Today is National One-Hit-Wonder Day

[6Foot2]

Link: https://twitter.com/hashtag/onehitwonderday [Twitter hashtag]

 

What's your favorite one hit wonder?

 

Joe Dolce - Shaddap You Face

 

#Nope!

[andyturpie]

Patrick Hernandez - Born to be alive

 

Cracking disco/Hi NRG track.

[LeMarchand]

Could probably think of a better one, but the first that sprang to mind was

 

[elsiegee40]

Today is National One-Hit-Wonder Day

I take it they won't bother repeating this event?

[Norphy]

Someone put Dexy’s Midnight Runners and Aha in that Twitter feed. How are they one hit wonders?

 

And Rick Astley as well?

 

Well, the one hit wonders that always comes to mind for me are Chesney Hawkes and I Am The One And Only. And Tiffany’s I Think We’re Alone Now.

[andyturpie]

Someone put Dexy’s Midnight Runners and Aha in that Twitter feed. How are they one hit wonders?

 

And Rick Astley as well?

 

Well, the one hit wonders that always comes to mind for me are Chesney Hawkes and I Am The One And Only. And Tiffany’s I Think We’re Alone Now.

 

I believe that the term constitutes that they had only one high ranking release plus others which didn't quite cut the mustard. Some presume that the term means that they only released one track.

[LeMarchand]

I believe that the term constitutes that they had only one high ranking release plus others which didn't quite cut the mustard. Some presume that the term means that they only released one track.

 

From Wiki, on Dexy's:

 

They are best known in the UK for their songs "Come On Eileen" and "Geno", both of which peaked at No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart, as well as six other top-20 singles.

 

and A-Ha:

 

two international number-one singles, "Take On Me" and "The Sun Always Shines on TV"

 

I'll give you Rick Astley, though.

 

I don't think Andreas Johnson ever troubled the international charts after:

 

[yurt]

The Goodmen Give it up - sampled by Simply Red on Fairground

 

https://youtu.be/3mH5Pq5L3bs

[6Foot2]

 

Hoobastank - The Reason

[JJonas]

If it one hit wonders then I need to post Sugar Sugar by The Archies. Possibly the only one hit wonder by a fictional band

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9nE2spOw_o

Edited September 26, 2017 by JJonas

[Gibbo]

[Gibbo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-MmzB-tnQE

 

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[Dos_Box]

Remember the Levis ads from the early 90's? Cracking tracks and pretty much all one hit wonders with Stiltskin and Babylon Zoo:

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeUx5sdp3qM

[Max_Power]

Michael Sembello - Maniac

 

[LeMarchand]

Michael Sembello - Maniac

 

Love that track!

 

Can never hear it these days without thinking of

 

[unixman_again]

More, More, More by Andrea True Connection (more for the circumstances than the song itself)

[SamanthaD]

Westworld - Sonic Boom Boy. Sorry!

 

[Gibbo]

 

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Michael Sembello - Maniac

 

[Roberto]

 

I'll give you Rick Astley, though.

 

 

While I think he only had one #1, I think he had a good number of top ten hits here and abroad. I think any list of one hit wonders that includes Rick, A-ha and Dexys has very little credibility.