One Hit Wonders with OJ Borg

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One Hit Wonders with OJ Borg: Edwyn Collins, Chocolate Puma and Clout

Edwyn Collins, Chocolate Puma and Clout

BBC Radio 2 - One Hit Wonders with OJ Borg, Edwyn Collins, Chocolate Puma and Clout

The best One Hit Wonders, plus a chat with Cindy Alter from Clout.

The best One Hit Wonders, plus Cindy Alter from Clout with the story of ‘Substitute’.

OJ plays some of the best One Hit Wonders from right across the decades. 

This week he chats to Cindy Alter from Clout.

She’s the lead singer from South Africa’s most successful band, and they got to number 2 in 1978 with their new arrangement of The Righteous Brothers song ‘Substitute’.

Find out why they chose to cover that song, what it was like being an all-female band in the 70s, and the hidden meaning behind the band name Clout!

Want to hear your favourite One Hit Wonder on the show? 

Email OJ@bbc.co.uk

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