Your favorite one-hit wonders

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Anonymous wrote:“Ariel” by Dean Friedman (1977)

This made me smile, haven’t heard this since the 70s

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Black Velvet?

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Anonymous wrote:Somebody That I Used to Know by Gotye

+100 Love this song!!

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Anonymous wrote:Flagpole Sitta -Harvey Danger

Good one. Such a great Gen X song.

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Anonymous wrote:Whip it by Devo

Devo has a huge following and tour. They weren’t a 1 hit wonder

Totally. WTH? Devo was epic.

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Anonymous wrote:I can admit this on an anonymous forum: Tainted Love

I was just going to post this when I saw the thread.

Soft Cell!

The only reason why Soft Cell are either embarrassing or some one hit wonder band for you is because you never did any research or bought any of their albums.

Exactly! I was like, what?! They’re not a one hit wonder?!

I love Soft Cell and they were so much more than a one hit wonder for me. Nonstop Erotic Cabaret is a classic synth new wave album. And Marc Almond had a big solo career in the UK. So saying they were a one hit wonder is really only accurate for the ignorant people out there.

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Anonymous wrote:Hanson and Carly Rae Jepson are not one hit wonders.

I'm going with Break My Stride, by Matthew Wilder.

I'm sorry but Hansen had one hit song, MMMBop, and no others. They had other songs, yes, but none were hits, and their career on popular radio was short lived and involved only one song.

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Anonymous wrote:The Planets - Gustav Holst

I agree with the rest on this thread but have to quibble here. Some of his chamber music is quite good and I'm a big fan of his band music, especially first and second suites for military band.

And I'm a big fan of other Proclaimers songs, but that doesn't make them hits

Ask anyone who has played in a band if they know First Suite in E flat.

-trombonist who has played this in a zillion bands

But "played in band" = not a typical member of the public. Lots of musicians may love a composer, but if the general public is only familiar with one piece, that's the hit.

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Anonymous wrote:Lady in Red

If only Chris deBurgh had stopped there

+1. He has several great hits

Zero great songs, but several big hits

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Faded by Soul Decision.

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Anonymous wrote:Faded by Soul Decision.

Wow I had forgotten about that one!

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Anonymous wrote:Hanson and Carly Rae Jepson are not one hit wonders.

I'm going with Break My Stride, by Matthew Wilder.

I'm sorry but Hansen had one hit song, MMMBop, and no others. They had other songs, yes, but none were hits, and their career on popular radio was short lived and involved only one song.

I accidentally was first to know about Hansen. I saw their MMMBop video being made for MTV.

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Anonymous wrote:Whip it by Devo

Devo has a huge following and tour. They weren’t a 1 hit wonder

Totally. WTH? Devo was epic.

While I’m sure we are all very impressed by your music chops, the phrase is one “hit” wonder snd although I also love devo I think they didn’t have anything else in the top 25 and maybe only one other in top 100.

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