Who Was Your Favorite One Hit Wonder


What was your favorite one hit wonder song, and who performed it? You can name one or a few.

I loved (and still do) "Voices Carry" performed by Till Tuesday.

C'mon. Put on your thinking caps.
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'Master Jack' by Four Jacks and a Jill.
'To Sir With Love' by Lulu
'We Ain't Got Nuthin Yet' by The Psychedelic Lollipop
'Too Much To Dream Last Night'by the Electric Prunes
'Timothy' by the Bouys. Where did he go anyway?
'Frankford El' by the American Dream. You can't get to heaven on the Frankford El,
Cause the Frankford El goes straight to...
'Faydra' by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood.
'Hot Smoke and Sasafrass' by Bubble Puppy.
I could go on and on...
Baltimora.....Tarzan Boy
Level 42......Lessons in Love
B-Movie.......Switch On - Switch Off
Limahl........Never Ending Story
Fine Young Cannibals....She Drives Me Crazy
Madness...........Our House
Blind Melon......No Rain
General Public.....Tenderness
Wild Swan........Immaculate
KajaGoogoo........Too Shy
Marc Almond.......Tears Run Ring
Paul Hardcastle....19
Blow Monkeys......Digging Your Scene
Sly Fox.........Lets go All The way
Johnny Hates Jazz......Shattered Dreams
When in Rome.......The Promise
Soft Cell.........Tainted Love
Jo Boxer........Just Got Lucky
Taco..........Puttin On Ritz
Icicle Works......Whispher to a Scream
Nena..........99 LuftBalloons
Reflex.......Politics of Dancing

Lots more.....
Imin2u, AWESOME!!! "To sir with Love". Such a great tune.

Makes me think of "Ode to Billy Joe" by Bobbie Gentry.

I think that was 1967?

And Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas
"Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please"
"There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow"
And Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge.

Music was so cool then.
I am a big fan of "Green-Eyed Lady" by Sugarloaf although for the record they are not a one hit wonder. They had another great hit with "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" in 1975.

Several other of my favorite one hit wonders have also been mentioned here including "Incense and Peppermints" by the Strawberry Alarm Clock (they, too, had a second hit with "Tomorrow" off the same album), "Vehicle" by the Ides of March, "Black Betty" by Ram Jam, and "Smoke from a Distant Fire" by the Sanford/Townsend Band.

My all-time favorite one hit wonder (and there are many from which to choose) is probably "Play that Funky Music" by Wild Cherry. You can never get enough of that song.

Here are a few more of my favorites:

"Get It On" by Chase (one of the best bands of all time)

"How Long" by Ace

"More Today than Yesterday" by Spiral Staircase

"Journey to the Center of the Mind" by the Amboy Dukes

"Hold Your Head Up" by Argent (believe it or not that was their only Top 40 single)

"Funky Nassau-Part 1" by The Beginning of the End

"Hocus Pocus" by Focus

"Precious and Few" by Climax

"Right Place Wrong Time" by Doctor John (his only hit)

"Frday on My Mind" by the Easybeats

"All Right Now" by Free

"Nobody But Me" by the Human Beinz

"Dancing in the Moonlight" by King Harvest

"Green Tambourine" by the Lemon Pipers

"The Horse" by Cliff Nobles & Co.

"Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" by Reunion

"The Boys are Back in Town" by Thin Lizzy

"Polk Salad Annie" by Tony Joe White

"Get Together" by the Youngbloods

and

"Smiling Faces Sometimes" by the Undisputed Truth

By the way, The Classics IV had five hits including the greats "Spooky," "Stormy'" and "Traces."