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BY PAUL E. SCHINDLER, JR. I am from Portland, Oregon, Beaumont '66, Benson High '70, MIT '74. Some things are impossible to know, but it is impossible to know these things.

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One Hit Wonders

This list is an extremely curated version of the list of  the article One Hit Wonders In The U.S. on Wikipedia. It is idiosyncratic, in the sense that any song from the 60s and 70s that I had not heard of I did not consider a hit. I also eliminated the novelty songs; I mean, who, besides Alan Sherman and Al Yankovic, had either a hit or more than one hit novelty song.

On the one hand, feel sorry for Brewer & Shipley that they never had another hit after One Toke Over the Line. On the other hand, at least they had one hit.

Mark Dinning

Teen Angel

Lou Reed

Walk on the Wild Side

Little Peggy March

I Will Follow Him

B. W. Stevenson

My Maria

Doris Troy

Just One Look

Carl Douglas

Kung Fu Fighting

The Singing Nun

Dominique

Pilot

Magic

The Surfaris

Wipe Out

Van McCoy

The Hustle

Jewel Akens

The Birds and the Bees 

R.B. Greaves

Take A Letter Maria

Barry McGuire

  Eve of Destruction

Elvin Bishop

Fooled Around and Fell in Love

Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler

Ballad of the Green Berets

Wild Cherry

Play That Funky Music

Iron Butterfly

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Starland Vocal Band

Afternoon Delight

Steam

Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye

Debby Boone

  You Light Up My Life

Roy Clark

Yesterday When I Was Young

Alicia Bridges

I Love the Nightlife

Norman Greenbaum

Spirit in the Sky

Anita Ward

Ring My Bell

Five Stairsteps

O-o-h Child

The Knack

My Sharona

Edison Lighthouse

Love Grows

Sugarloaf

Green-Eyed Lady

Brewer & Shipley

One Toke Over the Line

Peter McCann

Do You Wanna Make Love

Mungo Jerry

In the Summertime

Paper Lace

The Night Chicago Died

Billy Paul

Me and Mrs. Jones

The Original Caste

One Tin Soldier (Theme from Billy Jack)

Arlo Guthrie

City of New Orleans

Looking Glass

Brandy (You're A Fine Girl

King Harvest

Dancing in the Moonlight

Brooks & Dunn

My Maria

T. Rex

Bang A Gong

Andrea True Connection

More, More, More

Dr. John

Right Place, Wrong Time

Vanilla Ice

Ice Ice Baby

Dexys Midnight Runners

Come On Eileen

Baha Men

Who Let the Dogs Out

Ian Whitcomb You Really Turned Me On

Hey Mickey

Toni Basil

       

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    I appeared frequently on the now-defunct collective humor site Top5. I have gathered my contributions in two groups: When I made No. 1 on the Top5 list and when I just made the Top5 List.

Love Song Recital

  • Love Song Recital
    I sang the love songs I've written to my wife Vicki on the day after my 70th birthday. You can see video links to the concert and the individual songs by clicking the title link for this item.

Love Songs

  • Paul Schindler Love Songs
    Check out my growing list of love songs!

Paul Schindler On TV

  • Paul Schindler on TV
    Starting with

    my 1972 appearance on WBZ-TV's public access show.

    and my 1974 appearance on WGBH (explaining the Alcator nuclear reactor),

    I've been on local and national TV numerous times, mostly as a game show contestant (I appeared on the game shows Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, Scrabble , Win Ben Stein's Money and Merv Griffin's Crosswords) and as an author.
    Video of my game show appearances
    Pictures of my game show appearances Here are my journal entries for three of my game show appearances:
    Wheel of Fortune,
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    Merv Griffin's Crosswords

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    Paul On The Computer Chronicles

    I was the weekly software reviewer for the late PBS program The Computer Chronicles (1984-1992), as well as a commentator (1987-88) and a regular on what was the Christmas show and became the Annual Buyers Guide show (1985-1999). The show went out of production during its 20th year, in December, 2002. 

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    Supercut of my chronicle reviews
    Software Piracy

Damn Shame

  • Stephen Michael Schindler, RIP March 8, 1954-May 21, 2020
    My brother's obituary

Stories of a Young Journalist

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    These are stories from early in my career

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    David Strom offers IT industry news and analysis.

Favorite Movies

  • My all-time favorite movie:
    Groundhog Day. I have created a fan site that is universally acknowledged to be the best on the Internet dedicated to this work of art.

    All the rest of my favorite movies (Deadline USA, The Paper, CitizenKane) are Journalism movies.

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    As Paul's book list has grown, he has moved it to a separate page.

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  • Elsewhere at Schindler.org

    Paul's Prairie Home Companion Script

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    PS...ACOT BACK ISSUE archives

    Journalism Movies

    Journalism Quotes

    You COULD Pay For This Column

    Journalism Books

    Larry King: Letters From Europe

    Kevin Sullivan on Teaching

    My Prarie Home Companion Script

    Groundhog Day: Best Film Ever

    Women in Journalism Movies

    Larry King: British Journalists

    Paul's Tales of Teaching

    Sam Patch, The Greatest Story Ever Told So Far

    The New Eugene Oregon Show

    Audio Editing Hacks

    Fun with electronic editing. At WTBS, these were called hacks. Back in the 70s they were done with spliced magnetic tape. Now they can be done with electrons.

    Alphabet Medley

    Frank Sinatra/Ella Fitzgerald Duet: I've Got A Crush on You

    Alphabet Song from single sung syllables

    Ian Shoales: The Internet Years

    Schindler Jingle/Dream of a Lifetime

    Parodies By Paul... and Robert

    Yes, I am the Paul Schindler who predicted, in 1985, when the Macintosh was a year old, that it wouldn't be a success in business. I stand by that opinion. You can see Paul Schindler Pans Mac .

    I did an audio summary of my career in radio and on podcasts: 35 Years Before The Mic .

    I won Karl Kassel's voice for my answering machine because I won the listener limerick challenge on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me .

    I, Paul E. Schindler, Jr., am driving my stake in the ground right here. I invented the podcast in March 2000 when I worked at Byte.com for CMP Media.

    Index of Marjorie Gottlieb Wolfe appearances in PSACOT .

    See how I looked in a Computer Systems News house ad in 1979

    Paul Schindler Quote Page .

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