One Hit Wonders of the 80's- Some you'll know, some you won't.
Submitted by Nummies on Sun, 03/13/2005 - 04:54
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- The Future's so bright I gotta wear shades-Timbuk 3 (I do know this song)
- What will we be singing in the 80's- The Monitors
- Shiny Shiny- Hayzi Fantazee
- Politics of Dancing- Reflex (I know this one too)
- Bop Girl- Pat Wilson
- Screaming Jets- Johnny Warman
- Only for Sheep- The Bureau
- Mickey- Toni Basil (Everybody knows this one)
- Money- Flying Lizards (I know this one..Its what we ALL want)
- Respectable- Mel & Kim (Surprisingly, I have this one)
- Wonderful Life- Black
- Words- Missing Persons
- Boom Boom Boom (Let's go back to my room)- Paul Lekakis
- Pass the Dutchie- Musical Youth
- I know what boys like- The Waitresses
- Turning Japanese- The Vapors
- Walking on Sunshine- Katrina & the Waves
- The Stroke- Billy Squier
- Too Young For Promises- Koo De Tah
- In a Big Country- Big Country
- Homosapien- Pete Shelley (I have this one too. Its "New Wave" and its "Horrible")
- Real Gone Kid- Deacon Blue
- Romeo's Tune- Steve Forbert
- 88 Lines about 44 Women- The Nails
- Counting the Beat- The Swingers
- Eye of the Tiger- Survivor
- Doctorin' the Tardis- TimeLords
- Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop Cumma Cumma Wang Dang- Monte Video & the Cassettes
- Love Missile F1-11- Sigue Sigue Sputnik
- Perfect- Fairground Attraction
- Fade to Grey- Visage
- Everybody's got to learn Sometime- The Korgis
- Je Suis Un Rock Star- Bill Wyman
- 99 Luft Balloons- Nena
- I Ran- Flock of Seagulls
- The Final Countdown- Europe
Author Comments:
Ok, now I know i've repeated some of these on previous one hit wonders pages and i'm sorry. I'm just so surprised on some of these songs because i've never heard of half of them. The rest, I have. Let me know what you think.
Depending on what criteria you use for "one-hit wonder"...some of these don't qualify.
For instance, Europe burst onto the scene with "The Final Countdown", but their follow-up song, "Carrie", charted at #3.
Missing Persons never hit the Top 40, but had another great club tune in "Walking In L.A."
Billy Squier had several hits, including "Everybody Wants You" and "Rock Me Tonight"
Survivor was just that....they charted after "Eye Of The Tiger" with "I Can't Hold Back", "High On You","The Search Is Over","Burning Heart", and "Is This Love".
Even A Flock Of Seagulls charted after "I Ran", although neither song cracked the top 25.
Let me add to the list
E.U. - Da Butt
Patrick Swayze - She's Like The Wind
'Doctorin' The Tardis' is also not a one hit wonder. That is an alias of the KLF who had another number one hit with '3 a.m. Eternal (Live at the S.S.L.)' and five other top ten hits. Their album 'The White Room' also reached number 3. Hardly a 'one hit wonder' group. Incidently they were also the biggest selling singles artists internationally of 1991.