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Favorite "One Hit Wonder"...

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I gotta go with my favorite... Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice!!! ;)

Say it isnt so bro!! Dear god, say it isnt so!! :sign:

Dude,
The only reason I remembered it was because you had it playing when you pulled up to my house bro!!! :0
 
Nice topic bro... This should be good!!!
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I gotta go with my favorite... Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice!!! ;)

Say it isnt so bro!! Dear god, say it isnt so!! :sign:

Dude,
The only reason I remembered it was because you had it playing when you pulled up to my house bro!!! :0

That hurt bro!! Hmmmmmmm, what can I possibly do to get even for this one?? :whistling:

And for your information, it wasnt Vanilla Ice, it was Barbara Streisand, though they do sound similar!! :laugh: :laugh:
 
Hocus Pocus - Focus
Venus-Shocking Blue
Walking on Sunshine-Katrina and the Waves
Ride Captain Ride - Blues Image
Brandy - ????
I Ran - Flock of Seagulls
Cars - Gary Numan
Come on Eileen-Dexy's Midnight Runners
Take On Me - Aha
Green-Eyed Lady - Sugarloaf
Don't Leave Me This Way - Thelma Houston
i'll be there (friends theme) - The Rrembrants
More Than Words-Extreme
Hot Butter - Popcorn
In the Year 2525 - Zager & Evans
Let the music play - Shannon
In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry
Mickey - Toni Basil
Black Betty - Ramjam
Locomotion- Little Eva

I bet I could do a hundred more if I work at it. :p

Nice list AVB! :thumbs:

"Never Tell an Angel That Your Heart's On Fire" by The Stompers
 
Greetings! "Incense and Peppermints" by Strawberry Alarm Clock is certainly a classic example of a one hit wonder recording. Regards, knightlaird
 
Apache by The Incredible Bongo Band
Hair by the Cowsills
Wipeout by the Surfaris
Mississippi Queen by Mountain
All Right Now by Free


Don Maclean also wrote/sang "Vincent"...not really a 1HW.
 
Man! Too many come to mind.

Here's a few that hit me right off the bat.

House of the Rising Sun - Frigid Pink (cover of the Animals tune)
Something in the Air - Thunderclap Newman
Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum
So Alive - Love and Rockets
Pop Music - M
Easy Livin' - Uriah Heep
I Touch Myself - The Divinyls
Montego Bay - Bobby Bloom
Hot Child in the City - Nick Gilder
All the Young Dudes - Mott the Hoople
Commander Cody - Hot Rod Lincoln
Spiders and Snakes - Jim Stafford

The aforementioned would be on my list too.

Black Betty
96 Tears
Green Eyed Lady
 
I can't believe nobody mentioned:

I'm too sexy - Right Said Fred

:sign:
 
Possum Kingdom - Toadies

Toadies also had a hit called Tyler, well maybe not a "big" hit, but it was OK popular IMO.

Crash Test Dummies-Mmmhhhmmmm I dont know the correct spelling
Jars of Clay-Flood
Los Del Rio-Macarena
Nena-99 Luftbaloons
Baha Men-Who Let the Dogs Out?
Men With Hats-Safety Dance
Buggles-Video Killed the Radio Star
5678's-Whoo Hoo

and you could probably count one of my favorite ex bands, now known as Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers
Refreshments-Banditos
 
Mexican Radio- Wall of Vodoo The ultimate one hit wonders
 
Wall of Voodoo had a regional hit with a remake of Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire.

Uriah Heep had hits with Easy Livin' and Stealin' and somewhat with Look at Yourself.

After digging in the collection a bit I'll add:

Barry Mann - Who Put the Bomp (In the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)
Brewer & Shipley - One Toke Over the Line
Faith No More - Epic
The Jarmels - A Little Bit of Soap
David Essex - Rock On
Big Country - In a Big Country
Rosie and the Originals - Angel Baby
The Firm - Radioactive
Siouxie and the Banshees - Kiss Them For Me
Don & Juan - What's Your Name
Tom Tom Club - Genius Of Love
Singing Nun – Dominique
Bloodrock - D.O.A.
Timbuk 3 - The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
Swinging Blue - Jeans Hippy Hippy Shake
Ace - How Long
The Penguins - Earth Angel
The Gentrys - Keep On Dancing
Aldo Nova - Fantasy
Blind Melon - No Rain
Meredith Brooks - Bitch
Count Five - Psychotic Reaction
T. Rex - Bang A Gong (Get It On)
Blues Magoos - (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet
Peter Schilling - Major Tom
Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine
Sniff 'n' the Tears - Driver's Seat
The Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night
Devo - Whip It
Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky
Vanilla Fudge- You Keep Me Hangin' On
Patti Smith Group - Because The Night
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown – Fire
Head East - Never Been Any Reason
Godfathers - Birth, School, Work, Death
Modern English - I Melt With You
Steam - Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
The Ides Of March - Vehicle
Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy
Bubble Puppy - Hot Smoke and Sassafras
 
OK, here are some newer ones for ya.

No Rain - Blind Melon
More Than Words – Extreme
Everything About You -Ugly Kid Joe
Far behind - Candle Box
Possum Kingdom - Toadies
i'll be there (friends theme) - The Rrembrants
I Ran - Flock of Seagulls

Tones of Home was Blind Melons first major hit, and Change was almost bigger than both put together (although No Rain still gets a lot of play).

Extreme had a bunch of hits, although the ballads were big sellers at that time so most people only remember that song.

Ugly Kid Joe did a great cover of Cat's in the Cradle that was a huge hit (bigger than anything they wrote themselves)

That was actually Candlebox's second big hit - You was quite popular for a while (aside note - my brother was sitting next to the singer on a plane from NY to Cali when my brother's band was on their way to Australia to do the Warped Tour - just when Candlebox was getting big with Far Behind)

Toadies (see below)

The Rembrandts first hit was Just the Way It Is, Baby and until Friends came along it was a bigger hit than I'll be there for You.

Flock of Seagulls had a bunch of big songs - more than most bands of that era/genre (Telecommunication, Space Age Love Song, Wishing [If I Had a Photograph of You], etc)

Possum Kingdom - Toadies

Toadies also had a hit called Tyler, well maybe not a "big" hit, but it was OK popular IMO.

"I come from the water" was a fairly big hit off that first album as well


So Alive - Love and Rockets
I Touch Myself - The Divinyls

"No New Tale to Tell" and "Ball of Confusion" were huge hits for Love and Rockets (amoung others).

The Divinyls had 2 other singles off that album, but only one got much play - and they both sucked :p

Blur - Woo Hoo, but I think it was called Song #3

Blur had quite a few big hits (most notably She's So High and Girls & Boys) Song 2 was popular long after after they hit it big with There's No Other Way (Still their best song)




Here's a nice obscure one:
Urban Dance Squad - Deeper Shade of Soul
James- Laid
Oh heck - I have drawers full of new wave brit pop/punk that is nothing but one hit wonders (and most won't even be recognized)

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A lot of those weren't one hit wonders, but I gotta say I do like you're taste in music :p

(how can you call Faith no More a one hit wonder?!? :cool: )
 
I just thought of the single most popular One Hit Wonder ever.

The Grateful Dead - Touch of Gray

That was their only song to crack the top 10 or even the top 50. Truckin'' only made it to #64
 
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