# All Time Worst One Hit Wonders **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 14, 2007, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-one-hit-wonders/387971 "2007-01-14T20:01:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![MizGrand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cdc98d/32.png) [@MizGrand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizGrand)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-one-hit-wonders/387971/121 "2007-01-16T13:15:58Z")
Damn, these threads _invariably_ send me off to all of mp3 to download the forgotten favorites. Thanks folks! ps - I love a-ha, really enjoyed Falco (when he was alive) and also loved Brandy. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-one-hit-wonders/387971/122 "2007-01-16T13:35:49Z")
[QUOTE=BMalion] “Turning Japanese” has a meaning other than “I am becoming a Japanese person”? [/QUOTE] Apparently it refers to the squinty face made when having a swift J. Arthur. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-one-hit-wonders/387971/123 "2007-01-16T14:01:49Z")
[QUOTE=BMalion] My imput: **Love is Like Oxygen** by _Sweet_, says a critic, “Pretentious synth noodling meets abrupt punk riffery. Goofy chorus and portentous bridges pepper the rest of the track.” However, I confess that I like it. [/QUOTE] I like it too. But Sweet had other top ten hits in the US, too - Little Willie, Fox On The Run and Ballroom Blitz were all big here. I read (somewhere) a critical review once that said Sweet’s biggest impediment to success was that they seemed to be unable to pick a musical genre and stick to it. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-one-hit-wonders/387971/124 "2007-01-16T14:24:07Z")
Right Said Fred – I’m Too Sexy. No, you’re not. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-one-hit-wonders/387971/125 "2007-01-16T14:55:37Z")
Three pages to remember “Judy in Disguise.” Now I wish I hadn’t. ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-one-hit-wonders/387971/126 "2007-01-16T15:01:54Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] How about: Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer? [/QUOTE] It’s definitely not as bad as “The Christmas Shoes”. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-one-hit-wonders/387971/127 "2007-01-16T15:02:17Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] [Convoy](http://www.narrowgauge.org/4x4/cw_pages/lyrics/spirit/convoy.html) by CW McCall. So awful that I betcha few people even remember (or want to remember) it [/QUOTE] And that song is an absolute musical masterpiece compared to Red Sovine’s vomitous [Teddy Bear](http://www.simplyangel.com/teddybearssong.htm) . ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-one-hit-wonders/387971/128 "2007-01-16T15:10:12Z")
Memory by Betty Buckley. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-one-hit-wonders/387971/129 "2007-01-16T15:43:49Z")
According to the book “One Hit Wonders”, the defintion is a person (or a group) that only had one Top 40 hit in Billboard’s “Hot 100” list. Surprisingly, by this strict definition, **Bill Cosby** , **Janis Joplin** , and **Jimi Hendix** are all one hit wonders and they are in the book. Seriously !!! * * * I cast my vote along with all the other posters who chose “ **Open Letter To My Teenage Son** ” as the Grand Prize Winner for the worst one hit wonder of all time. Not to demean the memory of the late **Mike Douglas** , how about “ **the Men In My Little Girl’s Life** ” ? Had Mr Douglas not so recently passed away, I’d be campaigning very strongly for this one. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-one-hit-wonders/387971/130 "2007-01-16T16:11:15Z")
[QUOTE=wolf\_meister] Not to demean the memory of the late **Mike Douglas** , how about “ **the Men In My Little Girl’s Life** ” ? Had Mr Douglas not so recently passed away, I’d be campaigning very strongly for this one. [/QUOTE] Go ahead, do it anyway…it’s worth it. “There’s a boy outside, his name is Tim…he wants to know if I can play with him…” [vomitsmiley] ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-one-hit-wonders/387971/131 "2007-01-16T16:25:58Z")
We’re talking abour BAD one hit wonders, right? Because some of the ones listed are damn good songs. Anyway, here’s one that’s real bad: **Patrick Swayze** - _She’s Like the Wind_ ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-one-hit-wonders/387971/132 "2007-01-16T17:14:48Z")
“Green Tambourine” by The Lemon Pipers. “Double Shot of My Baby’s Love” by The Swingin’ Medallions ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-one-hit-wonders/387971/133 "2007-01-16T17:37:45Z")
[QUOTE=jsc1953] “There’s a boy outside, his name is Tim…he wants to know if I can play with him…” [/QUOTE] Yet it triggered an event of rare cosmic synchronicity and instantly inspired the very same parody in every junior high school in the country. > [@](#): > > Daddy, there’s a boy outside, his name is Chuck. > He wants to know if we can fuck. > Can we daddy? Can we daddy? Oh please daddy. ---
**Author:** ![mambocrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@mambocrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mambocrow)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-one-hit-wonders/387971/134 "2007-01-16T18:11:31Z")
“The Tighten Up” Archie Bell and the Drells They were from Houston, Texas, and they could dance just as good as they walked… Two chords, one rythm pattern repeated over and over and over and… Six months on the radio, sometimes it was on three or four stations simultaneously. ---
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-one-hit-wonders/387971/135 "2007-01-16T18:28:40Z")
[QUOTE=mambocrow] “The Tighten Up” Archie Bell and the Drells They were from Houston, Texas, and they could dance just as good as they walked… Two chords, one rythm pattern repeated over and over and over and… Six months on the radio, sometimes it was on three or four stations simultaneously. [/QUOTE] Hey now. Don’t be hatin’ on Archie Bell and the Drells. “Tighten Up” is so much better than most of the stuff mentioned here it’s not even in the same galaxy. And like several other artists mentioned here, they charted with several other singles, just none as successful as “Tighten Up”, which went to #1 in 1968. They might have done even better if Archie Bell hadn’t been in the Army, stationed in Germany, for much of the time they were having radio success. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-one-hit-wonders/387971/136 "2007-01-16T18:37:23Z")
[QUOTE=LifeOnWry] I like it too. But Sweet had other top ten hits in the US, too - Little Willie, Fox On The Run and Ballroom Blitz were all big here. I read (somewhere) a critical review once that said Sweet’s biggest impediment to success was that they seemed to be unable to pick a musical genre and stick to it. [/QUOTE] This ignorance was better left unfought. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-one-hit-wonders/387971/137 "2007-01-17T01:43:37Z")
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned “Rock Me Amadeus” by Falco. My body just cringes at the thought of it. I need to go scrub out my brain. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-one-hit-wonders/387971/138 "2007-01-17T08:08:39Z")
**rackensack** You’re darned right that we shouldn’t be dissing Archie Bell & the Drells. Actually, Archie was not in Germany for his military “hitch”, he was in Vietnam. > **[AllMusic | Record Reviews, Streaming Songs, Genres & Bands](https://www.allmusic.com/?p=amg&sql=11e6ompm39f2o~T1)** > > AllMusic provides comprehensive music info including reviews and biographies. Get recommendations for new music to listen to, stream or own. All right Archie !! ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-one-hit-wonders/387971/139 "2007-01-17T09:57:57Z")
[QUOTE=TommyTutone] [/QUOTE] I can’t believe no one noticed that a poster named Tommy Tutone posted to this thread. Unfortunately, “Jenny” just barely doesn’t qualify because Tommy Tutone had song called “Angel Say No” hit #38. But I say it qualifies anyway, because I’ve never heard of “Angel Say No” ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-one-hit-wonders/387971/140 "2007-01-17T11:02:40Z")
Why such hatred for **2525**? How many science fiction Dystopia songs are there? 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-one-hit-wonders/387971.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-worst-one-hit-wonders/387971.md?page=8)