99 Red Balloons and 100 Other All-Time Great One-Hit Wonders: From Doo-Wop to Pop-Rock Book

Former Top 40 disc jockey Brent Mann ranks the 101 greatest one hit wonders in pop music from Doo-Wop to Pop-Rock - from the Standells (Dirty Water), to Dexy's Midnight Runner's (Come On Eileen), to Jesus Jones (Right Here, Right Now) plus 98 other best-loved and fascinating artists who have made the charts... once. There's sidebar information about the songs and the artists as well as follow-ups on their careers. Did you know that one hit wonder Jonathan King (Everyone's Gone to the Moon) is credited with discovering the groups, Genesis, 10cc, and the Bay City Rollers? Did you know that singer Chris Izaak has had his own Showtime TV show and appeared in such movies as The Silence of the Lambs, but his only chart hitter was 1991's Wicked Game? Did you know Walking in Memphis singer/songwriter Marc Cohn fronted the band that played at Caroline Kennedy's wedding? One hit wonders are as important to a complete understanding of American popular music as anything by Elvis or The Beatles. 99 Red Ballons and 100 Other All-Time Great One-Hit Wonders spotlights all the timeless one-hit songs that have provided the sound track for our lives. Exhaustively researched, entertaining, and addictively fun,99 Red Ballons and 100 Other All-Time Great One-Hit Wonders is a pop culture musical smorgasbord filled with lyrics, trivia and history -an absolutely essential compendium for music lovers everywhere.