One Hit Wonders

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OMG!!! I totally forgot about that song!! The video was funny, hehehe!

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Clay Aikin!

I don't think he had any hits

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I'm in Love with Stacy's Grandma - the name of the group escapes me.

is it actually called "I'm in Love with Stacy's mom" (Fountains Of Wayne) ??

Pure, unadulterated junk food for the ears and eyes. I love it...now I have sugar headache.

Actually, their song 'Radiation Vibe' a few years back was an (alternative) hit too.

Major Tom by Peter Schilling

The Different Story was pretty big too...I had the cassingle.

Edited November 16, 2007 by devilette

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Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy

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Major Tom by Peter Schilling

The Different Story was pretty big too...I had the cassingle.

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Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy

Actually they've had a long, successful career...sorry Marilyn.

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I'll Start With You -- Paulette Carlson (solo, not as part of Highway 101)

Edited November 16, 2007 by CherryXS

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Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy

Actually they've had a long, successful career...sorry Marilyn.

I got it from a one hit wonder site

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Questions of definition

Most American music industry insiders consider a song in the top forty positions of the Billboard Hot 100 to be a hit. Thus, any performer who recorded only one song that reached the Top 40 is, technically, a one-hit wonder. However, the term is more generally applied to musicians best known for only one song, meaning that some artists who fit the above criteria are not considered one-hit wonders, while others who do not are considered such.

Wayne Jancik's book The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders (Billboard Books, 1998) defines a one-hit wonder rather conservatively, as "an act that has won a position on Billboard's national, pop, Top 40 just once." He therefore includes such performers as Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix solely on the basis of their Top 40 performance. In his definition of an "act", Jancik distinguishes between a solo performer and any group he or she may have performed in; thus Roger Daltrey is distinguished from The Who. He restricts his reporting time to the period from the start of the "rock-and-roll era" (defined by the author as 1 January 1955) to 31 December 1992. The latter date was picked to allow a five-year "lag time" before publication for a listed one-hit wonder to produce a second hit; this unfortunately does not allow for a longer hiatus between hits for a particular performer. For example, Lenny Kravitz is listed for "It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over" (No. 2, August 1991);[1] the book therefore misses subsequent hits, such as "Fly Away", which reached #12 on the Billboard chart in 1999.

In the United Kingdom, the term one-hit wonder is used to describe a singer or band who had only one hit reach the Top 75 on the UK Singles Chart. The term was first used by the "Guinness Book of Hit Singles" from the 1970s, and originally referred strictly to those artists whose first chart action was: "a number one hit, and then nothing else, ever."

Here are some other criteria that also affect a performer’s status as a one-hit wonder:

* Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Lou Reed, Radiohead, Phish, Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, Iggy Pop, Faith No More, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Church, Yes, and System of a Down each had only one Billboard Top 40 hit but are rarely, if ever, considered one-hit wonders. These performers are known for other successes, like album or concert ticket sales, critical acclaim, strong fan followings, or influence on other musicians. Jancik, however, includes many of these artists, as they fall within his strict definition as a single act with a single top-40 placement.

* Some artists, including Livin' Joy, never had a top-40 pop hit, but did have a song that received considerable airplay, even long after its day of release.

* Many popular British artists like Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Robbie Williams, BBMak, All Saints, Billie Piper, Busted and Take That are considered one-hit wonders in the US, although the listed artists were very popular in Britain.

* Prominent members of popular groups who have only one solo hit typically are not seen as one-hit wonders. Steely Dan's Donald Fagen, The Lovin' Spoonful's John Sebastian, The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson, and Michael Nesmith of The Monkees each achieved chart success only once as solo artists but are all well-known for their contributions to music through their respective bands.

* Conversely, groups led by popular solo artists are usually not called one-hit wonders. Derek & the Dominos' sole hit "Layla" is associated with group leader Eric Clapton, who had considerable success before and after the Dominos.

* Performers who have consistent success in one part of the world but who are known for only one song outside that region are usually considered one-hit wonders in the latter. Austria's Falco, Germany’s Nena and Canada's Tom Cochrane were successful in their homelands, but are considered one-hit wonders in the US and UK.

o A small number of artists have the distinction of being regarded as one-hit wonders in both the US and UK, but with different songs. American husband and wife duo Art and Dotty Todd scored a hit in the UK with "Broken Wings" in 1953, but did not make it to the top forty in their homeland until "Chanson D'Amour (Song Of Love)" in 1958. Rock band Semisonic scored a US hit with "Closing Time" in 1998, but are better known in the UK for "Secret Smile", from their album Feeling Strangely Fine.

* Performers who are successful in specific genres, but produce only one crossover hit, are generally considered one-hit wonders by the public at large, but not by fans of their respective genres. Celtic music singer Loreena McKennitt, Christian rock group Jars of Clay and country music singer Billy Ray Cyrus are all popular within their respective genres, but known to the greater public for a single song each.

* Performers who had more than one Top 40 hit are sometimes considered one-hit wonders, if one song greatly overshadows the rest of their repertoire. a-ha’s "Take on Me" made the top 10 of VH1's 100 Greatest One-hit Wonders[1], even though the group had two Billboard Top 20 singles: "Take on Me" and "The Sun Always Shines on TV". However, "Take On Me" is much more remembered today, at least in the US (note that "The Sun Always Shines on TV" was a #1 hit in the UK: higher than "Take on Me"). Similarly, Great White is sometimes called a one-hit wonder for "Once Bitten Twice Shy", but "The Angel Song" was also a Top 40 hit. Strawberry Alarm Clock's #1 "Incense and Peppermints" so overshadowed their #23 "Tomorrow" that they are often considered a one-hit wonder.

* Some artists, such as The Fugees, had a number of hits chart quite high on Billboard's charts. Yet only one of their songs is remembered after the days of their popularity.

* Performers like Golden Earring, The Foundations, The Left Banke, Maxine Nightingale, Donna Fargo, A Taste of Honey, Johnny Logan, Vanessa Paradis, Pilot and Ugly Kid Joe, who produced two major hits before fading into obscurity, are sometimes called "two-hit wonders," but this term is not as common.

* Deutsche Grammophon and Vox Records have both released albums of classical one-hit wonders. The de-facto criteria common to the albums is composers who have a single work that has become popular outside classical circles as several of the composers on both albums are known for multiple works inside classical circles. The works on these album (or fragments and variations) are frequently heard in movies, television shows and commercials.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_hit_wonder

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The Hollywood Argyles - Alley-oop

Billy Bland - Let the Little Girl Dance

Barry Mann - Who Put the Bomp

The Penuins - Earth Angel

Bobby Bloom - Montegro Bay

Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky

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"I shot the sheriff" by Kitkat

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"I shot the sheriff" by Kitkat

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The Book of Love - The Monotones

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Baha Men - Who Let the dogs out?

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I'll Start With You -- Paulette Carlson (solo, not as part of Highway 101)

Her parent's live about 10 miles from my house. My neighbor knows them.

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