Top 10 Cheesiest One-Hit Wonders of the 1960s 

Yes 😊

There were 1 or 2 cereal brands that did that .. I liked to cut them out square shape and play em!

I think it was Sugar Smacks and Sugar Pops. Felt like l struck gold getting free records.

I think I was the last generation that had cool stuff like this - born in Australia in '73

Yea I got bang Chang along on cereal box

I'm 63, an totally agree!

Same here. 65 years old too.

Amen. 66 here. Great era to have grown up in.

I am 67. Remember and liked them all!

@@calhensley820 Who doesn't like cheese? (Aside from the lactose intolerant bunch!)

Roger I'm with you. 1960s songs must be played everywhere. By the way, I'm a 30 year old Korean woman who will do anything, maybe who have to do something to be the Georgy Girl by The Seekers. 😂 Sugar-free and alcohol-free drinks are everywhere thesedays. We need some good old root beers and real fruit juices on the Billboard charts.

Nah. The 60s were absolutely great time for great music, but there is also great music today. You just have to look outside the charts.

I was just listening to them and you are totally right! These songs were game changers and AWESOME... still are!!! Problem is the generations after ours just could never recognize great music so sad we have nothing since those years that is great.

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug I listen to music older than my great grandpa and I make it a mission to find atleast 2 bands I like every year

Agreed

IKR?! I love "Spirit in the Sky" Love it!🎵💓🎵

I want the song,-"A closer walk with Thy", it's music 🎶 to my ears 👂's !!! 😉👍🙂

I've requested Highway to hell so I can give all those televangelists a hard time.

Spirit in the Sky has great lyrics and music! Still love it today.

Great song.

Hooah! Who is this kid to call our fun music "Cheesy?"

Quite right! Much better than the crap that passes for music today.

Nothing Cheesy about these!!!

C'mon, some of these are cheesy. Sugar sugar and kiss her goodbye leap to mind. But at least six of these were not cheesy at all. Seven by my count.

@@ronhancock4607 he should have looked up cheesy in the dictionary

Wesley Cook: My ❤ still lives there.

Wesley Cook.....I love that saying!!! 🤩❤❤

That's soooo Tom Waits!

That is so awesome....❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I need this on a t-shirt. 🥰

Sugar.

@@histubeness they called that bubble gum music

Right on one hit is better than no hit!

Absolutely. It's like the athlete who makes it to the highest league for a cup of coffee and then is sent down. He can tell his kids and grandkids he made it.

At least they can say they made a record! Good or bad. Better then none! Lol 😂 🕰🎙🎤🎧🎚🎼🎵🎶🎼🎼🎵🎶🎸🎷🎺🎻🥁🎟💿📀💽💾💻🖥📼🎥📷📸📽

Very good point!

Norman Greenbaum was asked a few years ago if he was embarrassed by being a one hit wonder. He said not at all, he was very happy and grateful that he had a popular hit.

"My Meeting". Possessive case before the gerund.

I guess that was inspired by the "Monster Mash" song ! 🤔 (?) I can relate to that, as I'm still involved to, but she is now my X and hopefully we'll live happily ever after, but maybe not !!! 😉👍🙂

See, GD

You're a virgin, my condolences.

​@@affliction1979 You're funny. Wrong, but funny.

I think the word "cheesy" was actually supposed to be click-bait.

Right classic music

He's using the word "cheesy" as a term of endearment. 😸👍

If you couldn't play the drum part, you sucked. I was a "roadie" for a couple bands that friends had...both had that in their line-up. Only one (can't recall the band name) could play it exactly.

The Floor Tom 🤣

Surfer Joe on the B side. oh man!

One of the first “fast” songs I learned in guitar class in the ‘70s. Was SO proud of that!🎸😂

As a kid you couldn't walk the neigh- borhoods without hearing a garage band wailing 'wipe out' or 'love potion number 9.' Crazy good times. I don't know what 'cheesy' is supposed to mean, or what authority the narrator has to label these jewels as disparaging, but obviously the dude wasn't there; I was. "Cheesy", - I don't think so dude. See the movie first.

Yes sir!!!

Oh yeah, peace out baby.

Do you Love Me is cheesy?

Got that right. Not ALL the music,but it was an aural decade not since matched.

Watergate was in the mid `70's.

Yes it is and the right group recorded it.

@@sdgakatbk - One of the many songs co-written by Berry Gordy the founder of Motown Records.

DC5 version is heavier.

@@GeraldM_inNC - Dave Clark 5 version had more of a rock flavor.

My earliest memory of this song is seeing a guy dancing to it to show how tough the socks were

But it just goes to show you what the song "Sugar Sugar" is worth, "All that and a Box of Cereal to, Sounds 🎶 like a win, win, but maybe Not !!! 🤔 (?) I like "pour some sugar on me" a whole lot better, as the lyrics are alot tastier !!! 😉👍🙂

It was also a "rescue" song for DJ's who absolutely had to take a trip away from the turntable whilst live on the air. :)

I agree,in my humble opinion,this song/tune is a classic,the long version naturally,the drum solo is amazing and just hearing this so takes me back,I was born in 52 so it's in the middle of my teenage years and I owned that album for ages.In those days,the 60s and 70s,again in my H.O the music was so good and I sure miss it.

@@RockChild56, *Flowers and Beads*... are something [still].

There is not a better song for a road trip, long version of course. And I have a hard time calling Iron Butterfly a one-hit wonder band when they had several great albums.

I still have my album also, but I also have it on my computer play list and my 5 year old grearniece loves the song along with all my music from the late 1955 to 1979.

I Agree

Yesss !

Amen

Yes sir so would I.

Same!!! and I'm a 70's teen. :)

Iron Butterfly wasn't cheesy either! Great massive sound, the lead had a magnificently deep voice that went very well with it. Together with the (short lived) Blue Cheer they were definitely the first Heavies, but the Butterfly sound was absolutely unique and actually quite melodic. Top band! What I miss in the cheesy department is "They're coming to take me away Hihi Haha", a very clever production (1966) by one hit wonder Napoleon XIV. In many countries it reached the Top 3.

LOUDER PLEASE, I cannot hear it from my Sailboat in the Philippines

I have it as my ring tone. Certainly snaps people's heads around when my phone goes off in public.

Going to be played at my memorial service

My kids are all in their 20s and love 'Spirit in the Sky'.

Hooah! Who is this kid to call our fun music "Cheesy?"

bubble gum music....but catchey

They lipped synced it.

That song was a Top 40 hit for two acts: The Archies, and Wilson Pickett.

My mom got up on a table during my grad dinner in 84. She neither drank nor puffed.

Some thing funny to mention,I've played the drums for close to 50 yrs and every now and again someone will ask me "can you play Wipe out" and when I say yes,it's like WOW you must be really good,but really "Wipe out" is so simple and easy to play,it's mostly a straight single stroke roll with accents thrown in for the chorus and then a basic rock pattern for the verse.

Hooah! Who is this kid to call our fun music "Cheesy?"

We young 80 year olds loved being there in the 60's, didn't we?

You forgot about the Electricians #1 hit "Let Me Check Out Your Shorts"

Weed?

Great song still have the 45.

.............with glasses.....

Make that #11.

Still love Judy, especially the piano.

I loved the song had the 45 when I mention the title some less informed persons think I'm talking about the beatles song Lucy in the sky with diamonds and say I've got the title wrong

Yes! I have the entire album on CD! "Most Anything that You Want, Girl!" Love that song!

No, this crap is cheesy.

A lot of maybe funky songs is the word? Ina Godda Davida written from a drunk guy after a gallon of wine trying to pronounce "In The Garden of Eden?" I guess we add some features to songs.

I agree , I loved these songs as well. I have Spirit In The Sky in my house cleaning list gets your work done faster lol.

Tune.

"Here's looking 👀at you kid !!! 🤔🙄 😉👍🙂

Does anybody remember the song -"Flying Purple People Eater" 🎶 👁🎺 🛸 purple people eater, check it out, I follow that song with this one ,- Mr. Spaceman , by The Byrds !!! Please 🙄🙏 Mr Spaceman 🤖 , there's No intelligent life here on earth !!! 🌎

"Angel..." reached #1 in Canada in July 1968. She also had a top 30 with "That Kind Of Woman" in September 1968.

That was beautiful.And america was about love and dating. But sometimes beyond the perfect 1950s. Where everyone got married, and they really did. We had 43 children on my 7 house block, by 1970.walking away was rare.

@@keithallen5795 America was about…segregation.

@@sludge8506 with the murdering gangs.And freelancing.Thats why.

Not sure if it is a one hit wonder. Juice Newton covered it. Should have been a hit somewhere. It is a Chip Taylor composition. One of his best.(Of many)

I remember it from 1963, and it still makes me smile.

And every piece of the song is perfect! So well done.

I liked "Monster Hash" too.

@@ThePlataf Did you know that Boris Karloff actually sung Monster Mash on a Dick Van Dyke Halloween Show with Bobby Boris Picket not too many years before this great actor passed away ? I can't find it on U Tube though I remember it. Boris Karloff was also considered to be the first Dr. Who, but died before a screen test was ever done. Thus, Peter Cushing did the first season.

Hooah! Who is this kid to call our fun music "Cheesy?"

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Totally agree! What a great stroll down memory lane.

i was just mousing over the thumb nail, and i thought, this guy is going to get hammered.

Truth my friend

I totally agree 💖😁

Absolutely love that son.

Must admit that their choice in No.10 spot made me wonder what criteria they were using to define 'cheesiest'.....maybe one-hit-wonders but cheesey??

Iron Butterfly is great, nothin "cheesy" about them.

Greenbaum was also inspired by Link Wray's Rumble and Rawhide. He said so himself. Wray was doing distortion and things with a guitar that inspired the Kinks and others and this was in the 50s.

I was really surpised to see it on the list. I think it is an exceptional hit. I also like version by Kentucky Headhunters which rocks. Iron Butterfly is a classic group.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3W1Jm2jF8MI.html this a good cover

😁😍

NOT cheesy.

So does Stepinwolf's song, Born To Be Wild. Now THATS a super GREAT song there.

One man's cheesy is another man's classic-example Innagottadavida..

Iron butterfly's classic Is certainly not cheesy Being honest The orginal 17 min version Is a little much The drum solo is way to long And not very good I prefer the shorter radio version

Yeah, but everything they else they did besides that really sucked.

That one made just #20 in Canada, but their song "Tomorrow" also reached #20, and their song "Barefoot In Baltimore" hit #45.

Oh, there are lots more.

Ed King was the guitarist of Strawberry Alarm Clock, he went on to play for Lynyrd Skynyrd, and came up with the opening riff for Sweet Home Alabama and played it. So as far as Ed goes, not a 1 hit wonder. The song reached #8. It was a niche audience for the time, but it's certainly is not ever going away.

@@rokhamrr Thanks much for that info!! :)

I'm with you on most of them bud.

Agree, could you imagine calling "do you love me" cheese? The original was good, when Dave Clark five did it on Ed Sullivan it was almost as big a deal as the Beatles

Back in 86 we got called into the IRS because they thought we tried to cheat them out of some money concerning our listing of our work truck. After presenting the IRS with documents where and when we bought the truck and showed the the 60 months of service we were using for a deduction because you are allowed only a 5 year deduction on a work truck we were declared clean and good to go so that's when I began singing the song and changed the words from " I found the law" to I fought the IRS and I won... Oh I even have the letter from the IRS apologizing for their errors and how the interviewer talked and treated us during the interview..

The history as I had read it, was Bobby Fuller was murdered as someone stuffed a soaked gasoline rag into his mouth, thus causing him to die a horrible, painful death of asphyxiation. They never found out who did this to him, and the murderers are still at large, never been caught. Also, yes, the song I Fought The Law, And The Law Won was a super great song.

@Papaw Dan- "I Fought The Law" was composed by Sonny Curtis who was an unofficial member of Buddy Holly's band The Crickets. Curtis played lead guitar and wrote a few songs for Buddy. He wrote the song in 1960 shortly after Buddy's death and recorded it with the Crickets.

@Papaw Dan- The Bobby Fuller Four originally recorded the song in 1963 but it never made the charts. The re-release in 1966 peaked at #9 on the Billboard Top 100. Their follow up record composed by Buddy Holly and Bob Montgomery "Love's Made A Fool Of You" peaked at #26 on the Billboard Top 100 also in 1966.

The song is infamous for having been recorded with different vocals on the LP version, on which instead of saying "I miss my girl and much fun" he sang "I miss my girl and a good f@#k". It's plain as day. Most oldies stations play the LP version because they almost always play a stereo version, even if it's vastly different from the single (e.g., "Catch the wind" and "Solitary man") -- as long as it isn't any longer.

That would be too cool.

The band was seen as a joke, sort of bombast kitsch, I never understood why. They had a sound what a few years later became the the hard rock metal movement. The deep Iron Butterfly sound was due to massive organ work, and ead singer Dough Ingle, who had a powerful baritone. But Iron Butterfly was certainly not cheesy, and it wasn't bubblegum either. The only bubblegum I liked were the Lemon Pipers (with characteristic lead vocalist Ivan Browne), and their last hit 'Jelly Jungle' was the ultimate bubblegum record, delightful!

And definitely cheezy.

I remember that song. Well, "Jeremiah was a Bullfrog" was cheesy but it's catchy and even "Hair" made it into John Carpenter's trilogy "Body Bags" w/Stacy Keach (and the beautiful Sheena Easton) who plays a middle aged man losing his hair. It's SO GOOD!

Hooah! Who is this kid to call our fun music "Cheesy?"

@@ronhancock4607 Well said 74 and still love these "hits . Cheers from Australia 😀

It's a great song alright, but I don't want to show UP at MY funeral.

I beg do differ regarding the Archies. And my offer of an example is My Boy Lollipop by Millie.

All of them are cheesy

I agree nothing cheesy about this music. Better a one hit number than to never have a hit at all

I hate Monster Mash. But some of these songs are legit.

@@anne_n_nimity ignorant

My high school marching band actually played that song (the trumpets took the lead).

The Aussie guy who recorded ' the me kangaroo down sport' was the now disgraced Rolf Harris

@@marionward5958 Thanks for the info, but what did he do to get disgraced?

@@marionward5958 stuff happened way back probably when Trump was grabbing little cats ... much like Bill Cosby ....

You hit the nail on the head

"The Lion Sleeps Tonight" was played so much on radio that even after all these years, it still almost makes me vomit when I hear it!!!

Definitely, Spirit in the Sky was a classic indeed. In fact I wanted it for my funeral, except, I’m Jewish lol

Just because they were one hit wonders doesn't mean they weren't great, they certainly weren't cheesey.

they are not! He needed to make to make a 60's era version but it would have been more honest just to make a video saying he was unable to put one together due to lack of cheese.

@@jcc2917 😂😂😂

Only a few cheese songs and some good ones

yup, it's been a beautiful ride, hasn't it W.C. ? :-)

I feel the same about the 70's. 🙂

I think purple people eater was 1957

@@apropos4701 I read it as JP T is just expressing an emotional association, not describing a factual item.

Yes-the Purple People Eater! If you backed an atheletic team with purple as a team color, I'm sure the opponents laughed themselves silly with derogatory lyrics. I remember when this song was popular visiting my two male cousins whom I saw about once a year. We would sing it and when we got to "still looks strange to me" we pointed to one of the other two. Hadn't thought about that in a long time. Good memory.

True

"iconic"

Bravo! They weren't forgotten.

Just keep this in mind. Music is not worse now, music has diversified, and honestly nowadays no one gives a flat chicken wing about the charts. Like what you like but I would encourage you to seek out more interesting, niche, weird, unique music before making massive generalizations like, "today's music sucks, listen to The Beatles instead." And honestly The Beatles are fine, I really like a lot of Bob Dylan's stuff, but don't say that they're "the greatest musicians ever," or, "the only good lyricists out there," or that "the 1960s was the best time to live," or that, "music stopped being good around 1972." Band recommendations: Interesting: The Black Keys Rival Sons Triggerfinger Alabama Shakes Greta Van Fleet Dirty Honey Grace Potter & The Nocturnals Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown Dorothy KALEO Niche: Seratones Bully From Ashes To New Nation Of Language Fontaines D.C. Santa Cruz TYNAN Duke Deuce As It Is Beebs & Her Moneymakers Weird: Amon Amarth Sabaton The Hü Alestorm Wind Rose BABYMETAL Drottnar Professor Elemental Steam Powered Giraffe Death Grips Unique: Melotika Dropkick Murphys Lo Moon Apocalyptica The Linda Lindas Blackfoot Gypsies Of Monsters And Men Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts RobinAugust Fritsch Genesis Owusu

@@brendandurham3817 how about rap sucks and it's degrading, demeaning, vulgar and violent

The Dave Clark 5 did the best with that song , Mike Smith vocals , Lenny Davidson guitar , Rick Huxley on bass , and Dave Clark on Drums , and we can’t forget Dennis Peyton on Sax , Rip , Rick, Dennis and Mike , I’m sure your blowin it up somewhere ,

@@robertsr.249 It was Brian Poole & The Tremeloes who had the hit with Do You Love Me.

@@kenchristie9214 - The Tremeloes version was #1 in 1963 in the U.K. but it never made the U.S. Charts.

First I Look at the Purse

@@okcray7130 - "First I Look At The Purse" only made it to #54 on the charts so it doesn't really qualify as a hit.

True 🤗

Forever & ever...💓🎵💓

They’re great songs

@@DYR so why are you calling them cheesy?

@@DYR what is your definition of "cheesy?"

@@DreamRust Probably click-bait.

@@DreamRust I'm a little surprised there is no response to your question. I think I understand perfectly what this author means. I'm guessing by your definition, Tiny Tim's "Tip-Toe Through The Tulips" would be cheesy, but in the entertainment industry, "cheesy" can include incredible successes and fond content. It's about its level of difficulty, repetition, just another run of the era product, and mostly appealing to the young of the era. Strongly, it's the things that get irritating when stuck in the brain, because lots of cheesy material comes with a great hook in its repetition. "Nobody But Me" is that way. It's fun, but not very technical or intellectually inspiring. "Sugar, Sugar", highlighted by the Simpsons for example, notice they had Homer doing the "doot-do-doot-doot, doot-do". That's a cheesy hook. Simple. Repetitious. Non-technical. Memorable. Fun. All us entertainers of the '80s/90s, high level or low, knew that cheesy wasn't always bad. Just a label of things that didn't challenge anyone very much. Per that era, check out "I Love Rock 'n Roll" from Joan Jett. I bought the record. I liked the song. But as a musician, cheesy. If you've never played guitar, you can learn this song within 10 minutes of instruction. It's just practice and polish after that. It's quintessential late '70s/released early '80s..... "cheese". "Anyone" could do it.

Hooah! Who is this kid to call our fun music "Cheesy?"

Hey buddy I was born a year before you and I totally agree with everything you said

Never though laugh in was all that funny. All it showed was Goldie hawn dancin around in a bikini, some old man getting beat up by an old woman and some German guy goin around saying very interesting. I never at all liked laugh in, wasn't at all funny to me.

I always expected Flowers and Beads to become a Top 10 hit.

Totally

"We've taken everything this old Earth can give...and we ain't put back nothing...Noo-ooh. Another good un. ;))

Number one song among time travelers .

Are we still In the age of Aquarius ? I’m an Aquarium. What’s your sign?

@@1mattadams I don't know But You really need to change the filter and get a couple of algae eaters

@@1mattadams iam a Scorpio ♏ the Scorpion!🦂 your a Aquarius sign! ♒ the water barrier!🌊💦💧💦⛲🛥🚣

Wow always thought Shang a Lang was Bay City Rollers

@@geraldfriend256 Yes it was but it's a different song , this is Bang-Shang- A-Lang

The Archies, AKA: The Cheese Factory.

Also a minor hit with Feelin So Good (Skooby Do)

How can they be"hits" if >I've< never heard of them?

Yep!

Good one

Which year suits the world best now, selecting children in a test tube or bodies so weak they can barely chew. They were pretty accurate.

The top grossing one hit wonder ever

I agree, love that song!

Hahaha! Sweet! 😁👍

Hooah! Who is this kid to call our fun music "Cheesy?"

They're not cheesy!!!!

@@ronhancock4607 me the 58 yr old that spent his whole life listening to music and learning it on the guitar and trying to sing it. You must be a spam bot.

@@janetking2035 disco duck will be up there with Dylan. But the older I get disco duck brings back wonderous memories.

Very poetic

Waxing philosophical !!!! Nice!!!!

@@DYR Old songs are just little houses where our hearts once lived.

To be sure!

Justin Bieber? Cheesy. Taylor Swift? Cheesy. Iron Butterfly? Definitely not cheesy.

@Spork Spatula I am young and I say these songs are not cheesy. Just great music!!

Must have grown up idolizing Milli Vanilli

Cheesiest in the title but never heard the word in the video

Yes, I love the song!🎵💓🎵

Hooah! Who is this kid to call our fun music "Cheesy?"

@@ronhancock4607 He's a clown.

@Guido I always thought that "Inna-Gadda-da-Vida" was a piece of wearisome junk. But I suppose if you were maybe 12 when it came out, it might have seemed "heavy." It was heavy alright, downright clunky.

Greenbaum's "Canned Ham" reached number 26 in Canada.

I just loaned my 20 year old grandson my copy of that album lol.

@@mangot589 He'll probably think his grandpa is nuts! 🤣

@@Ekkie101 Lol

My first poem, at age 9, had the words "monster mash" in it.

I sing it every year on Halloween with a neighborhood band!