Whatever happened to Chad Brock?

Don’t you just love it when the next song comes on the radio and you say to yourself whatever happened to?…………. Yeah a one hit wonder. Maybe it’s because I listen a lot to satellite radio and favor 50’s & 60’s pop along with 80’s & 90’s Country. Obviously, it is too soon to say who, in this current crop of stars, will be a one hit wonder. Looking quickly at today’s landscape I can only hope a few of these artists someday make the category.

Is there something about lost love that favors a singular shot at stardom? My favorite song of all time is Last Kiss. No Katie, not the remake from Pearl Jam in ‘99. The original recording was from singer song writer Wayne Cochrane, however the successful recording was made by the immortal J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers in 1964. To this day, the opening chords put my brain in happy mode. Which I guess is a little weird since it is about a girl being killed in a car accident.

I also have to rank Teen Angel right up there. Mark Dinning released this anguished ditty featuring a girl who gets killed by a train when she runs back to a car stalled on the tracks to retrieve her boyfriend’s class ring. Upon its release in 1960 it was banned by some radio stations as “too morbid”.

Must have been a 60’s thing because in that era we had others such as Dickie Lee’s “Patches”, a girl who offed herself when her lovers family forbid him from seeing her, Ray Peterson’s “Tell Laura I love Her” (death in a stock car race trying to win $ to buy a ring) and Moody River , which fits the morbid category as a lover contemplates suicide after his girl cheats on him, though no one would consider Pat Boone a one hit wonder.

As for Chad Brock, “She said Yes” was his only number 1 hit . I just found myself happily singing along and wondered: Whatever happened to Chad Brock? Turns out on October 25, 2010 Brock announced on his social networking page his intention to run for the United States Senate (GA) in 2014.