Best Hit Single Ever Recorded

[Jeffrey Michael]

My very first QQ Thread.

The question I’m asking is, what is your number 1 all time favorite popular single?

Mine is: Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.

 

[timbre4]

Mama Mia! Well done

 

[GOS]

Well...this was not a "hit", nor was it a "single"...but it is a single song...and it is my favorite as it has personal meaning for my wife and I (we were just dating at the time)

Holiday - Scorpions

 

[beerking]

Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick.

I was playing this single, in my early RAF days, to anyone who joined our social (drinkin) group. Great memories and great times. Now my kids look at me each time I play it, knowing I'm going to repeat my tales of circa 1979.

Ian Dury and the Blockheads...great group, imo.

 

[jefe1]

Jumping Jack Flash. The Stones. Because I loved it as a kid it always resonates with me.

 

[Spock]

 

[MrSmithers]

Man... Tough call, but like your thinking...

Because it's embedded in my head at the mo and I like the meaning behind it I'm going to say....

John Lennon - Imagine

 

[halbroome]

Hmm . . . that's a hard one. From my youth and my parents taking us on camping trips to Florida, one hit radio tune really stands out in my memory for representing sun-drenched summer days:

"I can't gettt no-uh Saaaa tis FAAK shun!"

 

[wavelength]

Yup...Imagine.

 

[privateuniverse]

How do you pick just one? So I'll just go with two of the first that immediately popped into my mind:



Hit #2 on the U.S. singles charts in 1987. Also went to #1 in Canada and New Zealand.



Hit #1 in the UK on 1996. Got to #7 on the U.S. singles charts.

 

[Quad Linda]

Beginnings - Chicago (Transit Authority) My all-time favorite song, including "deep tracks," although it doesn't rhyme.
SQ, Q8, DVD-V or Blu-Ray, it's even better in QUAD!!

Good Vibrations and All You Need is Love are contenders, too.

 

[Quad Linda]

Long before it was released in the US, several of our Pacific Stereo (RIP) employees bought the UK single of "HIt Me With Your Rhythm Stick," myself included. I found mine at Wax Trax (RIP.)

We loved to crank it up on a Kenwood Pro turntable, with MC 20 Ortofon cartridge, Kenwood Pro preamp and 2 mono bloc 500w amps. It cranked beyond belief through AR-9 towers, which were very efficient. Our store was our only Kenwood & Technics Pro dealer in the Midwest region. Thankfully, our high end room had a door you could shut.

HIT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick.

I was playing this single, in my early RAF days, to anyone who joined our social (drinkin) group. Great memories and great times. Now my kids look at me each time I play it, knowing I'm going to repeat my tales of circa 1979.

Ian Dury and the Blockheads...great group, imo.

 

[dr. simple]

Magic by Pilot.

 

[4-earredwonder]

I grew up in reverse [No, not like Benjamin Button]. I embraced Tin Pan Alley before Rock 'n Roll.

I've always had the softest spot for Frank Sinatra"s One For My Baby and One More For the Road [from his landmark Capitol album ONLY THE LONELY]

 

[beerking]

This thread is filling my head with a ton of nostalgia..

1st single I bought was Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum in 1969

2nd was Rag Mama Rag by the fabulous Band in 1970

3rd was Question by The Moody Blues in 1970

Still got them somewhere... They all deserve a mention ..imo.

 

[beerking]

Long before it was released in the US, several of our Pacific Stereo (RIP) employees bought the UK single of "HIt Me With Your Rhythm Stick," myself included. I found mine at Wax Trax (RIP.)

We loved to crank it up on a Kenwood Pro turntable, with MC 20 Ortofon cartridge, Kenwood Pro preamp and 2 mono bloc 500w amps. It cranked beyond belief through AR-9 towers, which were very efficient. Our store was our only Kenwood & Technics Pro dealer in the Midwest region. Thankfully, our high end room had a door you could shut.

HIT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who would have thought that I have a kindred spirit over the pond with this little foot tapper. Must have sounded fantastic blasting out of that system.

HIT ME !! indeed

 

[barfle]

I wouldn't call it a hit, because I never hear it on oldies stations, but "Look What I Found" by Paul Williams was very, very timely.

 

[DuncanS]

Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick.

I was playing this single, in my early RAF days, to anyone who joined our social (drinkin) group. Great memories and great times. Now my kids look at me each time I play it, knowing I'm going to repeat my tales of circa 1979.

Ian Dury and the Blockheads...great group, imo.

Did you ever see Kilburn And The High Roads?

 

[Spock]

Magic by Pilot.

I love that song

 

[beerking]

Did you ever see Kilburn And The High Roads?

Unfortunately not, just got right into the Blockheads and Ian