Favorite One Hit Wonders?

[drmilktruck]

A website called One Hit Wonder Central keeps a running vote for visitors top choices. Here's the Top 10. I don't know some of them.

1. Benny Mardones Into the Night 1980
2. Alive and Kicking Tighter, Tighter 1970
3. Calloway I Wanna Be Rich 1990
4. Frijid Pink House of the Rising Sun 1970
5. The Chords Sh-Boom 1954
6. Bobby Bloom Montego Bay 1970
7. Charlie Dore Pilot of the Airwaves 1980
8. Giant I'll See You in My Dreams 1990
9. Candyman Knockin' Boots 1990
10. Ron Holden and the Thunderbirds Love You So 1960

What are some of your favorites?

 

[Crooner]

Lies, by the KnickerBockers - a Beatles-sound-a-like from a New Jersey band. Go figure.

I Touch Myself, by the DiVinyls.

 

[calvin lee]

remember the song "what is love" by haddaway, from the 90's?

a great one hit wonder, and one that i did a very strange cover of...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWMXHYRDNdU

 

[Blues Playa]

stealers wheel with stuck int the middle with you

 

[black rose]

Alive and Kickin' - so soulful...

 

[black rose]

Pictures of matchstickmen Status Quo

 

[Tony65x55]

Los Bravos - Black is Black

 

[audept]

Sour Milk Sea by Jackie Lomax.
My Sharona - The Knack.

 

[nadles]

Beach Baby - First Class
Let's go to San Francisco - Flowerpot men

 

[Tony65x55]

Sour Milk Sea by Jackie Lomax.
My Sharona - The Knack.

Wasn't the Knack a Two Hit Wonder? Good Girls Don't (but I do)? Great song though, one of my favs.

Kinda like Golden Earring with Radar Love... and Twilight Zone.

San Francisco by Scott Mackenzie. Great voice.

 

[Tinman46]

Mississippi Queen by Mountain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFhM1XZsh6o

 

[montereyjack66]

Lord help, (I'm a closet bubblegume freak). "Sugar Sugar" by the Archies. "Turning Japanese" by the Vapors.

 

[thunder58]

Alive and kickin played at my prom May 19 ,1977

 

[midnight340]

+1 for
Stuck in the Middle With You
Radar Love
Turning Japanese...

also:
Apache Jorgen Ingmannn
Pipeline, Chantays
Summertime Blues, Blue Cheer
Party Lights, Claudine Clark (don't ask, a quirk of mine...)

 

[gigatron]

 

[fletch]

The Divinyls may have been one-hit-wonders in the USA, but they had a few hits and were a major band in Australia for quite a while, and Chrissie Amphlett is still incerdeibly well thought of out here.

My vote for the best and most prominent one-hit-wonders were Dexie's Midnight Runners and 'Come On Eileen.'
But The Knack really should have the title - My Sharona was a MONSTER.

 

[jflintmac]

Bubble Puppy - Those guys sound like "Yes"

 

[drmilktruck]

Charlie Sexton - Beat's So Lonely
Tom Cochrane - Life is a Highway
Red Rockers - China
Ready for the world - Oh Sheila
Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
T'Pau - Heart and Soul
Nik Kershaw - Wouldn't It be Good
Big Country - In a Big Country
Sly Fox _ Let's Go All the Way
Robbie Nevil - C'est La Vie
Swing Out Sister - Breakout
Baltimora - Tarzan Boy
Free - All Right Now
Donnie Iris - Ah Leah
Sniff N the Tears - Driver's Seat
Brenda Russell - Piano in the Dark
**** Robin - When the Heart is Weak
Tanita Tikaram - Twist in My Sobriety
Martika - Toy Soldiers
Stacey Q - Two of Hearts
David Essex - Rock On
Nu Shooz - I Can't Wait

 

[dazzajl]

Isn't it interesting to see some huge names that were one hit wonders elsewhere.

There's probably a whole thread on people you wish had stopped after one as well.

Some great mentions here but I think where the one hit wonder excels in cheesy. So to redress the balance a little....

Chesney Hawks, The One And Only
Rupert Holmes, Escape. I know 'Him' was released here but I wouldn't call it a hit.
Unit 4 Plus 2, Concrete And Clay
Fortunes, Storm In A Teacup

 

[larryb]

How about “The O neiders, I mean The Wonders”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ8ToDQn6Xk