Aqua had another minor hit after Barbie Girl with “Turn Back Time.”
The Verve Pipe had very minor play with “Villains” and “Photograph,” and then had a hit from a more recent album called “Hero.”
The New Radicals had a minor hit after “You Only Get What You Give” called “Someday We’ll Know” or something.
Harvey Danger had a second small hit with their remake of “Save It for Later.”
Chumbawamba had a second hit with “Amnesia.”
Actually, the biggest hit by Ned’s was probably “Grey Cell Green,” from the same album. That one at least got a lot of time on MTV, especially late at night. And even though neither of them had many big radio songs, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin and Sponge were both really good bands. I had the chance to see them on the same show (also with Letters To Cleo) a few years ago, and they really rocked.
How about that Marc Cohn guy (“Walking in Memphis”)? I am pretty sure he won the Best New Artist Grammy.
As much as I hate to admit it, Aqua had a modest hit after “Barbie Girl.” I think it was called “Lollipop.”
Some more:
“Return of the Mack” Mark Morrison
“Here Comes the Hotstepper” Ina Kamoze or something nonsensical
“Right Kinda Love” Jeremy Jordan (from the 90210 soundtrack)
“Ooh child” Dino
“Roll with me” Del Amitri (?)
“Freak Like Me” Adina Howard
There’s always the manufactured fictional tv program band The Heights (“How do you talk to an angel?”)
Re: How Bizarre…
No, it dates back even further. I distinctly remember it being the summer hit in Europe in 1996. That along with this ubiquitous bit of British (Scottish, IIRC) Eurovision bubble gum nonsense by I’ve-long-forgotten-who called “Just a Little Bit,” with the deeply philosophical chorus: “Ooo, aah just a little bit, ooo, aah, a little bit more.” That was also the summer of The Spice Girls’ “Wannabe.” I song I wished hadn’t followed me to the States, and one I dearly wished to be a one-hit wonder. At any rate, it confirmed to me that any imagined musical superiority I ascribed to the British was exactly that…imagined.
Del Amitri was hardly the one-hit wonder. The song of theirs I most vividly remember is “Always The Last to Know.” They also had a moderate hit with “Kiss This Thing Goodbye.” In fact, I don’t even know “Roll to/with Me.”
Did the Screaming Trees have a charted hit other than “Nearly Lost You”? They’re oe of my favorite bands from the whole “Seattle scene.” Also, did Julianna Hatfield score radio play with anything other than “Spin The Bottle?”
Gina G. Australian.
But representing Britain. She also had another hit later that summer. Something to do with “amore mio” and wanting to be where the sun is shining… blagh.
The one-hitness depends a lot on what country you are from. For instance the Crash Test Dummies and Tom Cochrane were well established in Canada before any hits in the US and they still do fine here. It is probably similar for some of the British and other non-American bands mentioned in this thread.
When a band is from another country and breaks through into yours, you only see the finished product and not all the work that went into it or the following they have gathered. They just explode onto the scene and then vanish once the song gets old.
Sin With Sebastian “Shut Up and Sleep with Me”.
That would be “Fire Escape”
“Cannonball.” The Breeders.
-Dirty
Didn’t the Verve Pipe also do Bittersweet Symphony? That one seemed to get a lot of airtime in about 97.
Bittersweet Symphony was by The Verve. Different band.
Folk Implosion’s “Natural One” springs to mind. It was stuck in my head for months (and is bound to get stuck yet again now that I’m thinking of it… Drat!).
how about the group that did ‘blackhole sun’? did anyone ever hear of them after that?
Soundgarden? Nah, “Spoonman” was a reasonable hit.
But The Verve might qualify. If not for One Hit Wonder status (in the USA, anyway) but for Band With The Ugliest Frontman status.
How about Stabbing Westward? I don’t think they showed up in the top 40 after “Shame”. Another song perhaps better known for its video. You feature a woman in her underwear being pursued by a homicidal stalker, you’re bound to get an obligatory mention in Maxim.
Everytime I think about ‘One hit wonders of the nineties’ for some reason the song “What’s Up” by 4 non blondes comes to mind.
I think we need to disqualify bands that have pretty good “underground” followings (not mainstream but a good bunch of REALLY loyal fans that probably still are loyal today). I think Harvey Danger, Chumbawumba (there’s a lot to them beyond their hit), Soundgarden, The Verve, Wallflowers, Sponge, Poe and Toad the Wet Sprocket really can’t be considered “one hit wonders”.
Bands like Aqua and Los Del Rios are good candidates because there probably aren’t a lot of fan sites for them, there’s no mailing list, and people aren’t going to boycott (or notice) if they break up. they can really easily fade away while some of the ones I mentioned probably had a good chunk of fans that really REALLY dug them. Thus, they have great one-hit-wonder appeal: rose to the top and completely faded away. The others hovered atop their own fan base for a while, rose to the top of the world, and then settled nicely back down onto their same old fanbase.
My apologies to all those hard-core Aqua and Los Del Rios fans out there 
True, but Verve Pipe did have other singles. “Photograph” and “Hero” got a fair amount of air-play too.
True, but Verve Pipe did have other singles. “Photograph” and “Hero” got a fair amount of air-play too.
Ini Kamoze, I think. Also, Dino had another couple songs out: a solo and a duet. Don’t remember their titles, though.