Double Shot

Here's a Saturday night song for you!  I'd forgotten about this one when I did the post on One-Hit Wonders of the 60s.  Need to go back and add it.  And how's The Swingin' Medallions for a hip name?  Also one of the greatest uses of the Farfisa organ in that decade.  From 1966.

Wonder how far they'd get with these lyrics today:

Woke up this morning, my head was so bad
The worst hangover that I ever had
What happened to me last night
That girl of mine, she loved me so right (yeah) (oh, oh)
She loved me so long and she loved me so hard
I finally passed out in her front yard (whoo)
It wasn't wine that I had too much of
It was a double shot of my baby's love

 

One-Hit Wonders Of The 1960s

Last week I proposed my nominee for the best one-hit wonder ever.  Now we'll go back to a four year period spanning the period from the arrival of the Beatles in America (February 1964) to the spring of 1968 which was a gold mine for one-hit wonders.

The Rules

• I have to like the song.  There are a lot of one-hit wonders which I don't care for so you won't see songs like Keep On Dancin' by The Gentrys, Five O'Clock World by The Vogues or Psychotic Reaction by Count Five.

• Excludes bands or artists with successful album careers who happened to only have one hit single.

• In some cases I've included artists who had two minor hits (like The Merry Go Round) or one huge hit and a minor hit (like Percy Sledge).

• If you don't like the rules, too bad.  It's my blog.

Away we go (in rough chronological order):

Best One-Hit Wonder?

I think it's 867-5309/Jenny by Tommy Tutone, a hit in 1982.

Requirements:

Good guitar riffs?  Check 
Catchy melodic hooks?  Check
Memorable lyrics?  Let me simply say this:  "867-5309", or "For a good time call" or "For the price of a dime I can always turn to you" or "I tried my imagination but I was disturbed"
Addresses issues of major societal importance?  Not so much, except perhaps for a select age and gender demographic.

The number has its own entry in Wikipedia and these are some of the recent sightings so you can see the song has staying power (hey, it's Wikipedia so we know its accurate, right?):

• In 2003, Southwest Junior High School had to change the school phone number due to repetitive calls asking for Jenny. This was in area code 704.

• Brown University, which in 2002 owned the number in the 401 area code, transferred the number to Gem Plumbing & Heating,^[8] a local business in Lincoln, Rhode Island. Gem began using the number in advertising campaigns both in Rhode Island and in eastern Massachusetts (area code 617). Gem trademarked the number in 2005.

• In 2004, Weehawken, New Jersey resident Spencer Potter picked up the number for free after discovering to his surprise that it was available in the 201 area code, hoping it would improve his DJ business. Unable to handle the overwhelming volume of calls, he sought to sell the number on eBay in February 2009. Although bids reached $1 million, his inability to confirm the identity of the bidders led him to sell it privately to Retro Fitness, a gym franchise with a location in Secaucus, New Jersey that felt the 1980s origin of the number tied in perfectly with their business's retro theme.^[4]

Common misconception - Tommy Tutone is NOT the name of the lead singer, it's the name of the band.  The lead singer's name is Tommy Heath.

This is Tommy and the gang in one of those typical really bad early 80s music videos.