Favourite one hit wonders

Original post by 04MR17

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YAS good one!! Youtube comments beg for these two to return...

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Original post by Emma:-)

Does anyone else remember bom bom by sam and the womp.

I found that so annoying. :colonhash:

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OP

Original post by toonervoustotalk

omg hate that song with a passion :colonhash:

I actually really liked the song at the time.
Ive gone off it slightly now, but its not bad.

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toonervoustotalk

vanilla ice- ice ice baby :lol:

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Stiff Little Fingers

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Original post by Emma:-)

I think you will find that ace of base brought more than the one song out.

So did Dexys Midnight Runners, but theres only one song anyone knows.

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Bang Outta Order

Original post by shawn_o1

French house music has a lot of one hit wonders. Stardust, modjo, supermen lovers

house dj's arent one hit wonders, they live off club gigs and touring, not videos and views and charts. Hence why thy're called House, because their pay and popularity is by "living" at the clubs. Not coming at you btw.

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toonervoustotalk

Original post by Emma:-)

I actually really liked the song at the time.
Ive gone off it slightly now, but its not bad.

cool

just not for me :lol:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hrp-_jm1Qw

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Alesha1991

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Gary Jules- Mad World

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Original post by mrussell2171

don't feel like dancin' 😂

Hell yes

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Tiger Rag

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Original post by mrussell2171

don't feel like dancin' 😂

They had lots of other hits.

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ByronicHero

Not even close:

[video="youtube;rGkseGFQLh4"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGkseGFQLh4[/video]

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OP

Original post by Tiger Rag

They had lots of other hits.

I was going to say the same thing as well. They had quite a few.

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username917703

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Original post by Zxyn

3 of a kind… im embarrassed to say I used to love Baby Cakes lol

Good shout. That was a good tune.

I was thinking about it recently. That was the really successful Garage track I think. Then it all fizzled out and guys who got big making Garage moved away from it (So Solid, Oxide & Neutrino and a few others) and it was dead until Jorja Smith last year. Not sure why you don't see more of it, it's clearly popular enough to chart regularly. I'd expect to see it more in the charts during summer at least.

C4's 'Go Back' was a good recent one.

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Original post by Picnic1

One hit in terms of most people who know the genre still only being able to be relied upon to necessarily know that song, even if they
actually had other top 40 songs. e.g. I'm not putting Aqua when many people know Barbie Girl, Doctor Jones AND Turn back Time. And I'm not putting Wild Thing - The Troggs because many people know Any Way You Want Me, even if they don't know who sang it.

Wipe Out - The Surfaris
A Whiter Shade of Pale- Procol Harum
Sugar Sugar- The Archies
The La's - There She Goes
Summer In The City - The Loving Spoonful
Baby Come Back - The Equals / Pato Banton
Spirit in the Sky- Norman Greenbaum
Fire- The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
My Sharona - The Knack
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
All Right Now- Free
Kung-Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band
Knock On Wood - Eddie Floyd
Stuck in the Middle With You - Stealers Wheel
I Just Died In Your Arms - Cutting Crew
Come On Elieen - Dexys Midnight Runners
Echo Beach - Martha and The Muffins
Fantastic Day - Haircut 100
Video Killed The Radio Star - Buggles
I Love Rock m' Roll - Joan Jet and the Blackhearts
Down Under- Men at Work
99 Balloons - Nena
Mickey - Toni Basil
You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) - Dead or Alive
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and The Waves (although they did win the Eurovision Song Contest for the UK in 1997 with Love Shine A Light).
Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds
Funky Town - Lips Inc
Cars - Gary Numan
Turning Japanese - The Vapors
Don't Worry, Be Happy- Bobby McFerrin
She's Like The Wind - Patrick Swayze
Beds are Burning - Midnight Oil
It's Raining Men - The Weather Girls
Wouldn't It Be Good- Nik Kershaw
Word Up- Cameo
Walking in Memphis - Marc Cohn
19 - Paul Hardcastle
Pure & Simple - Hearsay
Forget Me Nots - Patrice Rushen
Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
Breakout - Swing Out Sister
China In Your Hand - TPau
Toy Soldiers- Martika
We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off - Jermaine Stewart
Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
Missing You - John Waite
Too Shy - Kajagoogoo
Don't Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
Breakfast at Tiffanys - Deep Blue Something
Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) - Baz Luhrmann
How Bizarre- OMC
I'll Be There For You - The Rembrandts
What's Up - 4 Non Blondes
Inside - Stiltskin
Spaceman - Babylon Zoo
Nanny in Manhattan - Lilys
Mambo No. 5 - Lou Bega
Steal My Sunshine - Len
Your Woman - White Town
Ride On Time - Black Box
Jump Around - House of Pain
You Get What You Give - New Radicals
One Week - Barenaked Ladies
Connected - Stereo MCs
What Is Love - Haddaway
Sleeping Satellite - Tasmin Archer
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
Good Tradition - Tanita Tikaram (some will remember Twist in My Sobriety too)
Tubthumping - Chumbawamba
I Touch Myself - Divinyls
***** - Meredith Brooks
Achy Breaky Heart- Billy Ray Cyrus
Unbelievable - EMF
Informer - Snow
Cotton Eye Joe - Red-Nex
One of Us- Joan Osborne
Macarena - Los Del Rio
Save Tonight - Eagle Eye Cherry
Stay (I Missed You) - Lisa Loeb
Hotstepper - Ini Kamoze
Brimful of Asha - Cornershop
Groove Is In The Heart - Deee-Lite
Would I Lie To You? - Charles and Eddie
Can You Dig It? The Mock Turtles
Butterfly - Crazy Town
Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
t.A.T.u - All The Things She Said
Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Jet
American Boy - Estelle
Gotya and Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know

I love shes like the wind by patrick swayze. Id forgot about that one.

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Maker

Original post by Picnic1

One hit in terms of most people who know the genre still only being able to be relied upon to necessarily know that song, even if they
actually had other top 40 songs. e.g. I'm not putting Aqua when many people know Barbie Girl, Doctor Jones AND Turn back Time. And I'm not putting Wild Thing - The Troggs because many people know Any Way You Want Me, even if they don't know who sang it.

Wipe Out - The Surfaris
A Whiter Shade of Pale- Procol Harum
Sugar Sugar- The Archies
The La's - There She Goes
Summer In The City - The Loving Spoonful
Baby Come Back - The Equals / Pato Banton
Spirit in the Sky- Norman Greenbaum
Fire- The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
My Sharona - The Knack
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
All Right Now- Free
Kung-Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band
Knock On Wood - Eddie Floyd
Stuck in the Middle With You - Stealers Wheel
I Just Died In Your Arms - Cutting Crew
Come On Elieen - Dexys Midnight Runners
Echo Beach - Martha and The Muffins
Fantastic Day - Haircut 100
Video Killed The Radio Star - Buggles
I Love Rock m' Roll - Joan Jet and the Blackhearts
Down Under- Men at Work
99 Balloons - Nena
Mickey - Toni Basil
You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) - Dead or Alive
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and The Waves (although they did win the Eurovision Song Contest for the UK in 1997 with Love Shine A Light).
Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds
Funky Town - Lips Inc
Cars - Gary Numan
Turning Japanese - The Vapors
Don't Worry, Be Happy- Bobby McFerrin
She's Like The Wind - Patrick Swayze
Beds are Burning - Midnight Oil
It's Raining Men - The Weather Girls
Wouldn't It Be Good- Nik Kershaw
Word Up- Cameo
Walking in Memphis - Marc Cohn
19 - Paul Hardcastle
Pure & Simple - Hearsay
Forget Me Nots - Patrice Rushen
Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
Breakout - Swing Out Sister
China In Your Hand - TPau
Toy Soldiers- Martika
We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off - Jermaine Stewart
Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
Missing You - John Waite
Too Shy - Kajagoogoo
Don't Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
Breakfast at Tiffanys - Deep Blue Something
Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) - Baz Luhrmann
How Bizarre- OMC
I'll Be There For You - The Rembrandts
What's Up - 4 Non Blondes
Inside - Stiltskin
Spaceman - Babylon Zoo
Nanny in Manhattan - Lilys
Mambo No. 5 - Lou Bega
Steal My Sunshine - Len
Your Woman - White Town
Ride On Time - Black Box
Jump Around - House of Pain
You Get What You Give - New Radicals
One Week - Barenaked Ladies
Connected - Stereo MCs
What Is Love - Haddaway
Sleeping Satellite - Tasmin Archer
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
Good Tradition - Tanita Tikaram (some will remember Twist in My Sobriety too)
Tubthumping - Chumbawamba
I Touch Myself - Divinyls
***** - Meredith Brooks
Achy Breaky Heart- Billy Ray Cyrus
Unbelievable - EMF
Informer - Snow
Cotton Eye Joe - Red-Nex
One of Us- Joan Osborne
Macarena - Los Del Rio
Save Tonight - Eagle Eye Cherry
Stay (I Missed You) - Lisa Loeb
Hotstepper - Ini Kamoze
Brimful of Asha - Cornershop
Groove Is In The Heart - Deee-Lite
Would I Lie To You? - Charles and Eddie
Can You Dig It? The Mock Turtles
Butterfly - Crazy Town
Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
t.A.T.u - All The Things She Said
Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Jet
American Boy - Estelle
Gotya and Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know

Quite a lot are wrong, e.g. Tapu, Simple Minds

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OP

Original post by Picnic1

One hit in terms of most people who know the genre still only being able to be relied upon to necessarily know that song, even if they
actually had other top 40 songs. e.g. I'm not putting Aqua when many people know Barbie Girl, Doctor Jones AND Turn back Time. And I'm not putting Wild Thing - The Troggs because many people know Any Way You Want Me, even if they don't know who sang it.

Wipe Out - The Surfaris
A Whiter Shade of Pale- Procol Harum
Sugar Sugar- The Archies
The La's - There She Goes
Summer In The City - The Loving Spoonful
Baby Come Back - The Equals / Pato Banton
Spirit in the Sky- Norman Greenbaum
Fire- The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
My Sharona - The Knack
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
All Right Now- Free
Kung-Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band
Knock On Wood - Eddie Floyd
Stuck in the Middle With You - Stealers Wheel
I Just Died In Your Arms - Cutting Crew
Come On Elieen - Dexys Midnight Runners
Echo Beach - Martha and The Muffins
Fantastic Day - Haircut 100
Video Killed The Radio Star - Buggles
I Love Rock m' Roll - Joan Jet and the Blackhearts
Down Under- Men at Work
99 Balloons - Nena
Mickey - Toni Basil
You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) - Dead or Alive
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and The Waves (although they did win the Eurovision Song Contest for the UK in 1997 with Love Shine A Light).
Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds
Funky Town - Lips Inc
Cars - Gary Numan
Turning Japanese - The Vapors
Don't Worry, Be Happy- Bobby McFerrin
She's Like The Wind - Patrick Swayze
Beds are Burning - Midnight Oil
It's Raining Men - The Weather Girls
Wouldn't It Be Good- Nik Kershaw
Word Up- Cameo
Walking in Memphis - Marc Cohn
19 - Paul Hardcastle
Pure & Simple - Hearsay
Forget Me Nots - Patrice Rushen
Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
Breakout - Swing Out Sister
China In Your Hand - TPau
Toy Soldiers- Martika
We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off - Jermaine Stewart
Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
Missing You - John Waite
Too Shy - Kajagoogoo
Don't Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
Breakfast at Tiffanys - Deep Blue Something
Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) - Baz Luhrmann
How Bizarre- OMC
I'll Be There For You - The Rembrandts
What's Up - 4 Non Blondes
Inside - Stiltskin
Spaceman - Babylon Zoo
Nanny in Manhattan - Lilys
Mambo No. 5 - Lou Bega
Steal My Sunshine - Len
Your Woman - White Town
Ride On Time - Black Box
Jump Around - House of Pain
You Get What You Give - New Radicals
One Week - Barenaked Ladies
Connected - Stereo MCs
What Is Love - Haddaway
Sleeping Satellite - Tasmin Archer
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
Good Tradition - Tanita Tikaram (some will remember Twist in My Sobriety too)
Tubthumping - Chumbawamba
I Touch Myself - Divinyls
***** - Meredith Brooks
Achy Breaky Heart- Billy Ray Cyrus
Unbelievable - EMF
Informer - Snow
Cotton Eye Joe - Red-Nex
One of Us- Joan Osborne
Macarena - Los Del Rio
Save Tonight - Eagle Eye Cherry
Stay (I Missed You) - Lisa Loeb
Hotstepper - Ini Kamoze
Brimful of Asha - Cornershop
Groove Is In The Heart - Deee-Lite
Would I Lie To You? - Charles and Eddie
Can You Dig It? The Mock Turtles
Butterfly - Crazy Town
Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
t.A.T.u - All The Things She Said
Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Jet
American Boy - Estelle
Gotya and Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know

Like someone else said, some of them brought out more than just the one hit. And more than one of them were well known. Dead or alive, gnarls barkley, tatu and estelle are 4 of them.

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Picnic1