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To celebrate the return of well formatted lists to the Last.fm journals, I made a list of One Hit Wonders with a little help of my friend Knirrie and Last.fm's tags. Don't bother if you find your favorite artist here, some of mine are as also on this list. "A one-hit wonder is a music industry term to describe an artist generally known for only one hit single." says Wikipedia.

One Hit Wonders

1. Wild Thing - The Troggs
   
2. Sugar, Sugar - The Archies
   
3. Je t'aime... moi non plus - Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg
   
4. Where Do You Go to My Lovely - Peter Sarstedt
   
5. In the Year 2525 - Zager & Evans
   
6. Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum
   
7. Popcorn - Hot Butter
   
8. Mouldy Old Dough - Lieutenant Pigeon
   
9. Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
   
10. I Can Help - Billy Swan
    
11. All By Myself - Eric Carmen
    
12. In Zaire - Johnny Wakelin
    
13. Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
    
14. Video Killed the Radio Star - The Buggles
    
15. Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
    
16. My Sharona - The Knack
    
17. Pop Muzik - M
    
18. Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.
    
19. Tainted Love - Soft Cell
    
20. Come On Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners
    
21. I Ran - A Flock of Seagulls
    
22. Too Shy - Kajagoogoo
    
23. Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
    
24. Only You - Flying Pickets
    
25. Break My Stride - Matthew Wilder
    
26. Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell
    
27. It's Raining Men - The Weather Girls
    
28. Take On Me - a-ha
    
29. Tarzan Boy - Baltimora
    
30. Axel F. - Harold Faltermeyer
    
31. Life is life - Opus
    
32. (I Just) Died in Your Arms - Cutting Crew
    
33. I Can't Wait - Nu Shooz
    
34. Two of Hearts - Stacey Q
    
35. Pump Up the Volume - M/A/R/R/S
    
36. Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
    
37. Wonderful Life - Black
    
38. Waiting for a Star to Fall - Boy Meets Girl
    
39. What I Am - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
    
40. I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers
    
41. Walking on Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves
    
42. Twist in My Sobriety - Tanita Tikaram
    
43. Killer - Adamski
    
44. I Touch Myself - Divinyls
    
45. There She Goes - The La's
    
46. U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer
    
47. The One and Only - Chesney Hawkes
    
48. Unbelievable - EMF
    
49. Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - Monty Python
    
50. Achy Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus
    
51. What's Up - 4 Non Blondes
    
52. Life in a Northern Town - The Dream Academy
    
53. What Is Love - Haddaway
    
54. Informer - Snow
    
55. Runaway Train - Soul Asylum
    
56. Two Princes - Spin Doctors
    
57. Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm - Crash Test Dummies
    
58. You Gotta Be - Des'ree
    
59. Trouble - Shampoo
    
60. Inside - Stiltskin
    
61. Roll To Me - Del Amitri
    
62. One Of Us - Joan Osborne
    
63. You're Gorgeous - Babybird
    
64. Spaceman - Babylon Zoo
    
65. Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
    
66. No Rain - Blind Melon
    
67. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something
    
68. Lemon Tree - Fool's Garden
    
69. How Bizarre - OMC
    
70. Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes
    
71. Kiss the Rain - Billie Myers
    
72. Tubthumping - Chumbawamba
    
73. Bitch - Meredith Brooks
    
74. Torn - Natalie Imbruglia
    
75. Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
    
76. Your Woman - White Town
    
77. Save Tonight - Eagle-Eye Cherry
    
78. Inside Out - Eve 6
    
79. Sex and Candy - Marcy Playground
    
80. Jeans On - David Dundas
    
81. Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...) - Lou Bega
    
82. You Get What You Give - New Radicals
    
83. Driver's Seat - Sniff 'n' the Tears
    
84. Drops of Jupiter - Train
    
85. Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus
    
86. Bad Day - Daniel Powter
    
87. Lovefool - The Cardigans
    
88. Wherever You Will Go - The Calling
    
89. F.u.r.b. (F U Right Back) - Frankee
    
90. The Reason - Hoobastank
    
91. Closing Time - Semisonic
    
92. Toy Soldiers - Martika
    
93. Lovin' You - Minnie Riperton
    
94. Sunny Came Home - Shawn Colvin
    
95. Stay (I Missed You) - Lisa Loeb
    
96. Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye - Steam
    
97. Would I Lie To You - Charles & Eddie
    
98. Lullaby - Shawn Mullins
    
99. If You Could Only See - Tonic
    
100. Stuck in the Middle With You - Stealers Wheel
     

(The song order is no ranking, it's just the release date of my discs)

The Bitter Sweet Symphony of The Verve is misspelled to refer to the 'full track' on Last.fm.


Well, it's so much fun to meet them all again, I continue seeking for more OHWs, today... One Hit Wonders ...episode 2:

1. In the Still of the Night - The Five Satins
   
2. Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
   
3. Be Bop a Lula - Gene Vincent
   
4. The Loco-Motion - Little Eva
   
5. Wooly Bully - Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs
   
6. I Fought The Law - Bobby Fuller Four
   
7. You Keep Me Hangin' On - Vanilla Fudge
   
8. Fire - Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
   
9. Venus - Shocking Blue
   
10. All Right Now - Free
    
11. All The Young Dudes - Mott the Hoople
    
12. How do you do - Mouth & McNeal
    
13. The Hustle - Van McCoy
    
14. The Boys Are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy
    
15. Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
    
16. Because the Night - Patti Smith Group
    
17. Rapper's Delight - Sugarhill Gang
    
18. Fade to Grey - Visage
    
19. The Message - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
    
20. 99 Luftballons - Nena
    
21. Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
    
22. Miami Vice Theme - Jan Hammer
    
23. Voyage, Voyage - Desireless
    
24. Living in a Box - Living in a Box
    
25. Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley
    
26. Stay - Shakespear's Sister
    
27. Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
    
28. Turning Japanese - The Vapors
    
29. Hocus Pocus - Focus
    
30. Love Is All Around - Wet Wet Wet
    
31. Invisible - Alison Moyet
    
32. Boom Boom Boom - The Outhere Brothers
    
33. Cotton Eye Joe - Rednex
    
34. I Love You Always Forever - Donna Lewis
    
35. Mmmbop - Hanson
    
36. Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook remix) - Cornershop
    
37. Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
    
38. Midnight at the Oasis - Maria Muldaur
    
39. I Don't Like Mondays - The Boomtown Rats
    
40. Drinking in L.A. - Bran Van 3000
    
41. Blue (Da Ba Dee) - Eiffel 65
    
42. Better Off Alone - Alice DeeJay
    
43. It Feels So Good - Sonique
    
44. Something - Lasgo
    
45. Stacy's Mom - Fountains of Wayne
    
46. Mundian To Bach Ke - Panjabi MC
    
47. F**k It (I Don't Want You Back) - Eamon
    
48. Turn Me On - Kevin Lyttle
    
49. Funky Nassau - The Beginning of the End
    
50. No No Never - Texas Lightning
    

...and it's not finished yet, thx Bayou16!
Here we go: One Hit Wonders ...what's left:

1. Sh-Boom - The Chords
   
2. For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield
   
3. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Single Version) - Iron Butterfly
   
4. In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
   
5. Low Rider - War
   
6. Born To Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez
   
7. Down Under - Men at Work
   
8. Glory of Love - Peter Cetera
   
9. Luka - Suzanne Vega
   
10. Groove Is in the Heart - Deee-Lite
    
11. Step by Step - New Kids on the Block
    
12. Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinéad O'Connor
    
13. It's My Life - Dr. Alban
    
14. I'm Too Sexy - Right Said Fred
    
15. Gangsta's Paradise - Coolio
    
16. Zombie - The Cranberries
    
17. The Living Years - Mike & The Mechanics
    
18. The Boy Is Mine - Brandy & Monica
    
19. Truly Madly Deeply - Savage Garden
    
20. Bye Bye Bye - *NSYNC
    
21. Who Let The Dogs Out - Baha Men
    
22. Don't Leave Me This Way - The Communards
    
23. Breathe - Blu Cantrell
    
24. Mad World - Gary Jules
    
25. Mississippi Queen - Mountain
    
26. Touch Me (I Want Your Body) - Samantha Fox
    
27. Kiss Me - Sixpence None the Richer
    
28. D.I.S.C.O. - Ottawan
    
29. Heaven Is a Halfpipe - OPM
    
30. Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
    
31. '74-'75 - The Connells
    
32. Barely Breathing - Duncan Sheik
    
33. Steal My Sunshine - LEN
    
34. Simarik - Tarkan
    
35. Dancing In The Moonlight - Toloader
    
36. Macarena - Los Del Rio
    

to be continued...

listen to the One Hit Wonder tag radio

Beside from the "official" list, my favorite German One Hit Wonder, the highlight of every party:

• Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht - Drafi Deutscher :)
  

Accounting vehement protests I'll strikeout the artists with at least 3 votes against mentioning them here. ;)

I have a radio show on WVAU -- www.wvau.org, that is. The name of this show is "Gone Fishing," and, as you might imagine, it's full of puns about boats and sea bass, not to mention some really lovely pop songs.

Here is a slightly redundant description for the show that I took from my facebook group.

Gone Fishing gathers the best and brightest pop songs of the last fifty years and serves them to you, crisp and tasty, every Wednesday night from 8:00 to 10:00 EST.

If you like pop music and you happen to be reading this on a Wednesday, then you should listen to my show tonight!

Here are a whole bunch of artists that I've played on my radio show.

Belle & Sebastian, Dionne Warwick, Lee Hazlewood, The Shangri-Las, McCarthy, Sambassadeur, The Left Banke, Wings, Jens Lekman, Another Sunny Day, Shop Assistants, The Beach Boys, Felt, Times New Viking, The Supremes, Talulah Gosh, James Dean Driving Experience, Yo La Tengo, The Magnetic Fields, The Brilliant Corners, Razorcuts, Girls at Our Best!, The Field Mice, Television Personalities, France Gall, Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin, Scott Walker, The Kinks, The Orchids, Madeline Bell, Nico, Gal Costa, Die fünf Freunde, Os Mutantes, Carpenters, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, The Paris Sisters, Herman Dune, Big Star, Love, Teenage Fanclub, Orange Juice, Acid House Kings, The Zombies, The Vaselines, Caetano Veloso, and so on.

Last year, in an effort to keep track of the years great albums I'd blog about an album I loved - for no other reason than as a reminder. I intended doing the same this year - but this year has been funny - I still haven't managed to get used to the downloaded = owned thing - so it took me a while to realise that I owned some great albums from this year even if I couldn't hold them. So this is catch-up. I only have physical copies of two of these albums - which is bothering me a little...

Drums And Guns
After the near-grunge annoyance of The Great Destroyer with Drums and Guns it seems Low are heading back in towards being the band I love. This is the first Low album since Secret Name that is likely to make my end of year lists. Maybe it's all relative - maybe it's not better than Things We Lost in the Fire but it is an improvement on the previous album (which TWLITF clearly wasn't).

23
It took almost three years for me to like Blonde Redhead's previous album Misery Is a Butterfly, but I love it now. 23 worked its magic a little quicker

Learn To Sing Like A Star
There seems to be such a blurry line between Kristin Hersh's projects - this is the solo album that could almost be a Throwing Muses album - which is a good thing. And it is a good thing.

Friend Opportunity
Maybe it's because this is supposed to be Deerhoof being accesible that I can get it more than the bits of Deerhoof I've heard previously - but I do get it and it is good.

The Amber Gatherers
Alasdair Roberts has been on my "must listen properly sometime" list for a while - this album made me sit up and notice and him - now I have to work backwards.

Back Numbers
Obviously. Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra, Dean and Britta. Sometimes I wince at how far Dean is now from Galaxie 500 - but then I just stop caring - The Sun is Still Sunny.

1 Carl Douglas Kung Fu Fighting
2 Nena 99 Red Balloons
3 Afroman Because I Got High (had two hits)
4 The Archies Sugar Sugar
5 Mock Turtles Can You Dig It?
6 Monty Python Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life
7 Doctor and the Medics Spirit In The Sky
8 Baha Men Who Let The Dogs Out? (had three hits)
9 Men Without Hats The Safety Dance
10 Splodgeness -abounds Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps Please
11 Deee-Lite Groove Is In The Heart
12 Shampoo Trouble
13 Weather Girls It's Raining Men
14 Eric Carmen All By Myself
15 Jilted John Jilted John
16 Rembrandts I'll Be There For You (Theme From Friends)
17 Timelords Doctorin' The Tardis
18 Falco Rock Me Amadeus (had two hits)
19 Mr Oizo Flat Beat
(NOT IN ORIGINAL SHORTLIST!!)
20 The Buggles Video Killed the Radio Star (had two hits)
21 Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg Je T'aime (Moi Non Plus)
22 Lou Bega Mambo No.5
23 The Vapors Turning Japanese
24 Toni Basil Mickey
25 Lieutenant Pigeon Mouldy Old Dough (had two hits)
26 MARRS Pump Up The Volume
27 Minnie Riperton Loving You
28 Harold Faltermeyer Axel F
29 Frankee F.U.R.B.
30 Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band I'm The Urban Spaceman
31 Babylon Zoo Spaceman (had two hits)
32 The Knack My Sharona
33 Joe Dolce Music Theatre Shaddap You Face
34 Baz Luhrmann presents... Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
35 Brian and Michael Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats And Dogs
36 Richard Harris MacArthur Park
37 Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Crypt Kickers Monster Mash
38 Sugarhill Gang Rapper's Delight
39 Crazy World of Arthur Brown Fire
40 Chesney Hawkes The One and Only
41 Kingsmen Louie Louie (did not reach the top 20)
42 Strawberry Switchblade Since Yesterday
43 Millie My Boy Lollipop
44 Flying Lizards Money
45 Morris Minor annd the Majors Stutter Rap
46 Grange Hill Cast Just Say No
47 The 5.6.7.8s Woo Hoo (did not reach the top 20)
48 Aneka Japanese Boy
49 Renee and Renato Save Your Love
50 Cornershop Brimful Of Asha

http://www.1hw.org/c4list.shtml

Carl Douglas
Nena
Afroman
The Archies
Mock Turtles
Monty Python
Doctor and the Medics
Baha Men
Men Without Hats
Splodgenessabounds
Deee-Lite
Shampoo
Weather Girls
Eric Carmen
Jilted John
Rembrandts
Timelords
Falco
Mr Oizo
The Buggles
Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg
Lou Bega
The Vapors
Toni Basil
Lieutenant Pigeon
MARRS
Minnie Riperton
Harold Faltermeyer
Frankee
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
Babylon Zoo
The Knack
Joe Dolce Music Theatre
Baz Luhrmann
Brian and Michael
Richard Harris
Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Crypt Kickers
Sugarhill Gang
Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
Chesney Hawkes
Kingsmen
Strawberry Switchblade
Millie
Flying Lizards
Morris Minor and The Majors
Grange Hill Cast
The 5.6.7.8's
Aneka
Renee and Renato
Cornershop

Shortlisted acts that didn't make it
Alphaville
J.Geils Band
Ben E. King
Bobby Hebb
Chef
M
Bobby McFerrin
The La's
Denise La Salle
Vanessa Paradis
Owen Paul
Thunderclap Newman
White Town

Any reaction to this list? Noticable omissions?

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wednesday's 6-8 a.m.
la musique francaise & more!


1. Paris Combo - high, low, in - motifs
2. The Dining Rooms - m. dupont - numero deux

3. Edith Piaf - le brun et le blond - la vie en rose

4. Jolie Holland - mexican blue - springtime can kill you

5. The Unicorns - les os - who will cut our hair when we're gone?
6. Alden Penner - the ghost of creaky crater - the ghost of creaky crater
7. Islands - rough gem - return to the sea

8. Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg - je t'aime moi non plus - je t'aime...moi non plus
9. Cat Power and Karen Elson - i love you (me either) - serge gainsbourg revisited

10. Keren Ann - jardin d'hiver - la biographie de luka philipsen

11. The Fiery Furnaces - nevers - bitter tea
12. Quantic - en focus featuring trinidad - mishaps happening
13. Elbow - teardrop (massive attack cover)

KUCI.ORG
wednesdays 6-8 a.m.

1. Brigitte Bardot - ma drague - the best of bardot
2. Baguette Quartette - fetiche - chez moi

3. Edith Piaf - la foule
4. Les Tit' Nassels - le frere saint-jean - bric a brac
5. Django Reinhardt - stompin' at decca - vol 2:
classic 1938-1939 recordings by the quintette du hot club de france

6. Jaymay - sea green, see blue - sea green, see blue EP
7. Elliott Smith - trouble (cat stevens cover) - "basement II" demos
8. Shelley Short - like anything, it's small - captain wild horse rides the heart of tomorrow

9. Keren Ann - dans ma ville - la biographie de luka philipsen
10. Gregory Page - april in paris - love made me drunk
11. Les Negresses Vertes - face a la mer - le grand deballage

12. Yann Tiersen - l'homme aux bras ballants - le phare
13. Beirut - mount wroclai (idle days) - gulag orkestar
14. M83 - tsubasa - dead cities, red seas & lost ghosts

15. Jolie Holland - mexican blue - springtime can kill you
16. Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg - je t'aime...moi non plus - je t'aime moi non plus
17. France Gall - j'ai retrouve mon chien - les sucettes

18. Les Sans Culottes - allo allo - fixation orale
19. Zebda - tomber la chemise - essence ordinaire
20. Gogol Bordello - start wearing purple - gypsy punks

21. Jacques Dutronc - j'aime les filles - en vogue
22. Paris Combo - attraction - attraction
23. Amelie-les-crayons - Ta Petite Flamme - putumayo presents: Paris

24. Serge Gainsbourg - Du Jazz Dans Le Ravin - love and the beat vol. 2
25. Final Fantasy - the cn tower belongs to the dead - has a good home