The Hit Men Are Coming To Rahway NJ April 13
NJ’s Lee Shapiro is the founder and manager of The Hit Men, an amazing group of session and performing musicians who are coming to Rahway on Saturday April 13.
A former member of Franki Valli and the Four Seasons for seven years (that’s Lee on keyboards on “December 1963”), Lee put together an awesome band of musicians who have toured and recorded with Foreigner, Journey, Styx, The Hooters, Steely Dan, Cheap Trick, The Rascals, Alan Parsons, 3 Dog Night, Cream, Grand Funk, and The Who.
In 2019, the musicians who make up The Hit Men were recognized by the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville with the organization’s first-ever “Road Warriors Award”, given to honor “their years of dedication to the music and the countless miles they have traveled in delivering so many hits throughout the world.”
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5 Awesome One Hit Wonders According To Jersey
One Hit Wonders are a lot of fun to listen back to. To me, if I was in a band, I would love to be a one hit wonder. You can have one massive song, take your earnings, and go do something else without the pressure of trying to live up to the same hype. Ok, maybe 10 Platinum records wouldn’t be bad either, but a one hit wonder is kind of cool. LOL. Let’s take a look at 5 Awesome One Hit Wonders According to Jersey!
I recently looked for suggestions from DHA listeners as to great one hit wonders. I do my First Call Last Call feature where I play a themed block of music. The question for that block is posted about an hour before hand (4pm) to the DHA Facebook page. Yesterday, I asked for One Hit Wonders You Always love hearing. As you would imagine, I got some really cool answers!
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What makes a one hit wonder sounds pretty self-explanatory, but it can get a little gray. There are artists who have one hit song and you never hear from them again. However, there are also times when bands release as ingle that blows up and then release other songs that do make it to the charts, just not quite as high. Those are one-hit-wonders too. The bands that have 2-3 songs that chart highly, in my opinion at least, are not one hit wonders.
For the sake of this article, the bands on here all had a big hit single, but any future releases never quite lived up to the success of the other song. Special thanks to the DHA listening audience. Without them, I could never have put together such an awesome list. I love reading their responses!
Let’s take a look at 5 awesome One Hit Wonders according to Jersey!
