Now what?

I guess we will just have to wait and see.

86705309 Tommy Tutone

Rev, I think that is too many numbers?

ONE 2 many...

don't forget Ariel by Dean Friedman or Keemosabi by The Electric Indian. Mr. Mannsburden used to play that in music class.

vapors-turning japanese

wall of voodoo-mexican radio

romeo void-never say never(i might like you better if e slept together)

aimee mann-voices carry(oh he hit me song)

why me -Planet p project

remember these??? long time no hear.

Who sang Blind Man in the Bleachers! That one was good. aftternoon Dilight by the Starland Vocal Sound didn't have another one neither. Cant remember Planet p project.

Here are a few of my favorite one hit wonders:

Don't Misunderstand Me - Rossington Collins Band
Devil Woman - Cliff Richards (though he was/is big in UK)
Cars - Gary Numan
Black Velvet - Allanah Myles
Lie to Me - Jonny Lange
Naughty, Naughty - John Parr
Gold - John Stewart
Driver's Seat - Sniff & the Tears
Wish I had a Girl - Henry Lee Summers
Go for a Soda - Kim Mitchell
Train, Train - Blackfoot

I'm sure I will think of more later, though.

Jo

I only recently realized that "Devil Woman" was by Cliff Richard. Back in the early '80s, I watched (and loved) the British comedy "The Young Ones" when MTV aired it. Rick was a huge Cliff Richard fan. I knew he was big in the UK, but I had no idea that I actually knew a Cliff Richard song until recently. (The cast of "The Young Ones" also appeared in a Cliff Richard video, back in the day.)

I like most of the songs that have been posted so far. I'd add these from the '70s:

Kiss You All Over - Exile
Black Betty - Ram Jam
Rock On - David Essex
Hooked On A Feeling - Blue Swede
Hocus Pocus - Focus
Pop Muzik - M
Nicole - Point Blank
Chick-A-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It) - Daddy Dewdrop

Hunter

Hunter:

About your list - I like several you have on it, but I believe Exile went on to have several hits on the country chart. Couldn't name any, though, as I'm not a big fan of their country songs. If you count Exile anyway, perhaps we could include "Shakedown" by Bob Seger as it was his only #1 song and he did it without the Silver Bullet Band. What do you think?

Jo

You got some good ones there Hunter.

Although it doesnt count Bill Bartlett, the fingers of Ram Jam also had a hit or two with the Lemon Pipers.

The yodeling by focus would make a great song for Webb to cover.

Point Blank-Rusty Burns, another killer geetar picker. From down
around where Webb used to live if I remember through the fog correctly.

I wondered about Exile. I wasn't familiar with their country hits. And no, I don't see how Bob Seger, Bob Seger, Bob Seger, Bob Seger could count.

Man, I have most of these on my MP3 player! I was always an 80's man myself.

MM

A few of my own:
Autograph - Turn Up The Radio
Billy Thorpe - Children Of The Sun
Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting
Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me 'Round (Like A Record)
Diesel - Sausilito Summer Nights
My Sharona - The Knack
Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance
Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok
Peter Schilling - Major Tom (Coming Home)
Reunion - Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me)

That's it for now.

MM

I'm confused. I thought one hit wonder was someone or a band that only put out that one thing or at least one album then vanished. That doesn't seem to be the case with several of the names I see here...at least to me. Please don't anyone go crazy here and pull out a Wiki definition and start some long line of mess like I've seen at another BB recently.
(christina know of that one?)

Rusty Burns used to spend a lot of time here in Houston. I remember him helping us out in the studio.

Devil Woman was like a second round for Cliff, he was around in the 60's. I gotta admit, I liked The Young Ones.

Welcome to the Boomtown - David & David

They disbanded shortly after, but both collaborated with Sheryl Crow on her debut LP, Tuesday Night Music Club.

No one's mentioned the Bay City Rollers...

BCR can't really be OHW, their career was much larger across the pond and had many hits there. Did anyone else hear their version of "Rebel Rebel"? It was pretty good!

Hey, MM! When you mentioned "Children of the Sun" I went down to my vinyl archives to look for that album "Klattu". Couldn't find it (Darn kids.) Reminded me of that Neal Young song that started out, "I was lyin' in a burned out basement...." Seems like there were a few end of the world/extra terrestrial tunes around that time. The best thing was I found my copy of "The Sluggers-Over the Fence" with a very young Tom Comet on the cover. 1986 on Arista. One thing always leads to another. No beginning, no end, just an eternal Webb, as they say.....P.S. That album by Rossington Collins Band is pretty good, too.

Nese:

Re: Rebel, Rebel
I remember it. I liked it very well, too.

Jo

Who Let the Dogs Out - Baha Men
Put a ad in the Want Ads by The Honycombs
Nasty Dancer by Kilo
Ridin' by Chamillionaire
Mo Corn by Las Vegas Grind

Make A Curcuit With Me----Polecats

OK, I've thought of some more:

It's Rainin' Men - the Weather Girls
Red Rubber Ball - Cyrcle
In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
Car Wash - Rose Royce
99 Luftballoons - Nena (though I think they're big in Germany)
Take On Me - A-Ha
Rock Me Amadeus - Falco
Incense & Peppermint - Strawberry Alarm Clock
Journey to the Center of the Mind - Amboy Dukes
Forget Me Nots - Patrice Rushen (think Will Smith's Men in Black)
Achy Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia - Vicki Lawrence
Turn the Beat Around - Vicki Sue Robinson
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Stumblin' In - Suzi Quatro
Lady Marmalade - LaBelle
She Looks a Lot Like You - the Clocks
The Beat Goes On (Slipping to Glide) - the Kings
They Don't Know - Tracy Ullman
I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats

Jo

Take on me and Rock me Amedaus?!! I have not heard those two since I went to that Michel Bolton concert right by myself! Have not even wondered if those were still songs or nothing. Now that Achy Breaky Heart now thats a good one. Wouldnt mind them playing that one sometime.

mmmmm "children of the sun-billy thorpe. seem to recall talk that he used one of Duane Allmans les pauls for that record.by the way the whole album (children...) is pretty durn good.

Mississippi Queen - Mountain
Keep Your Hands To Yourself - Georgia Satellites
Bang A Gong - T-Rex
Wishing Well - Terrence Trent Darby
Seventeen - Winger
Brandy - Looking Glass

The Kings did "SWITCHIN' To Glide" and also This Beat Goes On. Others:
Yello - Oh Yeah
The Waitresses - I Know What Boys Like
Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
US3 - Cantaloop
Tony Basil - Mickey
Taylor R. Dean - Indiana Wants me
Talk Talk - Talk Talk
Tag Team - Whoomp There It Is
Taco - Puttin' On The Ritz
T'Pau - Heart And Soul
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Sly Fox - Let's Go All The Way
Sir Mix A Lot - Baby Got Back
Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy
Reflex - The Politics Of Dancing
Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
Power Station - Get It On (Bang A Gong)
Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away
Pilot - Magic
Paul Mauriat - Love Is Blue
Paper LAce - The Night Chicago Died
Outfield - Say It Isn't So
Old School Players - C'Mon And Ride It (The Train)
Animotion - Obsession
Alphaville - Big In Japan
Andrew Gold - Lonely Boy
Arcadia - Election Day
Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction
Big Country - In A Big Country
Biz Markie - Just A Friend
Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy

All for now....

MM

OK OK ... this thread was partly my idea (from a previous thread) ... and I haven't kicked in anything. Most of them have been covered, that would come off the top of my head... MM has been really filling it up .... where did you find that stuff - alphabetical and everything.... I do recall VH1 doing a top 100 countdown of one hit wonders....

Anyway, one of my favorite songs of all time is probably considered a one hit wonder - not that the lead singer and other band mates didn't go on to play for other successful bands but .... I would have to add....

"All Right Now" - by - Free - yes Paul Rodgers went on to make Bad Company a huge band... but I always loved that song - guess I always will ... but it is really the only "hit song" by the band called Free.

E

Yeah, I remember that VH1 special, hosted by The Shatner! I kept watching that to see if there were some that I had forgotten about. The list is alphabetical because I grabbed them from my playlist on my computer.

MM

"Fire and Water" was something of a hit by Free. "The Stealer" should have been. Few songs are as enduring as "All Right Now," I'll grant ya. Free was great. There's an exellent DVD doc out now that anyone who digs them should have. Wilson Pickett covered "Fire and Water," too. WW

Go on down there - Ru Paul & the Uhauls featuring Wee Wee Pole

I swear, Hunter, we are kindred spirits ... I love 'Hocus Pocus' and 'Pop Muzik' :-) ... and I'm nitpicking here, 'cause I love these topics that open the flood gates (and you folks have come up with some good ones!), but ... GiveMeASign, Blackfoot's Highway Song (a.k.a., Son of Free Bird) was pretty big, I think ... saw them live way back in the day ... they were pretty good ... and monstermkr, The Outfield's "Your Love" ("Josie's on a vacation far away ...") was a (second) big hit for them ... and on my "100 favorite songs" list, too ... but gee, that's another thread for another day ..... :-)

We must be, Frank! I've never known anybody else who liked both "Hocus Pocus" *and* "Pop Muzik!" 8-)

Several of the bands listed in this thread were actually two-hit wonders (like The Knack, which also had a pretty big hit with "Good Girls Don't", and Power Station, which also had a pretty big hit with "Some Like It Hot").

Hunter

I just checked, and Power Station actually had a bigger hit (#6 in the US) with "Some Like It Hot" than with "Get It On (Bang A Gong)" (#9 in the US).

We'll Sing in the Sunshine - Gayle Garnette
Lonesome Hobo - Roy Herd
You Cannot Touch This - MC Hammer
Down in Old Siam - Brevity Bros.

More of my favorites, and maybe I'll just reveal my ignorance of other songs from them:

Green-Eyed Lady - Sugarloaf
Word Up - Cameo
Hot Rod Lincoln - Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen
Hot Butter - Popcorn
Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo - Rick Derringer
Disco Duck - Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots
Convoy - C.W. McCall (fond memories of 5th grade)
Too Shy - Kajagoogoo
Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
One Thing Leads To Another - The Fixx
Ebony Eyes - Bob Welch
Der Kommisar - After the Fire (the song was by Falco, but After the Fire had a bigger hit with it in the U.S.)

Mountain? T Rex? Those bands are not one-hit wonders, any more than Led Zep was. They were ALBUM bands, never had much impact on the singles charts because they didn't release hardly any singles but they sure sold a ton of LPs.

Try the Human Beinz with Nobody But Me, Little Bit of Soul by the Music Explosion or Double Shot of My Baby's Love by the Swingin' Medallions. Those are true one-hit wonders, bands that remain totally unknown except for one hit song.

Spelling: Der Kommissar

Sugarloaf also had "Don't Call Us"
Bob Welsh also had "Sentimental Lady"
Both played a lot (at least on our local stations)
>>Frank: I honestly have never heard "Highway Song" on any station around here....sorry about that. Perhaps we should put them in the same catagory as Mountain & T-Rex (per Tommy Lee) as I know several people that have a lot of Blackfoot albums, too. ;)

Jo

One I have fond memories of is "Timothy" by the Buoys, a bouncy pop song about cannibalism.

Sugarloaf had a third almost-hit, "Tongue in Cheek." It was a fairly long song, with parodies of different styles of music. Had a CSN-like verse, a Zappa-like verse, etc. It got considerable airplay in my neck of the woods.

Free! Now that was some good stuff. Besides Rogers and the amazing Kossoff, don't forget Andy Fraser on the bass and Simon Kirke on the drums. I loved their sound. It was heavy, but sorta minimalist at the same time. There was a lot of space in it.

Which gets me started on a story. In 1970 I was in the Navy, stationed on Guam with a reconnaissance plane squadron, the old Super Constellations with the radar domes on top and bottom. I was an aviation electronics tech, worked mainly on UHF radios and navigation systems. We always had one or two planes operating out of DaNang, and my number came up to go on a three-month detachment working in the comm/nav shop there. I actually went to Viet Nam on the day that Jimi Hendrix died. As we were getting on the plane, one of the line crew guys drove up on a forklift and gave us the sad news.

Anyway, the Armed Forces Radio in Viet Nam was a lot better than the radio on Guam. That was a time when a lot of good songs were coming out. I heard "All Right Now" and "Lola" for the first time there.

Adrian Cronauer, the guy immortalized in the Robin Williams movie, wasn't on AFR when I was there, he was a little earlier. But he ended up in Roanoke working as a DJ on an easy-listening station, while I worked for another easy-listening station. I'm not sure I ever really met him, but we probably passed through some of the same parties since we were in the same social milieu. 1972, 1973 ... I know I went to plenty of parties then but I don't remember much about them.

I always felt Train Train was a bigger hit for Blackfoot then Highway song... though both are good tunes...

I knew Webb would know more about Paul R. and Free then most of us... he is Full Fledged Founder of the Rock-N-Roll Justice League...and as I recall a fan of Free. I don't think I've heard that tune Webb - its possible I could have and don't remember it... maybe you can play me a snip-it of it for me at the DH... and I do recall you mentioning the Paul Rodgers DVD - love to watch that sometime - he is such a great singer - I'll try to pick up on it.

Question for Webb -- do you like him (Paul Rodgers) singing with Queen... I think its a decent match - no way to replace Freddy Mercury though.... he was a little odd - but wrote great music / tunes and a darn good singer in his own right... but gone too soon.

E

FreddieMerc odd? How so? Boy he sure sung HIGH.

Snake you got a shortwave?

the cyrcle also had "turn down day" which was a big hit
Bob Welch was in Fleetwood Mac not too shabby

Ghost on the Beach---The Insiders

While I agree that Mountain and Trex were ALBUM bands..the topic is ONE hit wonders...both bands scored their only "hit single" with the aforementioned songs...Jimi Hendrix..perhaps the most influential artist of the late sixties himself can be considered a one hit wonder...his cover of Hey Joe is the only "single" that charted.

I think TREX charted 3 or 4 in Britland. Does that count?

One Toke Over The Line - Brewer & Shipley

TommyLee hit on what I was thinking about the term "one hit wonders"

This is one I remember hope I have the title right, I no the group is right.

Painter--Old songs never die.