The Thompson Twins also had “Doctor Doctor” and “King For a Day”. Tears For Fears had a few other hits, including “Mad World” and “Break it Down Again”. And Cyndi also had a few others, such as “True Colors”, “She Bop”, and “All Through the Night”.
“We’ll Sing in the Sunshine” by Gale Garnet
“Kick That Little Foot, Sally Ann” By Round Robin
“Snoopy vs. the Red Baron” by Royal Guardsmen
“Sukiyaki” (sorry, I don’t remember the singer’s name) :o
“Primrose Lane” by Jerry Wallace
“Calcutta” by Lawrence Welk
“Ballad of Thunder Road” by Robert Mitchum (yes, that Robert Mitchum!) 
“1900 Yesterday” by Liz Damon’s Orient Express
You had to bring up Dream Academy, didn’t you DWC? I hate that song. Every time I hear it I have flashbacks to the worst period in my life, even worse than the time I was married.
Don’t forget:
Lisa Loeb-Stay
99 Luftballoons-Nina
What I Am-Edie Brickell (Mrs. Paul Simon)
Steal My Sunshine-Len
dougie, The Royal Guardsmen had two top-forty hits. The second was “Return of the Red Baron”.
How about Rubber Ducky, by Ernie? Yes, that Rubber Ducky, by that Ernie. It made it to #17 on the pop charts in '65 IIRC.
How about “The Ballad of the Green Berets” by SSgt Barry Sadler? He’s also a one-hit movie wonder, having had one sort-of major role along with his hit song. Then he got blowed up training contras or some damn thing.
I recently saw a commercial for some gospel singer, Christie somebody (“One Day at a Time, Sweet Jesus”) with archival footage of Sadler praising her music. Wigged me out something awful.
Kyu Sakimoto. The undisputed king of rock ‘n’ roll.
Died in that Korean Airliner shot down by the Russians. All the great ones die in plane crashes: Buddy Holly…Otis Redding…Kyu Sakimoto…
How about Fastball? We haven’t really heard anything from them since “The Way” came out about six or so years ago. I know they released one single not too long after that, and I can remember the video, but I can’t think of the name. They still count as a OHW though.
One would do well to check the previous thread on this topic.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=140322
I stand corrected, Jeff. :o In fact my newspaper at Redondo High, the High Tide, mentioned that other title. I didn’t know it was a hit.
“Tennessee Birdwalk”–John Blanchard & Misty Morgan
“Deep Purple”–Nino Tempo & April Stevens
“My Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes”–Edison Lighthouse
“Hooked on a Feeling”–Blue Swede
“Deck of Cards”–Wink Martindale
“In the Summertime”–Mungo Jerry
“When I Need You”–Leo Sayer
The mention of Nena’s 99 Luftballon got me thinking…
OK, how 'bout Germany’s Trio with “Da Da Da”? Made famous in the 90s through that Volkswagen commericial, but I’m fairly certain it got radio play in the 80s as well.
“Rock Me Amadeus” by Falco? Or was “Der Kommisar” pretty popular in the States as well?
“In the Year 2525” by Zegar and Evans.
“Laid” by James. Great band, but I don’t recall any other US charters from these guys. Yes, I know they did well in the UK.
“Carmina Burana” by Carl Orff? 
They also had “Fire Escape” which didn’t do as well but still got some play. Not much from there second album really broke, though.
You may be interested to know that they have a greatest hits CD out now. Yep. Two albums and a Greatest Hits compilation. That’s only two more albums and two hits more than I have and I don’t have a greatest hits CD…
I think “Der Kommissar” became a hit when After the Fire covered it. Incidentally, I think that was After the Fire’s only hit.
Guster Airport Song
Geggy Tah Whoever You Are
Paper Lace The Night Chicago Died…
ok, I really liked The Night Chicago Died
That’s understandable, I don’t think the second one was very far into the top forty. Did you know they recorded two other Snoopy songs? Didn’t get anywhere near as far with those and I don’t think their covers did very well either.
Not only did Leo Sayer have more than one hit, he had more than one #1 hit. Both “When I Need You” and “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing” topped the charts.
OK, Fish. I figure “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing” was a disco hit, or something similar, and I was in my late twenties when it came out and never predisposed to dancing anyway.
I know they had several other songs that received a lot of airplay on alternative radio (at least where I live)–“Born of Frustration”, “Say Something”, “Sit Down”…not sure how far up the charts any of those went.
But when I think of a one-hit-wonder, I think of someone who really wasn’t good enough to sustain a major recording career. Jimi Hendrix was is a special case. He was really too good to be popular among the average music fans; his music was too adventurous. The Beatles are about the only example I can recall of a band that was wonderfully inventive and adventurous without ever losing their mass appeal.
I have to go with javaman on this - to me a one-hit wonder isn’t someone with just one hit. There’s a talent issue here as well an “airplay” issue. People/bands like Jimi Hendrix, Cyndi Lauper (every single song on her first album got tons of airplay, I think), Greatful Dead, Chumbawumba, etc.
There’s also a format issue. There are many bands (like GD, Chumbawumba, some of the alternative bands like XTC, Tears for Fears, ) who put out many albums and had a large following - but only had one or two songs that were ever on the basic top-40 American radio stations. I just don’t think those types of bands fall in the same category as a band/person who appears with one album - one song on that album flies up the charts and then the band/person completely disappears. A one-hit wonder is someone who isn’t good enough to sustain a career…
Cricket, realizing that she needs more caffiene quickly before she posts another rambling message like this one…