My favorite "one hit wonder" artist had 6 hits--ALL under different one-hit-wonder band names and none with his own. 4 within months of each other.

This would be Tony Burrows who sang on

My Baby Loves Lovin' under the band name "White Plains"
Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) with "The Edison Lighthouse"
Gimme Dat Ding with "The Pipkins"
and United We Stand by "The Brotherhood of Man"

This was 1970. The Beatles had just broken up. Burrows, a Brit, had been in bands since the early Sixties and so decided to make a go of being a studio musician, and scored some amazing success in a very short period of time. We're talkin' a 4-5 month period in 1970.

There could be a movie made--in how he would appear in "Top of the Pops" --in three different bands, in the same show! And the show's producers didn't know he was in all three bands, and thought it was a gag, him changing costumes and joining the various bands..and so the BBC banned him from the show, after that!

Burrows is all but forgotten, but Elton John remembers him. He sang on "Levon" and "Tiny Dancer."

All but forgotten..but Burrows is KING of the one hit wonders. Too bad there's no biographical material on the man. I would love to shape a story around him, cuz those hits happened right when I started listening to radio, and I love 'em all. Yes, some of it was bubblegum, but he elevated it..

He would be eighty now, still alive..

Mike

Last edited by Michael Zaneski; 09/27/19 11:34 AM.
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