Fav One Hit Wonder

[Throbbing Angel]

fan bastard tastic!

I can't believe it

I just found on Youtube


a one h1t wunda from 1971

 

[Iam]

Wordy Rappinghood by the Tom Tom Club

Genius of Love was also a hit.

 

[Calva dosser]

Did they have more hits than just that one?

Yes, as Jonah Lewie, in the sense that John Lewis was the keyboard player with Terry Dactyl, and Keith Trussel the Zob-stick player wrote 'You'll always find me in the kitchen at parties' and 'Bring on the Cavalry'.

Still going. In their sixties or dead, mostly.

 

[fishfinger]

The Archies - Sugar, Sugar
Bobby Boris & The Crypt Kickers - Monster Mash

 

[colacubes]

White Town - Your woman

 

[D'wards]

King - Love and Pride


Still have the 12 inch but nowt to play it on.

 

[Sweaty Betty]

Yes, as Jonah Lewie, in the sense that John Lewis was the keyboard player with Terry Dactyl, and Keith Trussel the Zob-stick player wrote 'You'll always find me in the kitchen at parties' and 'Bring on the Cavalry'.

Amazing tunes them two

 

[Sweaty Betty]

This one is like marmite!!

Vanilla Ice -ice baby

 

[Throbbing Angel]

fffffffffffffffffffffffffuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

King - Love and Pride


Still have the 12 inch but nowt to play it on.

another one my sister played non-stop for weeks and weeks on end

I was glad when she finally got over Nik Kershaw too

I'll give you a fuckin' riddle ya twat!

 

[Flashman]

Lipps Inc - Funkytown
Sugar Hill Gang - Rapper's Delight
Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
Dee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart
Vanessa Paradis - Joe Le Taxi
SOHO - Hippychick
Nena - 99 Luftballoons
Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire
Richard Harris - MacArthur Park (greatest song of all time )
Toni Basil - Mickey
M - Pop Muzik
Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
Men Without Hats - Safety Dance
Jilted John - Jilted John

 

[AverageJoe]

Stan Ridgewaye - Camouflage
Joe Dolce - Shaddapa your face
St Winnifrids school choir - Grandma
Paul Hardcastle - 19
Doop - Doop
Nena - 99 Red Balloons
Ryan Paris - Dolce Vita
Toto Coelo - I eat Cannibals
Owen Paul - My Favourite Waste of Time
Ashford and Simpson - Solid

*reminisces to my days as an 80/90's wedding DJ*

Actually looking at that fine list I am amazed that none of them had more success than they did.....

 

[beeboo]

That song by the gossip... not bad.. theyre pretty much talentless so was a surprise..

A band with only one hit that you like isn't the same thing as a one hit wonder


Turning Japanese and Groove is in the Heart get my vote

 

[nick301171]

Dreamer - Livin' Joy

 

[Sweaty Betty]

Falco- what a tune!!!

 

[Orang Utan]

Rah Band - Clouds Across The Moon:
Karel Fialka - Hey Matthew:
Red Box - Lean On Me:
Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town:

 

[subversplat]

So so many favourites! But just by going on the songs I listened to yesterday: 99 Red Balloons - Nena.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I prefer 'Let her go', that was still a 'hit'. Hold on that means 'since yesterday' wasn't a one hit wonder. Cheater.

 

[Flashman]

Falco- what a tune!!!

Innit.

He's dead now.

 

[Sweaty Betty]

Innit.

He's dead now.

Really?
he must have been young, what did he die of?

 

[Flashman]

Really?
he must have been young, what did he die of?

Actually it was '98 I thought it was more recent. Car accident, he was 40

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Falco- what a tune!!!

Which one of their hits? I assume you mean the number one smash but they did have many other 'hits' you know.

 

[Flashman]

Which one of their hits? I assume you mean the number one smash but they did have many other 'hits' you know.

Rock Me Amadeus. To be honest anything else of his was under my radar.

 

[Mallard]

Surprised no-one's mentioned

 

[goldenecitrone]

Terry Wogan - The floral dance.

 

[marty21]

Martha and the Muffins - "Echo Beach"

aye

i also like "Driver seat" sniff n the tears - although i don't think it was even a hit, it was played a lot on the radio when it came out in about 78

 

[PacificOcean]

Len - Steal My Sunshine
Berlin - Take My Breath Away

@ nick: Livin Joy had another two top ten hits after Dreamer. One of which was the rather fine 'Don't Stop Moving'.

 

[souljacker]

I wouldn't call Deee-Lite one hit wonders. They had at least two hits and World Clique was a superb album.

 

[Gingerman]

Men without hats "The safety dance" alltogether now "You can dance if you want to etc...."

 

[Geri]

Echo Beach - Martha & The Muffins
(not sure if they had any other hits though - I don't know of any)

 

[Sweaty Betty]

Men without hats "The safety dance" alltogether now "You can dance if you want to etc...."

Yay another stand alone classic