are there any hit singles (of the postwar era) that was never followed up by a lp?

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i can't think of a single example. if you think of one, double-check. there's probably an lp.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 02:33 (twenty years ago)

what do you mean by "followed up"? there are lots of non-LP singles that aren't included on albums, but hits almost always appear on compilation/greatest hits albums eventually.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 02:38 (twenty years ago)

my grammar is terrible tonight. so is my thinking. i'm tired.

i meant singles by one-off acts that were never followed up by lps. but i didn't say that in the thread title. you can delete this thread if you want.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 02:40 (twenty years ago)

M/A/R/R/S and Stardust

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 03:19 (twenty years ago)

Uh, are you joking? Tons and tons of no-name garage bands put out singles and not another thing.

― trees (treesessplode), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 03:48 (twenty years ago)

Probably why Am said hit singles.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 04:04 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, I think the thread title is pretty self-explanatory, so let's keep this.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 04:05 (twenty years ago)

surely there were plenty of albumless one-hit-wonders in the late '40s and '50s! no?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 04:10 (twenty years ago)

unless of course am meant the post-WAR era

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 04:12 (twenty years ago)

Acid Man by Jolly Roger (top 40 in Sep 1988), plus lots more of it's ilk.

― everything, Tuesday, 9 May 2006 04:31 (twenty years ago)

Some recent ones:
Alter Ego "Rocker"
Don Omar "Reggaeton Latino"

and lots of charity singles, "We Are The World", "Do They Know It's Christmas Time", etc but that's a bit besides the point.

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Joe Dolce?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 13:46 (twenty years ago)

Actually, tons of dance singles in the main top 40 too: Hi-Tack, Meck, Shapeshifters, Roger Sanchez, Uniting Nations, Narcotic Thrust.

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 13:48 (twenty years ago)

i'm pretty sure that Beat Surrender came out after the jam's last album appeared

― dr x o'skeleton, Tuesday, 9 May 2006 13:48 (twenty years ago)

Did Nick Berry ever release an album?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 13:52 (twenty years ago)

Roger Sanchez did release an album. Presumably 'Another Chance' was on it.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 13:53 (twenty years ago)

albums from Alter Ego too inc. Transphormer

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 13:54 (twenty years ago)

did that annoying "sunscreen" guy ever release an album?

― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 16:33 (twenty years ago)

Yes

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― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

wow...I guess there is something for everybody...

― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 16:58 (twenty years ago)

>>Joe Dolce?

Would that that were true. There WAS an album, and we actually used to sell a few at the store I worked at in the 80s. Ebay shows he also made a Christmas album.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 17:03 (twenty years ago)

Shapeshifters released an album too ('Sound Advice'). Must be loads of genuine one-offs though. Did Typically Tropical release an LP?

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 17:08 (twenty years ago)

But what do you mean by hit singles? A hit single in Boston was not the same as a hit single in Detroit in the 50s. If we're using a broad definition, then there are definitely tons of groups that fit. If we're using the actual charts and whatnot, then the list is much fewer.

― trees (treesessplode), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 17:10 (twenty years ago)

according to this web page there was a Nick Berry LP hurrah!

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 17:15 (twenty years ago)

...and to answer my own question:
"On the strength of the single, Typically Tropical regrouped and recorded one LP, Barbados Sky, released on Gull later in 1975" (!! must hunt for this)

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 17:18 (twenty years ago)

There was a Uniting Nations album, and I wouldn't rule out there being a Meck one at some point.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 20:52 (twenty years ago)

I've got both the Joe Dolce album *and* the *We Are the World* album (and they're both pretty good, actually.)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 9 May 2006 21:30 (twenty years ago)

I've got albums by M and Frankie Smith too, for whatever it's worth.

M/A/R/R/S might be a good choice, though. (Though "Pump Up the Volume" is on at least one Colourbox *Best Of.*)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 9 May 2006 21:34 (twenty years ago)

white town -your woman.

― danny boy, Tuesday, 9 May 2006 21:38 (twenty years ago)

Band Aid may have released three singles, but they are yet to release an album.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 21:39 (twenty years ago)

And I own that White Town album, so, no.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 21:39 (twenty years ago)

I reviewed the White Town album in the *Voice*!

But did "That's the Joint" by Funky Four Plus One ever hit the r&b charts, come to think of it? Because I'm 99.999 percent sure they never made an album. (Same may be true of other early '80s rap hits, if indeed they were hits. Though I do actually own a Treacherous Three LP with their first six Sugarhill singles, and almost no rap reference books/sites seems to realize it ever existed.)

Likewise, Bob Seger definitely had local hits in the '60s in Detroit that were never on an album, and I doubt he's alone in that.

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 9 May 2006 21:46 (twenty years ago)

And okay, what about "Pac-Man Fever"? Or "The Curly Shuffle"? (I can't even remember who did those*, but in the States, I'm pretty sure they were literal Top 40 hits.) (And speaking of shuffles, what about "Superbowl Shuffle" by the Chicago Bears Shufflin' Crew? Though that may have only been an MTV hit, not a chart hit.) (And what about Buchanan and Goodman's flying saucer hits from the '50s, or "Mr. Jaws" by Dickie Goodman from 1975. With novelty hits, I'm guessing it used to not be so rare -- though both Afro-Man and Lou Bega put out albums, so maybe that's not the case anymore.)

* - Just checked Joel Whitburn; pac-man feverettes were Buckner & Garcia, curly shufflers were Jump in the Saddle. (Both of whom MIGHT have actually made albums, but I don't think I've ever seen copies.)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 9 May 2006 22:04 (twenty years ago)

Pac Man Fever did have a supporting LP, check Do the Donkeykong and the Frogger song for some jams. Jump'n'The Saddle band I'm sure had an album as the single was on Atlantic and The Curly Shuffle got quite a bit of play. Question is: was the whole thing novelty or were they sort of a Dr Hook and the Medicine Show of the 80s?

― ARGUS VARGUS, Tuesday, 9 May 2006 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Oh and Super Bowl Shuffle by the Chicago Bear Shufflin' Crew was released as a retail 7" single on Red Label dist by EMI/Capitol. No LP.

― ARGUS VARGUS, Tuesday, 9 May 2006 23:05 (twenty years ago)

i'm pretty sure there WAS a shufflin' crew lp because i owned it.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 00:06 (twenty years ago)

or at least an ep

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 00:07 (twenty years ago)

well, i'd assume that, for the purposes of this thread, and EP should count as an LP -- otherwise, stuff like david lee roth's "just a gigolo" and "california girls," the honeydrippers' "sea of love," dire straits' "twistin by the pool," and romeo void's "never say never" (if those last two count as hits) would possibly fit the criteria in the thread title (unless they wound up eventually on albums as well, and i just never noticed.)

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 10 May 2006 00:20 (twenty years ago)

and actually, though, did every doo-wop group who had a hit in the '50s wind up making an album? i have no idea, but i'd guess they didn't. (and this might apply to other '50s/'60s hit genres, too.)

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 10 May 2006 00:25 (twenty years ago)

Is there a Crazy Frog LP?

― Harrison Barr (Petar), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 00:26 (twenty years ago)

yeah, I have it, and Michaelangelo Matos put it in his top 10 last year. (actually, I saw three OTHER Crazy Frog CDs in a Polish disco CD record store in Greenpoint late last year, none with the hit! None of them have seen stateside release, though.)

Hampton the Hampster, on the other hand....I dunno.

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 10 May 2006 00:30 (twenty years ago)

uhhh... the Macarena?

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 10 May 2006 01:04 (twenty years ago)

Joe Dolce

Wasn't that his story that he made a fortune from the single and financed his own LP and lost the lot?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 01:34 (twenty years ago)

uh...maybe! that story sounds kinda familiar...

i vaguely remember los del rio putting out an album with "macarena" on it, which was not anywhere near as great as the los del mar album with "macarena" on it, but it's *possible* mr. snrub is right.

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 10 May 2006 10:41 (twenty years ago)

It was never released in enough items to be much of a hit, really, but the Estonian Eurovision winner from 2001 was by a band who broke up before they ever got to release an album.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 10:42 (twenty years ago)

There was a Hampton Hampster LP.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 10:57 (twenty years ago)

A lot of football teams had one off hits, but did any of them release an album. I know there are a few Cherry Red compilations which collect songs relating to different teams but that's more of an archival project.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 12:37 (twenty years ago)

I've seen Arsenal and Man U LPs in Music & Video Exchange.

― zebedee (zebedee), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:08 (twenty years ago)

they're usually filed there under Exotica

― zebedee (zebedee), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:09 (twenty years ago)

I don't remember Andy Cameron putting out an album after "Ally's Tartan Army" (he's done umpteen live stand-up albums but none of "music" as such).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:29 (twenty years ago)

Well add Jasper Carrott to that list, as he never recorded a "song" after Funky Moped. Although he did "The twelve days of christmas" accoustic, well if it counted for Nick Drake I gues.....

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:45 (twenty years ago)

Haven't heard that one, but presumably it's a ripoff of the Bill Barclay version which has the protagonist getting progressively drunker with each verse (Scotland's Xmas #1 of '74!).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:49 (twenty years ago)

Were spoken word albums formerly allowed into the top 40 then?

10 Jasper Carrott Rabbits On And On Album Oct 1975
38 Jasper Carrott The Best Of Jasper Carrott Album Nov 1978
19 Jasper Carrott The Unrecorded Jasper Carrott Album Oct 1979
13 Jasper Carrott Beat The Carrott Album Sep 1981

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:05 (twenty years ago)

And before anyone says Clive Dunn - another notable absentee from C4's One Hit Wonders prog - he did release an album, entitled Permission To Sing Sir.

Exclamation mark.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:12 (twenty years ago)

"Macarena" was followed by an album.

Anyway, there are lots of club tunes obviously in this category:

20 Fingers: "Don't Want No Short Dick Men"
Moby: "Move"
Blue Boy: "Remember Me"
2 Cowboys: "Everybody Confi Gon"
Farley "Jackmaster" Funk: "Love Can't Turn Around"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:22 (twenty years ago)

Oh, when you said "followed by an LP", do you mean that the said artist never released any LPs? Because Moby and Farley "Jackmaster" Funk have released LPs, but the said songs aren't on them.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:24 (twenty years ago)

I've actually got a 20 Fingers album with "Short Dick Man" on it (it's sort of a compilation, but they were a production team, right? And the song also wound up on the first Gilette album.)

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Howbout "Live Is Life" - did Opus have a full LP? AMG makes no mention of one.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:56 (twenty years ago)

"Live is Life" was the title track of Opus' FIFTH album.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:09 (twenty years ago)

next to "live is life," the best songs on the *live is life* album (polydor, 1985 -- my copy's from mexico, looks like) are "opuspocus," "positivo," "burbujas dobles," and "vive la vida" (oops, i guess that one IS "live is life," duh.)

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:17 (twenty years ago)

I have that Gilette album! "Gilette is on the Attack" is fantastic.

"Warm Leatherette".

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:22 (twenty years ago)

xhuxk (and others):

It's actually Los Del Rio who enjoyed success with "Macarena" (with help from the Bayside Boys).

"Macarena" was the first song on their debut album (A Mi Me Gusta from 1993) but it didn't catch on internationally as a single until 3 years later. When all was said and done it remains the best selling single in the history of recorded music.

Los Del Rio has released 5 albums including one a few years ago.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Did any Serge Gainsbourg albums get released outside of France on the coattails of "Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus"?

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:33 (twenty years ago)

"Live is Life" was the title track of Opus' FIFTH album.

!!!

― Myonga Von Boggled (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:12 (twenty years ago)

I seriously hope Victor Lundberg never released an accompanying album to "An Open Letter to My Teenage Son"

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:22 (twenty years ago)

>xhuxk (and others):
It's actually Los Del Rio who enjoyed success with "Macarena" (with help from the Bayside Boys).<

Right, that was exactly my point (which I thought was clear, though apparently not.) Los Del Rio had the hit, but Los Del Mar made a much better album.

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 10 May 2006 19:02 (twenty years ago)

don't know about the rest of the world, but in America Vicki Lawrence (better known for her long-running TV roles on The Carol Burnett Show and Mama's Family) had a MASSIVE hit in the mid-70's with "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia", and I don't recall an album following it...

on that note, I don't suppose anybody knows if Rick Dees issued an album to go with his novelty hit "Disco Duck"?...(or the even-worse "Discorilla"?)

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 19:16 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Rick Dee released a full LP including Disco Duck and your all time favorite Discorilla. I have the album and its 4 sale for a huge amount of money...;-)

― Jan S (janneman), Saturday, 27 May 2006 20:02 (twenty years ago)

I don't think the one-hit wonders the Elegants ("Little Star"), Hot Butter ("Popcorn"), or Meri Wilson ("Telephone Man") ever released LPs.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 27 May 2006 20:43 (twenty years ago)

There must be loads of novelty acts that never put out an album! Did Fat Les ever have an album?

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Saturday, 27 May 2006 21:28 (twenty years ago)

"Doctorin' the Tardis" counts, right?

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 28 May 2006 02:36 (twenty years ago)

They did put it on History Of The JAMs, but I'd say yeah

― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 28 May 2006 12:05 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

>I don't think the one-hit wonders the Elegants ("Little Star"), Hot Butter ("Popcorn"), or Meri Wilson ("Telephone Man") ever released LPs. <

Cross Hot Butter off the list. I just found a EIGHT-TRACK of their album for 50 cents in an antique barn upstate over the weekend. It came out in 1972 on Musicom Records, apparently, and Hot Butter also cover "Apache", "Telstar" (which they spell "Telestar") and "Pipeline" on it, and do something called "Song of the Narobi Trio". I have no idea whether it came out on vinyl, though I bet it wouldn't be hard to find out. And no, I don't own an 8-track player.

― xhuxk (xheddy), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

Hot Butter have two albums. Both of them are worthy.

― everything (everything), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

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