Favorite One Hit Wonder Bands/ Songs

My all-time favorite bad/schmaltzy song

 

Chumbawamba

Any wedding DJ loves this one:

 

Beds are Burning - Midnight Oil
Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
Run Runaway - Slade
China - The Red Rockers
Round and Round - Ratt
18 and Life - Skid Row
I Ran - Flock of Seagulls
I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow

 

Born in the USA

 

T. Rex might have had only one big hit in the U.S., but it shouldn't be dismissed as a one-hit wonder band. "Jeepster," "Cosmic Dancer," "20th Century Boy," "Children of the Revolution" -- a LOT of great stuff. And I can understand why a band calling itself the John Wilkes Booze recorded a song called "Marc Bolan Makes Me Want to Fuck," because T. Rex is extremely sexual music, even if Bolan isn't always explicitly singing about sex. The groove is that good.

20th Century Boy:

Children of the Revolution:

That said, I'll reserve my favorite one-hit wonders for true novelties:

Jump 'N the Saddle Band -- Curly Shuffle

Joe Dolce -- Shaddap You Face

Nervous Norvus -- Transfusion

Come to think of it, Nervous Norvus had "Ape Call," too, so maybe he's disqualified

And the king of the novelty one-hit wonders, Allan Sherman -- Hello Muddah Hello Faddah

 

SportsJournalists.com nation, hang our heads in collective shame.
Three pages and no mention of Rupert Holmes yet?

 

My Sharona; The Knack

 

I am so very hurt that you don't know that both Ratt and Skid Row had multiple top 40 hits.

All the cursing over salary caps combined didn't hurt as much as this.

 

Big Country by Big Country

 

I like these two songs by The Church, but not sure which of the two was more popular on the charts:

Under the Milky Way or Metropolis

 

Under the Milky Way.