Results: One-Hit Wonders In Reverse Alphabetical Order, Part 4

J: J.J. Jackson-If you liked pop music and had cable TV in the '80's, you may know Jackson as the name of of one of MTV's first few VJ's. Earlier, though, it was the moniker of of the r & b singer who hit the upper 20's with 1967's breezy, "But It's Alright,." Other Jackson singles are cherished in England's Northern soul scene (a future survey topic?); and he followed the lead of Steive Wonder, Marvin Gaye, et al by recording more socially conscious songs, but he's still best known for "Alright." Do you know anyone who shares the name of a celebrity?

I:The Ides of March-How apt are you to trust a loveable, friendly stranger? Jim Peterik, this act's lead singing guitarist, calls himself such in "Vehicle," a brass-heavy, jazz rocking top five hit in 1970. Peterik's purportedly loveable nature is but one factor that makes the song vaguely creepy and threatening, but a hard-driving banger nonetheless. Peterik would later play keyboards for fellow Chicago rockers Survivor, whose songs are arguably less sexually impolitic. Have you ever been some else's, ahem, vehicle?

H: Haircut One Hundred-Though viewed in their homeland as a purely pop act with three top ten's from their first album, this English sextet may have been seen by many U.S. listeners as an outlier: not quite new wave nor really new romantic, but possessed of elements from both. Still, their propulsively mournful "Love Plus One" made scraped the lower 30's Stateside in 1982. One more album, and it was over for one of the Thatcher/Reagan decades more whimsically-named bands, but yay for YouTube!, hey? When was your last haircut?

G: Gina G-If you think Abba have ben the only grads of the Eurovision music competition to have U.S. hits, you must not recall-or have heard of-Gina G. The Australian singer's "Ooh Aah...Just a Little Bit" became Great Britain's 1996 contest entry and hit top ten in many Eurovision-participating nations. Other artists have had long, high-profile careers with the sort of techno/trance/hi-NRG club pop by which G had her moment (making top 15 in the States), but she wasn't one. Do you follow any TV music competitions?

F: Frankie Ford-The native Alabaman rode "Sea Cruise" into the top 15 in 1959 thanks to already-recorded instrumentation by fellow Crescent City denizen and Ace Records label mate Huey "Piano" Smith and his orchestra. That zippy ditty and a few other singles to make waves (heh heh?) on r & b radio, as well as a drive to perform, a drive to perform kept Ford touring into his 70's, prior to his 2015 death. Do you know anyone who loves/loved their work enough to stay it at long after a customary retirement age?