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readyeddy?

09/08/2007, 14:02

Here's the thread where you can discuss those one hit wonders. The songs you love, the ones you hate, The ones you're trying to remember; just who the heck did that song anyway?

I'll start with a couple I like:

"Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues" by Danny O'Keefe.
I have always loved this song. I bought a Steve Goodman album back in the mid Seventies that had a cover of this song but somebody borrowed it permanently and I never was able to replace it. I finally found a Seventies collection that carried the danny O'Keefe original. Deeply melancholy but a very good song.

"Keep Your Hands To Yourself" by the Georgia Satellites
This song was released a few months before I returned to the U.S. from England, so I hadn't heard it very much but I soon found out that the local bars in my hometown had heard it enough to be a little sick of it. So I caught a lot of hell for playing it all the time on the jukebox.
It's infectious fun though and ranks with "Takin' Care of Business" as a good bar song any band could play.

Red_Skull_XIII

09/08/2007, 18:00

"Keep Your Hands To Yourself" by the Georgia Satellites
This song was released a few months before I returned to the U.S. from England, so I hadn't heard it very much but I soon found out that the local bars in my hometown had heard it enough to be a little sick of it. So I caught a lot of hell for playing it all the time on the jukebox.
It's infectious fun though and ranks with "Takin' Care of Business" as a good bar song any band could play.
I hate to admit that the Georgia Satellites are practically a one-hit wonder. You should check out "Let It Rock" if you liked "Keep Your Hands To Yourself", it's awesome.

I personally like "That Thing You Do" by the Oneders. ;)

KiwiGirl

09/08/2007, 19:53

DTM

09/08/2007, 19:58

Wow, this would be an excellent place to discuss One Hit Wonders for a possible future Rock Wars TOC. Reddy, you mind if I ask all of our RW peeps to chime in and discuss such songs (in general and for the TOC)?

readyeddy?

09/08/2007, 19:59

VelvetGuru9

09/08/2007, 20:05

My favourite one hit wonder is: Come on Eileen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z9bPrUark4)by Dexys Midnight Runners.

(Hey Eddy, Dan says youre not sure how to make links for songs? -he just taught me, so I can show you if your'e interested)
I'll tell you why I love this song. The beginning of the song starts out about Johnnie Ray. My mom told me a story about being 17 and living in New York (in the Bronx) back in the 50s (The part before I was born :nervous:) and how she was so crazy in love with Johnnie Ray and would do just about anything to meet him. Well, he was supposed to be doing a show in the area and she somehow found out what hotel he was gonna be staying at and then somehow snuck up to his floor and slept outside his room. She finally met him and she says all she did was get an autograph:cheeky: ...Yeah, right:o .

DTM

09/08/2007, 20:12

Im a child of the 80s, so I can definately think of a few (cant say theyre my favorites, but they should be One Hit Wonders):

Somebodys Watching Me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu1RP34FLXU) - Rockwell
One Night In Bangkok (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn4IqAlDdZY) - Murray Head
Heart And Soul (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJK7dMSd31k) - T'Pau
Busta Move (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3pevGHA9s8&mode=related&search=) - Young MC
Funky Cold Madina (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zligio51yP4) - Tone Loc
Babys Got Back (I Like Big Butts) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybfLRFacF-c) - Sir Mixalot
She Blinded Me With Science (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IlHgbOWj4o) - Thomas Dolby
Video Killed The Radio Star (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LB6Q_oycfQ) - The Buggles
Party All The Time (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5LX16zia2k) - Eddie Murphy :)

And on and on and on.

Big Mac35

09/08/2007, 21:00

AlienFlanders

09/08/2007, 21:58

Here is the updated list

5 o'Clock World - The Vogues (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP0_Pz8wKQY)
96 Tears - Question Mark & the Mysterions (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrTnaPa9BaA)
99 Red Balloons - Nena (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14IRDDnEPR4)
Afternoon Delight - the Starlight Vocal Band (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5axMyJ_-Z8)
All By Myself - Eric Carmen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KlhhvfAhM4)
All the Young Dudes - Mott the Hoople (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGlva74kGmc)
Alley Oop - Hollywood Argyles (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0h7enhTu0E)
Autobahn - Kraftwerk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c81X6BiI0Y)
Baby It's You - Promises (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyvgv9J6maE)
The Ballad of Davy Crockett- Fess Parker (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01rNP89pSyk)
Band of Gold - Freda Payne (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_65LLafsa9g)
Battle of Kookamonga - Homer & Jethro (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mma1xX73otg)
Beach Baby - First Class (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn97hvjWZA8)
I'm a B###h - Meridith Brooks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk58p1jeCCA)
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-Po8uJeoUw)
Black Betty - Ram Jam (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkA9k6lDags)
Black velvet - Alannah Myles (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut09zkRoG0g)
Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUNcZqZq2QM)
Born to Be Alive - Patric Hernandez (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-aI1Ch39ZU)
Brandy - Looking Glass (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR0oHQxlzGs)
Break My Stride - Matthew Wilder (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQl50dnAg44)
Breakfast At Tiffanys - Deep Blue Something (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6zsZrgPG64)
Brimful Of Asha - Cornershop (http://youtube.com/watch?v=5rQmB7SCrzc)
Brother Louie - Stories (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlm7PQ3NlRY)
Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EQCOshGwPI)
Busta Move - Young MC (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wJCmtZMc1g)
Ca Plane Pour Moi - Plastic Bertrand (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PITnJAnmjqw)
Captain Beaky - Keith Michell (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMzaiCS1jrM)
Cars - Gary Numan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cdgTWitj_o)
Cest La Vie - Robbie Nevil (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqFCbX9AHs4)
Chevy Van - Sammy Johns (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApoDwXVLDAk)
Chick-A-Boom - Daddy Dewdrop (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0JwXmy42vk)
Classical Gas - Mason Williams (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgUql7E7S-k) Classical Gas 2006 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=078N20Zxx1k)
Come Away With Me - Norah Jones (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBKcKQHZXks)
Come on Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z9bPrUark4)
Cool Jerk - The Capitols (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHIsqRaZqgs)
cool like dat - digable planets (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pvKzLXx3zY)
Counting Blue Cars - Dishwalla (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lahQCb2NZz0)
Crush - Jennifer Paige (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj5S1RCUDvM)
The Curly Shuffle - Jump in the Saddle Band (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKAfXdb5LsA)
D.O.A. - Bloodrock (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKiV34O0L50)
Dancing in the Moonlight - King Harvest (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeZcsPAZOXA)
Dawn of Correction - Spokesmen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmBmaYSeDYY)
Der Kommissar - After The Fire (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guvo7gUdUnE)
Disco Duck- Rick Dees (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97RjuC9YeXg)
Dizz Knee Land - dada (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4B0ht5xJUg)
Do You Know What I Mean - Lee Michaels (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtuth2jeTF0)
Dont Forget Me When Im Gone - Glass Tiger (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCN1f9tPq2g)
Don't Leave Me this Way - Thelma Houston (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWjBl5sRhuk)
Don't Put Another Dime in the Jukebox - Flirts (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVe8s5wpYXI)
Don't worry, be happy - Bobby McFerrin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IERzx5Spic)
Drift Away - Dobie Gray (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaPnOASOWIU)
Driver's Seat - Sniff & the Tears (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFwcmU6Ql0A)
Duelling Banjos - Eric Wiessberg & Marshall Brickman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3yNlNhzyn8)
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtPk5IUbdH0)
Election Day - Arcadia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snHsnpiQs3Q)
Escape(the Pina Colata song) - Rupert Holmes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVdhZwK7cS8)
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39ESOKkU1ho)
Everyones Gone to the Moon - Jonathon King (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlB7vBdt_IA)
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWvEXChflEE)
Fire - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOErZuzZpS8)
Flagpole Sitta - Harvey Danger (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xzxDRA93Nk)
Fly at Night - Chilliwack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX4FrvhGSdg)
Fly, Robin, Fly - Silver Convention (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM72iWami9M)
Funkytown - Lipps Inc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUm6TCbEK0g)
Funkytown - Pseudo Echo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8ae0gdXf5E)
The Future's So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades) - Timbuk 3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KPhOjF_H3o)
gimme dat ding - the pipkins (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQWWX3FPkaQ)
Goldfinger-Shirley Bassey (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsngeY0c0bA)
Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues - Danny O'Keefe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy1vZEZ_Q-4)
the graduation Song (friends forever) - Vitamin C (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHGkvBr6ZlU)
Green Tambourine - Lemonpipers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjZZhYlKHBY)
groove is in the heart - dee-lite (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJH2ubVZj2o)
Harper Valley PTA- Jeannie C. Riley (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExFO3reFQ5Q)
Heart And Soul - T'Pau (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJK7dMSd31k)
Heartbeat - Don Johnson (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULI5kolBpAk)
Here Comes the Hot Stepper - Ini Kamoze (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_czJ4GydE4)
Hobo Humping Slobo Babe - Whale (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa5SiU2U5_k)
Hocus Pocus - Focus (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpV5InLw52U)
Hold your head up - Argent (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXYiPPlXiM8)
Hot Rod Lincoln - Commander Cody (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CGpURoC_lo)
How Bizarre - OMC (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfJe8hQ8ha0)
The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE9oiMLIHGA)
I Could Be Good For You - 707 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pr5GJ7nU30)
I Do What I Do - John Taylor (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjU3N5nvcD8)
I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POl4vFp-5os)
I Don't Wanna Fall In Love - Jane Child (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjyGJE21ijE)
I Eat Cannibals - Toto Coelo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXigRDS7vpA)
I Like It Both Ways - Supernaut (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt4BvqKJ5pE)
I Melt With You - Modern English (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoD3BUhZ-Sk)
I Touch Myself - The Divinyls (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTneO6UgRuM)
I Want to Sex You Up - Color Me Bad (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9li1w2sMyE)
I Wish - Skee-Lo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icr0eW1fRSs)
If You Love Me - Brownstone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NoQC0Bo4gU)
Iko Iko - Belle Stars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5-1HoLM-aw)
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQfqSWe8eVE)
I'm Too Sexy - Right Said Fred (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipZDG6__Zfc)
In A Big Country - Big Country (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw2o_Go4QWI)
In a Daydream - The Freddy Jones Band (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv1CicbX5AQ) In a Daydream - The Freddy Jones Band (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71xcsICgI5U)
In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbdyrRlYR2E)
In the Year 2525 - Zager & Evans (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPd2KqRRLoE)
Ina Gadda Da Vida pt1 - Iron Butterfly (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdFWa_OgciI) Ina Gadda Da Vida pt2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of7gdaiq2EI)
Incense and Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um_wrZNnnmg)
The Israelites - Desmond Decker (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OYUVYEj_ko)
It never rains in Southern California - Albert Hammond (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pyC7WnvLT4)
It's Good News Week - Hedgehoppers Anonymous (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrEHDV1e460)
It's Raining Men - The Weathergirls (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWwyjmSbJPs)
Jackie Blue - Ozark Mountain Daredevils (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wf80ViipX4)
Jenny - Tommy Tutone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqUPApCUt90)
Joey - Concrete Blonde (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIIlUHBNkEc)
Journey to the center of your mind- Amboy Dukes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7vX7fTKbTM)
Judy in Disguise - John Fred and the Playboys (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeXKLdY6bro)
Just A Friend - Biz Markie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmO825gwApo)
Keep Your Hands to Yourself - Georgia Satellites (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTUoytNnZoM)
Key Largo - Bertie Higgins (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXtADupisjE)
Knock On Wood - Amii Stewart (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ztZ7WFo3nw)
kung fu fighting - carl douglas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJQu97_Xwiw)
LA Song - Beth Hart (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrZw8RToN2Y)
Lean on Me - Club Nouveau (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2Xun-QbGWw)
Lemon tree- Fools Garden (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCDIt50hRDs)
Let your Love Flow - Bellamy Brothers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKSNHcsqqKM)
Let's Go All the Way - Sly Fox (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsiPtvfdvDY)
Life in a Northern Town - Dream Academy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSmYvuvaJDg)
Life Is A Rock But And The Radio Rolled Me - Reunion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16kh-AP4OCU)
Lily the Pink - The Scaffold (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb-R7JJ-Ph4)
Little Arrows - Leapy Lee (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLuUXPb_YzY)
Little Green Bag - George Baker Selection (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L1hD5OlPtw)
The Lone Ranger - Quantum Jump (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZiS7Cb1f6Y)
Louie Louie - The Kingsmen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FhwTZPSe0c)
Love Missle F1-11 - Sigue Sigue Sputnik (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff974Ocxl4Q)
Love Plus One - Haircut 100 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f8Sser_DJU)
Lover's Concerto - The Toys (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrmzM7yT-9g)
Loving You - Minnie Rippleton (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX3K35jvY9A)
Lucky Number One - Lene Lovich (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eAw29VRIiU)
Ma Belle Amie - Tee Set (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyOg9G-0lR4)
Macarena - Los Del Rio (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z7t-Ox3XvU)
MacArthur Park - Richard Harris (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0D-boeOCG0)
Magic - Pilot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF7I6G8zAiE)
Major Tom - Peter Schilling (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Hs2AQwDgA)
Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...) - Lou Bega (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsjevQ7ZtCc)
Mama let him play - Doucette (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCQQL1cJ07Q)
Maniac - Michael Sembello (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxOlKvvLXP8)
Mickey - Toni Basil (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6lZJWgM2kI)
Mind Bender - Stillwater (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=92667683)
Moonlight Feels Alright - Starbuck (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaJEQrK_biU)
More More More-andrea True Connection (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYVWceeDR6A)
More than words - Extreme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt7L4X4li_k)
Mother Mother - Tracy Bonham (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhsRFYpuwIM)
Movin' On - Missouri (http://missouriband.com/Resources/Intro_Movin_On.mp3)
Music Box Dancer- Frank Mills (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N_tmH6y7ng)
My Boy Lollypop - Millie Small (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqcpt-BKZBM)
My Sister - Juliana Hatfield Threes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYwZzmCtIQQ)
Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye - Steam (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdCXSiTRR8c)
Never Ending Story - Limahl (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3khTntOxX-k)
New Age Girl (Mary Moon) - Deadeye Dick (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3zC0K-b7wg)
Nice to be with You - Gallery (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbkBt4bAM3I)
The Night Chicago Died - Paper Lace (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIrcSXqzZzY)
The Nights the Lights went Out in Georgia - Vicki Lawrence (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTkB9kRCU6U)
No Rain - Blind Melon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmVn6b7DdpA)
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyCn3ENm_Us)
No Time To Lose - Tarney Spencer Band (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzaXrM4pVjM)
Obsession - Animotion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpDrJjvuzfg)
Oh Yeah - Yello (from Ferris Bueller's day off) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q7FFjUpVLg)
On the Loose - Saga (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUJhCxFbFEo)
One Night In Bangkok - Murray Head (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn4IqAlDdZY)
One Tin Soldier - Coven (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM4ADoVc6TU)
One Toke Over the Line - Brewer & Shipley (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbbqIHHMVxA)
Party All The Time - Eddie Murphy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5LX16zia2k)
Pillow Talk - Sylvia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT975RvNqpI)
Play that Funky Music - Wild Cherry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4R2F6ecKeQ)
Please Come to Boston - Dave Loggins (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PX5t9VJweQ)
The Politics of Dancing - Re-flex (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAS7RxK4Uvc)
Popcorn - Hot Butter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N4ckFN96-k)
Popular - Nada Surf (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8g_wavcFR4)
Post Toastee - Tommy Bolin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq_9-SAlkwY)
Power of Love - Jennifer Rush (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEI2rXVcUh8)
Precious Little - Eleanor McEvoy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ybGNMbIrJw)
Prime Mover - Zodiac Mindwarp (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtnCcWOS7y8)
Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9H_cI_WCnE)
Puttin' on the Ritz - Taco (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1RsWqNIIAA)
Radioactive - the Firm (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdEmBe24Xa4)
Raise a Little Hell - Trooper (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STiuregSvHg)
Rapper's Delight - Sugar Hill Gang (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acGRPi4kkl4)
Respect Yourself - Bruce Willis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EINRNYL1wS0)
Rico Suave - Gerardo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaXp6ewtMoo)
Ride Captain Ride - Blues Image (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pza55C6L1l0)
Ringo- Lorne Greene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKa1GRH8MmE)
Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through - Jim Steinman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUFSPOTzUTk)
Rock the Boat - Hues Corporation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZDPzXdwLF0)
Rumors - Timex Social Club (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRte0S2a_dA)
Saturday Night - Whigfield (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcmBaRAj7FU)
Sausalito Summer Night - Diesel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfrkWDAQpzI)
Save Tonight - Eagle Eye Cherry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFBuFGG_04o)
say it say it - e.g. daily (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNJgVilhcBw)
Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfmnTEib64k)
Sex and Candy - Marcy Playground (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKl_7zK3fbI)
Shaddap You Face - Joe Dolce (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFacWGBJ_cs)
She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IlHgbOWj4o)
Shes so high -Tal Bachman (Randy's son) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVKcfwJxa54)
Shes Like The Wind - Patrick Swayze (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSGF1JB0F7U)
Shiny Shiny - Haysi Fantayzee (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjsnkIP4ddo)
Single Bed - Fox (Noosha Fox) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC_i_iYMq-c)
Six Days on the Road- Dave Dudley (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPPNNIe4xUY)
Sky High- Jigsaw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyrzIA9aqDw)
Sleeping Satellite - Tasmin Archer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuhDDx49TTw)
Smooth Up In Ya - Bulletboys (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF5LBTJwpl8)
Somebody's Out There - Triumph (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc4lOz90WXs)
Somebodys Watching Me - Rockwell (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu1RP34FLXU)
Something About You - Level 42 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgX-Eoz451A)
Something In the Air - Thunderclap Newman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pGht71KFkY)
Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAwo-F9CpVE)
St. Elmos Fire (Main In Motion) - John Parr (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVf4_WglzWA)
Steal My Sunshine - Len (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwtTOxouD5Q)
Summertime Girls - LFO (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHuGG_FsC20)
Sunny Came Home - Shawn Colvin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRWfmW-LDIQ)
Sunshine Go Away Today - Jonathan Edwards (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWjQ2dO61Oo)
Tainted Love -Soft Cell (http://youtube.com/watch?v=oEh5pWjcWCg)
Talk to Me - Wild Orchard (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Es_RaLndpT4)
Tarzan Boy - Baltimora (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r0n9Dv6XnY)
Teen Angel- Mark Dinning (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nBVdf7neVg)
Telstar - The Tornadoes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ybCjf6ras)
That Thing You Do - The Oneders (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O_gnSGS27o)
The Look in Your Eye - the Hughes Thrall Band (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpisNdxsRag)
The Promise - When in Rome (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVAcAq3MSMY)
The Rapper -- The jaggerz (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prbSbNCXJKw)
There's Something Going On - Frida (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9UtUwwvHE0)
Three Strange Days - School of Fish (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2rw_XDVfsg)
Timothy - Buoys (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGNdvKvbxYQ)
Tobacco Road - Nashville Teens (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3AWbZcLpGw)
Tones On Tail - Go! (http://youtube.com/watch?v=brziwKYa0X4)
Too Shy - Kajagoogoo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E2GwwjLXPk)
Torn - Natalie Imbruglia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHKKFf4EDlM)
Toy Soldiers - Martika (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpJy46o_7b0)
Trouble - Shampoo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1NoqUXuLhQ)
True - Spandau Ballet (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYb83KM4at4)
Tubthumping - Chumbawumba (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lJIjdajBww)
Tubular Bells pt1a - Mike Oldfield (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPEt5OTR6Vc) Tubular Bells pt1b (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk_rtkMr3e0) Tubular Bells pt2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4EZTLCtZ-g)
Tuff Enough by The Fabulous Thunderbirds (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak9QNs51vjw)
Turn the Beat Around - Vicki Sue Robinson (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKQqyqBCNi0)
Turn up the Radio - Autograph (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-0HY8zraXo)
Turning Japanese - The Vapors (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpCcelpvkps)
Undercover Angel - Alan O'Day (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMW5xam4sRo)
United States of Whatever - Liam Lynch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz7_3n7xyDg)
Up In a Puff Of Smoke - Polly Brown (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_9BGUeoVuk)
Vehicle - Ides of March (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJi3U24o3N8)
Venus- Shocking Blue (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2DBcbZc3ck)
Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LB6Q_oycfQ)
Walk away Renee - Left Banke (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seuwhZvXa6Y)
Walkin' in Memphis - Mark Cohn (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrT0gAbRqyw)
Walking on the Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9KHHkEluv4)
Waterloo- Stonewall Jackson (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuc4HtT13c0)
We Dont Have To Take Our Clothes Off - Jermaine Stewart (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID_N7rv-iN8)
What Would Brian Boitano Do? - DVDA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6QI2ThqZ50)
Whirly Girl - OXO (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ5Y3KXPDr0)
White Bird - It's a Beautiful Day (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt0oa4IqNqg)
Whoever You Are - Geggy Tah (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2UUvG-XuQs)
Why Me - Planet P (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svl1t4b1RD4)
Wild Wild West - Escape Club (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uCAWUXYKUM)
Winchester Catherdral - New Vaudeville Band (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv_RfFmJ5nA) start around 2mins50
Xanadu - Dave,Dee,Dozy,Beaky,Mick & Tich (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6QI2ThqZ50)
Yakety Sax- Boots Randolph (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEDg3WLvpUc)
The Ying Tong Song - The Goons (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nebe1zuEtbc)
You Don't Want Me Anymore - Steel Breeze (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPBbV57Hpto)
You Gotta Be - Desire' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhpZfltbnAQ)
You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) - Sylvester (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kphP-YDwE8Y)
You Only Get What you Give - New Radicals (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91WgM6dNLTE)

BudPalmer

09/08/2007, 22:02

Skee-Lo - I Wish (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icr0eW1fRSs)

dada - Dizz Knee Land (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4B0ht5xJUg&mode=related&search=)

Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha (http://youtube.com/watch?v=5rQmB7SCrzc) Who doesn't need a bosom for a pillow, I ask you?

AlienFlanders

09/08/2007, 22:05

VelvetGuru9

09/09/2007, 00:03

Here's some more one hit wonders I found in My Mp3 player, including:

Electric Avenue (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtPk5IUbdH0)- Eddy Grant
Black velvet (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut09zkRoG0g)- Alannah Myles?
Lemon tree (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCDIt50hRDs)- Fools Garden
More than words (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt7L4X4li_k)- Extreme
Don't worry, be happy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IERzx5Spic&mode=related&search=)- Bobby McFerrin (Awesome music vid :)) (seems to cheer me up)

And forgive my age here but what about 'For What Its Worth' by Buffalo Springfield? Or 'At Seventeen' by Janis Ian I'm not too sure how many hits they've had?
Buffalo Springfield had Bluebird and Mr. Soul. One of those had to be a hit.
Janis Ian had a song called Societys child that I'm pretty sure was a hit.

Now for some ROCK AND ROLL TRIVIA one of the artists you mentioned as a one hit wonder can actually make this list twice. NAME THE ARTIST AND SONG.

VelvetGuru9

09/09/2007, 00:08

Xanadu (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6QI2ThqZ50) - Dave,Dee,Dozy,Mick & Tich
I remember these guys, but you forgot Beaky :laugh: Dave Dee, (i know he either became a cop or was one) Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich. They were always a bit more popular in the UK than the states. Not sure how they did down under.

VelvetGuru9

09/09/2007, 00:28

I hate to admit that the Georgia Satellites are practically a one-hit wonder. You should check out "Let It Rock" if you liked "Keep Your Hands To Yourself", it's awesome.

I personally like "That Thing You Do" by the Oneders. ;)
If you like the Satellites, check out Dain Baird's solo rock hit without the rest of the Satellites: Dan Baird - I Love You Period (You Love Me Question Mark)

hail_eris

09/09/2007, 00:58

My favourite one hit wonder is: Come on Eileen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z9bPrUark4)by Dexys Midnight Runners.
And because of exposure to this video at a young and impressionable age, I am cursed to forever be an all-day sucker for short-haired girls in overalls. It's a relatively small population, I'll grant you, but thankfully my wife is an occasional member of it. I'll add the following classics to the list:

Sly Fox - "Let's Go All the Way" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsiPtvfdvDY) Just makes me think of Miami Vice for some reason. Don't think they ever featured it on the show, but there's something very "blazer with the sleeves rolled up" about this song.

Slade - "Run Runaway" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHoPYLQvnQM) This one's fun because many people don't even realize is a one-hit wonder - it's so easy to just assume that it's being performed by Big Country on some kind of effects pedal bender. Of course, Slade was much bigger in the UK than in the States, and Yanks probably know them best for "Come on Feel the Noise" - a song they wrote and originally performed, but which was made famous by Quiet Riot.

Baltimora - "Tarzan Boy" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r0n9Dv6XnY) Much to my chagrin, these days this song is better known as a commercial jingle for Listerine. But watch the video - the outfit and dance moves (both of which manage to make Marc Almond look positively heterosexual by comparison), the hilarious video production (you get a clinic on the various "wipes" at the editor's disposal), and most of all, a hairdo that you could set your watch by. Provided you wanted to set your watch to 1986.

AlienFlanders

09/09/2007, 02:19

I remember these guys, but you forgot Beaky :laugh: Dave Dee, (i know he either became a cop or was one) Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich. They were always a bit more popular in the UK than the states. Not sure how they did down under.

Fixed it, I put down what was on youtube, forgot about Beaky, which has just reminded me of ........Captain Beaky (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMzaiCS1jrM)....:laugh:

AlienFlanders

09/09/2007, 02:22

And this one is for the UK and Oz people ....Ying Tong Song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nebe1zuEtbc) - The Goons

Pashmina

09/09/2007, 06:37

Nena - 99 Red Balloons

Actually one of my favourite songs ever.

turdburglar47

09/09/2007, 07:03

"Funky Cold Medina" isn't a one-hit wonder. You can't forget "Wild Thing."

"Tubthumping" by Chumbawumba (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lJIjdajBww) They knew it, too. The yelly guy wore a "One Hit Wonder" t-shirt on Leno or something.

Sex and Candy by Marcy Playground (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKl_7zK3fbI)

Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xzxDRA93Nk)

Sunny Came Home by Shawn Colvin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRWfmW-LDIQ) (even though I always preferred Get Out Of This House (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFVcQN7K-Yg)

I'm not even sure if this was a hit, but Precious Little by Eleanor McEvoy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ybGNMbIrJw)

And I always forget this one from the late 80s. I Don't Wanna Fall In Love by Jane Child (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjyGJE21ijE)

She Blinded Me With Science by Thomas Dolby (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IlHgbOWj4o)

I Ran by A Flock of Seagulls (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUjIA3Rt7gk)

FUN!

lurker

09/09/2007, 07:19

readyeddy?

09/09/2007, 07:23

Found these for you readyeddy?

Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy1vZEZ_Q-4) - Danny O'Keefe

Keep Your Hands to Yourself (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTUoytNnZoM) - Georgia Satellites
I see you're doing what you can to solidify your wizardly status. I hope people are checking out Danny O'Keefe as most are probably too young to be aware of him.

AlienFlanders

09/09/2007, 08:06

The name Danny O'Keefe didn't ring a bell, but I remembered the song once I had found it.

Here are a couple more OHW

Lily the Pink (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb-R7JJ-Ph4) - The Scaffold

Winchester Catherdral (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv_RfFmJ5nA) - New Vaudeville Band (ignore the first 2 minutes 51 seconds)

readyeddy?

09/09/2007, 08:27

AlienFlanders

09/09/2007, 08:39

I tried it again, it played okay. Anyone else having a problem with it?

DisturbedChild

09/09/2007, 11:01

ice ice baby - vanilla ice (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp-is6S_b_g)

cool like dat - digable planets (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pvKzLXx3zY)

say it say it - e.g. daily (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNJgVilhcBw) I don't know if she had any other hits but she's beautiful so that counts, right?

theanalogkid

09/09/2007, 13:46

Afternoon Delight by the Starlight Vocal Band.

DTM

09/09/2007, 14:07

Winchester Cathedral? I don't think I've heard that since I was ten years old. There seems to be something wrong with the Danny O'Keefe link from the YouTube side of things. it played about halfway and then froze up.

DTM, consider "Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues" as my nomination for your contest. I'm sure someone else will wisely nominate the Georgia Satellites. Unless we're allowed multiple nominations? Eh? Eh?
If so I'd like to add "The Future's so Bright (I Gotta wear Shades)" by Timbukthree and "The Curly Shuffle" by the Jump in the Saddle Band. (Gimme an inch and I'll take a mile.)

Oh, were not going to be doing the actual nomminating for quite some time now, Id just like this to be a place (again, with your permission) for us all to discuss one hit wonders, comment on whether we feel others picks do or dont fit this category, and make an overall list (as Big as we can get) to pick from when nominations for that particular RW takes place. So hopefully someone can compile a list here as we go (links do not need to be attached), and we can all add to and comment on what we have so that when the actual nominations do come, we dont have everyone going, that doesnt fit, I know other songs from them, etc.

DTM

09/09/2007, 14:25

Safety Dance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcOZ6xFxJqg)
Ghostbusters (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja5oW-IkPVk)
Whip It (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxH39QlRuhg)

Sorry if these aren't one hit wonders, I certainly can't remember any other single releases from these guys. In defence of 80s hair bands, Extreme did have at least one other hit single in the form of "Hole Hearted". I also have "Kid Ego" on a 45 somewhere.

Safety Dance was from a group called Men Without Hats, which also had a fairly well known hit Pop Goes The World (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjIrrL8gaNQ&mode=related&search=). The Whip It is from Devo, who Im sure had more than just the single hit song, no? Anyone?

readyeddy?

09/09/2007, 15:05

Safety Dance was from a group called Men Without Hats, which also had a fairly well known hit Pop Goes The World (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjIrrL8gaNQ&mode=related&search=). The Whip It is from Devo, who Im sure had more than just the single hit song, no? Anyone?
Well they had a cover of "Working In a Coal Mine' for the "Heavy Metal" movie. I think that was an FM hit. It was pretty good.

readyeddy?

09/09/2007, 15:10

I tried it again, it played okay. Anyone else having a problem with it?
I tried it again and it played fine. God, I love that song. Makes me want to open a beer to cry in, but I love it.

DTM

09/09/2007, 15:22

turdburglar47

09/09/2007, 15:35

Devo also did a weird cover of "I Can't Get No Satisfaction (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvcuaJy9OwI)" that some say is better than the original. If for no other reason than that you can actually believe these guys have problems getting nooky.

Wild Wild West by The Escape Club (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uCAWUXYKUM) - starts 56 seconds in.

AlienFlanders

09/10/2007, 01:18

So hopefully someone can compile a list here as we go

List being compiled.

Unless someone argues, we have 53 (not counting Devo) so far.

DTM

09/10/2007, 01:56

Id question Men Without Hats and Vanilla Ice as one hit wonders, personally, but thats just me. :)

AlienFlanders

09/10/2007, 02:20

Consider them questioned.

Provisionally 50 on the list now. (double counted Dolby)

DTM

09/10/2007, 02:39

Wish I had a video link for We Dont Have To Take Our Clothes Off (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID_N7rv-iN8), thats gotta be a OHW.

EDIT: Found it. :)

DTM

09/10/2007, 06:34

Walk On The Ocean (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcHB060NKYo&mode=related&search=) - Toad The Wet Sprocket
My Sharona (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXVitkINDp0) - The Knack
Maniac (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxOlKvvLXP8)- Michael Sembello
True (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYb83KM4at4)- Spandau Ballet
St. Elmos Fire (Main In Motion) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVf4_WglzWA) - John Parr
Cest La Vie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqFCbX9AHs4) - Robbie Nevil
Dont Forget Me When Im Gone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCN1f9tPq2g) - Glass Tiger
Break My Stride (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQl50dnAg44) - Matthew Wilder
Our House (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9H9IDGolus) - Madness
In A Big Country (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTqwaTXdPPQ) - Big Country
Something About You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgX-Eoz451A) - Level 42
Cars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cdgTWitj_o)- Gary Numan
Jenny (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqUPApCUt90) - Tommy Tutone
I Ran (So Far Away) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg-VTt8LJbA) - A Flock Of Seagulls
Der Kommissar (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guvo7gUdUnE) - After The Fire
Major Tom (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Hs2AQwDgA) - Peter Schilling
Mickey (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6lZJWgM2kI)- Toni Basil
Twilight Zone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1sf2CzEq0w) - Golden Earring

God, I love 80s music. :)

turdburglar47

09/10/2007, 06:40

Toad the Wet Sprocket's bigger hit was "All I Want," if I recall correctly.

Golden Earring had "Radar Love," dude. Can't forget that.

DTM

09/10/2007, 06:55

Ah, very good, I stand corrected on both. :)

AlienFlanders

09/10/2007, 07:22

How about Eye of the Tiger (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uELMzJQSKmU) - Survivor.

DTM

09/10/2007, 07:50

Well Id say Burning Heart and a few other minor hits for Survivor would knock them out of the OHW category.

AlienFlanders

09/10/2007, 08:02

Yes, I go along with that

Here are a few more
The Israelites (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OYUVYEj_ko) - Desmond Decker
Spirit in the Sky (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAwo-F9CpVE) - Norman Greenbaum
Funkytown (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUm6TCbEK0g) - Lipps Inc
Ma Belle Amie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyOg9G-0lR4) - Tee Set
Alley Oop (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0h7enhTu0E) - Hollywood Argyles

According to One Hit Wonder Website (http://www.onehitwondercentral.com) Whip It - Devo and For What it's Worth - Buffalo Springfield are both OHWs

And the one to rule them all Part 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdFWa_OgciI) so big it is in 2 parts Part 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of7gdaiq2EI)

And before anyone else beats me to it, the monster multi parter

Tubular Bells - part 1a (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPEt5OTR6Vc)
Tubular Bells - part 1b (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk_rtkMr3e0)
Tubular Bells - part 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4EZTLCtZ-g)

DTM

09/10/2007, 08:04

Eh, I personally wouldnt consider Whip It a OHW, as I know a few others songs from Devo.

readyeddy?

09/10/2007, 08:15

Flock of Seagulls had more then one hit. "Space Age Love Song" for instance. It just wasn't quite as big as "I Ran".

VelvetGuru9

09/10/2007, 10:58

Ma Belle Amie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyOg9G-0lR4) - Tee Set
I love this song, thanks for the old-school hookup.

hail_eris

09/10/2007, 12:36

I must concede that Modern English qualifies with their megahit "I Melt with You." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoD3BUhZ-Sk) This saddens me, as their debut album, Mesh and Lace, is a wonderfully gothy shoegazer number, and it was far more typical of their body of work than the poppy dance hit that made them famous.

AlienFlanders

09/10/2007, 20:52

One more for the 80's
Ca Plane Pour Moi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PITnJAnmjqw) - Plastic Bertrand (I know he had other hits in France/Europe but I only know this one).

And at present we have 75 OHW (Flock of Seagulls pending)

DTM

09/11/2007, 01:49

theanalogkid

09/11/2007, 15:25

Escape(the Pina Colata song) by Rupert Holmes.

lensnart

09/11/2007, 15:56

Im a child of the 80s, so I can definately think of a few (cant say theyre my favorites, but they should be One Hit Wonders):

Funky Cold Madina (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zligio51yP4) - Tone Loc
Babys Got Back (I Like Big Butts) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybfLRFacF-c) - Sir Mixalot

And on and on and on.

For Tone Loc Wild Thing was just as big a hit as Funky Cold Medina, and even if Jump On It didn't play at every sporting event in North America, Sir Mix-A-Lot would be far from a one-hit wonder.

lensnart

09/11/2007, 16:02

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Whip It (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxH39QlRuhg)

Sorry to play the one hit wonder police here but Devo are nowhere near one-hit wonders. The Girl U Want, Jocko Homo, Satisfaction, these guys are pioneers.

m_a_caque

09/11/2007, 16:09

kung fu fighting by carl douglas?

dee-lite- groove is in the heart?

lensnart

09/11/2007, 16:13

Here are a few new wave ones for your consideration:

Tones On Tail: Go! (http://youtube.com/watch?v=brziwKYa0X4)

Soft Cell: Tainted
Love (http://youtube.com/watch?v=oEh5pWjcWCg)

Also:
Don Maclean: American Pie (http://youtube.com/watch?v=QHkT2YfqHE4)

turdburglar47

09/11/2007, 17:01

Here are a few new wave ones for your consideration:

Soft Cell: Tainted
Love (http://youtube.com/watch?v=oEh5pWjcWCg)

Does it count if their one hit is a cover song?

Then I'd nominate Pseudo Echo's cover of "Funkytown."

And there's always "Take On Me" by A-Ha.

AlienFlanders

09/11/2007, 21:01

I don't think this was hit but it should have been Butterfly Ball - Love is All (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAIIm_B7ID0) - Roger Glover

theanalogkid

09/12/2007, 00:54

Don Maclean a.k.a. Don Mclean had a hit with "Starry Starry night".

hail_eris

09/12/2007, 01:22

And there's always "Take On Me" by A-Ha.
I'd argue that their other single - "The Sun Always Shines on TV" - is actually a better song. It just didn't have a legendary video to support it.

Soft Cell: Tainted Love (http://youtube.com/watch?v=oEh5pWjcWCg)
"Tainted Love" is certainly their biggest performer on the charts, but "Sex Dwarf" was a monster club hit.

I would have nominated Bow Wow Wow for their song "I Want Candy," (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNHcaIJETZo) but they also scored a minor hit with the follow up, "Louis Quatorze." For music history buffs, this flash-in-the-pan pop act was masterminded by Malcolm McLaren, the man responsible for the Sex Pistols. Yeah, it's one of the reasons why I don't give McLaren and his mohawked Monkees anywhere near the credit that others do when discussing the foundations of punk.

DTM

09/12/2007, 02:25

For Tone Loc Wild Thing was just as big a hit as Funky Cold Medina, and even if Jump On It didn't play at every sporting event in North America, Sir Mix-A-Lot would be far from a one-hit wonder.

Ah yes, of course, Wild Thing from Tone Loc I know full well (you can take Funky Cold Medina off the list AF). Though I didnt know Sir Mix Alot did anything big besides I Like Big Butts.

DTM

09/12/2007, 02:26

Sorry to play the one hit wonder police here but Devo are nowhere near one-hit wonders. The Girl U Want, Jocko Homo, Satisfaction, these guys are pioneers.

I agree on Devo, though by name I have no idea about those songs. :) They at least did Working On A Coal Mine, which should be enough to take them off this list.

DTM

09/12/2007, 02:28

I'd argue that their other single - "The Sun Always Shines on TV" - is actually a better song. It just didn't have a legendary video to support it.

"Tainted Love" is certainly their biggest performer on the charts, but "Sex Dwarf" was a monster club hit.

I would have nominated Bow Wow Wow for their song "I Want Candy," (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNHcaIJETZo) but they also scored a minor hit with the follow up, "Louis Quatorze." For music history buffs, this flash-in-the-pan pop act was masterminded by Malcolm McLaren, the man responsible for the Sex Pistols. Yeah, it's one of the reasons why I don't give McLaren and his mohawked Monkees anywhere near the credit that others do when discussing the foundations of punk.

Ill agree with Ah Ha, though I dont know many other of their songs besides The Living Daylights (soundtrack to the James Bond film). Bow Wow Wow I had no idea did another song, and even by name I have no idea what Louis Quatorze is. :)

AlienFlanders

09/12/2007, 02:33

Tone Loc off, Devo off, AHA off.

What's the word on For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield?

Ignoring Butterfly Ball (which I don't think was a hit) we have 83.

Hey DTM, has anyone suggested Funkytown -Lipps Inc/Pseudo Echo Original vs Cover?

DTM

09/12/2007, 02:49

Not that I know off. If you want to, just PM me names and links and Ill add it to the list.

AlienFlanders

09/12/2007, 07:04

The list so far

99 Red Balloons - Nena
Afternoon Delight - the Starlight Vocal Band
Alley Oop - Hollywood Argyles
American Pie -Don Maclean
Baby It's You - Promises
Babys Got Back (I Like Big Butts) - Sir Mixalot
Black velvet- Alannah Myles?
Break My Stride - Matthew Wilder
Brimful Of Asha - Cornershop
Busta Move - Young MC
Ca Plane Pour Moi - Plastic Bertrand
Captain Beaky....- Keith Michell
Cars - Gary Numan
Cest La Vie - Robbie Nevil
Come on Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners.
cool like dat - digable planets
Der Kommissar - After The Fire
Dizz Knee Land - dada
Dont Forget Me When Im Gone - Glass Tiger
Don't worry, be happy- Bobby McFerrin
Electric Avenue- Eddy Grant
Escape(the Pina Colata song) - Rupert Holmes
Fire - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Flagpole Sitta - Harvey Danger
For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield
Funkytown - Lipps Inc
Funkytown - Pseudo Echo
Ghostbusters -
Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues - Danny O'Keefe
groove is in the heart?- dee-lite
Heart And Soul - T'Pau
Hobo Humping Slobo Babe - Whale
I Don't Wanna Fall In Love - Jane Child
I Like It Both Ways - Supernaut
I Melt With You - Modern English
I Wish - Skee-Lo
In A Big Country - Big Country
In the Year 2525 - Zager & Evans
Inna Gadda Da Vida - Iron Butterfly
Jenny - Tommy Tutone
Keep Your Hands to Yourself - Georgia Satellites
kung fu fighting - carl douglas?
Lemon tree- Fools Garden
Let's Go All the Way - Sly Fox
Lily the Pink - The Scaffold
Ma Belle Amie - Tee Set
Major Tom - Peter Schilling
Maniac - Michael Sembello
Mickey - Toni Basil
More than words- Extreme
My Sharona - The Knack
One Night In Bangkok - Murray Head
Our House - Madness
Party All The Time - Eddie Murphy
Precious Little - Eleanor McEvoy
Prime Mover - Zodiac Mindwarp
Run Runaway - Slade
say it say it - e.g. daily
Sex and Candy - Marcy Playground
Shaddap You Face - Joe Dolce
She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
Single Bed - Fox (Noosha Fox)
Snoopy vs the Red Baron - Royal Guardsmen
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Somebodys Watching Me - Rockwell
Something About You - Level 42
Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum
St. Elmos Fire (Main In Motion) - John Parr
Sunny Came Home - Shawn Colvin
Tarzan Boy - Baltimora
The Israelites - Desmond Decker
The Ying Tong Song - The Goons
Tones On Tail- Go!
True - Spandau Ballet
Tubthumping - Chumbawumba
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles
Walk On The Ocean - Toad The Wet Sprocket
We Dont Have To Take Our Clothes Off - Jermaine Stewart
What Would Brian Boitano Do? - DVDA
Winchester Catherdral - New Vaudeville Band
Xanadu - Dave,Dee,Dozy,Beaky,Mick & Tich

DTM

09/12/2007, 07:13

Hey, what about Once Bitten, Twice Shy from Great White?

readyeddy?

09/12/2007, 07:35

Carl Douglas did do "Kung Fu Fighting".
I think the song "Bluebird" by Buffalo Springfield was an FM hit.

Here's a few that might qualify:

Timbuk 3 "The Future's So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KPhOjF_H3o

Sylvia "Pillow Talk"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7KIrkFCVq0

Jump In the Saddle Band "The Curly Shuffle"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKAfXdb5LsA

readyeddy?

09/12/2007, 07:40

Hey, what about Once Bitten, Twice Shy from Great White?
Do FM hits count? Because I know Great White had several songs that got a lot of airplay in the St Louis area.

DTM

09/12/2007, 07:45

Really, like which ones? Dont think Ive heard anything from this besides this one really (though I of course could be wrong)

AlienFlanders

09/12/2007, 09:53

Black Betty (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkA9k6lDags) - Ram Jam

FoxInStocks

09/12/2007, 11:02

The Monroes, "What Do All the People Know?"

theanalogkid

09/12/2007, 11:05

Starry Starry night was a big hit for Mclean. If you are going to knock some of the others, then this is gone to.

theanalogkid

09/12/2007, 11:11

Are these people OHW if they have another lesser known but still charted hit? Case in point My Sharona by the Knack. Off that same album, they had a hit with Good Girls Don't(But I Do).

readyeddy?

09/12/2007, 12:59

Really, like which ones? Dont think Ive heard anything from this besides this one really (though I of course could be wrong)
"Rock Me", "Face the Day" and "Save Your Love" all get played a lot here.

Rock Me
http:www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwplXLNbeX0

Save Your Love
http:www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZAhHKAzvd0

Face the Day
http:www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC66q3N2f_I

DTM

09/12/2007, 14:06

Are these people OHW if they have another lesser known but still charted hit? Case in point My Sharona by the Knack. Off that same album, they had a hit with Good Girls Don't(But I Do).

Ive actually heard of that one too, so you can knock the Knack (:)) off this list AF.

DTM

09/12/2007, 14:23

"Rock Me", "Face the Day" and "Save Your Love" all get played a lot here.

Rock Me
http:www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwplXLNbeX0

Save Your Love
http:www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZAhHKAzvd0

Face the Day
http:www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC66q3N2f_I

Hmmmmm, cant say Ive ever heard of those songs before, but if youre say theyre popular enough, I believe you.

readyeddy?

09/12/2007, 14:31

So what'd YOU think of them? I imagine Great White didn't make a huge impact in New Zealand.

readyeddy?

09/12/2007, 14:32

So what'd YOU think of them? I imagine Great White didn't make a huge impact in New Zealand.

"Save Your Love" is a nice ballad.

How the heck did this become a double post?

DTM

09/12/2007, 14:36

Not sure, as Im from New York, and have only been here for the past 4 years. :)

DTM

09/12/2007, 15:46

Say, did Gloria Gaynor do anything besides I Will Survive (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UIfEqC5R8E)?

theanalogkid

09/12/2007, 17:55

She had a hit 4 or 5 years earlier with Never Can Say Goodbye.

AlienFlanders

09/12/2007, 19:08

My Sharona off.

At this point we have 86 (87 if Butterfly Ball is counted :laugh: )

Konmel

09/13/2007, 00:29

Some others to consider:

Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missle F1-11
Big Audio Dynamite - The Bottom Line
Haysi Fantayzee - Shiny Shiny
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You

Konmel

09/13/2007, 00:39

Haircut 100 - Love Plus One
Toto Coelo - I Eat Cannibals
Flirts - Don't Put Another Dime in the Jukebox
Animotion - Obsession
Til Tuesday - Voices Carry
Martika - Toy Soldiers
Timbuk 3 - The Future's so Bright I gotta wear Shades
The Toys - Lover's Concerto (an oldie)
Information Society - What's on your mind

It was Ray Parker Jr. who did Ghostbusters

Also, I would disagree with Madness being on the list. They also had "one step beyond," "house of fun," "it must be love."

Konmel

09/13/2007, 01:52

Some more (this is fun):

Grandmaster Flash - White Lines
Yellow - Oh Yeah (from Ferris Bueller's day off)
Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town

AlienFlanders

09/13/2007, 02:16

Didn't Grandmaster Flash also have The Message?

HartAttack

09/13/2007, 03:13

Biz Markie - Just A Friend
Tom Cochran - Life Is A Highway (recently covered by Rascal Flatts)
Bulletboys - Smooth Up In Ya
Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance (not sure if already mentioned)
Wild Wild West - Escape Club
B###h - Meridith Brooks

Great White had some great stuff on the Psycho City CD. Old Rose Motel is a song that has some weird visuals to it

AlienFlanders

09/13/2007, 07:12

Lucky Number One (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eAw29VRIiU) - Lene Lovich (I know she had a couple of minor releases after this).

Konmel

09/13/2007, 08:49

Didn't Grandmaster Flash also have The Message?

Very well could have. I'm only aware of White Lines from radio play -- I was never really into the group.

Thought of some others:

Katrina and the Wave - Walking on the Sunshine
Joan Osbourne - What if God was one of us

In all my posts, I have put the artist first, and then the song. I just realized most are doing it the opposite way. Sorry.

hail_eris

09/13/2007, 11:17

Information Society - What's on your mind
"Walking Away" was at least as big as "What's On Your Mind," and they had a minor hit with the first single from their follow-up album.

Big Audio Dynamite - The Bottom Line
I can think of "Rush" and "The Globe" right off the top of my head, so I'd say that they definitely don't qualify.

VelvetGuru9

09/13/2007, 13:31

Didn't Grandmaster Flash also have The Message?
The Message was theirs also, but I'm not sure of hit status. These songs were done back in the day before Rap music was widely accepted. But can any rap tune ever beat The Rake's "Street Justice" :p

Grand Master Flash had another song called New York New York that was a club hit, but I'm not sure if it was a top 40 type of song.

CustomCreator

09/13/2007, 13:41

I'm really showing my age here, but anyway:

Chevy Van (Sammy Johns)
The Night Chicago Died (Paper Cup)
In The Summertime (Mungo Jerry)
Chick-A-Boom (Daddy Dewdrop)
Undercover Angel (Alan O'Day)
Up In a Puff Of Smoke (Polly Brown)
Sausalito Summer Night (Diesel)
Breakin' Away (Balance)
Whirly Girl (OXO)
You Don't Want Me Anymore (Steel Breeze)
Jackie Blue (Ozark Mountain Daredevils)

DTM

09/13/2007, 14:10

Also, I would disagree with Madness being on the list. They also had "one step beyond," "house of fun," "it must be love."

Dont think Ive heard of any of those songs, care to post some links for them so we can all see if Madness and Our House fits the OHW bill? :)

DTM

09/13/2007, 14:13

Joan Osbourne - What if God was one of us.

I was actually thinking of this one as well, though Im pretty sure Joan has at least one or two well known songs other than this one, no?

DTM

09/13/2007, 15:20

Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky
Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting
Wild Cherry - Play that Funky Music
Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays
The Vapors - Turning Japanese
Sugar Hill Gang - Rapper's Delight
Bertie Higgins - Key Largo
Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio
Taco - Puttin' on the Ritz
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax
Limahl - Never Ending Story
Autograph - Turn up the Radio
Sly Fox - Let's Go All the Way
Club Nouveau - Lean on Me
Belle Stars - Iko Iko
The Divinyls - I Touch Myself
Mark Cohn - Walkin' in Memphis
Tom Cochrane - Life is a Highway
Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy
Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite
Blind Melon - No Rain
Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Deep Blue Something - Breakfast At Tiffanys
Tracey Bonham - Mother Mother
Los Del Rio - Macarena
Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)

Thoughts? :)

Vevilaughs

09/13/2007, 15:45

Has no one mentioned Lisa Loeb "Stay" yet?

Then there is:
Minnie Rippleton "Loving You"
Color Me Bad "I Want to Sex You Up"
Brownstone "If You Love Me"
Jennifer Paige "Crush"
Crazytown "Butterfly"
The Weathergirls "It's Raining Men"
Toni Basil "Mickey"
New Radicals "You Only Get What you Give"

some songs get redune so many times, you forget that they were a #1 hit wonder in the begining

Eric Carmen "All By Myself"

VelvetGuru9

09/13/2007, 15:49

Hey DTM, I don't think I put in any requests yet, and I'll just take three of the ones you list.

Let me have:
Blind Melon - No Rain
Divinyls - I Touch Myself (Wayne's World - funny)
Right Said Fred - I'm too Sexy (my theme music - It gets played when I walk into stores)

DTM

09/13/2007, 15:55

If youre talking for a OHW TOC, that wont be for a while now, probably end of Jan actually. This thread is just to make ourselves a BIG list so that when nominations come we can all choose our TOC picks from it (and also to just talk about and discuss OHW as a whole, of course)

Konmel

09/13/2007, 16:30

"Walking Away" was at least as big as "What's On Your Mind," and they had a minor hit with the first single from their follow-up album.

I can think of "Rush" and "The Globe" right off the top of my head, so I'd say that they definitely don't qualify.

And Medicine Show. I just thought of that one; I haven't heard of the two you mentioned, but I was never really into them -- just what I heard on the radio at that time.

And you are probably right about Info Soc -- another group I wasn't into but could only remember that one song. They always reminded me of the Human League.

My bad.

AlienFlanders

09/13/2007, 20:36

Billy Don't Be a Hero (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDq_xJlF0TE) - Paper Lace

At this point we have 148.

VelvetGuru9

09/13/2007, 21:05

Billy Don't Be a Hero (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDq_xJlF0TE) - Paper Lace

At this point we have 148.
Paer Lace never had a hit with Billy Don't be a Hero. The band that had a hit with that song was Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods. Paper Lace was a OHW for the song The Night Chicago Died.

VelvetGuru9

09/13/2007, 21:11

Billy Don't Be a Hero reminds me of some other songs from that era
Beach Baby by First Class
Please Come to Boston by Dave Loggins
Sunshine Go Away Today by Jonathan Edwards
It never rains in Southern California by Albert Hammond
The Nights the Lights went Out in Georgia by Vicki Lawrence

Konmel

09/13/2007, 21:12

I would disagree with Frankie Goes To Hollywood being on there. Besides Relax, they had: Two Tribes, Welcome to the Pleasuredome, Warriors of the Wasteland.

But you had some good ones, DTM. I'll find some links for Madness and FGTH when I get home.

Madness - One Step Beyond (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0sVcWbqpug)
Madness - House of Fun (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt36UlJ7tDk)
Madness - It Must Be Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnTmRKuMqqs)

FGTH - Two Tribes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTOQUnvI3CA)
FGTH - Warriors of the Wasteland (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfuNW1QL3Wc)
FGTH - Welcome to the Pleasuredome (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2XuVpHSpjY)

What about Musical Youth -- Pass the Dutchie ?

DTM

09/14/2007, 03:42

I must say I personally have never heard those Madness or Frankie songs before (not that I can remember any of them), though if you believe they were hits (or semi-hits even) I believe you.

And Musical Youth sounds good to me, Ill second that one.

readyeddy?

09/14/2007, 03:53

AlienFlanders

09/14/2007, 07:22

Did the Guess Who? have any other hits apart from American Woman?

AlienFlanders

09/14/2007, 07:27

Thunderclap Newman- "Something in the Air". Sorry; I'm not in the mood to provide links right now as I have to do it the hard way, and I don't have that kind of patience right now. I love that song though.

Something In the Air (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pGht71KFkY) for those who missed it/never heard it.

Drunky

09/14/2007, 09:24

One more for the 80's
Ca Plane Pour Moi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PITnJAnmjqw) - Plastic Bertrand (I know he had other hits in France/Europe but I only know this one).

Frankly, I don't know any other songs he made :p. This one definitely qualifies for being a one hit wonder.

Which makes me think of another one:

Patrick Hernandez - Born to be alive (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-aI1Ch39ZU).

VelvetGuru9

09/14/2007, 11:11

Did the Guess Who? have any other hits apart from American Woman?
The Guess Who had a hit with Young Girl too and These Eyes

DOOMBOTSKI

09/14/2007, 11:46

I recently listened to Have a Nice Decade-The 70's Pop Culture Box.
7 discs set that includes a ton of OHW.

Silver Convention-Fly, Robin, Fly
Bellamy Brothers- Let your Love Flow
England Dan and John Ford Coley- I'd Really Love to see You Tonight
Firefall-You are the woman
Vicki Sue Robinson-Turn the Beat Around
Rose Royce-Car Wash
Stories-Brother Louie
Terry Jacks- Seasons in the Sun
Hues Corporation-Rock the Boat
Ides of March-Vehicle
Blues Image- Ride Captain Ride
Ocean- Put your Hand in the Hand
Brewer & Shipley- One Toke Over the Line
Coven-One Tin Soldier
Looking Glass- Brandy
King Harvest- Dancing in the Moonlight
Gallery- Nice to be with You

Tons more.
Please don't get me started I could name 100 more OHWs

Aside note on Slade
The band cannot be considered a OHW.
With 13+ studio albums released and 10+ top ten charted hits in the UK
does not qualify as a OHW(IMHO). Not as popular here in the states as in the UK, Slade has put out Quite a few hits in their day.
Cum on Feel the Noize
Mama we're all Crazee now
Good bye T'Jane
My oh My
Run Run Away
Get down get with it
and many more...

Thanks for the Memories

DOOMBOTSKI

09/14/2007, 11:51

The Guess Who had a hit with Young Girl too and These Eyes

Dont know this song: Young Girl

But other hits included:

Laughin'
Clap for the Wolfman
No Sugar Tonight
Share the Land
Undone

Burton Cummings of the Guess Who, Might be Considered a OHW
Randy Bachman of the Guess Who, left to form, Brave Belt and BTO.

readyeddy?

09/14/2007, 12:05

Did the Guess Who? have any other hits apart from American Woman?
Oh yeah, "These Eyes" for instance. I'm sure there's others.

Vevilaughs

09/14/2007, 13:30

lensnart

09/14/2007, 14:16

I have to kibosh a few of these suggestions:

Tom Cochrane has a huge hit with Big League (http://youtube.com/watch?v=eoDDnOUKDQI) as well as two or three number one hits in Canada.

Unfortunately MMM MMm MMM was not the Crash Test Dummies only hit see the Superman Song (http://youtube.com/watch?v=bFEKRVJF0mM) Amongst others.

Here is the Sir Mix A-Lot video for Jump On It (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Cm0HrQmA6B4) which was a huge hit in certain parts of the states and plays far to often at sporting events.

DTM

09/14/2007, 15:07

I hate to be so myopic in this but is there any kind of criteria that is in use for the determination of "one hit wonders."

While most of us in the USA would not be aware of the success of some artists we woudl consider OHW in the UK or other countries.

This should be decided before we move on to the main event.

Agreed, which is why for the OHW TOC we would be focusing more on those songs that were as such in America primiarily (as a nice majority of those who participate in Rock Wars are American or live in America) Lord knows a group that may have had a one hit wonder in the USA may have had tons of other hits in Europe, though for the ease of choosing songs for this list, well focus more on the songs that were OHWs primarily in the USA (least for the Rock Wars OHW TOC, anyway).

DTM

09/14/2007, 15:08

readyeddy?

09/14/2007, 15:22

Agreed, which is why for the OHW TOC we would be focusing more on those songs that were as such in America primiarily (as a nice majority of those who participate in Rock Wars are American or live in America) Lord knows a group that may have had a one hit wonder in the USA may have had tons of other hits in Europe, though for the ease of choosing songs for this list, well focus more on the songs that were OHWs primarily in the USA (least for the Rock Wars OHW TOC, anyway).
Hmmm, a band from the U.S. called the Long Ryders had a hit in the Eighties in the U.K. called "Looking for Lewis and Clark". They never had a hit in the U.S. If I hadn't been in England at the right time I might never have heard of them. I'm glad I did as they were hugely influenced by one of my musical heroes, Gram Parsons.
Since the U.K. has such a huge influence on music in general, shouldn't an exception be made for them? Just asking?

DTM

09/14/2007, 15:27

Well, Im not setting a hard and fast ruling on this as yet, not by myself (as always with my TOCs, I like to have as much member feedback as possible), so quite possibly sure on your question. I just feel that there were a few songs already on this list that were classic OHWs that may have been removed because they had smaller hits not in America. Im sure we can just carry on as normal, and work out the details of it all as we go. I just feel that such a list would be easier to compile if we focused on one specific region or area, which in this case would be where much of the RW members are and happened to be one of the hardest places on earth to have a musical hit.

AlienFlanders

09/14/2007, 21:56

So far we have 166, although a couple might fall out on appeal.

DTM

09/14/2007, 22:05

Are you marking the ones that some have doubts with on your list AF, maybe with an A (for Appeal) or bolding them out or something?

VelvetGuru9

09/14/2007, 22:53

Dont know this song: Young Girl.
I must have been tired or something, That's Gary Puckett & the Union Gap. Geez man, what was I thinking?

CustomCreator

09/14/2007, 23:00

Smokin' in the Boys' Room - Brownsville Station

Konmel

09/14/2007, 23:18

Where is the most revised, current list?

AlienFlanders

09/15/2007, 05:01

Here is the present list, any objections are moved off to another list.

99 Red Balloons - Nena
Afternoon Delight - the Starlight Vocal Band
All By Myself - Eric Carmen
Alley Oop - Hollywood Argyles
Baby It's You - Promises
Beach Baby - First Class
B###h - Meridith Brooks
Black velvet - Alannah Myles
Born to Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez
Brandy - Looking Glass
Break My Stride - Matthew Wilder
Breakfast At Tiffanys - Deep Blue Something
Breakin' Away - Balance
Brimful Of Asha - Cornershop
Brother Louie - Stories
Busta Move - Young MC
Butterfly - Crazytown
Ca Plane Pour Moi - Plastic Bertrand
Captain Beaky - Keith Michell
Car Wash - Rose Royce
Cars - Gary Numan
Cest La Vie - Robbie Nevil
Chevy Van - Sammy Johns
Chick-A-Boom - Daddy Dewdrop
Come on Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners.
cool like dat - digable planets
Crush - Jennifer Paige
The Curly Shuffle - Jump in the Saddle Band
Dancing in the Moonlight - King Harvest
Der Kommissar - After The Fire
Dizz Knee Land - dada
Dont Forget Me When Im Gone - Glass Tiger
Don't Put Another Dime in the Jukebox - Flirts
Don't worry, be happy - Bobby McFerrin
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
Escape(the Pina Colata song) - Rupert Holmes
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star
Fire - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Flagpole Sitta - Harvey Danger
Fly, Robin, Fly - Silver Convention
Funkytown - Lipps Inc
Funkytown - Pseudo Echo
The Future's So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades) - Timbuk 3
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr
Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues - Danny O'Keefe
groove is in the heart? - dee-lite
Heart And Soul - T'Pau
Hobo Humping Slobo Babe - Whale
The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground
I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats
I Don't Wanna Fall In Love - Jane Child
I Eat Cannibals - Toto Coelo
I Like It Both Ways - Supernaut
I Melt With You - Modern English
I Touch Myself - The Divinyls
I Want to Sex You Up - Color Me Bad
I Wish - Skee-Lo
I'd Really Love to see You Tonight - England Dan and John Ford Coley
If You Love Me - Brownstone
Iko Iko - Belle Stars
I'm Too Sexy - Right Said Fred
In A Big Country - Big Country
In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry
In the Year 2525 - Zager & Evans
Inna Gadda Da Vida - Iron Butterfly
The Israelites - Desmond Decker
It never rains in Southern California - Albert Hammond
It's Raining Men The Weathergirls
Jackie Blue - Ozark Mountain Daredevils
Jenny - Tommy Tutone
Just A Friend - Biz Markie
Keep Your Hands to Yourself - Georgia Satellites
Key Largo - Bertie Higgins
kung fu fighting - carl douglas
Lean on Me - Club Nouveau
Lemon tree- Fools Garden
Let your Love Flow - Bellamy Brothers
Let's Go All the Way - Sly Fox
Life in a Northern Town - Dream Academy
Lily the Pink - The Scaffold
Love Missle F1-11 - Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Love Plus One - Haircut 100
Lover's Concerto - The Toys
Loving You - Minnie Rippleton
Lucky Number One - Lene Lovich
Ma Belle Amie - Tee Set
Macarena - Los Del Rio
Major Tom - Peter Schilling
Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...) - Lou Bega
Maniac - Michael Sembello
Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo
Mickey - Toni Basil
More than words - Extreme
Mother Mother - Tracey Bonham
Never Ending Story - Limahl
Nice to be with You - Gallery
The Night Chicago Died - Paper Cup
The Nights the Lights went Out in Georgia - Vicki Lawrence
No Rain - Blind Melon
Obsession - Animotion
Oh Yeah - Yellow (from Ferris Bueller's day off)
Once Bitten, Twice Shy - Great White
One Night In Bangkok - Murray Head
One Tin Soldier - Coven
One Toke Over the Line - Brewer & Shipley
Party All The Time - Eddie Murphy
Pillow Talk - Sylvia
Play that Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Please Come to Boston - Dave Loggins
Precious Little - Eleanor McEvoy
Prime Mover - Zodiac Mindwarp
Put your Hand in the Hand - Ocean
Puttin' on the Ritz - Taco
Ram Jam - Black Betty
Rapper's Delight - Sugar Hill Gang
Ride Captain Ride - Blues Image
Rock the Boat - Hues Corporation
Sausalito Summer Night - Diesel
say it say it - e.g. daily
Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks
Sex and Candy - Marcy Playground
Shaddap You Face - Joe Dolce
She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
Shiny Shiny - Haysi Fantayzee
Single Bed - Fox (Noosha Fox)
Sleeping Satellite - Tasmin Archer
Smokin' in the Boys' Room - Brownsville Station
Smooth Up In Ya - Bulletboys
Snoopy vs the Red Baron - Royal Guardsmen
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Somebodys Watching Me - Rockwell
Something About You - Level 42
Something In the Air - Thunderclap Newman
Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum
St. Elmos Fire (Main In Motion) - John Parr
Sunny Came Home - Shawn Colvin
Sunshine Go Away Today - Jonathan Edwards
Tarzan Boy - Baltimora
That Thing You Do - The Oneders
Tones On Tail - Go!
Toy Soldiers - Martika
True - Spandau Ballet
Tubthumping - Chumbawumba
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
Turn the Beat Around - Vicki Sue Robinson
Turn up the Radio - Autograph
Turning Japanese - The Vapors
Undercover Angel - Alan O'Day
Up In a Puff Of Smoke - Polly Brown
Vehicle - Ides of March
Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles
Voices Carry - Til Tuesday
Walk On The Ocean - Toad The Wet Sprocket
Walkin' in Memphis - Mark Cohn
Walking on the Sunshine - Katrine and the Waves
We Dont Have To Take Our Clothes Off - Jermaine Stewart
What Do All the People Know? - The Monroes
What Would Brian Boitano Do? - DVDA
Whirly Girl - OXO
Wild Wild West - Escape Club
Winchester Catherdral - New Vaudeville Band
Xanadu - Dave,Dee,Dozy,Beaky,Mick & Tich
The Ying Tong Song - The Goons
You are the woman - Firefall
You Don't Want Me Anymore - Steel Breeze
You Only Get What you Give - New Radicals

AlienFlanders

09/15/2007, 05:04

Did Sylvester have any other hits beyond You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)?

readyeddy?

09/15/2007, 07:32

Brownsville Station also had "The Martian Boogie".

Here's some more:

Mind Bender by Stillwater
Timothy by the Buoys
Hey, Jealousy by the Gin Blossoms

AlienFlanders

09/15/2007, 10:33

I am pretty sure the Gin Blossoms had other hits beside that one.

theanalogkid

09/15/2007, 11:45

Rose Royce had another hit from that same movie called I Wanna Get Next To You.

Eddie Murphy also had a minor hit with Put the Boogie in Your Butt.

Ray Parker had another hit with A Woman Needs Love

Sorry for the news. Great list!

readyeddy?

09/15/2007, 12:31

I am pretty sure the Gin Blossoms had other hits beside that one.Well according to Wikipedia they did, and apparently "The Martian Boogie" was strictly treated as a Dr. Demento novelty song.

Vevilaughs

09/15/2007, 14:00

Since we are being USA-centric with this list, I think a "hit" should be any song that made the top Ten. If a band/artist only had one song make the top 10, then they would be considered a one-hit wonder?

Other definitions out there?

DTM

09/15/2007, 15:05

Heck, Im using the term "hit" in this case as I song I personally have heard of before (not from actually owning said album, but being played often on the radio). Ive seen people here knock certain artists off with other "hits" theyve done, but I myself have Never heard of them before. In those instances, for me personally alone, Id still count them as OHWs.

Example: theanalogkid tells me Eddie Murphy had hits with another song, though I only know him from Party All The Time. To me, PATT is still a one hit wonder. Same with Ray Parker Jr, who I only really know from Ghostbusters, and earlier with Madness and Frankie Goes To Hollywood. I only know them from their one big song, though of course they will have others (sometimes whole albums, with videos), though if Ive never ever heard them before, it doesnt make them less a OHW to me.

Which is probably why its best to mark or seperate those that are in question, keeping them on the list, and asking for them to be further discussed, asking for other peoples opinions on whether they have ever heard of any other songs from such artists before or not. Majority rules could decide in that case whether someone is a OHW or not.

readyeddy?

09/15/2007, 16:01

I think a hit should be based on overall popularity of the songs. There are a lot of great songs that made a lot of FM playlists that never went near anybody's top 40 list. For instance "Stairway to Heaven" was never anywhere near Casey Kasem but it's a bigger song then nearly everything Casey Kasem ever dedicated to someone. I also think sticking with top ten only, shuts too many good songs out. it's supposed to be "One Hit Wonders" not "One Hit Wonders that made the top ten".

AlienFlanders

09/16/2007, 08:25

Here are a couple more to bring tears to your mind

Purple People Eater (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9H_cI_WCnE) - Sheb Wooley
Battle of Kookamonga (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mma1xX73otg) - Homer & Jethro
Telstar (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ybCjf6ras) - The Tornadoes
Tobacco Road (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3AWbZcLpGw) - Nashville Teens
Green Tambourine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjZZhYlKHBY) - Lemonpipers
Little Arrows (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLuUXPb_YzY) - Leapy Lee

The Lone Ranger (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZiS7Cb1f6Y) - Quantum Jump

Konmel

09/16/2007, 13:20

How about Too Shy by Kajagoogoo (not sure how to spell it).

readyeddy?

09/16/2007, 14:06

White Bird by It's a Beautiful Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt0oa4IqNqg

This ends just over the six minute mark, not the nine minutes it leads you to believe.

kontrol

09/17/2007, 13:08

Nevermind. I see a discussion is up on the very thing I asked.

turdburglar47

09/17/2007, 13:37

Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio." Can't forget that one.

DTM

09/17/2007, 14:02

I think thats on the list already. What about the Cherry siblings:

Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance

Vevilaughs

09/17/2007, 15:11

I think I have a couple of more...

You Gotta Be Desire'
Rico Suave Can't remember the guy

have we disqualified Lisa Loeb "Stay" as a OHW? I think for sure she would be on the list.

And what about "I think We're Alone Now" by Tiffany. I think that was her onluy chart topper.

DTM

09/17/2007, 15:17

Tiffanys hardly a favorite, even in the day, but shes done at least a few more songs over her cover of I Think Were Alone Now.

Ive at least heard of Couldve Been from her, and I am by no means a fan. :)

theanalogkid

09/17/2007, 15:41

Ray Parker Jr. also had at least 2 hits with Raydio: Jack and Jill, and You Can't Change That. I get my stuff straight from youtube. I would link but to be honest, I don't know how. Anyway, I am not checking on the whole list, just those artist I reconize and know they had another song out. It may not have been as popular, but was still a hit. The Eddie Murphy song may not have been a hit, but it came out before Party all night.

bagman04

09/17/2007, 15:51

How about

Lou Baega- Mambo #5
Chumba Wuma- Tub Thumper
the macarana YUCK! :confused:

DTM

09/17/2007, 15:54

All of those are actually already on, I think.

readyeddy?

09/17/2007, 17:02

Here's a couple more:

Louie Louie by The Kingsman
http:www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FhwTZPSe0c

Do You Know What I Mean by Lee Michaels
http:www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtuth2jeTF0

Vevilaughs

09/17/2007, 18:02

I don't think this song is on the list and it gives you a look at what Fergie looked like before drugs did there work:

Wild Orchard "Talk to Me"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Es_RaLndpT4

AlienFlanders

09/17/2007, 20:13

Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio." Can't forget that one.

Didn't they have hit with "Far Side of Crazy" as well?

AlienFlanders

09/17/2007, 20:21

How about

Lou Baega- Mambo #5
Chumba Wuma- Tub Thumper
the macarana YUCK! :confused:

All those in,

these out so far Ray Parker out, Lisa Loeb out, eddie Murphy out.

182 so far

DOOMBOTSKI

09/17/2007, 21:17

I'll Add Some More...

LIFE IS A ROCK BUT AND THE RADIO ROLLED ME- REUNION
Long Tall Glasses-leo Sayers
Music Box Dancer- Frank Mills
Sky High- Jigsaw
Magic- Pilot
Venus- Shocking Blue
Disco Duck- Rick Dees
More More More-andrea True Connection

If It Hasn't Been Edited Yet, paper Lace Did the Night Chicago Died Not paper Cup

On An Off Thought
Mott The Hoople Had Only One American Charted Hit
all The Young Dudes
Does This Count As A Ohw?

theanalogkid

09/17/2007, 22:26

Leo Sayers had When I Need You hit #1 in the UK and Top 5 here. Also had You Make Me Feel Like Dancing.

DOOMBOTSKI

09/17/2007, 22:30

Leo Sayers had When I Need You hit #1 in the UK and Top 5 here. Also had You Make Me Feel Like Dancing.

BIG ARSE BRAIN FART ALL I COULD THINK OF WAS "I CAN DANCE"

Konmel

09/17/2007, 23:36

How about "Election Day" from Arcadia and "I Do What I Do" from John Taylor?

DTM

09/18/2007, 02:33

All those in,

these out so far Ray Parker out, Lisa Loeb out, eddie Murphy out.

182 so far

Ray and Lisa maybe I can understand, but I cant believe Eddie had another hit besides Party All The Time.

AlienFlanders

09/18/2007, 05:56

Two HcRealmers and Wikipedia say Eddie is no OHW

As a solo artist, Murphy had two hit singles, "Party All the Time" (which was produced by Rick James) and "Put Your Mouth on Me" in the 1980s. "Party All the Time" was featured on Murphy's 1985 debut album How Could It Be, which also included a minor follow-up R&B hit in the the title track, a duet with vocalist Crystal Blake. This track was written by Rusty Hamilton and was produced by Stevie Wonder's cousin Aquil Fudge after a brief falling out and bet with Rick James. In 2004, VH-1 and Blender magazine voted "Party All the Time" number seven among the "50 Worst Songs of All-Time." Sharam used a sample of Murphy's Party All The Time for the UK #8 hit PATT (Party All The Time) in 2006.

readyeddy?

09/18/2007, 06:47

Here's a couple of hits with morbid subject matter.

Timothy by The Buoys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGNdvKvbxYQ

D.O.A. by Bloodrock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKiV34O0L50

DTM

09/18/2007, 07:27

Two HcRealmers and Wikipedia say Eddie is no OHW

Eh, depending on the site you go to, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and several others of their iconic ilk are all OHWs too. :p Personally I dont recall, myself, Eddie sining anything big besides PATT, though I will of course abide by the overall decision here (even if I dont personally agree with it) :)

AlienFlanders

09/18/2007, 07:36

If it happens to fall back on the list when the OHW RW starts who's to say?:laugh:

DTM

09/18/2007, 07:42

HA, you never know. :p

Dark Flash2099

09/18/2007, 21:32

"All Along The Watchtower" is the only Top 40 hit The Jimi Hendrix Experience had.

VelvetGuru9

09/18/2007, 22:54

Leo Sayers had When I Need You hit #1 in the UK and Top 5 here. Also had You Make Me Feel Like Dancing.
And a song called Long Tall Glasses or something like that.

VelvetGuru9

09/18/2007, 22:56

What about the Raspberries? I know "Please, Go All the Way" was a hit and I know Eric Carmen had a couple solo hits, but I can't think of another Raspberries tune.

Konmel

09/18/2007, 23:17

I'm pretty sure I thought of another:

"The Politics of Dancing" by the Re-flex.

Vevilaughs

09/19/2007, 02:29

Eh, depending on the site you go to, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and several others of their iconic ilk are all OHWs too. :p Personally I dont recall, myself, Eddie sining anything big besides PATT, though I will of course abide by the overall decision here (even if I dont personally agree with it) :)

My Alegbra teacher "Disco" Bob use to sing PATT while writing problems on the black board (yes, it was long time ago and I had black boards in H.S.)

DTM

09/19/2007, 03:25

While were on the topic of actors singing (with SOLO Hits :p), we could always add Bruce Willis' Respect Yourself and Patrick Swayzes Shes Like The Wind. :)

AlienFlanders

09/19/2007, 05:35

While were on the topic of actors singing (with SOLO Hits :p), we could always add Bruce Willis' Respect Yourself and Patrick Swayzes Shes Like The Wind. :)

I think my avatar is all the answer I need.:laugh:

Konmel

09/19/2007, 10:47

While were on the topic of actors singing (with SOLO Hits :p), we could always add Bruce Willis' Respect Yourself and Patrick Swayzes Shes Like The Wind. :)

Those were hits? :laugh:

DrmngCelestial

09/19/2007, 11:35

Who's Johnny -El Debarge (cracked the chart then no further success as a soloist)

DTM

09/19/2007, 13:59

Those were hits? :laugh:

Believe it or not, even if it wasnt your taste (or mine) of music, yes they were. :)

DTM

09/19/2007, 14:00

Who's Johnny -El Debarge (cracked the chart then no further success as a soloist)

I was thinking that as well, though DeBrages bigger hit Rythm Of The Night (from the movie The Last Dragon) nixes them as OHWs.

hail_eris

09/19/2007, 14:26

I was thinking that as well, though DeBrages bigger hit Rythm Of The Night (from the movie The Last Dragon) nixes them as OHWs.
Danged straight it does! I've got a friend who's mad about The Last Dragon. I spent the better part of a decade looking for a copy of that soundtrack (it went out of print pretty early). So, yeah, I knows me some De Barge songs when I hears 'em.

DTM

09/19/2007, 14:27

He also married a very young Janet Jackson, if I recall.

readyeddy?

09/19/2007, 15:54

While were on the topic of actors singing (with SOLO Hits :p), we could always add Bruce Willis' Respect Yourself and Patrick Swayzes Shes Like The Wind. :)
Shouldn't Don Johnson be included for a triumvirate? I forget the name of his song though.

DTM

09/19/2007, 16:00

Heartbeat.......God, Im such an 80s loser. :)

hail_eris

09/19/2007, 16:24

The '80s were a golden age for actors-turned-singers. None of the J-Lo or Mandy Moore nonsense you see today. We had titans of the small and silver screen. We had Rick Springfield, Frank Stallone, Tom Wopat, the entire cast of Miami Vice (with the possible exception of Edward James Olmos). We had Chuck Norris singing the theme to "Walker, Texas Ranger" and Lee Majors crooning over a bunch of great stock footage at the beginning of "The Fall Guy." We had action stars who decided to pick up a microphone instead of a gun. Patrick Swayze spent an afternoon (presumably when he wasn't busy feathering his hair, tearing out someone's throat, or blowing up Russians) recording "She's Like the Wind." Bruce Willis took time out from the hectic shooting of Hudson Hawk to give us The Return of Bruno. These were sacrifices - brave sacrifices - made by the men who won the Cold War (on a pop cultural front, anyway). These men could have been engaging in steamy PG-rated daytime soap opera lovin' or jumping canals in the General Lee. Instead, they gave us soulful ballads and pop masterpieces - some of which even work outside of a completely ironic frame of reference. These men are less "one-hit wonders" and more "wonders - who happened to have one hit." If only Kurt Russell had released an album in those days...

DTM

09/19/2007, 16:29

(You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to hail_eris again.)........that, was beautiful. :)

DOOMBOTSKI

09/19/2007, 18:10

Vevilaughs

09/19/2007, 18:23

I was waiting for the Jack Wagner reference my self... he is usually so thorough.

hail_eris

09/19/2007, 18:43

Hey, I only had so much time. This philosophy of religion article ain't gonna edit itself, and I've got metrics to hit.

But for the record, all the so-called "rockin' rasslers" pale before Koko B. Ware and his rendition of "Piledriver." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xci6AZnPADw) Yeah, you're gonna want those three minutes back.

AlienFlanders

09/19/2007, 20:34

He also married a very young Janet Jackson, if I recall.
That doesn't necessesarily make him a OHW, oh wait, yes it does.:laugh:

Konmel

09/19/2007, 22:58

Two more for the list (I think):

The Promise - When in Rome

Under the Milky Way - The Church

hail_eris

09/20/2007, 00:43

Under the Milky Way - The Church
Oh, I'll throw the objection flag on that one. On Starfish alone, they had another hit with "Reptile" and they've continued to produce quality psychedelic pop on every album since.

Konmel

09/20/2007, 01:45

Oh, I'll throw the objection flag on that one. On Starfish alone, they had another hit with "Reptile" and they've continued to produce quality psychedelic pop on every album since.

I figured they had to have something else. I am not too familar outside of that one song.

If we consider remakes/covers, what about Candy Flip's Strawberry Fields Forever.

DTM

09/20/2007, 15:01

Say, did Bruce Hornsby (and the Range) have any other Hits than The Way It Is (http://youtube.com/watch?v=GCcR3VyZ6uE)?

DTM

09/20/2007, 15:05

Oh, and what about The Juliana Hatfield Threes, My Sister?

lensnart

09/20/2007, 15:55

I am not endorsing these as good songs, just adding them to the list (except for MMm Bop that song rules and you all know it, I dare you to listen all the way through and not dance, it can't be done):

Vitamin C - the graduation Song (friends forever) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHGkvBr6ZlU)

Whigfield - Saturday Night (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcmBaRAj7FU)

Dishwalla - Counting Blue Cars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lahQCb2NZz0)

Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHKKFf4EDlM)

Hanson - MMM Bop (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9YAKrgqtVw)

lensnart

09/20/2007, 15:57

MMm Bop de doopa dop bop doo bop yeah yeah yeah.

Can you tell me you say you can but you don't know, you don't know.

Genius

lensnart

09/20/2007, 16:12

A couple summertime ones for your consideration:

LFO - Summertime Girls (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHuGG_FsC20)

Len - Steal My Sunshine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwtTOxouD5Q)

and a couple more:

Liam Lynch - United States of Whatever (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz7_3n7xyDg)

Nada Surf - Popular (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8g_wavcFR4)

Geggy Tah - Whoever You Are (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2UUvG-XuQs&mode=related&search=)

AlienFlanders

09/20/2007, 20:17

Was Trouble - Shampoo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1NoqUXuLhQ) a hit in the US?

210 OHW so far barring accidents.

DTM

09/21/2007, 03:13

theanalogkid

09/22/2007, 00:53

What about these two songs that were OHW for THIS duo pairing, even though they are megastars otherwise. Samples:

Easy Lover: Phil Collins/Philip Bailey
Ebony and Ivory: Paul McCartney/ Stevie Wonder

DTM

09/22/2007, 02:37

Thats actually a good question, what about duets from very famous musical artists.

Personally, and not to knock down your excellent selections TAK, I would say no, as in such cases these artists all have numerous big name hits, so putting them together as a duet to me wouldnt make their one time collaboration a OHW (though you have stumbled onto another RW TOC I was thinking of tackling there). :)

theanalogkid

09/22/2007, 10:36

I thought as much. It is not like we don't have enough selections already.

Konmel

09/22/2007, 11:55

Yeah, there are a lot of true "one hit wonders" as well as a lot of "groups that are mainly remembered only for one hit."

DTM

09/22/2007, 13:34

Any chance we can get posted an updated list, AF?

AlienFlanders

09/22/2007, 19:52

Coming up, just have to check the new stuff.
We are stuck at 210.

99 Red Balloons - Nena
Afternoon Delight - the Starlight Vocal Band
All By Myself - Eric Carmen
All the Young Dudes - Mott the Hoople
Alley Oop - Hollywood Argyles
Baby It's You - Promises
Battle of Kookamonga - Homer & Jethro
Beach Baby - First Class
B###h - Meridith Brooks
Black velvet - Alannah Myles
Born to Be Alive - Patric Hernandez
Brandy - Looking Glass
Break My Stride - Matthew Wilder
Breakfast At Tiffanys - Deep Blue Something
Breakin' Away - Balance
Brimful Of Asha - Cornershop
Brother Louie - Stories
Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
Busta Move - Young MC
Butterfly - Crazytown
Ca Plane Pour Moi - Plastic Bertrand
Captain Beaky - Keith Michell
Cars - Gary Numan
Cest La Vie - Robbie Nevil
Chevy Van - Sammy Johns
Chick-A-Boom - Daddy Dewdrop
Come on Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners.
cool like dat - digable planets
Counting Blue Cars - Dishwalla
Crush - Jennifer Paige
The Curly Shuffle - Jump in the Saddle Band
D.O.A. - Bloodrock
Dancing in the Moonlight - King Harvest
Der Kommissar - After The Fire
Disco Duck- Rick Dees
Dizz Knee Land - dada
Do You Know What I Mean - Lee Michaels
Dont Forget Me When Im Gone - Glass Tiger
Don't Put Another Dime in the Jukebox - Flirts
Don't worry, be happy - Bobby McFerrin
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
Election Day - Arcadia
Escape(the Pina Colata song) - Rupert Holmes
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star
Fire - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Flagpole Sitta - Harvey Danger
Fly, Robin, Fly - Silver Convention
Funkytown - Lipps Inc
Funkytown - Pseudo Echo
The Future's So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades) - Timbuk 3
Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues - Danny O'Keefe
the graduation Song (friends forever) - Vitamin C
Green Tambourine - Lemonpipers
groove is in the heart? - dee-lite
Heart And Soul - T'Pau
Heartbeat - Don Johnson
Hobo Humping Slobo Babe - Whale
The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground
I Do What I Do - John Taylor
I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats
I Don't Wanna Fall In Love - Jane Child
I Eat Cannibals - Toto Coelo
I Like It Both Ways - Supernaut
I Melt With You - Modern English
I think We're Alone Now - Tiffany
I Touch Myself - The Divinyls
I Want to Sex You Up - Color Me Bad
I Wish - Skee-Lo
I'd Really Love to see You Tonight - England Dan and John Ford Coley
If You Love Me - Brownstone
Iko Iko - Belle Stars
I'm Too Sexy - Right Said Fred
In A Big Country - Big Country
In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry
In the Year 2525 - Zager & Evans
Inna Gadda Da Vida - Iron Butterfly
The Israelites - Desmond Decker
It never rains in Southern California - Albert Hammond
It's a Beautiful Day - White Bird
It's Raining Men The Weathergirls
Jackie Blue - Ozark Mountain Daredevils
Jenny - Tommy Tutone
Just A Friend - Biz Markie
Keep Your Hands to Yourself - Georgia Satellites
Key Largo - Bertie Higgins
kung fu fighting - carl douglas
Lean on Me - Club Nouveau
Lemon tree- Fools Garden
Let your Love Flow - Bellamy Brothers
Let's Go All the Way - Sly Fox
Life in a Northern Town - Dream Academy
Life Is A Rock But And The Radio Rolled Me - Reunion
Lily the Pink - The Scaffold
Little Arrows - Leapy Lee
The Lone Ranger - Quantum Jump
Louie Louie - The Kingsman
Love Missle F1-11 - Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Love Plus One - Haircut 100
Lover's Concerto - The Toys
Loving You - Minnie Rippleton
Lucky Number One - Lene Lovich
Ma Belle Amie - Tee Set
Macarena - Los Del Rio
Magic - Pilot
Major Tom - Peter Schilling
Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...) - Lou Bega
Maniac - Michael Sembello
Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo
Mickey - Toni Basil
Mind Bender - Stillwater
More More More-andrea True Connection
More than words - Extreme
Mother Mother - Tracey Bonham
Music Box Dancer- Frank Mills
My Sister - Juliana Hatfield Threes
Never Ending Story - Limahl
Nice to be with You - Gallery
The Nights the Lights went Out in Georgia - Vicki Lawrence
No Rain - Blind Melon
Obsession - Animotion
Oh Yeah - Yellow (from Ferris Bueller's day off)
Once Bitten, Twice Shy - Great White
One Night In Bangkok - Murray Head
One Tin Soldier - Coven
One Toke Over the Line - Brewer & Shipley
Pillow Talk - Sylvia
Play that Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Please Come to Boston - Dave Loggins
The Politics of Dancing - Re-flex
Popular - Nada Surf
Precious Little - Eleanor McEvoy
Prime Mover - Zodiac Mindwarp
Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley
Put your Hand in the Hand - Ocean
Puttin' on the Ritz - Taco
Ram Jam - Black Betty
Rapper's Delight - Sugar Hill Gang
Respect Yourself - Bruce Willis
Rico Suave - Can't remember the guy
Ride Captain Ride - Blues Image
Rock the Boat - Hues Corporation
Saturday Night - Whigfield
Sausalito Summer Night - Diesel
Save Tonight - Eagle Eye Cherry
say it say it - e.g. daily
Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks
Sex and Candy - Marcy Playground
Shaddap You Face - Joe Dolce
She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
Shes Like The Wind - Patrick Swayze
Shiny Shiny - Haysi Fantayzee
Single Bed - Fox (Noosha Fox)
Sky High- Jigsaw
Sleeping Satellite - Tasmin Archer
Smooth Up In Ya - Bulletboys
Snoopy vs the Red Baron - Royal Guardsmen
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Somebodys Watching Me - Rockwell
Something About You - Level 42
Something In the Air - Thunderclap Newman
Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum
St. Elmos Fire (Main In Motion) - John Parr
Steal My Sunshine - Len
Summertime Girls - LFO
Sunny Came Home - Shawn Colvin
Sunshine Go Away Today - Jonathan Edwards
Talk to Me - Wild Orchard
Tarzan Boy - Baltimora
Telstar - The Tornadoes
That Thing You Do - The Oneders
The Promise - When in Rome
The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby
Timothy - Buoys
Tobacco Road - Nashville Teens
Tones On Tail - Go!
Too Shy - Kajagoogoo
Torn - Natalie Imbruglia
Toy Soldiers - Martika
Trouble - Shampoo
True - Spandau Ballet
Tubthumping - Chumbawumba
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
Turn the Beat Around - Vicki Sue Robinson
Turn up the Radio - Autograph
Turning Japanese - The Vapors
Undercover Angel - Alan O'Day
United States of Whatever - Liam Lynch
Up In a Puff Of Smoke - Polly Brown
Vehicle - Ides of March
Venus- Shocking Blue
Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles
Voices Carry - Til Tuesday
Walk On The Ocean - Toad The Wet Sprocket
Walkin' in Memphis - Mark Cohn
Walking on the Sunshine - Katrine and the Waves
We Dont Have To Take Our Clothes Off - Jermaine Stewart
What Do All the People Know? - The Monroes
What Would Brian Boitano Do? - DVDA
Whirly Girl - OXO
Who's Johnny -El Debarge
Whoever You Are - Geggy Tah
Wild Wild West - Escape Club
Winchester Catherdral - New Vaudeville Band
Xanadu - Dave,Dee,Dozy,Beaky,Mick & Tich
The Ying Tong Song - The Goons
You are the woman - Firefall
You Don't Want Me Anymore - Steel Breeze
You Gotta Be - Desire'
You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) - Sylvester
You Only Get What you Give - New Radicals

theanalogkid

09/22/2007, 22:25

Firefall had 2 other hits with "Stange Way" and "Just Remember I Love You".
Great list. Thanks for typing all that up.

DTM

09/22/2007, 22:40

El Debarge definately needs to have Whos Johnny (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jaWPQ3Z7FE&mode=related&search=) taken off, as Rhythm Of The Night (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7T4FuJJO1E) was an even bigger hit for them (oddly enough, both songs from 80s movies).

AlienFlanders

09/22/2007, 22:42

Fixed and fixed.
Now we have 208.

DTM

09/22/2007, 22:45

Also, doesnt Til Tuesday have another hit besides Voices Carry (and if not, would Aimee Manns solo work count for Til Tuesday)?

KiwiGirl

09/22/2007, 22:47

What about:

Spirit In The Sky (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAwo-F9CpVE) - Norman Greenbaum
LA Song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrZw8RToN2Y) - Beth Hart

AlienFlanders

09/22/2007, 22:49

Norman is already on the list, up, down, back on 208.

DTM

09/23/2007, 03:53

Any thoughts on Runaway (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8APl40BE3tc)- Del Shannon?

AlienFlanders

09/23/2007, 05:24

Any thoughts on Runaway (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8APl40BE3tc)- Del Shannon?

Keep Searching (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYJvoDJCW0A) and a couple of others say no OHW for Del.

How about MacArthur Park (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0D-boeOCG0) - Richard Harris, I can't believe no-one put it up before.

readyeddy?

09/23/2007, 07:25

I thought I talked you out of putting Great White on the list?

There's a band called Missouri that has an FM hit with a song called Movin' On but I worry it might be a regional Missouri area hit only. I'll see if I can find it on Youtube in a bit.

AlienFlanders

09/23/2007, 07:40

Fixed, back to 208.

readyeddy?

09/23/2007, 08:40

Auuggh! I got tired of looking for a link for the Missouri song.

By the way, the group name is "It's a Beautiful Day", the song name is "White Bird".

AlienFlanders

09/23/2007, 08:50

Auuggh! I got tired of looking for a link for the Missouri song.

By the way, the group name is "It's a Beautiful Day", the song name is "White Bird".

Fixed for the next list.

readyeddy?

09/24/2007, 12:48

I couldn't find a You Tube Link but I found this courtesy of Wikipedia:

Intro/Movin On by Missouri

http://missouriband.com/Resources/Intro_Movin_On.mp3

theanalogkid

09/24/2007, 12:53

Some more from my personal stash.

Driver's Seat: Sniff'n The Tears

Moonlight Feels Right: Starbuck

96 Tears: Question Mark and the Mysterians

theanalogkid

09/24/2007, 12:56

England Dan and John Ford Coley had 2 other hits with "Its Sad to Belong" and "Nights Are Forever Without You".

readyeddy?

09/25/2007, 06:04

Here's a couple good uns

Stuck In The Middle With You by Stealer's Wheel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMrm7ZQ0aMA

New Age Girl (Mary Moon) by Deadeye Dick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3zC0K-b7wg

AlienFlanders

09/25/2007, 06:30

Knock On Wood (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ztZ7WFo3nw) - Amii Stewart

Clarification required for Stealers Wheel, they had followup Top30 singles, not top10.

readyeddy?

09/25/2007, 06:39

Here's a snippet of a song by a guy by the name of Chuck Francour called Under the Boulevard Lights

http://classicsshow.com/song%20clips/Chuck%20Francour%20-%20Under%20The%20Boulevard%20Lights.mp3

That's the best I can find for this song, It's an FM hit and definitely his only one.

readyeddy?

09/25/2007, 06:50

Knock On Wood (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ztZ7WFo3nw) - Amii Stewart

Clarification required for Stealers Wheel, they had followup Top30 singles, not top10.
I'll let DTM rule on that, if they did have other hits, I think they're outside the U.S. only.

AlienFlanders

09/25/2007, 06:58

I'll let DTM rule on that, if they did have other hits, I think they're outside the U.S. only.

At the moment they are pencilled in, if no-one raises an objection we have 213.

DTM

09/25/2007, 07:05

I think any questionable ones we can leave on, possibly even on their own smaller section, for us all to discuss when the time for actual RW nominating begins.

AlienFlanders

09/25/2007, 07:11

Done and done.

DrmngCelestial

09/25/2007, 18:14

I really think for purposes of labelling that Who's Johnny is El Debarge's only hit. Reason: El Debarge is a person (solo) whereas Debarge with Rhythem of the Night is a group. Even VH1's OHW would keep this distinction.

The Vision

09/25/2007, 19:08

What about "Jenny" by Tommy Tutone...8675309....

Konmel

09/25/2007, 20:32

What about "Jenny" by Tommy Tutone...8675309....

Already on the list.

I just heard "On the Loose" by Saga on the radio. I am not too familiar with them. Did they have any other hits?

AlienFlanders

09/25/2007, 20:42

I just heard "On the Loose" by Saga on the radio. I am not too familiar with them. Did they have any other hits?

After a look at Wikipedia, they qualify for a tentative spot, On the Loose - Top 30, Wind Me Up - top 70 (top30 in Canada)

theanalogkid

09/26/2007, 00:12

I love that song and have to agree. They are one of those band that have agood following, but never broke big in the US.

readyeddy?

09/26/2007, 13:48

Well it appears Bruce Hornsby had a hit with a song called "Mandolin Rain" that charted to number five. I heard it on the radio this morning while taking my daughter to work. Here's a song that can replace it.

"Drift Away" by Dobie Gray

If I remember to, I'll find a link later.

lensnart

09/26/2007, 14:18

I was actually thinking Mmmm Bop as well, though I thought Hanson had at least one more hit, no?

They had another single but it came and went and was nowhere near being even a moderate hit.

DTM

09/26/2007, 15:09

Sure, Im cool with Mmmm Bop if no one else has any objections.

AlienFlanders

09/26/2007, 19:08

How about this one My Boy Lollypop (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqcpt-BKZBM) - Millie Small, she had other hits, but in the UK chart only.

VelvetGuru9

09/26/2007, 23:29

Damn, you guys have put together a great list so far. I can't wait to see how it goes.

DOOMBOTSKI

09/27/2007, 00:55

Walk away Renee - Left Banke
Hold your head up - Argent
Journey to the center of your mind- Amboy Dukes
Shes so high -Tal Bachman (Randy's son)
The Rapper -- The jaggerz
gimme dat ding - the pipkins

DTM

09/27/2007, 02:17

Now the trick is getting them all listed, and youtube LINKED! :eek: :eek: :eek:

readyeddy?

09/27/2007, 04:15

Well I've been pumping out links to nearly all my candidates, I believe I have to fix a few. I wish I knew how to do a youtube site. I'd be a monster. I really need to take some computer classes so I'd know all this esoteric stuff and do it the easy way to boot. My wife definitely gives me the computer widow ####. Here's another candidate: Billy Thorpe with "Children of the Sun", an FM staple and a song I should post a link for on my Prog rock thread. Later you'll see this edited with a link.

I wish I could give you a better link for the Chuck Francour song. If I knew my computer better I could create it myself as I have a bootleg CD with that song on it. It's a great song and if more people showered attention to the song, whatever became of the artist might no longer be a mystery. The song's unusually urban for me I'll admit; but hey, I've got to go to town sometimes.

Children of the Sun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlV3oW2ZWvI

AlienFlanders

09/27/2007, 20:44

Now the trick is getting them all listed, and youtube LINKED! :eek: :eek: :eek:

Working on an idea.:cross-eye

ATM 220, plus 3 that might accidently fall in, and 14 others on the non OHW bench.

DTM

09/28/2007, 02:08

Let me know if you need a hand with links (say, give me a group and Ill go and get some for you).

AlienFlanders

09/28/2007, 02:20

Thanks, but not yet, my plan 1b seems to be working, I should have a list
late tomorrow.

Is Toad the Wet Sprocket in or out?

AlienFlanders

09/28/2007, 05:58

Does somebody want to check this half to make sure I haven't linked the wrong one?

Alley Oop - Hollywood Argyles (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0h7enhTu0E)
Baby It's You - Promises (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyvgv9J6maE)
Battle of Kookamonga - Homer & Jethro (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mma1xX73otg)
Black Betty - Ram Jam (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkA9k6lDags)
Black velvet - Alannah Myles (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut09zkRoG0g)
Born to Be Alive - Patric Hernandez (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-aI1Ch39ZU)
Break My Stride - Matthew Wilder (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQl50dnAg44)
Brimful Of Asha - Cornershop (http://youtube.com/watch?v=5rQmB7SCrzc)
Busta Move - Young MC (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3pevGHA9s8)
Ca Plane Pour Moi - Plastic Bertrand (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PITnJAnmjqw)
Captain Beaky - Keith Michell (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMzaiCS1jrM)
Cars - Gary Numan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cdgTWitj_o)
Cest La Vie - Robbie Nevil (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqFCbX9AHs4)
Come on Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z9bPrUark4)
cool like dat - digable planets (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pvKzLXx3zY)
Counting Blue Cars - Dishwalla (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lahQCb2NZz0)
The Curly Shuffle - Jump in the Saddle Band (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKAfXdb5LsA)
D.O.A. - Bloodrock (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKiV34O0L50)
Der Kommissar - After The Fire (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guvo7gUdUnE)
Dizz Knee Land - dada (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4B0ht5xJUg)
Do You Know What I Mean - Lee Michaels (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtuth2jeTF0)
Dont Forget Me When Im Gone - Glass Tiger (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCN1f9tPq2g)
Don't worry, be happy - Bobby McFerrin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IERzx5Spic)
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtPk5IUbdH0)
Fire - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOErZuzZpS8)
Flagpole Sitta - Harvey Danger (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xzxDRA93Nk)
Funkytown - Lipps Inc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUm6TCbEK0g)
The Future's So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades) - Timbuk 3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KPhOjF_H3o)
Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues - Danny O'Keefe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy1vZEZ_Q-4)
the graduation Song (friends forever) - Vitamin C (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHGkvBr6ZlU)
Green Tambourine - Lemonpipers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjZZhYlKHBY)
Heart And Soul - T'Pau (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJK7dMSd31k)
Hobo Humping Slobo Babe - Whale (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa5SiU2U5_k)
I Don't Wanna Fall In Love - Jane Child (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjyGJE21ijE)
I Like It Both Ways - Supernaut (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt4BvqKJ5pE)
I Melt With You - Modern English (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoD3BUhZ-Sk)
I Wish - Skee-Lo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icr0eW1fRSs)
In A Big Country - Big Country (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTqwaTXdPPQ)
In the Year 2525 - Zager & Evans (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPd2KqRRLoE)
Ina Gadda Da Vida Pt1 - Iron Butterfly (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdFWa_OgciI) Ina Gadda Da Vida Pt2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of7gdaiq2EI)

The Israelites - Desmond Decker (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OYUVYEj_ko)
Jenny - Tommy Tutone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqUPApCUt90)
Keep Your Hands to Yourself - Georgia Satellites (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTUoytNnZoM)
Knock On Wood - Amii Stewart (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ztZ7WFo3nw)
LA Song - Beth Hart (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrZw8RToN2Y)
Lemon tree- Fools Garden (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCDIt50hRDs)
Let's Go All the Way - Sly Fox (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsiPtvfdvDY)
Lily the Pink - The Scaffold (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb-R7JJ-Ph4)
Little Arrows - Leapy Lee (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLuUXPb_YzY)
The Lone Ranger - Quantum Jump (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZiS7Cb1f6Y)
Louie Louie - The Kingsmen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FhwTZPSe0c)
Lucky Number One - Lene Lovich (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eAw29VRIiU)
Ma Belle Amie - Tee Set (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyOg9G-0lR4)
MacArthur Park - Richard Harris (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0D-boeOCG0)
Major Tom - Peter Schilling (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Hs2AQwDgA)
Maniac - Michael Sembello (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxOlKvvLXP8)
Mickey - Toni Basil (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6lZJWgM2kI)
More than words - Extreme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt7L4X4li_k)
My Boy Lollypop - Millie Small (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqcpt-BKZBM)
New Age Girl (Mary Moon) - Deadeye Dick (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3zC0K-b7wg)
One Night In Bangkok - Murray Head (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn4IqAlDdZY)
Pillow Talk - Sylvia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7KIrkFCVq0)
Popular - Nada Surf (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8g_wavcFR4)
Precious Little - Eleanor McEvoy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ybGNMbIrJw)
Prime Mover - Zodiac Mindwarp (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtnCcWOS7y8)
Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9H_cI_WCnE)
Saturday Night - Whigfield (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcmBaRAj7FU)
say it say it - e.g. daily (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNJgVilhcBw)
Sex and Candy - Marcy Playground (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKl_7zK3fbI)
Shaddap You Face - Joe Dolce (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFacWGBJ_cs)
She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IlHgbOWj4o)
Single Bed - Fox (Noosha Fox) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC_i_iYMq-c)
Snoopy vs the Red Baron - Royal Guardsmen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxzg_iM-T4E)
Somebodys Watching Me - Rockwell (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu1RP34FLXU)
Something About You - Level 42 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgX-Eoz451A)
Something In the Air - Thunderclap Newman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pGht71KFkY)
Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAwo-F9CpVE)
St. Elmos Fire (Main In Motion) - John Parr (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVf4_WglzWA)
Steal My Sunshine - Len (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwtTOxouD5Q)
Summertime Girls - LFO (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHuGG_FsC20)
Sunny Came Home - Shawn Colvin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRWfmW-LDIQ)
Tainted Love -Soft Cell (http://youtube.com/watch?v=oEh5pWjcWCg)
Talk to Me - Wild Orchard (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Es_RaLndpT4)
Tarzan Boy - Baltimora (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r0n9Dv6XnY)
Telstar - The Tornadoes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ybCjf6ras)
Timothy - Buoys (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGNdvKvbxYQ)
Tobacco Road - Nashville Teens (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3AWbZcLpGw)
Tones On Tail - Go! (http://youtube.com/watch?v=brziwKYa0X4)
Torn - Natalie Imbruglia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHKKFf4EDlM)
Trouble - Shampoo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1NoqUXuLhQ)
True - Spandau Ballet (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYb83KM4at4)
Tubthumping - Chumbawumba (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lJIjdajBww)
Tubular Bells pt1a - Mike Oldfield (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPEt5OTR6Vc) Tubular Bells pt1b (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk_rtkMr3e0) Tubular Bells pt2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4EZTLCtZ-g)

United States of Whatever - Liam Lynch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz7_3n7xyDg)
Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LB6Q_oycfQ)
Walk On The Ocean - Toad The Wet Sprocket (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcHB060NKYo)
We Dont Have To Take Our Clothes Off - Jermaine Stewart (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID_N7rv-iN8)
What Would Brian Boitano Do? - DVDA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6QI2ThqZ50)
White Bird - It's a Beautiful Day (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt0oa4IqNqg)
Whoever You Are - Geggy Tah (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2UUvG-XuQs)
Wild Wild West - Escape Club (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uCAWUXYKUM)
Winchester Catherdral - New Vaudeville Band (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv_RfFmJ5nA)
Xanadu - Dave,Dee,Dozy,Beaky,Mick & Tich (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6QI2ThqZ50)
The Ying Tong Song - The Goons (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nebe1zuEtbc)

DTM

09/28/2007, 06:07

Do you have them seperated in 3 groups for any particular reason?

readyeddy?

09/28/2007, 06:57

I haven't checked them all but it appears they yanked Pillow Talk by Sylvia.
Try this link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT975RvNqpI

AlienFlanders

09/28/2007, 07:07

Do you have them seperated in 3 groups for any particular reason?
Nope, I just needed to easily locate Iron Butterfly and Mike Oldfield.

readyeddy?

09/28/2007, 07:30

I've checked down through to Iron Butterfly and Busta Moves and In a Big Country need fixing.

AlienFlanders

09/28/2007, 09:57

Fixed those, I am missing links for:

Turn the Beat Around - Vicki Sue Robinson (fixed)
Put your Hand in the Hand - Ocean
Mind Bender - Stillwater (fixed)
Breakin' Away - Balance
What Do All the People Know? - The Monroes

readyeddy?

09/28/2007, 17:26

Are we sticking with strictly Youtube links here? Because I can give a link for My Space that allows you to listen to Mind Bender immediately. also I gave A link earlier for Movin On by Missouri which isn't a youtube link either.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=92667683

My mistake, you may get Mind Bender or one of three other songs but you can select Mind Bender and listen to it.

DTM

09/28/2007, 17:46

I dont think it matters what link is used, just as long as theres one there really. Of course, we certainly dont have to set up links now, as with the way YT is lately, who knows if theyll be around come Jan. when the TOC actually comes up (though I may do nominations before I leave, and links would be helpful for those as well).

readyeddy?

09/28/2007, 18:09

DTM

09/28/2007, 18:18

(You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to readyeddy? again.)

:)

AlienFlanders

09/28/2007, 19:31

Well I'm going to try to make sure I provide links for any I think of so people who want to can see what I'm talking about. I heard our buddy Prince is trying to make problems for You Tube. You can always count on that pretentious egomaniac. He should concentrate on creating another symbol he could change his name to.

Its a bit cruel calling Prince a OHW.:laugh:

I found these 3 in my searches
Everyones Gone to the Moon - Jonathon King (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlB7vBdt_IA)
Little Green Bag (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L1hD5OlPtw) - George Baker Selection
It's Good News Week (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrEHDV1e460) - Hedgehoppers Anonymous

lensnart

09/28/2007, 19:53

Wow 104 linked there, 20 more and we can just start this thing up, it would be awesome to have a whole bunch of songs that really nobody wanted nominated in a tournament.

lensnart

09/28/2007, 20:00

here's one of the links you were missing AF (the video is really weird but the song is all there)

Turn the beat around (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKQqyqBCNi0) - Vicki Sue Robinson

P.S. The big list is missing MMM BOp (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKQqyqBCNi0)

AlienFlanders

09/28/2007, 20:46

Wow 104 linked there, 20 more and we can just start this thing up, it would be awesome to have a whole bunch of songs that really nobody wanted nominated in a tournament.

We actually have 218, plus a couple of extras (including Mmmbop) that might fall on the list.

Frontman

09/28/2007, 21:45

How about Eye of the Tiger (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uELMzJQSKmU) - Survivor.

The Search is Over, High on You, and Burning Heart also got a TON of 80's airplay, so reluctantly we should remove them from the list.

Frontman

09/28/2007, 21:50

Snoopy vs the Red Baron - Royal Guardsmen

However, with the Christmas version of this song, would they no longer qualify as a one hit wonder?

DTM

09/28/2007, 21:52

The Search is Over, High on You, and Burning Heart also got a TON of 80's airplay, so reluctantly we should remove them from the list.

Oh yes, I agree 100%. Didnt see Survivor on the list, and while Eye Of The Tiger is probably their biggest hit, they definately have other well known to popular songs too.

Frontman

09/28/2007, 21:57

Head to Toe- Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr7iKcilty0

Rumors Timex Social Club
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRte0S2a_dA

Take on Me A-ha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUod3jGQt0U

Frontman

09/28/2007, 21:59

Oh yes, I agree 100%. Didnt see Survivor on the list, and while Eye Of The Tiger is probably their biggest hit, they definately have other well known to popular songs too.

Just had to stick up for Survivor. ;)

DTM

09/28/2007, 22:01

Sorry FM, Im gonna have to call you on a few of those:

Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam (All Cried Out) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16shEIbNVmo)

A-Ha (The Living Daylights) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmcITpbdj5c)