Favourite One Hit Wonders

My current favourite is "My Sharona" by The Knacks.
I also like I Love Rock n Roll by The Arrows (Joan Jett covered it in the 80s) and "Kitty" by a band called "Racey".

"I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight" - Cutting Crew. Gives me GTA: Vice City nostalgia. Used to be quite a gamer once.

Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U.

Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen

^i take it that Dexys only had the one hit in your part of the world or are we forgetting 'Jackie Wilson Says'?

anyways...
Star Trekkin'-The Firm

or..
life in a northern town-dream academy

JoxerTheDeityPirate wrote:

^i take it that Dexys only had the one hit in your part of the world or are we forgetting 'Jackie Wilson Says'?

Nope... that was a miss here, not a hit.

Sir GH wrote:

 



JoxerTheDeityPirate wrote:



^i take it that Dexys only had the one hit in your part of the world or are we forgetting 'Jackie Wilson Says'?

Nope... that was a miss here, not a hit.

thats a shame,there's a wonderful clip of them performing the song on Top Of The Pops where some numpty didnt know who Jackie Wilson was and put up a picture of British darts player Jocky Wilson instead on the screen behind them :-]

4 Non Blondes~What's Up?
The Divinyls~I Touch Myself
Tom Chocrane~Life is a Highway
House of Pain~Jump Around
Meredith Brooks~Bitch
Marcy Playground~Sex and Candy

Sir GH wrote:

Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen

Sir, I love your posts and have a lot of respect for you in your nature and temperament, but with all due respect, Come On Eileen was not a One Hit Wonder... Their song Gino (about Gino Washington - jazzman) was a no.1.



Just wanted to point it out:)







My faves include







Save Your Love - Renee and Renata



What Would You Say - Hurricane Smith



Jingo (can't remember the artist atm)



Monster Mash (also can't remember the artist LOL)



others I can't place right now :)

«¤~Mrš. BÃD GÛŸ~¤» wrote:







Tom Chocrane~Life is a Highway

Tom Cochrane had plenty of hits in the 90s, as well as in the 80s with his band Red Rider.

In fact, Mad Mad World is the first record I ever loved, when I was 9.  Sinking Like A Sunset and Get Back Up are still among my very favourite songs by any artist.

Queen On Ice wrote:

Sir, I love your posts and have a lot of respect for you in your nature and temperament, but with all due respect, Come On Eileen was not a One Hit Wonder... Their song Gino (about Gino Washington - jazzman) was a no.1.

I stand corrected then !!

Sir GH wrote:

«¤~Mrš. BÃD GÛŸ~¤» wrote:















Tom Chocrane~Life is a Highway

Tom Cochrane had plenty of hits in the 90s, as well as in the 80s with his band Red Rider.

In fact, Mad Mad World is the first record I ever loved, when I was 9.  Sinking Like A Sunset and Get Back Up are still among my very favourite songs by any artist.

Queen On Ice wrote:



Sir, I love your posts and have a lot of respect for you in your nature and temperament, but with all due respect, Come On Eileen was not a One Hit Wonder... Their song Gino (about Gino Washington - jazzman) was a no.1.

I stand corrected then !!

    Name me another hit he had under Tom Cochrane please.

Good Times, Big League, Sinking Like A Sunset, No Regrets, Washed Away, I Wish You Well

PhD - I Won't Let You Down
Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning

Midnight Oil are not a One Hit Wonder, they had various well known songs, for example "Truganini" and "Blue Sky Mines". I don't know how they charted but "One Hit Wonder" implies that an artist had only one song that made them famous and then they never had any success anymore.

Queen On Ice wrote:

 



Sir GH wrote:



Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen

 



Sir, I love your posts and have a lot of respect for you in your nature and temperament, but with all due respect, Come On Eileen was not a One Hit Wonder... Their song Gino (about Gino Washington - jazzman) was a no.1.



 



Just wanted to point it out:)



 



 



 



My faves include



 



 



 



Save Your Love - Renee and Renata



 



What Would You Say - Hurricane Smith



 



Jingo (can't remember the artist atm)



 



Monster Mash (also can't remember the artist LOL)



 



others I can't place right now :)

The Bonzo Dog Doodah Band did a cover of the Monster Mash, but they also had a hit with the Urban Spaceman. 

I know they weren't a one-hot wonder, but Crash test Dummies are known in the UK mostly for the 'mmm mmm mmm mmm' song.

Nina's '99 Red Baloons' is a good one.

Brian & Michael "Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs"
 
The Seahorses - Love is the Law

Tery Jacks - "Seasons in the Sun"