UK dopers will remember (and recoil with horror at) Babylon Zoo, whose “Spaceman” was used by Levis for a Euro ad campaign before its release. It debuted at #1 (in 20 countries), but they never really sold anything else.
Vincent, Castles in the Sky, Since I don’t have You, Your Cheating Heart, Jerusalem, Starry Starry Night… all entered the Top 40 (although some were admittedly only in the Country Top 40)…
The BBC’s take on One Hit Wonders: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A766000.
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I don’t know why, but eveyrtime the song Starry Starry Night comes to mind, in my head it somehow segues into Danny Boy.
“Starry, starry night, the pipes the pipes are calling…”
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Maybe it’s just me…
I’d be careful calling that the view of the BBC. It’s on the h2g2 site, which is written by everyday people, much like http://www.everything2.com . A sort of online encylopaedia written by normal people like you and me.
And for the record, Purple Haze got to number 1 over here in the UK after Jimi died.
Thanks, I wasn’t aware of that.
Actually there is no *Starry Starry Night. * It’s the lyrics to Vincent, they’re one and the same.
That Billboard list went up to 1990, well before “Macarena”.
How about Clarence Carter’s “Strokin”? Can’t remember him releasing anything else…
I remember another one by Clarence Carter: Slip Away.
Um, I’ll go with Little Eva and “Locomotion” as my runner-up – it’s a one-hit wonder that got covered.
For the grand prize one-hit wonder, though, I gotta go with Convoy by C.W. McCall. Though his commercials about a bread truck driver were popular, this one song inspired an entire movie. Go figure.
FISH
And truly horrible they are too. Maybe the original proposer of Don MacLean as a one-hit wonder was just indulging in wishful thinking.
Wasn’t he also in the original “Die Hard” movie? 
Biggirl thanks…I know they had some other tunes that were popular BUT
Everytime I turn on the radio OR even the TV now, I hear…low rider.
Almost as bad as the Village people w/ that damned YMCA crap. Get a new song already.
rock the boat…rock the boat baby Damn, where’d that come from? Sorry folks, I’m gettin some bad flashbacks here.
I dunno, maybe it’s just that some songs were so BAD, we tend to forget other stuff a group has done. Makes ya wonder, “How in the HELL was this ever a hit?”
Ethel…don’t look Ethel, too late
I mean, did ANYONE really like “Muskrat Love”? yeah I know Cap’n & T did lotsa stuff…but this one just totally f#%ked me up. :smack:
Sorry about the hijack Card, it just seemed to fit.
For the “Who?” record:
The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
After the “artist” name, the song title is anticlimatic: Fire
“I am the God of Hellfire…”
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