{"id":22401,"date":"2025-06-28T17:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T17:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/22401\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T17:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T17:52:10","slug":"3-one-hit-wonders-from-the-1960s-i-bet-youve-never-heard-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/22401\/","title":{"rendered":"3 One-Hit Wonders From the 1960s I Bet You\u2019ve Never Heard Of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re a fan of the <a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/4-one-hit-wonders-from-the-1960s-that-fans-cant-stop-singing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1960s<\/a> and that particular era\u2019s brand of music, you might just recognize these three one-hit wonders. If not, these songs might be totally new to you. Either way, they\u2019re on the obscure side. But I think these standalone hits from the 1960s deserve to be revisited, as they\u2019ve since fallen out of favor (and memory) in the wake of more popular and legendary songs. And yet, these three songs are still so good. Let\u2019s take a look!<\/p>\n<p>            \u201cI\u2019ve Told Every Little Star\u201d by Linda Scott<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve Told Every Little Star\u201d was originally written way back in 1932 by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. It\u2019s been recorded plenty of times through the year, most recently by Mac Miller for his 2010 mixtape, K.I.D.S. But before that, the song was a standout teen pop hit for Linda Scott. Her version made it to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and ranked even higher in other countries. Scott\u2019s music career was pretty short, though, and she had stopped producing music by 1967. By that point, \u201cI\u2019ve Told Every Little Star\u201d was her only Top 8 track in the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCalifornia Sun\u201d by The Rivieras<\/p>\n<p>Like \u201cI\u2019ve Told Every Little Star\u201d, \u201cCalifornia Sun\u201d was written by someone other than the members of the band that made the song famous. This tune was written by Henry Glover and recorded by Joe Jones in 1960. Three years later, a young band called The Rivieras recorded their rock and roll version with quite a bit of widespread acclaim. However, \u201cCalifornia Sun\u201d would be the frat rock outfit\u2019s only successful song, and they would break up in 1966 before embarking on a nostalgic reunion tour in the 2000s. Several members have since passed away, marking The Rivieras as done for good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Entertainer\u201d by Tony Clarke<\/p>\n<p>Tony Clarke is probably the most underrated entry on our list of one-hit wonders from the 1960s. Clarke died in a domestic dispute in 1971 at the age of only 31, but he left behind some really impressive music from the 1960s, namely the 1969 hit song \u201cThe Entertainer\u201d. His song \u201cLandslide\u201d from 1965 also did quite well. \u201cThe Entertainer\u201d hit No. 10 on the R&amp;B charts.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re a fan of the 1960s and that particular era\u2019s brand of music, you might just recognize&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[20560,171,975,20561,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-22401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-1960s","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-one-hit-wonders","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114762268838906877","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}