{"id":2868,"date":"2010-07-29T11:35:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T15:35:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-10T19:42:26","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T23:42:26","slug":"one-hit-wonder-that-you-most-wish-could-have-managed-at-least-one-more-great-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/one-hit-wonder-that-you-most-wish-could-have-managed-at-least-one-more-great-song\/","title":{"rendered":"One-Hit Wonder That You Most Wish Could Have Managed at Least One More Great Song?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_IQ9i-ym5HA?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nHave you ever heard a second great song by <strong>The Lemon Pipers<\/strong>? I don&#8217;t think the makers of the fantastic &#8220;Green Tambourine&#8221; had it in them to crank out even one more great song. &#8220;Rice Is Nice&#8221; sure ain&#8217;t the long-lost, second great Lemon Pipers song!<\/p>\n<p>Recently I checked out some songs by <strong>David Essex<\/strong>, other than one of the all-time one-hit wonder smash hits, &#8220;Rock On,&#8221; a song that still fascinates me as much as it did when I was an 11-year-old boy. Have you ever heard a second great song by David Essex? I thought not. I really wish he&#8217;d had it in him to crank out at least one more winner.<\/p>\n<p><em>What one-hit wonder artist do you most wish could have managed to record at least one more great song?<\/em> I&#8217;m not talking about artists who didn&#8217;t manage to have second hits, but those who didn&#8217;t have the talent, or whatever, to come close to matching the <em>quality<\/em> of their lone smash hit.<\/p>\n<p>As a public service, should a Townsperson suggest an artist in this thread that you feel derserves credit for a second great song, please feel free to act on behalf of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?tag=orockle\">The Orockle<\/a><\/strong> and turn said Townsperson onto a song he or she may not know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever heard a second great song by The Lemon Pipers? I don&#8217;t think the makers of the fantastic &#8220;Green Tambourine&#8221; had it in them to crank out even one more great song. &#8220;Rice Is Nice&#8221; sure ain&#8217;t the long-lost, second great Lemon Pipers song! Recently I checked out some songs by David Essex, <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/one-hit-wonder-that-you-most-wish-could-have-managed-at-least-one-more-great-song\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[295,137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}