National One-Hit Wonder Day: Favorite long-lost hits(Friday Fun!)

ABC4 News(Utah) ^ | 09/25/2020 | Lindsey Peterson

[Kid Shelleen]

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (ABC4 News) – Sept. 25 is National One-Hit Wonder Day! A day where we can celebrate those songs that topped the charts but then their performers faded away from the music scene. What are some of your favorite one-hit wonders? Let us know on our social media pages! Below are some of the ABC4 staff’s favorite ‘one-hit wonders’:

[dfwgator]

Level 42 - Something About You

[TBP]

Not really. “American Pie” was Don McLean’s biggest hit (and the analysis of it is very interesting), but he did have a couple of others. “Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)” was a minor hit.

[tuffydoodle]

That makes me laugh just thinking about it.

[tuffydoodle]

D.O.A.

Bloodrock?

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

I Got A Line on You was from Spirit.
But Spirit had an even bigger hit with Nature's Way.

A few more 1-hit wonders:

Sunday Will Never Be the Same - Spanky & Our Gang

Never Ending Story - Limahl

I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash

Go All the Way - Raspberries

Seven Year Itch - Rosanne Cash

Stealin' - Uriah Heep

Summer Song - Chad & Jeremy

I Would Walk 500 Miles - The Proclaimers

Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran

And a few more 2-hit wonders ---

Searchers - Love Potion #9, Needles & Pins

The Refreshments - Down Together, and Banditos.

The Seekers - Another You, Georgie Girl.

B W Stevenson - My Maria, Shambalah

[tuffydoodle]

Isn’t it Mungo Jerry?

[TBP]

Veruca Salt — named after a character in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. (”Don’t care how, I want it now.”)

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Yup. And in the same vein (pun intended), a song that came out about the same time but can actually be sung along with, is “Timothy” by the Buoys.

[I-ambush]

“Chump beat”= “cover,” somehow, according to Autocorrect.

[tuffydoodle]

Spanky and our gang also had “I’d like to get to know you.”

[tuffydoodle]

I’ll have to look up “Timothy.”

[Fiji Hill]

Concrete & Clay by the Unit 4 + 2 (1965) got a lot of airplay in Southern California but missed the oldies playlists in later years.

[MasonGal]

Yes...1985. Sakamato was only 43 years old or so.

[tuffydoodle]

Rupert Holmes has another song on Yacht Rock called Answering Machine. It’s another cutesy song about a couple in love.

[tuffydoodle]

You can hear the transmission between the pilots and air traffic control on youtube.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

"...sell my soul for just a piece of meat..."

Yet another 1 hit wonder (unrelated) --- Video Killed The Radio Star -The Buggles

[Chode]

yup, i was under the influence first time i heard it, kinda creeped me out

[I-ambush]

You’re right. All charted higher on the Billboard pop charts.

[TBP]

Steam — Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Hey Hey Hey Goodbye

[ShadowAce]

Send Me An Angel - Real Life

That whole CD is awesome