One Hit Wonder: Your definition

[luna65]

I know, and obviously LZ are who they are. The song just has that feel. Hard to explain.

Ah okay - I didn't realize you were being metaphorical, in a sense.

[Grey Wolf]

When I hear the term One Hit Wonder I think of these guys. Hit number one on the US charts and then never hit the charts again.

[Yesed]

Ah okay - I didn't realize you were being metaphorical, in a sense.

Exactly, I wasn’t really clear.
was listening to it the other night, and struck me as so good and in its own realm, and what if Zep never hit the big time , except for this song.

[Gilly Goodness]

When I hear the term One Hit Wonder I think of these guys. Hit number one on the US charts and then never hit the charts again.

Wow. This was one of the first songs to grab me as a kid. Galveston. Born Free. Listenin' on the radio. Always made me a bit scared. Without realisin' too much about war and environmental destruction. The tone of the mountin' chaos was inescapable.

The song still resonates today.

Def a wonder. A one hit wonder.

[pjt]

"Barbie Girl" was a one hit wonder for AQUA and without it would Margot Robbie be starrin' in a new Barbie film to be released in 2023? This is a question that keeps me up at night.

Don't pretend that Doctor Jones doesn't exist! Blasphemy! It became the group's second No. 1 single, topping the chart for three weeks.

[pjt]

Also by this definition Dream Theater is a one hit wonder band, they even admitted it on their Greatest Hit (...And 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs) album.

[scootwhoman]

'How Do You Do?' by Mouth and McNeil.

'Hocus Pocus' by Focus.

'Rock On' by David Essex.

[madbear]

It's not rocket science, is it? a band or artist who has one hit single and then no more. however many bands they are in.

I mean I suspect anyone who saw Focus yodelling on UK TV would never buy anything by them again...

'Rock On', however, had a an afterlife. I *love* this jazz-rock [?] version by Henry Kaiser, alledgedly the first take:

[Ash Armstrong]

'How Do You Do?' by Mouth and McNeil.

'Hocus Pocus' by Focus.

'Rock On' by David Essex.

Focus also had Sylvia, a successful single in the UK, and David Essex had further singles success with Lamplight and Star.

[luna65]

This is one of my favorite one-hit wonders. The story of this band is an interesting one (at least to me), I believe a rather notorious documentary was made about the bass player by his...son? I think? Anyway, I love the album this song comes from, I bought it after I first heard the song and I imagine there is a die-hard coterie of fans of it, out there somewhere. There was more than one single, but this was the only hit.

[luvyesmusic]

"Barbie Girl" was a one hit wonder for AQUA and without it would Margot Robbie be starrin' in a new Barbie film to be released in 2023? This is a question that keeps me up at night.

I don't know the chartings, and of course Barbi Girl was huge, but there is a really good song on that album that did make radio play, in addition to that song.

[kkleinschmidt]

Here's my favorite one hit wonder. I lived in a dorm in college with the brother of the guitarist in Tommy Tutone and got to see them live and meet the band, and they were very good actually.

[Gtkgasman]

I would say it could be tested on a page like wikipedia. If the song comes up in the opening paragraph, that person or group is likely to be a one hit wonder.

For example, if somebody asked who Eddie Murphy was, I wouldn't expect the response to be "that guy who sang Party All The Time".

Ahhhh, and along those lines, don’t forget Don Johnson’s Heartbeat. 😆

[luvyesmusic]

Greatest one hit wonder of all time singer would be the one and only Tony Burrows, who sang on not one, not two, not three, but four one hit wonders, from four different groups, fabricated or not. Opps, make that five. You might not recognize the name, or all four songs, but if you are a certain age, or watched record collection commercials, you know, or have heard at least one of these great, and catchy songs.

https://youtu.be/eWn_W3vOjDw

https://youtu.be/KH-x-HgDtmk

https://youtu.be/uAIlezdS-g4

https://youtu.be/oeGPpwFpIAA

https://youtu.be/H-yprOLmRkc

and a bonus song.

https://youtu.be/SE37qj-19xc

[Yesed]

Always loved this one hit wonder. Has an outro guitar solo that I wished would go on a bit more. Maybe that was the point.