Chevy Van by Sammy Johns
Is a very special favorite of mine. Custom Vans were popular during ky college years.
I don’t see it listed here.
The B&W portions of the video for “King of the Moutain” was filmed in front of the Exxon Building, a few months after the Exxon Valdez disaster.
I haven’t seen “The Cheater” by Bob Kuban and the In-Men on here. Sadly, the tragic death of their singer, Walter Scott Notheis, has received almost as much press as their music has.
IMPORTANT: Nominations and seconds are no longer limited to 5 (it’s too unwieldy to track and I don’t have that kind of time). That said, please show a little restraint and mercy 
The following tunes have been seconded and are in the poll (no need to nominate/second):
After the Fire – Der Kommissar
A-ha – Take On Me
Arlo Guthrie – City of New Orleans
Blind Melon – No Rain
Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Come On Eileen
Focus – Hocus Pocus
Fountains of Wayne – Stacy’s Mom
Gary Numan – Cars
Georgia Satellites – Keep Your Hands To Yourself
Harvey Danger – Flagpole Sitta
Hurricane Smith – Oh, Babe What Would You Say
Iron Butterfly – In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Looking Glass – Brandy
Mungo Jerry – In the Summertime
Natalie Imbruglia – Torn
Neneh Cherry – Buffalo Stance
Norman Greenbaum – Spirit in the Sky
Ram Jam – Black Betty
Sniff ‘n the Tears – Driver’s Seat
Starland Vocal Band – Afternoon Delight
Swingin’ Medallions – Double Shot (of My Baby’s Love)
The Buggles – Video Killed the Radio Star
The Easybeats – Friday On My Mind
The Kings – The Beat Goes On/Switching To Glide
The Kingsmen – Louie, Louie
The Raspberries – Go All the Way
Tommy Tutone – 867-5309/Jenny
T’Pau – Heart and Soul
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Here are my nominations. All of these artists had one pop hit in the Billboard top 40 charts. They may have had other hits on other charts:
The Cascades - Rhythm of the Rain
The Exciters - Tell Him
Doris Troy - Just One Look
Barrett Strong - Money (That’s What I Want)
Gale Garnett - We’ll Sing in the Sunshine
Flying Machine - Smile a Little Smile for Me
Merrilee Rush - Angel of the Morning
Hugh Masakela - Grazing in the Grass
Desmond Dekker - Israelites
Christie - Yellow River
Jonathan Edwards - Sunshine (Go Away Today)
Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back in Town
The following tunes are in need of a second to make the poll:
Alice Merton - No Roots
Argent - Hold Your Head Up
Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction
Big Country - In a You-Know-What
Billy Thorpe - Children of the Sun
Blues Image - Ride Captain Ride
Blur - Song no. 2
Bob Kuban - The Cheater
Bobby Caldwell - What You Won’t Do For Love
Bram Tchaikovsky - Girls of My Dreams
Buckner & Garcia - Pacman Fever
Buffalo Springfield - For What It’s Worth
Charlene - I’ve Never Been To Me
Chumbawumba - Tubthumping
Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen - Hot Rot Lincoln
Coven - One Tin Soldier
Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Cutting Crew - I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight
David Essex - Rock On
Dean Friedman - Ariel
Deee-Lite - Groove Is In the Heart
Diesel - Sausalito Summer Nights
Digable Planets - Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)
Disclosure - Latch
Dobie Gray - Drift Away
Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town
Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
EMF - Unbelievable
Eumir Deodato - Also Sprach Zarathustra
Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
Four Jacks and a Jill - Master Jack
Gerardo - Rico Suave
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
Golden Earring - Radar Love
Hot Butter - Popcorn
Ides of March - Vehicle
John Fred and his Playboy Band - Judy in Disguise (with glasses)
Kate Bush - Running Up the Hill
Kongos - Come With Me Now
Lee Michaels - Do You Know What I Mean
Love and Rockets - So Alive
Madness - Our House
Martika - Toy Soldiers
Martin Briley - Salt In My Tears
Masters of Reality - She Got Down
Michael Penn - No Myth
Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning
Modern English - I Melt with You
Mountain - Mississippi Queen
Mouth and MacNeal - How Do You Do
Musical Youth - Pass the Dutchie
Napoleon XIV - They’re Coming To Take Me Away, Ha, Ha!
Nena - 99 Luftballoons
O-Zone - Dragstea Din Tei
Player One - Space Invaders
Procul Harem - A Whiter Shade of Pale
Propellerheads - History Repeating
Ray Parker, Jr. - Ghostbusters
Redbone - Come and Get Your Love
Right Said Fred - I’m Too Sexy
Rob Jungklas - Memphis Thing
Sammy Johns - Chevy Van
Sir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Spacehog - In the Meantime
Spirit - I Got a Line on You
Starbuck - Moonlight Feels Right
Steam - Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
Steve Forbert - Romeo’s Tune
Taco - Puttin’ on the Ritz
Tarney Spencer Band - No Time To Lose
Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite
The Beta Band - Dry the Rain
The Chantays - Pipeline
The Icicle Works - Whisper to a Scream
The Knack - My Sharona
The La’s - There She Goes Again
The Monroes - What Do All the People Know?
The Music Explosion - Little Bit O’ Soul
The Normal - Warm Leatherette
The Open Mind - Magic Potion
The Pipkins - Gimme Dat Ding
The Polecats - Make a Circuit with Me
The Primitives - Crash
The Shocking Blue - Venus
The Stampeders - Sweet City Woman
The Surfaris - Wipe Out
The Swingers - Counting the Beat
The Wallflowers - One Headlight
The Weather Girls - It’s Raining Men
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me with Science
Timmy Thomas - Why Can’t We Live Together
Toadies - Possum Kingdom
Toni Basil - Mickey
Ultravox - Vienna
US3 - Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music
Zager & Evans - In the Year 2525
I second:
Vehicle - Ides of March
Steam - Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
I’ll probably submit more seconds, but that’s all for now.
I don’t think Sukiyaki got a second, but given it’s huge sales and no follow-up, it certainly is worth consideration.
For the record:
Golden Earring, Ray Parker, Jr., and Thomas Dolby are NOT OHWs.
And I’ll second:
Shocking Blue - Venus
I’d like to second Dream Academy’s Life in a Northern Town and Modern English’s I Melt with You.
For the latter I’d like to emphasize the original radio version as depicted in the Valley Girl soundtrack like God intended, not the weird version with the missing chorus vocal track that inadvertently made it on a compilation disc that radio stations use to play it today. Boo I say!
In what alternate universe were Thin Lizzy one hit wonders?
Well then, neither is A-Ha. America is not where the buck stops.
In the universe where they had only one hit in the top 40 charts. In other words, this one. They had a long career and sold a lot of albums, but had only one top 40 single in the U.S.
Barrett Strong - “Money”
I already nominated it, so does this count as a second?
Still doesn’t make them one hit wonders: a one hit wonder is an act whose only cultural, musical or historical presence is a single chart hit, and who are *only remembered *for that hit. Otherwise you get into absurdities like claiming a massively influential group like the Ramones, who had a gigantic cultural footprint, were one-hit wonders because they barely scraped a couple of songs into the top 50 in the US. It’s a ridiculously reductive definition.
If the standard is US charts for the purposes of this poll, then I goofed by nominating Ultravox. They had multiple hits in the UK, but zero in America.
The Wallflowers, who had multiple top 40 hits, don’t count as one hit wonders.
I really like this reasoning.
mmm
I am going to second:
Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music
Blues Image - Ride Captain Ride
Argent - Hold Your Head Up
Yeah. I mean, I’m no fan of Yes, but relegating them to the status of Falco because they each only had only one number one chart single in the US is an imbecilic distortion.