Sentence examples for forgotten hit from inspiring English sources
He takes a step back and launches into "Band of Gold," not the 1970 Motownish chestnut but a forgotten hit from 1955 that he renders as a sort of one-man doo-wop.
The soundtrack to Alpha Papa is packed with exactly the kind of forgotten hit single that lived in the playlists of local radio stations and might have stuck in the head of one of their DJs long after the rest of the country had eradicated it from their memories: Andy Fairweather Low's Wide Eyed and Legless, the Climax Blues Band's Couldn't Get It Right, Hot Chocolate's It Started with a Kiss.
"It wasn't until our first family trip together that this very visceral emotional landscape of my past, that I had by now nearly all but forgotten, hit me again like [a] bullet".
Stuff that seemed hugely important then isn't always what seems important years on: stars get forgotten, hits vanish from memory, emphasis is subtly shifted to reflect subsequent changes in tastes or to fit a wider narrative that wasn't apparent at the time.
Marouane Chamakh, lest we forget, hit 11 goals in his first 22 games for Arsenal before drying up.
It happened more than once that I'd crack open my eyes for a peek at my river of prose only to discover that I'd forgotten to hit the little red "dictate" button).
But we try to write with a depth that will make this EP something that will last and not just be a forgotten one hit EP.
The range of material besotted us, and we discovered some forgotten big hits and a few delicious obscurities.
The opera slid from view for a while, then turned up again in the 1970s, as audiences sought forgotten former hits, and star baritones realized that they were missing out on a juicy role.
The upstairs room at Brighton's Prince Albert pub is so crowded on this Saturday night that the only floor space left is next to the soundman, who is playing a pre-show tape of forgotten 80s hits.
As the spot-on costumes, by Oana Botez, evoke the styles of the late 1970s — halter tops and flared-leg, high-waisted pants — these disco frenzies are performed to pulsating Giorgio Moroder grooves and forgotten club hits like "In the Bush" (chorus: "Push, push, in the bush") played on a period stereo.
