Johnny Kemp - just got Paid jermaine Steward - we don't have to take our clothes off Young MC - busta a move Vanilla Ice - Ice ICe Baby SNOW - informer Marky Mark - Good Vibrations Rocket River
Ahhh yes, Promises. I stand corrected. The Flock of Seagulls also had Space Age Love Song....another hit.
Laura Branigan was actually a 2-hit wonder. She had Gloria and Self Control Scandal had : The Warrior Goodbye to You Kim Carnes was at least a 3-hit wonder: Bette Davis Eyes More Love Don't Fall in Love With a Dreamer
Wow, seems like all the good ones have been mentioned. What about: Sir Mix-A-Lot -- Baby Got Back Iron Butterfly -- Ina-Gadda-Da-Vida White Town -- Your Woman
Never heard it. Are the lyrics as good as "So your girlfriend rolls a Honda/ playin' workout tapes by Fonda/ But Fonda ain't got a motor in the back of her Honda"?
"...my anaconda don't want none unless you got buns hun. You can do side bends or sit ups, but please don't lose that butt." Some of his other songs are even better.
I thought the whole idea behind 'One Hit Wonder' is that the band had a song that catapulted them into the mainstream, a top 40 hit, then never reached that again and faded. In other words, you don't have to have just one song. I mean, nobody has just one song anyway - but nothing you do really catches the public eye again. So it really doesn't matter how many albums you had - or how many songs you had get some radio play in an attempt to regain a measure of the popularity you had - to qualify as a 'One Hit Wonder'.
I don't really think you can consider a band that only had 1 top 40 hit a one hit wonder automatically. For Example, look at rappers and hard rockers that have 1 top 40 song but have been around for a long time and are legends, and have had multiple platinum albums. Are they REALLY one hit wonders?
My favorite two hit wonder has to be Golden Earring....even though the band has been around for the past 37 years Radar Love--released in 1973 Twilight zone--released in 1982 (cool early MTV video)
My bad...apparantly, they had two other number one hits. Something called: 'Dong-Dong-Di-Ki-Di-Gi-Dong' in 1968, and something called: 'Back home' in 1970.
But I'm confused. I thought a one hit wonder was an artist that only had 1 top 40 hit. I thought the Tubes only had 1 top 40 hit. I do know that I saw the video to "She's a Beauty" every freaking day when I was a kid on MTV.
