Well, have you seen the way they dressed?
oh, mos def, SA… no harshness taken or intended. It’s just that there were some egregious admissions to the one-hit wonder club that I thought needed to be addressed. I was doing the same as you in the 80s with the MTV and radio, so as long as you promise never to call a-ha a one-hit wonder again, I’ll allow you to hate “Take On Me.” Which is becoming the detestable go-to track for 80s synth-pop. It’s only because the song and the band are so great that I’m able to resist. I think everything about a-ha makes people want to hate them - Norwegian (which makes people think of Sweden and Abba), pretty boy singer, a song that was very much of that moment - but the reality is that they are an amazingly talented and successful band. And relevant.
I think it’s great to hear that some of the assumed one-hit wonders had several hits. Fighting ignorance and all that. 
What about “Here Comes the Hotstepper” by Ini Kamoze?
Act like you know, G go, I know what Bo don’t know
Touch them up and go, uh-oh
Ch-ch-chang chang
Here comes the hotstepper, murderer
I’m the lyrical gangster, murderer
Pick up the crew in-a de area, murderer
Still love you like that, murderer
And I also nominate that awful abortion known as “The Cha Cha Slide”. Mostly clapping. All unbearable.
Der Kommissar = Falco
Blinded by Science = Thomas Dolby
Twilight Zone = Golden Earring
Hmmm I was wondering if simster’s selection of Twilight Zone was the Golden Earring song.
For one thing, I don’t think that song is that bad and has been said many times in this thread … they were not a one hit wonder.
Golden Earring had a 1974 hit called Radar Love.
“Me and Mrs. Jones” by Billy Paul (I believe) is the absolute worst as far as I’m concerned. Second is “Tighten Up” by Archie Bell and the Drells.
I have developed lightning reflexes getting to the radio push-buttons upon hearing the first milliseconds of either of those turd-rockets.
I don’t know if Melanie had any other hits, but I sure hate I’ve got a brand new set of roller skates.
She had at least one other big hit in addition to Brand New Key (What Have They Done To My Song, Ma).
If there is to be a followup on Singers So Bad They Should Have Been One-Hit Wonders, I will certainly nominate Barry Manilow.
Well, I am ugly and mama dresses me funny, but I agree with you. I think I lumped “Green Tambourine” in with bubblegum because it came out about the same time as things like “Incense and Peppermints” and “Itchycoo Park,” which really were psychedelic, but were a lot softer than psychedelic anthems like “White Rabbit” and “Eight Miles High.” But they were definitely not bubblegum. My bad.
And since this song belongs on everybody’s road trip CD, Golden Earring has huge amounts of bonus points to make up for the aforementioned dreck.
She also had “Lay Down Candles in the Rain” her song about Woodstock
At the Copa Copacabana…that is one great song, and doesn’t belong in this thread.
I’m on record as being one lover of bad songs and therefore like many in this thread (The Night Chicago Died is one of my all-time favorites).
But I have to go with I’ve Never Been To Me as one of the worst anythings ever produced. Someone here said it best: it makes you ashamed to be a human being. There are few things worse than that!
2525, though, is awfully bad as well.
Prior to 1971’s “Brand New Key,” Melanie had a hit in 1970 with “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain).”
Now I’m all pissed off, thinking about that song:
I’ve been undressed by kings and I’ve seen some things that a woman ain’t supposed to see
Oh for pity sake. Like WHAT. :mad:
I’d tell you, but I’m not supposed to know!
I love that song. Reminds me of that sixth grade (?) slumber party where we all sang it along with the radio. 
Funkytown was a one hit wonder for both Lipps Inc. and Pseudo Echo.
Either one will make me change the radio station purdy damn quick.
I believe it is, yes… and until now I never knew that it was the same group that did “Radar Love”…
My definition of a “one hit wonder” is just that… you know the “one hit”, but cannot seem to recall ever hearing another song by the same group (on the radio).
Ooh my little pretty one, pretty one.
When you gonna give me some time, Sharona?
Ooh you make my motor run, my motor run.
Gun it comin’ off the line Sharona
Never gonna stop, give it up.
Such a dirty mind. Always get it up for the touch
of the younger kind. My my my i yi wooooooooo.
M M M My Sharona…
The Knack
Sorry if it was mentioned already.
You are forgetting “Good Girls Don’t,” from the same album (Get the Knack, I believe was the name of it). I think just about as big a hit as My Sharona.
Damn.
You’re right.
I remember that piece of… song now.
Now its an earworm. Double damn!