking for a rihanna thread cause someone put pon de replay on here

oops

― austinb, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 08:03 (nine years ago)

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