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Title: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: betarhoalphadelta on July 22, 2024, 04:31:48 PM
As described in the title, of course. Maybe the band has some sort of small hardcore following, but for one glorious moment, their ONE popular song was high on the charts, EVERYONE knew it, and then before you knew it... They were gone. Never to be heard from again. 

The below is one that I remember from the days when I was just starting to get old enough to be watching MTV instead of Saturday morning cartoons. From the video you can tell it just screams "80's". 

To this day I can't hear this song and NOT crank the volume. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: 847badgerfan on July 22, 2024, 04:40:24 PM
Brandy, by The Looking Glass.
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: Cincydawg on July 22, 2024, 04:41:50 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckM51xoTC2U
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: utee94 on July 22, 2024, 04:44:36 PM
Quote from: Cincydawg on July 22, 2024, 04:41:50 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckM51xoTC2U
I love that song.  Golden Earring actually had another really big hit in the early MTV era.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1sf2CzEq0w
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: utee94 on July 22, 2024, 04:46:56 PM
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on July 22, 2024, 04:31:48 PM
As described in the title, of course. Maybe the band has some sort of small hardcore following, but for one glorious moment, their ONE popular song was high on the charts, EVERYONE knew it, and then before you knew it... They were gone. Never to be heard from again.

The below is one that I remember from the days when I was just starting to get old enough to be watching MTV instead of Saturday morning cartoons. From the video you can tell it just screams "80's".

To this day I can't hear this song and NOT crank the volume.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0

Great song, I saw them live at a scary little club in South Austin in...1989, 1990?  It was a seriously crazy show, I probably shouldn't have been there but we had a great time.
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: MrNubbz on July 22, 2024, 11:19:28 PM
https://youtu.be/p13yZAjhU0M?t=3






https://youtu.be/L9HXClusp_E










https://youtu.be/97H32B8ozC0







Upon further review I've removed Lou Reed as he had a few hits




Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 22, 2024, 11:40:23 PM
Lou Reed had a few
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: MrNubbz on July 22, 2024, 11:48:22 PM
can't recall any off the top of my head - sort of a early punk/glam club band
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 07:51:48 AM
https://youtu.be/Qc-bwzN6IVk
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: NorthernOhioBuckeye on July 23, 2024, 07:54:51 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5HfwS6Ey_4

My favorite Lou Reed song with a pretty sweet intro.
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 07:56:19 AM
https://youtu.be/PrXIoHyfObg

on of my favorites since I had a 1981 GPZ 1100
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: NorthernOhioBuckeye on July 23, 2024, 08:03:48 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRFo72wuU6w

Can't leave Norman out of the converstation. 
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 08:34:44 AM
https://youtu.be/vV_Wqomv8QU
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 08:38:36 AM
https://youtu.be/gEeHOOudKOw
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 08:43:12 AM
NOT one of my favorites

https://youtu.be/wWk-uDrGxL0
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 08:43:45 AM
https://youtu.be/Fpu5a0Bl8eY
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: medinabuckeye1 on July 23, 2024, 08:44:36 AM
https://youtu.be/1qkt7W3ydaE?si=__YDKGm7nJUdC3_f
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: utee94 on July 23, 2024, 08:51:44 AM
Yeah Lou Reed had several.

I'm finding it kind of difficult to find true one-hit wonders, that I really liked.  There are quite a few that had one super-popular song, but also had one or two other hits that charted, which in my mind eliminates them from consideration.

Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: utee94 on July 23, 2024, 08:56:12 AM
Alright here's one I liked from the early 90s.  Wikipedia says they had one other hit that made the charts, but I've never heard of it, so that's good enough for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onjaC3A2xjk
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 09:06:01 AM
https://youtu.be/PEZQ736He7k
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 09:17:21 AM
https://youtu.be/OPuv5LXUc0E
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 09:23:27 AM
https://youtu.be/wqrSYOVdPek
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 09:27:01 AM
https://youtu.be/_YdBsF8sagQ
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 09:31:49 AM
https://youtu.be/B3KGpIoE5CY
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 09:33:22 AM
https://youtu.be/TYdA5en4V3E
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 09:39:03 AM
https://youtu.be/TutX4m_wDoM
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: 847badgerfan on July 23, 2024, 09:54:55 AM
FF with the Google search for one-hit wonders.

Brandy is my favorite of all.

Lou Reed? He had hits?
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 09:57:00 AM
didn't need google

those just pop up on my youtube suggestions

I guess I dig a bunch of one hit wonders
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: jgvol on July 23, 2024, 09:58:59 AM
https://youtu.be/EkwD5rQ-_d4?si=k5MewqnY8kUp_qd3
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: jgvol on July 23, 2024, 10:00:11 AM
The most famous of all one hit wonders?


https://youtu.be/iIpfWORQWhU?si=3HhtAOnNMyhjM9pj 
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: betarhoalphadelta on July 23, 2024, 10:12:21 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYsMjEeEg4g
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: utee94 on July 23, 2024, 10:29:26 AM
Quote from: jgvol on July 23, 2024, 10:00:11 AM
The most famous of all one hit wonders?


https://youtu.be/iIpfWORQWhU?si=3HhtAOnNMyhjM9pj

It's true that was their biggest hit, but they actually charted with 3 other songs after that.  My favorite of all of them is actually this one:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOK3rqVgN2I
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: utee94 on July 23, 2024, 10:37:20 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwrYMWoqg5w
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: jgvol on July 23, 2024, 11:20:56 AM
Quote from: utee94 on July 23, 2024, 10:29:26 AM
It's true that was their biggest hit, but they actually charted with 3 other songs after that.  My favorite of all of them is actually this one:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOK3rqVgN2I

I had no idea they had anything else noteworthy.

I added it because I saw something years ago on VH1 about "one hit wonders", and that list had them at the top.
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: utee94 on July 23, 2024, 11:29:26 AM
Yeah I looked up a list from VH1 online of their top "one hit wonders" of the 80s, and they included songs like "Take On Me" by A-ha, and "Your Love" by the Outfield.  But, although those were the biggest hits from each band, they also each had several others hits on the charts.
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 11:38:35 AM
perhaps it should be, 3 hit wonders or less?

well, for VH1 
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: betarhoalphadelta on July 23, 2024, 11:47:54 AM
FYI I would think of the "one hit wonder" category as being fairly lenient. If there was a random song that you barely remember from a band but it at least charted for a week or two, that doesn't IMHO exclude a band from being a one hit wonder. 

For example A-ha might have had other songs that charted, but I just googled them and from a list of songs, I can't remember a single one of them based on the song title. Maybe that's just based on the fact that when "Take On Me" came out, I was about 7 years old. But looking at their Wiki page, only one other song (from the same album) ever reached top 40 in the US, and then nothing from their subsequent studio albums charted.

So I'd call A-ha a one hit wonder. 
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: utee94 on July 23, 2024, 11:49:33 AM
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on July 23, 2024, 11:47:54 AM
FYI I would think of the "one hit wonder" category as being fairly lenient. If there was a random song that you barely remember from a band but it at least charted for a week or two, that doesn't IMHO exclude a band from being a one hit wonder.

For example A-ha might have had other songs that charted, but I just googled them and from a list of songs, I can't remember a single one of them based on the song title. Maybe that's just based on the fact that when "Take On Me" came out, I was about 7 years old. But looking at their Wiki page, only one other song (from the same album) ever reached top 40 in the US, and then nothing from their subsequent studio albums charted.

So I'd call A-ha a one hit wonder.
The Sun Always Shines On TV was a big hit , all over the radio and especially MTV (and IMO a better song).  Call them a two hit wonder if you like but that's what they are.
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: jgvol on July 23, 2024, 11:50:27 AM
"Take on Me" is the best music video ever done.

Prove me wrong.
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 11:51:31 AM
does it contain gratuitous nudity???
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: betarhoalphadelta on July 23, 2024, 11:57:06 AM
Quote from: utee94 on July 23, 2024, 11:49:33 AM
The Sun Always Shines On TV was a big hit , all over the radio and especially MTV (and IMO a better song).  Call them a two hit wonder if you like but that's what they are.
Fair enough. You're a couple years older than me so you probably remember 1985 a little more clearly than I do. I just watched the video and have absolutely no memory of that song whatsoever. 

My point was that I don't want this thread to become some sort of "gotcha!" game where someone posts a song that they clearly remember as a one hit wonder and everyone jumps on them saying "but they had this other song that reached #38 on the charts too!"

I think we all know which artists are completely obviously not one hit wonders. But there are a few that are in sort of a gray area, and I'd say we should offer leniency for those. 
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: utee94 on July 23, 2024, 11:59:38 AM
Sure 'nuff, it's your thread. :)

I was in junior high in 1985, so right in the thick of discovering my own music and asserting my own musical independence.  Songs during that year and over the next couple, are probably the most influential of my entire life.
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: utee94 on July 23, 2024, 12:11:32 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWxJEIz7sSA
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 02:43:20 PM
this guy had more than one, but not many

https://youtu.be/6tynWSAesAo
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: utee94 on July 23, 2024, 02:45:56 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG_k5CSYKhg
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 02:56:00 PM
https://youtu.be/ry59qsl2R8c
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 02:59:32 PM
https://youtu.be/Mw5wdXjTgFc
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 03:04:47 PM
https://youtu.be/qhhwO5H2C8s
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: MrNubbz on July 23, 2024, 03:54:39 PM
Quote from: NorthernOhioBuckeye on July 23, 2024, 07:54:51 AM
Sweet Jane

My favorite Lou Reed song with a pretty sweet intro.
Great call N.O.B. forgot about that Classic, I'll remove him from my O.H.W. list
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: MrNubbz on July 23, 2024, 04:00:16 PM
Quote from: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 09:31:49 AM
John Stewart - Gold (1979)
Forgot how good that was,along with Stevie in her prime 👀
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: utee94 on July 23, 2024, 04:19:18 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajNTIklt8do
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: highVOLtage on July 23, 2024, 04:31:22 PM
Quote from: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 09:31:49 AM
https://youtu.be/B3KGpIoE5CY

Also with a link to Stevie Nicks:

https://youtu.be/Ar5GaTC440M?si=fxrts0R4eG2cvOaH
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: GopherRock on July 23, 2024, 04:41:18 PM
Quote from: utee94 on July 23, 2024, 11:29:26 AM
Yeah I looked up a list from VH1 online of their top "one hit wonders" of the 80s, and they included songs like "Take On Me" by A-ha, and "Your Love" by the Outfield.  But, although those were the biggest hits from each band, they also each had several others hits on the charts.
A-ha did a Bond theme, which I think disqualifies them.


https://youtu.be/hR2OwmariWk?si=bWtTwfqICRX46b7e
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: MrNubbz on July 23, 2024, 04:54:58 PM
here's a one hit wonder
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XbwsY1BHlSU?feature=share
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: highVOLtage on July 23, 2024, 04:57:17 PM
https://youtu.be/IuwxZSIS__4?si=sdLURFEmrZOK1HyH
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: MrNubbz on July 23, 2024, 05:03:58 PM
Quote from: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 11:51:31 AM
does it contain gratuitous nudity???
Why do you have to leave a tip if your going to be naked?
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 05:53:57 PM
Quote from: MrNubbz on July 23, 2024, 04:54:58 PM
here's a one hit wonder
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XbwsY1BHlSU?feature=share
I can't see the picture
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 08:22:06 PM
https://youtu.be/rsf_gTZG4cI
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 08:37:33 PM
https://youtu.be/RXT5OvdtTT0
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 09:23:12 PM
https://youtu.be/fymw5ie9Zd4
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 09:25:56 PM
https://youtu.be/6WTdTwcmxyo
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: MaximumSam on July 23, 2024, 09:27:13 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKQIGvULZCI&t=82s
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: MrNubbz on July 24, 2024, 09:56:15 PM
Quote from: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 08:22:06 PM
https://youtu.be/rsf_gTZG4cI
https://youtu.be/BJLqeCbOtbY
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 24, 2024, 10:05:54 PM
two hits?

I've got a couple
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on July 24, 2024, 10:09:16 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMDxrXFQwU8
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: MrNubbz on July 24, 2024, 10:28:48 PM
Quote from: FearlessF on July 23, 2024, 05:53:57 PM
I can't see the picture
I do it has to be something to do with your pictures disappearing. Have you updated that ACER of yours?
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 24, 2024, 10:43:15 PM
Ya mean the Dell that was delivered 12/22/2008???

Intel® Pentium® dual-core processor E5200 (2MB L2, 2.5GHz, 800 FS, Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition SP1, 64-Bit

OR
perhaps it's the bifocals
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: utee94 on July 24, 2024, 11:14:28 PM
Dang, that computer's a survivor.  We should put you in a commercial or something.
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: 847badgerfan on July 25, 2024, 07:18:59 AM
Windows NT?
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: MrNubbz on July 25, 2024, 07:21:02 AM
Quote from: FearlessF on July 24, 2024, 10:43:15 PM
Ya mean the Dell that was delivered 12/22/2008???

Intel® Pentium® dual-core processor E5200 (2MB L2, 2.5GHz, 800 FS, Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition SP1, 64-Bit

OR
perhaps it's the bifocals
Actually we have a CPU Dell that Cindy bought from a local Tech Geek who rebuilds them. She bought it in 2014 there abouts. Not sure he mentioned it was 3 yrs old. She likes it and a friend up dates it also. The tech only does a few rebuilds a year now as the prices on PCs have come down - until recently
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 25, 2024, 08:21:31 AM
two hit wonder..............

https://youtu.be/uRLuIm2Bjgk

https://youtu.be/vV_1gqyaPwQ
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 25, 2024, 08:23:37 AM
Quote from: utee94 on July 24, 2024, 11:14:28 PM
Dang, that computer's a survivor.  We should put you in a commercial or something.
I'm easy
I accept Live Oak Beer, Tito's vodka, BBQ, or tex-mex
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: NorthernOhioBuckeye on July 25, 2024, 12:11:42 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX_TFkut1PM 

How about a little Don McLean
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: NorthernOhioBuckeye on July 25, 2024, 12:13:40 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8pYpii2Atg
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: Cincydawg on July 25, 2024, 03:33:29 PM

Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: Cincydawg on July 25, 2024, 03:34:38 PM
I had never heard the term "wind band" before.  I gather it's a band with no stringed instruments....
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: utee94 on July 25, 2024, 03:35:55 PM
My kids' marching band's fall show for competition, features Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings.  And, not a single stringed instrument in the entire ensemble...
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 25, 2024, 04:28:35 PM
Quote from: NorthernOhioBuckeye on July 25, 2024, 12:13:40 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8pYpii2Atg

Sweet had 3 top 10 hits

not including this one - my favorite


https://youtu.be/NM6I-pmV0RA
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: Cincydawg on July 25, 2024, 04:32:59 PM
BARBER Adagio for Strings (youtube.com) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3MHeNt6Yjs)
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: utee94 on July 25, 2024, 04:34:12 PM
Quote from: Cincydawg on July 25, 2024, 04:32:59 PM
BARBER Adagio for Strings (youtube.com) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3MHeNt6Yjs)
Folks use it in dramatic moments in movies all the time.
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: FearlessF on July 25, 2024, 04:36:12 PM
did it make the top hits chart?
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: MrNubbz on July 25, 2024, 04:38:17 PM
Quote from: NorthernOhioBuckeye on July 25, 2024, 12:11:42 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX_TFkut1PM

How about a little Don McLean
He had a couple others chart
Title: Re: OT: Favorite One Hit Wonders
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on July 25, 2024, 10:53:55 PM
My HS randomly had a large and random collection of people that wore Pro-Pain shirts, spanning all social circles. Not only did they not have any hits, they weren't even all that big by heavy metal standards; just one of many discount Pantera knock offs that were around at the time. My theory is that they must have opened for Pantera, who would have drawn more than just the usual concert goers, so it would have been the "first show" for many of them.