5 Songs that were popular in the 90’s that you never hear played
on the radio anymore.
By: Brian Cotnoir
5.) Mambo No. 5 (A little bit of...)- Lou Bega
Artist Lou Bega took a
50 year old song in 1999 and turned it into a hit with “Mambo No. 5 (A little
bit of...)”. With a great hook, and
beautiful dancing girls in his video, “Mambo No. 5” propelled Lou Bega’s debut
album A Little Bit of Mambo (1999)
into Platinum sales status. Unfortunately,
for Lou Bega, the success that followed “Mambo No. 5” was nowhere near as close
in terms of success and popularity. What
else is there to say about this song, other than: thank goodness for
Ex-Girlfriends.
4.) Whoomp! (There it is)- Tag Team
Miami Hip-Hop Group Tag
Team found success in 1993 with their song “Whoomp! (There it is!). This song reached #2 on the Hot 100 Charts
and was very popular at Sports Arenas (especially Basketball). Tag Team actually re-worked the song and
released “Hoop! There it is!” in honor
of the Houston Rockets NBA championship in 1994. This song is considered both one of the
greatest “one-hit wonder” songs and also “one of the worst songs of all-time”. Whether you like this song or not, you have
to admit that this was a popular song in the 1990’s.
3.) Blue (Da Ba Dee)- Eiffel 65
Remember the first
time you saw the music video to this song back in 1999? Wasn’t it one of the coolest things of the
decade? By today’s standards the CGI in
this music video is very primitive and crude, but it was one of the things that
helped Italian Techno Group Eiffel 65 and their debut album Europop (1999) into superstar status. However, just like Lou Bega and Tag Team,
Eiffel 65 failed to reach the same success with a follow up. “Blue (Da Ba Dee) may have been the #1 song
in over a dozen countries, and received two Grammy Award Nominations, but I’m
afraid they are doomed to One-Hit Wonder Status (at least in America).
2.) Gangsta’s Paradise- Coolio
This song appeared in
the 1995 “Dangerous Minds” and propelled Rap Artist Coolio into superstar status
in the 1990’s. This song earned Coolio the 1995 Grammy for “Best Rap Solo
Performance”. Later in the decade a feud
would ignite between Coolio and Parody-Cover Musician, Weird Al Yankovic, over Weird
Al’s parody of “Gangsta’s Paradise” entitled “Amish Paradise”.
1.) Macarena- Los Del Rio
Holy Shnikes! This song was INESCAPABLE in the 1990’s. If
there was one song the absolutely dominated the radio airwaves and if you went
searching through the radio dial, chances are this song was going to be played
on at least one of those radio stations.
The song was released Los Del Rio, a band that had been performing and
touring since 1962. It was #1 in the
U.S. and many other countries. From the
time it was released it was one of the most successful songs—not just of the
year—but of the entire decade. Who cares
if you didn’t understand or know any of the lyrics to the song, because white
people were doing that stupid dance at every wedding, family reunion, and
birthday party. This song is what many
people to be the “Greatest One Hit Wonder of All-Time”...and yet when’s the
last time you heard it played on the radio?
Isn’t it strange?
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