Wired Music - VH1 Greatest One Hit Wonders - #3

Wired Music - VH1 Greatest One Hit Wonders - #3
Bringing music back, on Allie Is Wired.

My first string of posts will be on VH1's -100 Greatest One Hit Wonders, presenting only the Top 20 Countdown.

Eh... it'll be fun,... just check back daily and enjoy.

3. - "Come On Eileen" by Dexy's Midnight Runners (1983)


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Dexys Midnight Runners – the name usually spelled without an apostrophe – are a British New Wave and Northern Soul band, who achieved their major success in the early to mid 1980s.

in popularly used as a Kevin Rowland (vocals, guitar) and Kevin "Al" Archer (vocals, guitar) founded the band in 1978Birmingham, England, naming the band after Dexedrine, a brand of dextroamphetaminerecreational drug amongst Northern Soul fans at the time. The midnight runners referred to the energy the Dexedrine gave, enabling one to run into the midnight hours. "Big" Jim Paterson (trombone), Jeff "JB" Blythe (saxophone), Steve "Babyface" Spooner (alto saxophone), Pete Saunders (keyboard), Pete Williams (bass) and Bobby "Jnr" Ward (drums) formed the first line-up of the band to record a single, "Dance Stance" (1979). The song was released on the independent Oddball Records, and only reached number 40 in the British charts, but the next single, "Geno" – about Geno Washington, and released on EMI – was a British Number One in 1980. It featured the band's newest recruits, Andy Leek (keyboards) and Andy "Stoker" Growcott (drums).

The band members were disappointed with their share of the profits, and soon stole the master tapes of Searching for the Young Soul Rebels (ex-, their debut LP, in order to renegotiate the deal. The album was released later in 1980 and became a massive success. After the next single "There, There, My Dear" was a hit, Rowland insisted on choosing the uncommercial "Keep It Part Two (Inferiority Part One)" for the following single. It was a failure, and most of the band members quit, angered over continual personality problems with Rowland. Archer eventually formed The Blue Ox Babes, while Blythe, Spooner, Williams, Stoker and Mick TalbotMerton Parkas, who had recently joined on keyboards) left to form The Bureau. Paterson stayed with Rowland, who added Billy Adams (guitar/banjo), Seb Shelton (drums, formerly of Secret Affair), Micky Billingham (keyboard), Brian Maurice (alto saxophone), Paul Speare (tenor saxophone) and Steve Wynne (bass), releasing "Plan B", "Show Me" (this line-up's only Top 40 hit) and "Liars A to E" in 1981 without much success.
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