Strip 'em --- One-Hit Wonders {closed}

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She Blinded Me with Science - Thomas Dolby - Great song, but Dolby also charted with a couple other songs including Europa and The Pirate Twins. So he's not exactly a one-hit wonder.

867-5309 (Jenny) - Tommy Tutone
99 Luftballons - Nena
Ah! Leah - Donnie Iris
At This Moment - Billy Vera
Baby Come Back - Player
Black Betty - Ram Jam
Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
Cars - Gary Numan
Cold (But I'm Still Here) - Evans Blue
Come On Down to My Boat - Every Mothers Son
Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe
Cult of Personality - Living Colour
Do They Know It's Christmas? - Band Aid
Don't Give Up on Us - David Soul
Don't Worry Be Happy! - Bobby McFerrin
Driver's Seat - Sniff 'n the Tears
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
Fantasy - Aldo Nova
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
Funkytown - Lipps, Inc
Gimme Dat Ding - The Pipkins
Groove Me - King Floyd
Harden My Heart - Quarterflash
Hot Hot Hot - Buster Poindexter
I Can't Stand the Rain - Eruption
I Know There's Something Going On - Frida
I Touch Myself - Divinyls
I Wear My Sunglasses at Night - Corey Hart
I'd Love to Change the World - Ten Years After
In a Big Country - Big Country
In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
Incense & Peppermints - Strawberry Alarmclock
Into the Night - Benny Mardones
Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
L.A. Song - Beth Hart
Let It Whip - Dazz Band
Let's Go All the Way - Sly Fox
Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes - Edison Lighthouse
Macarena - Los del Río
Magic - Pilot
My Sharona - The Knack
Never Been Any Reason - Head East
New York Groove - Ace Frehley
Obsession - Animotion
Oh Yeah - Yello
On the Dark Side - John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band
On the Loose - Saga
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Puttin' on the Ritz - Taco
Ride Captain Ride - Blues Image
Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
Rock Me Amadeus - Falco
Rock On - David Essex
San Francisco - Scott McKenzie
Say What You Will - Fastway
She Blinded Me with Science - Thomas Dolby
Signs - The Five Man Electrical Band
Sky High - Jigsaw
Smokin' Gun - Robert Cray Band
Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell
Something in the Air - Thunderclap Newman
The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3
The Hustle - Van McCoy
The Rapper - Jaggerz
This Beat Goes On / Switchin' to Glide - The Kings
Turn Up the Radio - Autograph
Undercover Angel - Alan O'Day
Venus - Shocking Blue
When I'm With You - Sheriff
Wildfire - Michael Murphey
You Get What You Give - The New Radicals

 

[Jake T]

I Wear My Sunglasses at Night - Corey Hart ... Never Surrender was a bigger hit.

867-5309 (Jenny) - Tommy Tutone
99 Luftballons - Nena
Ah! Leah - Donnie Iris
At This Moment - Billy Vera
Baby Come Back - Player
Black Betty - Ram Jam
Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
Cars - Gary Numan
Cold (But I'm Still Here) - Evans Blue
Come On Down to My Boat - Every Mothers Son
Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe
Cult of Personality - Living Colour
Do They Know It's Christmas? - Band Aid
Don't Give Up on Us - David Soul
Don't Worry Be Happy! - Bobby McFerrin
Driver's Seat - Sniff 'n the Tears
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
Fantasy - Aldo Nova
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
Funkytown - Lipps, Inc
Gimme Dat Ding - The Pipkins
Groove Me - King Floyd
Harden My Heart - Quarterflash
Hot Hot Hot - Buster Poindexter
I Can't Stand the Rain - Eruption
I Know There's Something Going On - Frida
I Touch Myself - Divinyls
I'd Love to Change the World - Ten Years After
In a Big Country - Big Country
In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
Incense & Peppermints - Strawberry Alarmclock
Into the Night - Benny Mardones
Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
L.A. Song - Beth Hart
Let It Whip - Dazz Band
Let's Go All the Way - Sly Fox
Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes - Edison Lighthouse
Macarena - Los del Río
Magic - Pilot
My Sharona - The Knack
Never Been Any Reason - Head East
New York Groove - Ace Frehley
Obsession - Animotion
Oh Yeah - Yello
On the Dark Side - John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band
On the Loose - Saga
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Puttin' on the Ritz - Taco
Ride Captain Ride - Blues Image
Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
Rock Me Amadeus - Falco
Rock On - David Essex
San Francisco - Scott McKenzie
Say What You Will - Fastway
Signs - The Five Man Electrical Band
Sky High - Jigsaw
Smokin' Gun - Robert Cray Band
Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell
Something in the Air - Thunderclap Newman
The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3
The Hustle - Van McCoy
The Rapper - Jaggerz
This Beat Goes On / Switchin' to Glide - The Kings
Turn Up the Radio - Autograph
Undercover Angel - Alan O'Day
Venus - Shocking Blue
When I'm With You - Sheriff
Wildfire - Michael Murphey
You Get What You Give - The New Radicals

 

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I Wear My Sunglasses at Night - Corey Hart ... Never Surrender was a bigger hit.

I was sure you were wrong about this until I looked it up. Lo and behold, it's true!

I don't even think I've heard this song before and yet I've heard Sunglasses a million times. So strange...

P.S.--It's not half the hit Sunglasses is.

 

[Lynch]

She Blinded Me with Science - Thomas Dolby - Great song, but Dolby also charted with a couple other songs including Europa and The Pirate Twins. So he's not exactly a one-hit wonder.

Well, if you wanted to nitpick, you could say that probably just about every single artist in this strip list had more than one song on the charts at some point in their career, but the vast majority are widely known for just 1 song, thus the term, "one hit wonder" Thomas Dolby didn't do squat in the U.S. outside of Science.

US and UK charts are almost always different so you have to take that into account as well.

 

[Lynch]

Sky High - Jigsaw


867-5309 (Jenny) - Tommy Tutone
99 Luftballons - Nena
Ah! Leah - Donnie Iris
At This Moment - Billy Vera
Baby Come Back - Player
Black Betty - Ram Jam
Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
Cars - Gary Numan
Cold (But I'm Still Here) - Evans Blue
Come On Down to My Boat - Every Mothers Son
Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe
Cult of Personality - Living Colour
Do They Know It's Christmas? - Band Aid
Don't Give Up on Us - David Soul
Don't Worry Be Happy! - Bobby McFerrin
Driver's Seat - Sniff 'n the Tears
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
Fantasy - Aldo Nova
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
Funkytown - Lipps, Inc
Gimme Dat Ding - The Pipkins
Groove Me - King Floyd
Harden My Heart - Quarterflash
Hot Hot Hot - Buster Poindexter
I Can't Stand the Rain - Eruption
I Know There's Something Going On - Frida
I Touch Myself - Divinyls
I'd Love to Change the World - Ten Years After
In a Big Country - Big Country
In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
Incense & Peppermints - Strawberry Alarmclock
Into the Night - Benny Mardones
Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
L.A. Song - Beth Hart
Let It Whip - Dazz Band
Let's Go All the Way - Sly Fox
Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes - Edison Lighthouse
Macarena - Los del Río
Magic - Pilot
My Sharona - The Knack
Never Been Any Reason - Head East
New York Groove - Ace Frehley
Obsession - Animotion
Oh Yeah - Yello
On the Dark Side - John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band
On the Loose - Saga
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Puttin' on the Ritz - Taco
Ride Captain Ride - Blues Image
Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
Rock Me Amadeus - Falco
Rock On - David Essex
San Francisco - Scott McKenzie
Say What You Will - Fastway
Signs - The Five Man Electrical Band
Smokin' Gun - Robert Cray Band
Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell
Something in the Air - Thunderclap Newman
The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3
The Hustle - Van McCoy
The Rapper - Jaggerz
This Beat Goes On / Switchin' to Glide - The Kings
Turn Up the Radio - Autograph
Undercover Angel - Alan O'Day
Venus - Shocking Blue
When I'm With You - Sheriff
Wildfire - Michael Murphey
You Get What You Give - The New Radicals

 

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Ah! Leah - Donnie Iris

867-5309 (Jenny) - Tommy Tutone
99 Luftballons - Nena
At This Moment - Billy Vera
Baby Come Back - Player
Black Betty - Ram Jam
Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
Cars - Gary Numan
Cold (But I'm Still Here) - Evans Blue
Come On Down to My Boat - Every Mothers Son
Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe
Cult of Personality - Living Colour
Do They Know It's Christmas? - Band Aid
Don't Give Up on Us - David Soul
Don't Worry Be Happy! - Bobby McFerrin
Driver's Seat - Sniff 'n the Tears
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
Fantasy - Aldo Nova
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
Funkytown - Lipps, Inc
Gimme Dat Ding - The Pipkins
Groove Me - King Floyd
Harden My Heart - Quarterflash
Hot Hot Hot - Buster Poindexter
I Can't Stand the Rain - Eruption
I Know There's Something Going On - Frida
I Touch Myself - Divinyls
I'd Love to Change the World - Ten Years After
In a Big Country - Big Country
In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
Incense & Peppermints - Strawberry Alarmclock
Into the Night - Benny Mardones
Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
L.A. Song - Beth Hart
Let It Whip - Dazz Band
Let's Go All the Way - Sly Fox
Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes - Edison Lighthouse
Macarena - Los del Río
Magic - Pilot
My Sharona - The Knack
Never Been Any Reason - Head East
New York Groove - Ace Frehley
Obsession - Animotion
Oh Yeah - Yello
On the Dark Side - John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band
On the Loose - Saga
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Puttin' on the Ritz - Taco
Ride Captain Ride - Blues Image
Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
Rock Me Amadeus - Falco
Rock On - David Essex
San Francisco - Scott McKenzie
Say What You Will - Fastway
Signs - The Five Man Electrical Band
Smokin' Gun - Robert Cray Band
Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell
Something in the Air - Thunderclap Newman
The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3
The Hustle - Van McCoy
The Rapper - Jaggerz
This Beat Goes On / Switchin' to Glide - The Kings
Turn Up the Radio - Autograph
Undercover Angel - Alan O'Day
Venus - Shocking Blue
When I'm With You - Sheriff
Wildfire - Michael Murphey
You Get What You Give - The New Radicals

 

[Lynch]

You Get What You Give - The New Radicals



867-5309 (Jenny) - Tommy Tutone
99 Luftballons - Nena
At This Moment - Billy Vera
Baby Come Back - Player
Black Betty - Ram Jam
Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
Cars - Gary Numan
Cold (But I'm Still Here) - Evans Blue
Come On Down to My Boat - Every Mothers Son
Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe
Cult of Personality - Living Colour
Do They Know It's Christmas? - Band Aid
Don't Give Up on Us - David Soul
Don't Worry Be Happy! - Bobby McFerrin
Driver's Seat - Sniff 'n the Tears
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
Fantasy - Aldo Nova
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
Funkytown - Lipps, Inc
Gimme Dat Ding - The Pipkins
Groove Me - King Floyd
Harden My Heart - Quarterflash
Hot Hot Hot - Buster Poindexter
I Can't Stand the Rain - Eruption
I Know There's Something Going On - Frida
I Touch Myself - Divinyls
I'd Love to Change the World - Ten Years After
In a Big Country - Big Country
In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
Incense & Peppermints - Strawberry Alarmclock
Into the Night - Benny Mardones
Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
L.A. Song - Beth Hart
Let It Whip - Dazz Band
Let's Go All the Way - Sly Fox
Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes - Edison Lighthouse
Macarena - Los del Río
Magic - Pilot
My Sharona - The Knack
Never Been Any Reason - Head East
New York Groove - Ace Frehley
Obsession - Animotion
Oh Yeah - Yello
On the Dark Side - John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band
On the Loose - Saga
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Puttin' on the Ritz - Taco
Ride Captain Ride - Blues Image
Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
Rock Me Amadeus - Falco
Rock On - David Essex
San Francisco - Scott McKenzie
Say What You Will - Fastway
Signs - The Five Man Electrical Band
Smokin' Gun - Robert Cray Band
Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell
Something in the Air - Thunderclap Newman
The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3
The Hustle - Van McCoy
The Rapper - Jaggerz
This Beat Goes On / Switchin' to Glide - The Kings
Turn Up the Radio - Autograph
Undercover Angel - Alan O'Day
Venus - Shocking Blue
When I'm With You - Sheriff
Wildfire - Michael Murphey

 

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The Rapper - Jaggerz

867-5309 (Jenny) - Tommy Tutone
99 Luftballons - Nena
At This Moment - Billy Vera
Baby Come Back - Player
Black Betty - Ram Jam
Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
Cars - Gary Numan
Cold (But I'm Still Here) - Evans Blue
Come On Down to My Boat - Every Mothers Son
Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe
Cult of Personality - Living Colour
Do They Know It's Christmas? - Band Aid
Don't Give Up on Us - David Soul
Don't Worry Be Happy! - Bobby McFerrin
Driver's Seat - Sniff 'n the Tears
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
Fantasy - Aldo Nova
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
Funkytown - Lipps, Inc
Gimme Dat Ding - The Pipkins
Groove Me - King Floyd
Harden My Heart - Quarterflash
Hot Hot Hot - Buster Poindexter
I Can't Stand the Rain - Eruption
I Know There's Something Going On - Frida
I Touch Myself - Divinyls
I'd Love to Change the World - Ten Years After
In a Big Country - Big Country
In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
Incense & Peppermints - Strawberry Alarmclock
Into the Night - Benny Mardones
Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
L.A. Song - Beth Hart
Let It Whip - Dazz Band
Let's Go All the Way - Sly Fox
Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes - Edison Lighthouse
Macarena - Los del Río
Magic - Pilot
My Sharona - The Knack
Never Been Any Reason - Head East
New York Groove - Ace Frehley
Obsession - Animotion
Oh Yeah - Yello
On the Dark Side - John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band
On the Loose - Saga
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Puttin' on the Ritz - Taco
Ride Captain Ride - Blues Image
Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
Rock Me Amadeus - Falco
Rock On - David Essex
San Francisco - Scott McKenzie
Say What You Will - Fastway
Signs - The Five Man Electrical Band
Smokin' Gun - Robert Cray Band
Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell
Something in the Air - Thunderclap Newman
The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3
The Hustle - Van McCoy
This Beat Goes On / Switchin' to Glide - The Kings
Turn Up the Radio - Autograph
Undercover Angel - Alan O'Day
Venus - Shocking Blue
When I'm With You - Sheriff
Wildfire - Michael Murphey

 

[Lynch]

L.A. Song - Beth Hart


867-5309 (Jenny) - Tommy Tutone
99 Luftballons - Nena
At This Moment - Billy Vera
Baby Come Back - Player
Black Betty - Ram Jam
Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
Cars - Gary Numan
Cold (But I'm Still Here) - Evans Blue
Come On Down to My Boat - Every Mothers Son
Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe
Cult of Personality - Living Colour
Do They Know It's Christmas? - Band Aid
Don't Give Up on Us - David Soul
Don't Worry Be Happy! - Bobby McFerrin
Driver's Seat - Sniff 'n the Tears
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
Fantasy - Aldo Nova
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
Funkytown - Lipps, Inc
Gimme Dat Ding - The Pipkins
Groove Me - King Floyd
Harden My Heart - Quarterflash
Hot Hot Hot - Buster Poindexter
I Can't Stand the Rain - Eruption
I Know There's Something Going On - Frida
I Touch Myself - Divinyls
I'd Love to Change the World - Ten Years After
In a Big Country - Big Country
In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
Incense & Peppermints - Strawberry Alarmclock
Into the Night - Benny Mardones
Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
Let It Whip - Dazz Band
Let's Go All the Way - Sly Fox
Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes - Edison Lighthouse
Macarena - Los del Río
Magic - Pilot
My Sharona - The Knack
Never Been Any Reason - Head East
New York Groove - Ace Frehley
Obsession - Animotion
Oh Yeah - Yello
On the Dark Side - John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band
On the Loose - Saga
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Puttin' on the Ritz - Taco
Ride Captain Ride - Blues Image
Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
Rock Me Amadeus - Falco
Rock On - David Essex
San Francisco - Scott McKenzie
Say What You Will - Fastway
Signs - The Five Man Electrical Band
Smokin' Gun - Robert Cray Band
Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell
Something in the Air - Thunderclap Newman
The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3
The Hustle - Van McCoy
This Beat Goes On / Switchin' to Glide - The Kings
Turn Up the Radio - Autograph
Undercover Angel - Alan O'Day
Venus - Shocking Blue
When I'm With You - Sheriff
Wildfire - Michael Murphey

 

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Wildfire - Michael Murphey

867-5309 (Jenny) - Tommy Tutone
99 Luftballons - Nena
At This Moment - Billy Vera
Baby Come Back - Player
Black Betty - Ram Jam
Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
Cars - Gary Numan
Cold (But I'm Still Here) - Evans Blue
Come On Down to My Boat - Every Mothers Son
Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe
Cult of Personality - Living Colour
Do They Know It's Christmas? - Band Aid
Don't Give Up on Us - David Soul
Don't Worry Be Happy! - Bobby McFerrin
Driver's Seat - Sniff 'n the Tears
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
Fantasy - Aldo Nova
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
Funkytown - Lipps, Inc
Gimme Dat Ding - The Pipkins
Groove Me - King Floyd
Harden My Heart - Quarterflash
Hot Hot Hot - Buster Poindexter
I Can't Stand the Rain - Eruption
I Know There's Something Going On - Frida
I Touch Myself - Divinyls
I'd Love to Change the World - Ten Years After
In a Big Country - Big Country
In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
Incense & Peppermints - Strawberry Alarmclock
Into the Night - Benny Mardones
Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
Let It Whip - Dazz Band
Let's Go All the Way - Sly Fox
Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes - Edison Lighthouse
Macarena - Los del Río
Magic - Pilot
My Sharona - The Knack
Never Been Any Reason - Head East
New York Groove - Ace Frehley
Obsession - Animotion
Oh Yeah - Yello
On the Dark Side - John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band
On the Loose - Saga
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Puttin' on the Ritz - Taco
Ride Captain Ride - Blues Image
Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
Rock Me Amadeus - Falco
Rock On - David Essex
San Francisco - Scott McKenzie
Say What You Will - Fastway
Signs - The Five Man Electrical Band
Smokin' Gun - Robert Cray Band
Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell
Something in the Air - Thunderclap Newman
The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3
The Hustle - Van McCoy
This Beat Goes On / Switchin' to Glide - The Kings
Turn Up the Radio - Autograph
Undercover Angel - Alan O'Day
Venus - Shocking Blue
When I'm With You - Sheriff