{"id":499272,"date":"2026-01-07T16:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/499272\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T16:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:18:11","slug":"3-one-hit-wonders-every-1970s-teen-remembers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/499272\/","title":{"rendered":"3 One-Hit Wonders Every 1970s Teen Remembers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Were you a teen at some point in the 1970s? You certainly got to enjoy some killer music, that\u2019s for sure. And I\u2019m going to make a big assumption and say that the following three one-hit wonders from the 1970s were a big part of your life soundtrack as a teen. Let\u2019s take a look at some classic gems, shall we?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToast And Marmalade For Tea\u201d by Tin Tin (1970)<\/p>\n<p>If you were a bit of an emotional teenager in 1970, you probably listened to this song on your record player while lying on your shag carpet, reminisicing over puppy love that inevitably fizzled out. No judgment here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToast And Marmalade For Tea\u201d by Tin Tin peaked at No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached the Top 20 in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Sadly, the Australian outfit never had another Top 40 hit on the Hot 100 again. The 1971 song \u201cIs That The Way\u201d only made it to No. 59.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWalk On The Wild Side\u201d by Lou Reed (1972)<\/p>\n<p>I know what you\u2019re thinking. <a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/tag\/lou-reed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lou Reed<\/a>? A one-hit wonder? Blasphemy! This is an excellent example of one\u2019s cultural and musical influence majorly outweighing their charting success. Technically, Lou Reed, the famed Velvet Underground frontman, only had one successful single on the Hot 100. That song is the 1972 track \u201cWalk On The Wild Side\u201d, which peaked at No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became Certified Platinum. None of Reed\u2019s other singles would make it to that chart again. But back in 1972, teens (and adults, honestly) were jamming out to this glam rock classic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeach Baby\u201d by The First Class (1974)<\/p>\n<p>I wasn\u2019t even a teen in the 1970s, and I think this is one of the catchiest one-hit wonders of the 1970s. \u201cBeach Baby\u201d dropped in 1974, a bubblegum pop tune that resonated with teens and adults alike. It also helps that the song itself is about two high school students and their broken love affair, which likely resonated with teens at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeach Baby\u201d was The First Class\u2019 debut single, and it peaked at No. 4 on the Hot 100 chart. The follow-up singles \u201cDreams Are Ten A Penny\u201d (1974) and \u201cFunny How Love Can Be\u201d (1975) made it to that chart, too, but none of them made it to the Top 40.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Gijsbert Hanekroot\/Redferns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Were you a teen at some point in the 1970s? You certainly got to enjoy some killer music,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":365668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[20829,171,975,20561,4185,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-499272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-1970s","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-one-hit-wonders","12":"tag-rock-music","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115854724541213126","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499272","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=499272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}