(The song went to No.2 in Britain, where the avuncular and well-loved Bilk notched up several more hits.) Astronaut Eugene Cernan even included the song on a cassette compilation which he took into space on Apollo 10 in 1969. Firstly, the lachrymose ‘Stranger On The Shore’, by trad-jazz clarinetist Acker Bilk, topped the US charts in May 1962, tapping into a surprisingly broad vein of sentimental introspection. It’s generally accepted that UK artists were usually non-starters in the US before The Beatles kindled a sometimes indiscriminate obsession with all things British – but, though many British artists couldn’t even hope to become one-hit wonders during this period, two US No.1 instrumentals by Brits came along in the same year, well before the dawn of Beatlemania. Their moments in the sun captured the public’s fleeting infatuations more acutely than songs with a theoretically worthier place in the pantheon, and pop music history is now scattered with one-hit wonders in all shapes and sizes. But many artists just happened to be at the right place at the right time – whether by accident or design – with a sole UK or US hit which took them all the way to No.1.

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'Ice Ice Baby' was first released as the B-side to Vanilla Ice's cover of 'Play That Funky Music', but the single was not initially successful. It has appeared in remixed form on Platinum Underground and Vanilla Ice Is Back! A live version appears on the album Extremely Live, while a nu metal version appears on the album Hard to Swallow, under the title 'Too Cold'. Released on his debut album, To the Extreme, it is his best known song. It was based on the bassline of 'Under Pressure' by Queen and David Bowie, who did not receive songwriting credit or royalties until after it had become a hit. 'Ice Ice Baby' is a hip hop song written by American rapper Vanilla Ice, K.

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