Your favorite one hit wonder

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'80s best one-hit wonders:

“Mickey” - Tony Basil
“Wild Wild West” - Escape Club
“Miami Vice Theme” - Jan Hammer
“Don’t Worry, Be Happy” - Bobby McFerrin
“Big Country” - Big Country (at least in the US)

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Forgot:

Thomas Dolby: She Blinded Me with Science

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Hard to believe no-one’s mentioned My Sharona yet.

Yes, they had a few other minor hits, which I also like, but nothing on the level of My Sharona.

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Ten Years After I’m Going Home
Raiph McTell Streets of London
Tee Set Ma Belle Ami

and for the win:

Bobby Hebb Sunny

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Not really a one-hit-wonder though as he had a hit with “Love is like a Rock.”

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There are dozens I could name, but for now I’ll just submit:

“Go Back” by Crabby Appleton

“(We Ain’t Got) Nothing Yet” by the Blues Magoos

"Liar Liar" by the Castaways

"Lies"by the Knickerbockers

"Psychotic Reaction" by the Count Five

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Snow - Informer

And numerous old skool cartoon rave tracks (Trip to Trumpton, Sesame’s Treat etc)

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“Lake Shore Drive” - Aliotta, Haynes and Jeremiah

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The Proclaimers - “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)”

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Pass The Dutchie by Musical Youth.

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  1. “Vehicle” Ides of March…
  2. “Brandy” Looking Glass…
  3. “Ride Captain Ride”…Blues Image…
  4. “Tarzan Boy” Baltimora…
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Was the '80s the Golden Age for 1 hit wonders?

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Of course, Donnie Iris was leader of the Jaggerz, who had an even bigger hit with “The Rapper.”

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Walk on the Wild Side by some loser named Lou Reed.

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Not exactly a “One Hit Wonder”, y’know.

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apology for not putting the links in… ahh the beauty of the three minute single is totally lost on my kids today…

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Ten Years After had a bigger hit with “I’d Love to Change the World”…

“tell me where is sanity”…

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That was Ten Years After?! Who knew?

not me, apparently :smack:

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Probably if you came of age in the 80s. If you came of age in the 60s, then that was the golden age. If you came of age in the 50s, then that was the golden age, etc.

For me, it was the 90s:

Lucas:Lucas with the Lid Off
Soup Dragons: Divine Thing
Divinyls: I Touch Myself
Paperboy: Ditty
4 Non Blondes: What’s Up
Primitave Radio Gods: Standing Outside a Broken Phonebooth…
US3: Cantaloop
Blind Melon: No RainWhite Town: Your Woman

And of course, the aforementioned Proclaimers and Dead Eye Dick tunes, and a bunch of rap tunes (Rump Shaker, Tootsie Roll, Baby Got Back, Ditty, Jump Around, Whoomp There it is, I Got a Man, You Got What I Need).

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Norman Greenbaum Spirit in the Sky