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.
Apparently it refers to the squinty face made when having a swift J. Arthur.
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.
Right Said Fred – I’m Too Sexy.
No, you’re not.
Three pages to remember “Judy in Disguise.” Now I wish I hadn’t.
It’s definitely not as bad as “The Christmas Shoes”.
And that song is an absolute musical masterpiece compared to Red Sovine’s vomitous Teddy Bear .
Memory by Betty Buckley.
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.
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]
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
“Green Tambourine” by The Lemon Pipers.
“Double Shot of My Baby’s Love” by The Swingin’ Medallions
Yet it triggered an event of rare cosmic synchronicity and instantly inspired the very same parody in every junior high school in the country.
“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.
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.
This ignorance was better left unfought. 
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.
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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.
All right Archie !!
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”
Why such hatred for 2525? How many science fiction Dystopia songs are there? 