Hawk Rock Talk: Rock Autopsy: Classic Rock One Hit Wonders 1
It’s Hawk Rock Summer, and Jason Gore and Geoff Garlock are putting on the gloves, grabbing the bone saw, and cracking open the chest cavity of Classic Rock Radio to examine one of its strangest organs: the classic rock one-hit wonder.
What even counts as a one-hit wonder in classic rock? Did it have to make the Top 40? Does it count if the song barely charted, but every classic rock station played it eight times a day? Does it count if the band had other hits, but your local station decided, “No thank you, we will only be playing the one with the riff”?
Jason and Geoff dig into a playlist of “that song!” bands, the groups whose names you may not know, whose albums you may never have heard, but whose one immortal track has been following you around your whole life through movie trailers, sports arenas, local classic rock stations, beer commercials, jukeboxes, and dads’ cars.
Along the way, Jason and Geoff discuss Christian fuzz gospel death boogie, LA spirituality, Brighton Hot Dog Shop’s Seinfeld cup, Mungo holes, proto-metal holes, Paul Carrick’s voice, Gerry Rafferty’s Baker Street legacy, Tarantino soundtrack brain, Leslie West making a Les Paul look tiny, Arthur Brown as a pre-KISS theatrical freak, Argent records that Geoff keeps buying and selling, KISS’s “God Gave Rock and Roll to You II,” and whether Europe should legally be required to play “The Final Countdown” three times per set.
This is Part One. Rock Autopsy continues in two weeks. Next week: Queen: Live At Wembley 40th Anniversary Special!
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