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

[Rummyfan]

“Come on, Eileen”

I thought that was an Irish porn flick!

[Boiler Plate]

Both had other songs that made the charts

[Nachoman]

“Smoke From a Distant Fire”, the Sanford Townsend Band.

[hellinahandcart]

And how could I forget “Little Girl?”

https://youtu.be/bkIIQJR1aKs?si=4j_K0v_rRd-g0fec

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

“If You Want to be Happy” by Jimmy Soul

(Unless he had other hits)

[Rummyfan]

I vote "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" ....

The old commie Pete Seeger actually owned the rights to that song. He made a lot of money from it.

[Rummyfan]

Neun und Neunzig Luft Balloons...

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

But the Knack’s second biggest charter wasn’t “Good Girls Don’t.” The song’s original lyrics were not safe for radio. Their second biggest didn’t happen until 1991 with this;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgm2J0ZEb_U

A babe riding my favorite missile. I only worked with it a couple of times.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Good song by Berlin, but they also had “Sex” and “Riding on the Metro.”

[38special]

Well heck 🥴

[dfwgator]

The song’s original lyrics were not safe for radio.

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I guess that’s why they didn’t play that Monty Python song neither.

[Rummyfan]

I had to check...

[Rummyfan]

Booker T and the MGs.... Green Onions. They were all basically STAX studio musicians but I don’t believe they ever had anything else that would qualify as a ‘hit’.

[dfwgator]

“Hang ‘Em High”

[rfreedom4u]

YES! Black Betty was awesome!

[Retrofitted]

LOL Well, there was the old joke... “What’s better than baby oil on Olivia Newton John?”

[T.B. Yoits]

Re: Post 122 - One Hit Wonders

Eddy Grant had "Romancing The Stone" in addition to "Electric Avenue".

'Frankie Goes To Hollywood' had "Two Tribes" in addition to "Relax".

"Putting On The Ritz" by Taco would be a one hit wonder except it wasn't his. Irving Berlin wrote it half a century earlier.

[Rummyfan]

LOL!

[plain talk]

Sort of true. It’s a 3 chord song. However many guitarists played a B major rather than a Bm for that 3rd chord. :-)

[T.B. Yoits]

Radar Love - Golden Earring

Golden Earring also had "Twilight Zone".