Music buffs spark furious debate over 'best one hit wonder ever'

Daily Mail ^ | 9/25/24 | Emma Saletta

[week 71]

Music enthusiasts who prefer one-hit wonders over frequently-played radio hits can smile now National One-Hit Wonder Day is here.

Several X users have listed their favorite ones in honor of the day, most of which were released between the 1980s and 2010s.

Chart-topping hits like Gotye's 'Somebody I Used to Know' and Aqua's 'Barbie Girl' are just two of the many songs that were the top one-hit wonders

[dfwgator]

The Flying Maching - Smile A Little Smile For Me (Rosemary)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMYqZINk20w

[military cop]

Redbone - Come and Get Your Love

The Original Caste - One Tin Soldier

Donnie Iris - Ah Leah

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax

Eddie Murphy - Party All the Time

Rockwell - Somebody’s Watching Me

Faster Pussycat - House of Pain

LA Guns - the Ballad of Jayne

David Geddes - Run Joey Run

After the Fire - Der Commissar

Falco - Rock Me Amadeus

Taco - Puttin on the Ritz

Biz Markie - You Got What I Need

UB 40 - Red Red Wine

Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue

Semisonic - Closing Time

Urge Overkill - Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon
I got more…..

[Fiji Hill]

My favorite one-hit wonders of the 1960s are

• Seemann, deine Heimat ist das Meer (sailor, your home is the ocean)--Lolita Ditta (1960)

• Underwater--The Frog Men (1961)

• Dominique--Soeur Sourire (1963)

• Love's Gone Bad--Chris Clark (1966)

• My World Fell Down--Sagittarius (1967)

• Soul Coaxing--Raymond Lefèvre (1968)

[dfwgator]

Lush - For Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fECE5FGNaGI

[Nateman]

If you are shopping and they ask for your phone number, use 867-5309 to get the discount. Lots of people use that fake number rather than their own.

[crusty old prospector]

Black Betty by Ram Jam.

[leaning conservative]

Both great songs!

[Getready]

Yeah... tremendous creativity that just hits whatever “music button” in our brains....sometimes there are these little great songs buried in an album by some obscure artist. and another artist comes along a makes it a hit.

[dfwgator]

The Sundays - Here’s Where The Story Ends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHsip5xOenQ

[crusty old prospector]

I listened to a Nena concert today. She is still relevant. In Deutschland.

[absalom01]

Loved that song. My terrible high school cover band uhh covered it, which was about our speed, since IIRC it has basically 2 chords.

Good times, good times.

[Fiji Hill]

The Kingsmen also scored with Little Latin Lupe Lu in the summer of 1964 and The Jolly Green Giant in the spring of 1965, although these may have been local hits here in Southern California.

[Delphster]

Bob Lind Elusive Butterfly

[week 71]

@ 76 - indeed - like that song.

[leaning conservative]

Love that song

[xp38]

We had them for our high school prom in 1975. They had some other hits up here in Canada. It was quite a night.

[Fiji Hill]

Dick Dale was very popular in Southern California. The original version of his big hit is about a Greek who falls in love with an Egyptian girl and vows to steal her away from her Arab land.

Misirlou (Egyptian girl)--Tetos Demetriades (1927)

[Getready]

Fantabulous... I remember the “Seaman”..song from so long ago...just a snippet ran through my memory...never knew the full name,,couldn’t remember a phrase that would help me find that song.
Immense thanks for bringing it up. I could never find the song....thank you BIG time.

[week 71]

@ 98 - great point. Rush is truly one of the best.

[Fiji Hill]

Don't forget Let Me Go, Lover by Joan Weber--her only release, which raced to the top of the chart at the beginning of 1955.