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Nuff said.
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Well, have you seen the way they dressed?
[QUOTE=Stillwell Angel]
Hey now! I put the little winking smilie guy in my post so you wouldn’t take my comments as harsh. 
And there is another smiley to show you I’m not being a bitch in this post. Truce?
This thread makes me see that the term One Hit Wonder is pretty vague. I have read other posts since mine regarding the same issue. People post the song and others come along to point out there were indeed more hits from that band. Honestly, in MY world, I have never heard another song by those bands I listed, nor anything about the bands themselves once those hits faded away. I was a teenager in the 80’s, so I spent plenty of hours with MTV and the radio when those songs were popular, but that’s all I heard from those two groups.
One hit or not, I still hate those songs I listed 
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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.
[QUOTE=simster]
Dar Commisar
Blinded by science
Twilight Zone
ooohhhh the memories…
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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.
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I don’t know if Melanie had any other hits, but I sure hate I’ve got a brand new set of roller skates.
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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.
[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew]
…the Lemon Pipers were a serious psychedelic rock band who had a garage-punk type single out under the same name before signing with Buddah, and who later played a Fillmore gig on a bill with Traffic. They hated “Green Tambourine,” and only recorded it under the threat of being dropped from the label… And “Green Tambourine” is a great slice of psychedelic pop whimsy, and anyone who sez different is ugly and their mother dresses them funny.
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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.
[QUOTE=wolf_meister]
Golden Earring had a 1974 hit called Radar Love.
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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.
[QUOTE=Jackmannii]
She had at least one other big hit in addition to Brand New Key (What Have They Done To My Song, Ma).
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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.
[QUOTE=Hypno-Toad]
I don’t know if Melanie had any other hits, but I sure hate I’ve got a brand new set of roller skates.
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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.
[QUOTE=wolf_meister]
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.
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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.
[QUOTE=meek]
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.
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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!