Posted on 09/25/2020 1:45:28 PM PDT by 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’:
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“Red Rubber Ball” by Cyrkle - written by Paul Simon.
I guess you were never a pre/teen girl, LOL!
There’s a reason these songs/groups are ‘one hit wonders’...
Really obscure:
Rain In The Air by Aleixa (”Honey Lake”, 1996)
You have a point....
LOL! :)
The same recording of this song charted in 1962, 1970 and 1973.
Taco — “Putting on the Ritz”
Madness — “0ur house”
B Movie —”Nowhere Girl”
The 80’s were packed with incredible one hit wonders.
Kyu Sakamoto Sukiyaki
Question Mark and the Mysterions 96 Tears
Norman Greenbaum Spirit in the Sky
Safaris Wipe Out
Nina 99 Luft Balloons
“Into The Night” by Benny Mardonnes
Sweet City Woman - The Stampeders
Believe it or not - Jimi Hendrix All Along the Watchtower
Come on down to my boat.....Every Mothers’ Son
Time Won’t Let Me-The Outsiders
Who can forget America’s favorite bat-sh*t crazy Irish Lass?
I give you Sinead O’Conner, with the incomparable
“Nothing Compares To You!” written by he who was once known as Prince.
I had never heard that song until I started listening to Yacht Rock on satellite radio. The video is a little weird and the comments, before Benny died, are a RIOT.
The girl mentioned in the song would be 56 now.
I was always impressed with the brass section of that song.
For a throw away, teeny bopper tune, somebody paid some serious money for all those trombones and trumpets.
Love Won’t Let Me Wait..Major Harris
D’yer Maker—Led Zeppelin
(Technically a one-hit, because it hit #20, and was the only single released by Zep)
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