Bing & The Andrews Sisters also had a big record with “Don’t Fence Me In”, the only country song credited to Cole Porter (& Robert Fletcher) (following a legal battle royal). Record sales and radio play were both diluted by it being recorded about the same time by Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, both of whom were more associated with Western or cowboy music.

Terri Gibb Somebody's Knocking

@CountryMusicTimeMachine

2 ай бұрын

That is a very good one.

Love Country Music Time Machine, all the way from Australia.

@CountryMusicTimeMachine

2 ай бұрын

Love you great folks down in Australia as well! Lots of great country music in Australia and hope to have a future episode just covering Australian artists. Thanks for watching!

@tomwerner389

2 ай бұрын

@@CountryMusicTimeMachine I'll be looking forward to that! Love all the old time Australian country artists. They were greatly inspired by American artists and the introduction of motion pictures in 1920s. Prior to that the Australian bush ballad was a different style of Celtic origin.

daddys money by ricochet. The night the lights went out in Georgia the vicki lawrence version,

Hank Locklin - Please Help Me I'm Falling

Marie Osmond had hits on the pop charts, with brother Donny but her "Paper Roses" was her only hit on the country charts, as far as I can remember.

@CountryMusicTimeMachine

Ай бұрын

I remember that one on the radio as a kid.

@benjaminchandler7919

Ай бұрын

She also has “meet me in Montana” with Dan Seals

@jacklow9611

Ай бұрын

@@benjaminchandler7919 : That's a duet. "Paper Roses" was a solo act, and there is a difference.

@benjaminchandler7919

Ай бұрын

@@jacklow9611”meet me in Montana” was still a hit for her

@kevinfan726

8 күн бұрын

"No Stopping your Heart" was a solo hit for Marie.

For Flatt & Scruggs I was thinkin other than the Beverly hillbillies…couldn’t think and the pic of the show comes up lol

Big AL Downing "Mr. Jones" ❤ ❤

I don't see Seven Spanish Angels as a one hit wonder. If it is then To All The Girls' with Julio Iglesias would be one too. Willie sang with everyone. It was more like another Willie duet hit.

@CountryMusicTimeMachine

Ай бұрын

For Ray Charles and country music it is considered a 1 hit wonder. But not of course for Willie. But the Iglesias song could have been mentioned as well.

My favorite one-hit-wonder would have to be "Sweet Country Music" by Atlanta.

@kevinfan726

8 күн бұрын

Chart history included two Top 10 country hits in "Atlanta Burned Again Last Night" and "Sweet Country Music". The latter was also the band's highest-charting single, peaking at #2 on Cashbox.

You forgot Jessica Andrews number one, Who I Am

When I think of one hit wonder I think of Crystal Shawanda with you can let go now, daddy.

Somebody please explain what makes “Butterfly Kisses” country music. It’s about as country as Andrea Bocelli or Michael Buble. And is there supposed to be some connection the noise produced by that last group has to country music besides their name?

@CountryMusicTimeMachine

2 ай бұрын

I think two things caused that song to be considered a country song. I remember when it came out, the country radio station I worked at was slammed with calls to play it. That caught on nationwide and it became a hit. Another thing is, it is by a Christian artist and sometimes with songs that have a twang but isn't a 100% worship song, and people like it, it gets airplay. And one more thing, it does fit the traditional country format lyrically as it talks about love, family, and in this case a father's love.

@Turkeyinthehay

Ай бұрын

James, I agree!

The Tractors. Were a 1 hit wonder

@CountryMusicTimeMachine

2 ай бұрын

Yes they were. I could probably do another episode running down more one hit wonders.

@kevinfan726

8 күн бұрын

1994 "Baby Likes to Rock It" 11 1995 "Tryin' to Get to New Orleans" 50 1998 "Shortenin' Bread" 57 "I Wouldn't Tell You No Lie" 72 They didn't get to #1, but they charted.

@darrenlinville3120

8 күн бұрын

@@kevinfan726 I never heard of those other songs from the tractors

Whose that one guy that sounds like Johnny Cash and sings a song called “Country Bumpkin”

@CountryMusicTimeMachine

Ай бұрын

I think that's Cal Smith. Number 1 song in 1974!

@TheBrooklynbodine

27 күн бұрын

Cal Smith.

@TheBrooklynbodine

27 күн бұрын

@@CountryMusicTimeMachine You're right. He also hit #1 in late 1972 with "The Lord Knows I'm Drinking," which even reached #64 pop.

I'm wondering about your use of the term "one hit wonder". Do you mean a group or solo artist who had only one #1 hit, or a group or solo artist who only had one hit, period? Because you have C.W. McCall, who had multiple C&W hit singles ("Roses for Mama", "Wolf Creek Pass") but only one #1 C&W hit ("Convoy"). And Flatt & Scruggs had a number of other country hits over the years, going back to their original recording of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown", back in 1949. The Beverly Hillbillies theme song was merely their only #1 hit.

@CountryMusicTimeMachine

Ай бұрын

Yes, it is really confusing. Generally it is only one, let's say top 10 yet. CW did have "Roses for Mama" but Convoy was a cultural phenomenon and most folks don't know his other songs. But sometimes a 1 hit wonder is hard to define!

Nobody, by Sylvia

@CountryMusicTimeMachine

Ай бұрын

That's a great one!

@jacklow9611

Ай бұрын

That wasn't a one-hit wonder because "I've Never Been To Me" was also a hit.

@ernestcruz6316

Ай бұрын

​@@jacklow9611Actually, a number of these weren't really one hit wonders, just an artist or group's only #1 hit. Someday maybe someone will codify what exactly makes one a one hit wonder, because it's so often left to someone's interpretation of the term.

@jesseshinn6857

Ай бұрын

Sylvia also did Snapshot and a couple of other songs. She had more than one hit

@kevinfan726

8 күн бұрын

@@jacklow9611 that wasn't Sylvia. That was a lady named Charlene.

Bobbie Gentry's Ole To Billy Joe Elle King and Miranda Lambert's Drunk And I Don't Want To Go Home Nelly and Florida Georgia Line Lil Bit Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus with Old Town Road (Yes, I think of that song more of that sounded more like traditional country than songs of today.) Beyonce's Texas Hold Em Julie Roberts, The Wreckers, The Tractors, James Otto, Jessica Andrews, Aaron Lines, Billy Gilman, Kevin Sharp, Elvie Shane, Niko Moon, Blanco Brown, Bebe Rhexa, Lindsey Ell, Cam, A Thousand Horses, Zach Top, Drew Baldridge, Eric Heatherly, Kenny G, Anita Cochran, Perfect Stranger, Julio Iglesious, Bertie Higgings, Jim Stafford, Steven Tyler, Barry Sanders, Jimmy Boyd, Jamie Johnson, Cyndi Thomson, Oliver Anthony, Caroline Jones, Adele, The Pointer Sisters, Ty England, Lanco, Randy Rogers Band, Hot Apple Pie, Tucker Beathard, JT Hodges, and Vince Gill's Reason Why. Brian McComas now the lead singer for Desert City Ramblers who racked up 3 top 40 which 1 went top 25 on the Billboard small markets for radio airplay, Greg Bates, Sunny Sweeny, Lost Trailers, Steal Magnolias, and many others. Some people say Billy Ray Cyrus is a one hit wonder, but Ready Set Don't Go with Miley Cyrus and Old Town Road on Lil Nas X's hit made him more of a household name with the younger people.

@CountryMusicTimeMachine

2 ай бұрын

Good info. We will see if Beyonce has another hit. I'm not sure how big of a hit it was but "Some Gave All" from Billy was a good one.

@danieljackett4193

Ай бұрын

Aaron Lines You Can't Hide Beautiful is an amazing song Jessica Andrews had at least 3 other songs that were hits Lindsay Ell should be getting MAJOR airplay on radio, and LONG before her duet with Brantley Gilbert

@ernestcruz6316

Ай бұрын

Billy Ray Cyrus actually had a couple of other hits from his debut album: "Where'm I Gonna Live (When I Get Home)" and "Some Gave All", plus one hit from his second album. Individual people have their own interpretations of just what makes groups or artists one hit wonders. For me it's if a group or artist has just one song that cracks the Top 40 on an individual singles chart.

You should have played the whole songs on all of them

@CountryMusicTimeMachine

Ай бұрын

Sorry. Due to copyright issues I can't always play the entire song. The CMTM was designed to tell the history of country music and the stories behind the music. Please support the artists by getting their full songs on KZread, Spotify, etc. Thanks for watching.

@paulsmith295

Ай бұрын

@@CountryMusicTimeMachine ok thanks

Bings was more Western I think.

@CountryMusicTimeMachine

Ай бұрын

Yep. Back then it was hard to tell the difference.

What about Lynn Anderson's "Rose Garden"..

@jacklow9611

Ай бұрын

That wasn't a one-hit wonder.

@ernestcruz6316

Ай бұрын

Only on the Pop chart. She had a bunch of other Country hits.

Michelle Wright Take It Like A Man 1993, Michael Peterson Drink, Swear, Steal and Lie 1997, Judy Rodman Before I Met You 1986, Pake Mcentire Saving My Love For You 1987. Carolyn Dawn Johnson Complicated 2000, Kellee Coffee When You Lie Next To Me 2001

@CountryMusicTimeMachine

2 ай бұрын

Those are GREAT choices. I love Judy Rodman!

@theajsallen512

2 ай бұрын

@@CountryMusicTimeMachine There is one song of hers that I can't find here on KZread that I had on a 45rpm side called Do You Make Love As Well As You Make Music. It was a flip side to Until I Met You. It is a pretty song and I can't find it.

@CountryMusicTimeMachine

2 ай бұрын

Is it this one? At 7:14 kzread.info/dash/bejne/pGaozcaEl8bVe7g.html

Pistol Packin' Mama sounds like Big Band. I like it, but it's not country. One hit wonder means that artist never had another hit. These don't qualify. :D

I think you missed the idea of what a one hit wonder is. You need to rename it.

@CountryMusicTimeMachine

19 сағат бұрын

Mainly I tried to focus on one big number one hit with no other numbers ones or other number ones few remember. Sometimes its hard because some songs never make it to number one but are actually bigger hits than some of the number ones.