Was surprised to find out A-ha actually had a lot of other popular songs.
Fantastic Voyage is a far better song than Gangsta’s Paradise.
Yeah, and it hit #3 on the US pop charts and Coolio was an established MTV star with a platinum album prior to “Paradise,” but I guess the general public would most know him from that.
Norman Greenbaum, of course. Even he admits that he was a one-hit wonder.
Jona Lewie. Not sure how well known Stop the Cavalry is in the US (so that’s a complicating factor) but it was a huge hit internationally. It overshadows everything else he ever did, but he’s been plugging away in the industry for fifty-odd years with occasional successes. Indeed, I saw him live back in the 1970’s, long before his biggest hit.
Also fondly remembered (by me, at least) for the anonymous (well, as Terry Dactyl And The Dinosaurs) forgettable pop classic, Seaside Shuffle. Listening to those two side by side, as I just did, is … interesting. Still, he isn’t likely to sue himself.
On a more heavyweight note, Veronique Sanson is a major figure in French music, but outside of the Francophone world she is known pretty much exclusively for one song - under it’s original title in most of the world (Amoureuse - original and Kiki Dee version) and as Emotion by Patti Dahlstrom (also Helen Reddy) in the US.
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Rupert Holmes- Escape (The Pina-Colada Song)
I doubt many people have heard any songs by Chumbawamba that aren’t called “Tubthumping”.
Or, does that make me look old? How about naming some Argent songs other than “Hold Your Head High”? 
Ross Bagdasarian. He played the piano player in Hitchock’s, “Rear Window”. But his most famous song was under his stage name, David Seville.
When I think of oldies many artists have but one song that stands the test of time. They probably had other hits, but only one is remembered through the ages.
Que Sera Sera
Old Cape Cod
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime
It’s not Unusual
Goldfinger
The Name Game (Everybody do “Chuck”)
Sixteen Tons
When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
I thought A-ha was best known for that one time Cecil Adams said hi to him.
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Was surprised to find out A-ha actually had a lot of other popular songs.
[/QUOTE]Isn’t that true for most non-US/UK bands though? A-ha has scored three No.1 albums in Germany and 7 top tens in the UK, while in the US they only had three charting albums total. Just like Nena and Falco, they’re icons in their home countries but have only one recognizible song in the U.S.
Mason Williams’s Classical Gas
I think Witch Doctor and The Chipmunk Song are both still pretty famous. And the Chipmunks (and their covers of pop songs) are still going on and on…so I don’t think his legacy is quite that restricted.
She’s Not There
Time of the Season
Tell Her No
(When he was with the Zombies :D)
Dueling Banjos, as done by Weissberg and Mandell for the movie “Deliverance”. Trivia note: the original writer of the tune successfully sued the producers of the movie for using his tune without permission.
The Raspberries for "Go All The Way."
Lead singer Eric Carmen went on to have other hits as a solo act in the mid 1970s.All By Myself
Never Gonna Fall In Love Again
She Did It
and more.
He also wrote “That’s Rock N Roll” and “Hey Deanie,” which Shaun Cassidy made it a hit.
Tubular Bells, by Mike Oldfield. Professor Periwinkle’s reference to Classical Gas made me think of it.
Also, Otis Redding, though he offered an enormous and important body of work, is (sadly) pretty much known for Sittin’ On the Dock of the Bay.
I’ve Been Loving You Too Long is almost as well known as Dock of the Bay.
Otis on “Try a Little Tenderness”, too. And “Shake”.
Boots Randolph, Yakety Sax.
I’d call him a two hit wonder (in the UK) because I could immediately add You’ll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties.
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