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Follow up singles to one Hit wonders?

batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
edited May 2008 in Strut Central
My co-worker asked me to put this up.Example - what was the follow up to Rockwell's Somebody's Watchin Me?U know that the company thought "What will we follow up w/?"And there is a reason why these cats dont come back out.
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  • waxjunkywaxjunky 1,849 Posts
    This is a tough one, for sure.
  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts


    Example - what was the follow up to Rockwell's Somebody's Watchin Me?


    C'mon dude, "Obscene Phone Caller" ...that's easy. Even better video.
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts


    Example - what was the follow up to Rockwell's Somebody's Watchin Me?


    C'mon dude, "Obscene Phone Caller" ...that's easy. Even better video.

    uhhh...if it was that good he wouldnt be a "one hit wonder", right?
  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    Well, it didn't have MJ on it
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    What was Skee-Lo's follow up to I Wish?

    This shouldnt be a a critique on said artists career, but just a look at what followed such a "big" hit.
  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    Looking Glass followed "Brandy" with "Jimmy Loves Mary-Ann" ... #33 in 1973
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts


    Example - what was the follow up to Rockwell's Somebody's Watchin Me?


    C'mon dude, "Obscene Phone Caller" ...that's easy. Even better video.

    uhhh...if it was that good he wouldnt be a "one hit wonder", right?

    Well, he sort of wasn't..."Obscene Phone Caller" did make the Top 40, although it wasn't as huge as "S.W.M.".
  • waxjunkywaxjunky 1,849 Posts
    How about "Baby Got Back" : "Put 'em On the Glass"
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts


    Example - what was the follow up to Rockwell's Somebody's Watchin Me?


    C'mon dude, "Obscene Phone Caller" ...that's easy. Even better video.

    uhhh...if it was that good he wouldnt be a "one hit wonder", right?

    Well, he sort of wasn't..."Obscene Phone Caller" did make the Top 40, although it wasn't as huge as "S.W.M.".

    Cool. That's what im sayin... what was the follow up...hit,minor or not.
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    How about "Baby Got Back" : "Put 'em On the Glass"

    Well, Im not tryin to get all techinal but I think Sir-Mix-alot had joints before Babt Got Back.
  • waxjunkywaxjunky 1,849 Posts
    How about "Baby Got Back" : "Put 'em On the Glass"

    Well, Im not tryin to get all techinal but I think Sir-Mix-alot had joints before Babt Got Back.

    But I don't think even "Posse's on Broadway" qualified as any type of hit?
  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    this thread is confusing
  • DJ_PhillieDJ_Phillie 199 Posts
    What was Skee-Lo's follow up to I Wish?



    "Top of the Stairs"


    this was my jam almost as much as "I wish" was...
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    How about "Baby Got Back" : "Put 'em On the Glass"

    Well, Im not tryin to get all techinal but I think Sir-Mix-alot had joints before Babt Got Back.

    But I don't think even "Posse's on Broadway" qualified as any type of hit?

    BET played that on the regular.
  • johmbolayajohmbolaya 4,472 Posts
    How about "Baby Got Back" : "Put 'em On the Glass"

    Well, Im not tryin to get all techinal but I think Sir-Mix-alot had joints before Babt Got Back.

    But I don't think even "Posse's on Broadway" qualified as any type of hit?


    Oh shit.
  • johmbolayajohmbolaya 4,472 Posts
    How about "Baby Got Back" : "Put 'em On the Glass"

    I thought it was "Swap Meet Louie". BTW - "Baby Got Back" was the follow-up to "One Time's Got No Case", and his name ain't Leroy.
  • waxjunkywaxjunky 1,849 Posts

    "Posse on Broadway" only peaked at #70 in the Billboard Hot 100, which is all I'm saying.
  • johmbolayajohmbolaya 4,472 Posts

    "Posse on Broadway" only peaked at #70 in the Billboard Hot 100, which is all I'm saying.

    Correct, but please don't make this solely a Billboard or "chart position" issue either, and how songs are only "worthy" because Downtown Julie Brown danced to it.

    I fully understand what "one hit wonder" signifies, and that means having a big hit on Billboard (or before it was also Cash Box and Record World), but it suggests that Sir Mix-A-Lot was nothing before or after. Then again, rap music was nothing until it moved out of its regional snobbery, right?

    Don't mind me, I know I'm getting off topic. I'm showing my regional snobbery as well.

    In closing: SWASS[/b]!!!
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    Wasn't Beepers huge?
  • DJ_EnkiDJ_Enki 6,473 Posts
    Can't we just have a Sir Mix-A-Lot appreciation thread?
  • dukeofdelridgedukeofdelridge urgent.monkey.mice 2,453 Posts
    posse on broadway is in the top rolling songs of all times

    that said, sir mix-a-lot doesn't deserve an appreciation thread

    but YES: what did Candyman do to fuck it up after Knockin Boots? I gotta know.
  • waxjunkywaxjunky 1,849 Posts
    dukeofdelridge said:


    but YES: what did Candyman do to fuck it up after Knockin Boots? I gotta know.



    By the logic of this thread, Knockin Boots was the follow-up. Just kidding.
  • waxjunkywaxjunky 1,849 Posts
    Candyman's story is possibly the ultimate irony of the N.W.A and the Posse cover. Three years after the photo was taken, around the time N.W.A was releasing its hard-hitting 100 Miles and Runnin' EP, Candyman had a Top 10 hit with "Knockin' Boots," a fun little bit of early-'90s pop-rap. "Knockin' Boots" ??? the second-biggest hit on the topic of boot-knockin' released in the early '90s ??? took his Ain't No Shame in My Game album into Billboard's Top 200. Candy toured with Tone Loc and Milli Vanilli but couldn't follow up on his success. His sophomore effort, Playtime Is Over, only had one charting single, the incredibly odd "Oneighundredskytalkpinelevenotwosevenine." Candyman was dropped from his major-label contract soon after his third album and decided to go gangsta. The cover of his fourth record, 1995's Phukk Watcha Goin' Thru, depicted the rapper posing in front of gold rims wearing a cabbie hat.

    http://www.laweekly.com/2010-05-06/music/whatever-happened-to-n-w-a-s-posse/
  • mrmatthewmrmatthew 1,575 Posts
    What did Black Sheep relase as a single after "The Choice Is Yours"?
    Was it "Similak Child"?

    b/w "posse on broadway" remix with Bowies Fame and the Godzilla scream = awesome
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    Tone Loc is another.
    2 big hits and the lp, then...?
  • SIRUSSIRUS 2,554 Posts
    posse on broadway was a hit. that is all.
  • bull_oxbull_ox 5,056 Posts
    I don't wanna try to get technical on a ghost-bump (word to Casper) - but the whole concept of "One Hit Wonder" is based on some archaic Billboard chart bullschitt that doesn't really apply to what you all are thinking of as a hit/significant song whatsoever.

    Even if a song charted #1 rap/rnb it wouldn't be considered a "hit" by these outdated "OHW" standards.
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    Posse on Broadway was an ENORMOUS GIANT MASSIVE hit in Houston when I was in high school.

    And for my submission, I give you...

  • jamesjames chicago 1,863 Posts
    HarveyCanal said:
    And for my submission, I give you...

    Followed by "I Love A Rainy Night," nationally a number-one record, and locally a suburban-Ohio roller-rink destroyer. My man Peter used to break off conversations with girls whenever this song came on down at the Skatium. Shit was no joke.
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    Ah, I was thinking I Love a Rainy Night came first with Driving my Life Away as the follow-up.
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