Soft Cell - Tainted Love

I actually still have the 45

We have a Winner!

Didn't think anyone would get that. That song goes back 30 plus years.

Nice PK!

I just found the MP3 for that a week ago. What a coincidence.

Great song.

99 Red Balloons - Nena

Rock Me Amadaus..

Falco

1977 actually. My junior year in high school.

Yes I'm that old.. (waiting for the "I wasn't even born yet" comments)

Wrong.

The song "Who Can It Be Now?" was their 2nd hit in US, Canada, and the UK as well.

who cares - they sucked - move on


Take On Me - Norwegian supergroup AHA :1orglaugh

I graduated HS in 76. Yep, freaky to think people we post with here weren't even born yet.

:(

Good tune, but Aha weren't one-hit wonders either.

50

1978 -- MY junior year in high school.

I know you secretly love their music. :winkwink:

Nobody going to mention "I Ran" by Flock of Seagulls?

Don't forget Dexy's Midnight Runners -- "Come On Eileen"... those guys knew bukkake before its time... :Graucho

let's not get picky here - maybe they had some minor hit after that song but they meet the criteria. VH1 put them in the Top 10 one hit wonders of all time.

Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science

The very best one hit wonder song is Voices Carry by Til Tuesday :thumbsup

yes i did own that Men at Work cassette, i was always a sucker buying albums based on one Top 40 hit.

which just reminded of two more I actually bought

The Proclaimers - 'I'd Walk 500 Miles' something like that

and

The Lows - 'There She Goes' <---- i still like that song

Aaahhh.....cassette tapes. I haven't used one of those in years.

what was that movie about some Irish/Scottish bar band? Good movie by Alan Parker, can't remember the name, think that was a one hit wonder song too.

Vanilla Ice - Ice, Ice, Baby.

He's been embarassed to go out in public ever since.

VH1 is out to lunch then. The song "The sun always shines on tV" by A-ha also made it huge. "Hunting high and low" also saw some decent air play as well, and there are a few other of their tunes that did as well. I'm hardly splitting hairs. One hit wonder means one hit.


Oh, you were talking to Brisk.... I agree with him, Men at work were not one hit wonders either.

What about Devo -- "Whip it"

The Commitments

who did 'Life In A Northern Town'? that sounds like a one hit wonder.

The Commitments was a movie about a Dublin band.

right! was there a hit song from it? seem to remember there was.

Los del rio... La macarena :Graucho Sold about 22 million copies of that single.. never done shit since or before that...

well i wasnt born yet but star wars came out that year
i would have loved to been alive then

They were a cover band I believe. With songs like Mustang Sally

i couldn't resist, went to Google - i haven't even heard of about a third of the songs they list as one hit wonders of the 80's.

I pray to jesus every day that they never do anything again

I Touch Myself - Divinyls
Barbie Girl - Aqua

remember that song 99 da luft baloons?

Quiet Riot

The Electric Slide?

Digital Underground - Humpty Dance

Nancy Sinatra - These boots were made for walking

Mase - Bad Boys

Tevin Campbell - Round and Round

Of all time though.......



Gotta be Don Maclean; "American Pie"

good spotting
didnt even think of that one

He had more than one hit song though

hmmmmmmm............looking at these lists if i was a music writer i'd come up with a better concept than this - cuz so much of these songs are complete crap. A list of the greatest one hit wonders, songs that were great and you expected more from the band but nothing ever came. and maybe interview them and have music critics analyze why they couldn't take the next step in their careers.

De-lite 'groove is in the heart' or betty boo 'doing the doo'