three one-hit wonders from the 1960s<\/a> that used weird instruments. <\/p>\n\u201cWashington Square\u201d by The Village Stompers from \u2018The Original Washington Square\u2019 (1963)<\/p>\n
You might be surprised to hear it, but this banjo-driven song hit No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1963. Who knew a song featuring the banjo not played by Kermit the Frog could go so high up the popular music charts? Well, success aside, the song also is an ode to the landmark park in New York City\u2019s Greenwich Village where The Village Stompers got their start. What a feeling, right? To compose a track in honor of your origin story and to see it rise\u2014that\u2019s the power of art!<\/p>\n
\u201cYakety Sax\u201d by Boots Randolph from \u2018Yakety Sax!\u2019 (1963)<\/p>\n
Fans of The Benny Hill Show know this song well. It\u2019s the fast-paced, crazy-making saxophone song that has shown up in cartoons and other strange online videos since. It symbolizes madness, chaos. But it\u2019s also somehow quite delightful. Written by James Q. \u201cSpider\u201d Rich and Boots Randolph, Randolph released the recording in 1963, and the track hit No. 35 on the Billboard Hot 100. Not only does it feature sax, it centers the unique horn.<\/p>\n
\u201c96 Tears\u201d by ? And The Mysterians from \u201996 Tears\u2019 (1966)<\/p>\n
It takes a refined touch to nail the organ. And it\u2019s that deft skill that Frank Rodriguez displayed on the 1966 hit single, \u201c96 Tears\u201d. Of course, Rodriguez was the one to play the Vox Continental organ, that throwback set of keys that almost looks like a giant briefcase and not something that will rattle your bones. There\u2019s a reason they were only made for nine years. But Rodriguez understood the assignment and knocked it out of the park. Strange instrument? No problem for him! <\/p>\n
Photo via ? And The Mysterians\u2019 2005 LP \u2018The Best Of\u00a0? And The Mysterians\u2013Cameo Parkway 1966\u20131967\u2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It can be hard to stick out. In a world awash in songs, sometimes you have to take…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[24911,88,216,34562,2156],"class_list":["post-578474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-1960s","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-one-hit-wonders","tag-rock-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}