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Soul singer Jackie Ross is so much more than a one-hit wonder 
The 1964 Chess Records smash “Selfish One” just happened to be the best-selling single from her decades of great songs.
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Since 2004 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in the first place.
As much as people love the famous songs of so-called one-hit wonders, they don t get much respect. Legit soul and R&B hits such as Jean Knight s Mr. Big Stuff or the Capitols Cool Jerk often get lumped in with novelty numbers (Carl Douglas s Kung Fu Fighting, Vicki Lawrence s version of The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia ) on cheesy nostalgia-bait compilations. It s especially sad when an artist tagged a one-hit wonder actually had a substantial career making quality music, with a long list of forgotten minor succ ....

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