Meanderings of a Monkey Juggler

Grumpy people complain about "List-shows".  You know the sort of thing.  "50 Greatest ever haircuts" etc... 

I watched one of these shows last night and it was pretty good.  This one was "50 Greatest One-Hit Wonders".  What was surprising was how good many of the songs were.  The voters had generally avoided novelty songs although both versions of Axel-F were played.  The artists were some talented folk as well but for some reason they hadn't managed to get around to following up their initial hit.

Minnie Ripperton was on (Loving You - you know with the high note) and she only didn't get any further hits 'cos she died.  Richard Harris was on with "Macarthur's Park" (Someone left the cake out in the rain.  I don't think I can take it, 'cos it took so long to make it and I'll never find that recipe again); he didn't follow up 'cos he couldn't sing (damn fine actor though).  Neil Innes was on with the Bonzo's and they never had another hit because they didn't really want to. Her wot did "Hey Mickey" was on and she's now a choreographer (she did the Gap ads as well as freaky dance stuff for Talking Heads).  Him from the Buggles (Video Killed The Radio Star) is now a well respected musician/producer.  Even Jaz-Man (SpaceMan) runs a record company now.

But then we got the crappy stuff like Chesney, Shampoo and the Baha-Men etc...  Sort of letting the side down somewhat.

I had a great 3 hours re-living many moments of my youth because of this show; and somehow it's "lazy programming".  Sigh.

Have fun.