Cuma 13 Şub 2009, 13:36
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.
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One Hit Wonders
- Wild thing - The Troggs
- Sugar, Sugar - The Archies
- Je t'aime... moi non plus - Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg
- Where Do You Go To My Lovely - Peter Sarstedt
- In the year 2525 - Zager & Evans
- Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum
- Popcorn - Hot Butter
- Mouldy Old Dough - Lieutenant Pigeon
- Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
- I Can Help - Billy Swan
- All By Myself - Eric Carmen
- In Zaire - Johnny Wakelin
- Ring my Bell - Anita Ward
- Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles
- Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
- My Sharona - The Knack
- Pop Muzik - M
- Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.
- Tainted Love - Soft Cell
- Come on Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners
- I Ran - A Flock Of Seagulls
- Too shy - Kajagoogoo
- Safety dance - Men Without Hats
- Only you - Flying Pickets
- Break my stride - Matthew Wilder
- Somebody's watching me - Rockwell
- It's Raining Men - The Weather Girls
- Take On Me - a-ha
- Tarzan Boy - Baltimora
- Axel F. - Harold Faltermeyer
- Life Is Life - Opus
- (I just) died in your arms - Cutting Crew
- I can't wait - Nu Shooz
- Two of hearts - Stacey Q
- Pump Up The Volume - M/A/R/R/S
- Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
- Wonderful life - Black
- Waiting For A Star To Fall - Boy Meets Girl
- What I Am - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
- I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers
- Walking On Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves
- Twist In My Sobriety - Tanita Tikaram
- Killer - Adamski
- I Touch Myself - diVINYLS
- There She Goes - The La's
- U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer
- The One And Only - Chesney Hawkes
- Unbelievable - EMF
- Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life - Monty Python
- Achy Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus
- What's Up - 4 Non Blondes
- Life In A Northern Town - The Dream Academy
- What is love - Haddaway
- Informer - Snow
- Runaway train - Soul Asylum
- Two princes - Spin Doctors
- Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm - Crash Test Dummies
- You Gotta Be - Des'ree
- Trouble - Shampoo
- Inside - Stiltskin
- Roll To Me - Del Amitri
- One of us - Joan Osborne
- You're Gorgeous - Babybird
- Spaceman - Babylon Zoo
- Eve Of Destruction - Barry McGuire
- No Rain - Blind Melon
- Breakfast At Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something
- Lemon Tree - Fool's Garden
- How Bizarre - OMC
- Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes
- Kiss The Rain - Billie Myers
- Tubthumping - Chumbawamba
- Bitch - Meredith Brooks
- Torn - Natalie Imbruglia
- Bittersweet symphony - The Verve
- Your Woman - White Town
- Save Tonight - Eagle-Eye Cherry
- Inside Out - Eve 6
- Sex and Candy - Marcy Playground
- Jeans On - David Dundas
- Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...) - Lou Bega
- You Get What You Give - New Radicals
- Driver's Seat - Sniff 'n' the tears
- Drops Of Jupiter - Train
- Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus
- Bad Day - Daniel Powter
- Lovefool - The Cardigans
- Wherever You Will Go - The Calling
- F.U.R.B. (F U Right Back) - Frankee
- The Reason - Hoobastank
- Closing Time - Semisonic
- Toy Soldiers - Martika
- Lovin' You - Minnie Riperton
- Sunny Came Home - Shawn Colvin
- Stay (I Missed You) - Lisa Loeb
- Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye - Steam
- Would I Lie To You - Charles & Eddie
- Lullaby - Shawn Mullins
- If You Could Only See - Tonic
- 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:
- In The Still Of The Night - The Five Satins
- Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
- Be Bop A Lula - Gene Vincent
- The Loco-Motion - Little Eva
- Wooly bully - Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs
- I Fought The Law - Bobby Fuller Four
- You keep me hangin' on - Vanilla Fudge
- Fire - Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
- Venus - Shocking Blue
- All Right Now - Free
- All The Young Dudes - Mott The Hoople
- How Do You Do - Mouth & McNeal
- The Hustle - Van McCoy
- The Boys Are Back In Town - Thin Lizzy
- Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
- Because The Night - Patti Smith Group
- Rapper's Delight - SugarHill Gang
- Fade To Grey - Visage
- The Message - Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five
- 99 Luftballons - Nena
- Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
- Miami Vice Theme - Jan Hammer
- Voyage, Voyage - Desireless
- Living In A Box - Living In A Box
- Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley
- Stay - Shakespear's Sister
- Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor
- Turning Japanese - The Vapors
- Hocus Pocus - Focus
- Love is all around - Wet Wet Wet
- Invisible - Alison Moyet
- Boom boom boom - The Outhere Brothers
- Cotton eye Joe - Rednex
- I Love You Always Forever - Donna Lewis
- MMMBop - Hanson
- Brimful Of Asha (Norman Cook Remix) - Cornershop
- Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
- Midnight At The Oasis - Maria Muldaur
- I Don't Like Mondays - The Boomtown Rats
- Drinking In L.A. - Bran Van 3000
- Blue (Da Ba Dee) - Eiffel 65
- Better Off Alone - Alice Deejay
- It Feels So Good - Sonique
- Something - Lasgo
- Stacy's Mom - Fountains Of Wayne
- Mundian To Bach Ke - Panjabi MC
- F**k It (I Don't Want You Back) - Eamon
- Turn Me on - Kevin Lyttle
- Funky Nassau - The Beginning Of The End
- No No Never - Texas Lightning
…and it's not finished yet, thx Bayou16!
Here we go: One Hit Wonders …what's left:
- Sh-Boom - The Chords
- For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield
- In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Single Version) - Iron Butterfly
- In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
- Low Rider - War
- Born to be alive - Patrick Hernandez
- Down Under - Men at Work
- Glory of Love - Peter Cetera
- Luka - Suzanne Vega
- Groove Is In The Heart - Deee-Lite
- Step By Step - New Kids On The Block
- Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinéad O'Connor
- It's My Life - Dr. Alban
- I'm Too Sexy - Right Said Fred
- Gangsta's paradise - Coolio
- Zombie - The Cranberries
- The Living Years - Mike & The Mechanics
- The Boy Is Mine - Brandy & Monica
- Truly Madly Deeply - Savage Garden
- Bye Bye Bye - *NSYNC
- Who Let the Dogs Out - Baha Men
- Don't leave me this way - The Communards
- Breathe - Blu Cantrell
- Mad World - Gary Jules
- Mississippi Queen - Mountain
- Touch Me (I Want Your Body) - Samantha Fox
- Kiss Me - Sixpence None the Richer
- D.I.S.C.O. - Ottawan
- Heaven Is a Halfpipe - OPM
- Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
- '74-'75 - The Connells
- Barely Breathing - Duncan Sheik
- Steal My Sunshine - LEN
- Simarik - tarkan
- Dancing In The Moonlight - Toloader
- Macarena - Los Del Rio
to be continued…
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Beside from the "official" list, my favorite German One Hit Wonder, the highlight of every party:
Accounting vehement protests I'll strikeout the artists with at least 3 votes against mentioning them here. ;)