The Greatest Novelty Songs

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Parkes, Thomas. "Wolverhampton's famous dancing binmen release their Christmas song". www.expressandstar.com. The following is a list of aggregate ensemble groups. These are usually put together for charity purposes. The ones listed below are one-hit wonders in their respective line-ups, but most are primarily made up of several chart artists. The following line-ups have all reached number one in their only hit under these umbrella group names: I want to make people laugh': Quentin Dupieux, the fun auteur of French cinema". TheGuardian.com. 4 July 2021.

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Only a hit because it was the theme to BBC's series The Light of Experience, apparently. Even so, in a decade of concertos and bagpipe marches reaching the top 5, Light of Experience still feels like an odd choice for a hit. 5 and a half minutes of panpipe-based drone, with no percussion or anything (I guess Amazing Grace was the Scottish equivalent to this, but that was a lot shorter). Regardless, Light of Experience was Doina/Romanian folk music's time in the UK charts sun. The introduction to Strauss' 1896 orchestral piece Also Sprach Zarathustra was used as both the theme to 2001: A Space Odyssey and some of telly's Apollo coverage, meaning Columbia EMI saw quids in and released a single of it, using a Philharmonic Orchestra recording from 1963 conducted by Lorin Maazel. Yes its one of the most famous snatches of Western classical music to us, having been used to no end in pop culture since, but as a single, remember that a) it is only about a minute and a half long and b) not much happens in it - its mostly just a series of drones before the big crescendo, certainly nothing recognisable or really workable as 'pop'. (Although add other music over it and it's a different story, as funk band Deodato found out with their 1973 No. 7 hit rendition). Despite its success, no follow-up was ever released. M/A/R/R/S [56] was a one-off project between two artists on the independent label 4AD - dream pop band A.R. Kane and electronic group Colourbox. Separately, both acts charted on the UK Indie Chart, with Colourbox having a self-titled [57] [58] Top 75 album hit, but neither charted on the main UK Singles Chart. Allmusic describes "Pump Up the Volume" as "a one-hit wonder of rare influence," owing to its importance in the history of sampling and electronic dance music. [59]One hit wonder? So far, yes. The Teletubbies have yet to release any more material, although we hear unconfirmed reports that Po is going solo and has “some deep experimental shit” lined up for the New Year. Art Garfunkel had the best-selling single of the year with " Bright Eyes". The single spent nine weeks in the top 10 (including six weeks at number one) and was certified platinum by the BPI. " Heart of Glass" by Blondie came in second place. Cliff Richard's " We Don't Talk Anymore", " I Don't Like Mondays" from The Boomtown Rats and " When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman" by Dr. Hook made up the top five. Singles by Gloria Gaynor, Tubeway Army, Roxy Music, Blondie (" Sunday Girl") and Lena Martell were also in the top ten best-selling singles of the year.

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Eh-oh! When it started in 1997, Teletubbies was huge with kids and the BBC made a very good deal to remix its theme tune as a single, all thanks to an A&R executive by the name of Simon Cowell. The theme song to the popular BBC children's television series sold over one million copies. [62] The Teletubbies also appear, along with a number of other fictional children's television characters, on the 2009 charity song " The Official BBC Children in Need Medley", credited to Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band. [63] The single was Da Silva's only UK chart hit, although featured vocalist Cass Fox released her own version, which became a minor hit five years later. [68] [69] Justin Bieber partners with the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir for new charity version of 'Holy' ". NME | Music, Film, TV, Gaming & Pop Culture News. 2020-12-14 . Retrieved 2021-01-28.

1970s

Philharmonia Orchestra / Hallé / Lorin Maazel / John Barbirolli 2001: A Space Odyssey (1969) [Single] A Beatles cover, which reached number 1 in January 1966 for three weeks. The Overlanders are the earliest British group to be classed as a one-hit wonder. [10]