GC38TJK One Hit Wonders - "Come On Eileen" (Traditional Cache) in Florida, United States created by Sticks & SkaryShari

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Sticks & SkaryShari: Had to pull all the, "One Hit Wonders" due to a prescribed burn in this section. Cacheapalooza 6 for Sticks & SkaryShari is now officially over... Bummer. See ya all in January.

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Hidden : 1/17/2012

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"Dexys Midnight Runners"

"Come On Eileen" was a single released by Dexys Midnight Runners in 1982. The song was written by Kevin Rowland, "Big" Jim Paterson, and Billy Adams. The song won Best British Single at the 1983 Brit Awards.

The song begins with Celtic-style fiddle played over a drum beat, with the bass guitar and piano providing accompaniment. The original single version has an additional intro of a Celtic fiddle solo, playing Thomas Moore's Irish folk song Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms.

The chorus was loosely inspired by the song "A Man Like Me" by the 1960s British soul group Jimmy James and the Vagabonds.

In the British charts, the song spent four weeks at number one in August 1982. This success was repeated around the globe; it spent five weeks as the Kent Report's number one in Australia and reached number one in April 1983 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. It also holds the distinction of preventing Michael Jackson from having back-to-back number one hits in the U.S. The number one hits "Billie Jean" and "Beat It" were separated by Dexys Midnight Runners' one-week stay at the top.

It is a common example of a one-hit wonder in the U.S., as the band failed to reach similar popularity with any of their later songs, In a poll by Channel 4, (a UK TV channel), the song was placed at number 38 in the 100 greatest number 1 singles of all time. Similar polls by the music channel VH1 placed the song at number 3 in the 100 Greatest One-hit Wonders of all time, number 18 in the Top 100 Songs of the 1980s and number 1 in the 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80s.