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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: The 50 Biggest All-Time Alt-Rock One-Hit Wonders: Part 1 (50-41)
Description: Something occurred to me the other day: did the person who came up with the term āone-hit wonderā ever come up with anything else that good?
I looked it upā¦ the Oxford English Dictionary traces its origin to about 1914, when baseball was starting to become Americaās pastimeā¦ it was given to pitchers who held the opposing team to just one hit.
We do know that when Ramon Monzant was pitching for the San Francisco Giants in 1956, he was given that nicknameā¦to be called a āone-hit wonderā was very high praise.
But around the same...