It’s pretty dificult to ignore, as it was a Billboard Top 10 hit.
tnx Jeff
I remembered seeing “Take the ‘L’ out of Lover” on MTV quite frequently and that is what led me to think it must have been a gigantic hit.
Men Without Hats are best known for Safety Dance, but the title track of their later release Pop Goes the World also got a good bit of airtime.
And damnit, I don’t care what anyone else says, I like them!
Thomas Dolby:
The Greater:
She Blinded Me With Science
And the lesser :
Hyperactive
Two acts that many people in the U.S. think of “one hit wonders” actually had exactly two Billboard Top 40 hits in the U.S.:
Jesus Jones
Right Here, Right Now (#2, 1991)
Real, Real, Real (#4, 1991)
Tommy Tutone
Angel Say No (#38, 1980)
867-5309/Jenny Jenny (#4, 1992)
Some other U.S. Top 40 two-hit wonders:
Jethro Tull (!)
Living in the Past (#11, 1972)
Bungle in the Jungle (#12, 1974)
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Eat It (#12, 1984)
Smells Like Nirvana (#35, 1992)
Kim Wilde
Kids in America (#25, 1982)
You Keep Me Hanging On (#1, 1987)
Eddie Murphy
Party All Time Time (#2, 1985)
Put Your Mouth On Me (#27, 1989)
We mustn’t forget Mr. Rick Astley - Together Forever and Never Gonna Give You Up.
He was the 1980’s answer to Clay Aiken!
Wasn’t Rick Astley’s Cry For Help a good sized hit? It was far and away the best of his three well-known songs, I can tell ya that!
I’d say the Box Tops count with The Letter (#1 in 1967) and Cry Like a Baby (#2 in 1968). OK, so Neon Rainbow reached #28 in '67 as well, but I still wouldn’t call it a hit.
They also had Soul Deep which got to #18 in 1969.
Oops! Forgot about Soul Deep. OK - they were four hit wonders. Never mind.
And we won’t even START to talk about Alex Chilton, Big Star, and the rest that followed his stint with the Box Tops!
Damn, so many singers/groups that I thought only had two hits are turning out to have a few more, although half of the names aren’t familiar at all.
OK, I’ll try again, and let’s see somebody add another hit to this group! :mad: (J/K)
Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days and Everybody Have Fun Tonight
Let’s Go! (#9, 1987) was actually a bigger hit than Dance Hall Days, and they had a couple of other songs that made the lower reaches of the Top 40 chart. By the way, all the information I been giving comes from Joel Whitburn’s The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits.
AGGGHHH!!! Damn you, damn you all!!!
But seriously, once again, you named a hit that doesn’t sound familiar, or should I say, the only song called Let’s Go that I can think of was sang by The Cars.
Howzabout Scandal?
They had “The Warrior,” and “Goodbye to You.” Patty Smyth’s solo stuff doesn’t count.
And all this time I thought that Goodbye to you was Patty Smyth solo.
Gary Wright - “Dream Weaver” and “Love Is Alive”. AMG lists “Really Wanna Know You” as a chart hit as well, but don’t I’ve ever heard it.
Al Stewart - “Year of The Cat” and “Time Passages”
Slaughter - “Fly to the Angels” and “Up All Night”
Spin Doctors - “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong” and “Two Princes”
** Elaine Paige**–She had the debut recording of “Memory” and dueted with Barbara Dickerson on “I Know Him So Well,” which went to #1. Best selling female duet ever.
Frank Zappa - Valley Girl
How about Power Station - Bang a Gong and Some Like it Hot?
I don’t think that they had any others.