My all-time favorite One Hit Wonder is also the most literal one.
It is the only single released by a band that did not really exist:
“Forever” (1960), by The Little Dippers - a fictitious group.
It was an afterthought recording for Buddy Killan, by Anita Kerr and her Singers, with Floyd Cramer on piano, at the end of a recording session.
To their surpise, it went Top Ten, and the label wanted a tour. There was no such band, so they drafted fill-in singers to play the band on stage.
Anita Kerr, with a lovely pure soprano voice, was an extraordinary arranger, producer, and performer who, more than any other, created “The Nashville Sound.”
She and her quartet provide the background for much of the greatest hits in Country and Pop in the 1960s.
“Forever” was later covered by several acts, most notably by Pete Drake and His Singing Guitar in 1964.