What is your favorite 1 hit wonder song/band?

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What is your favorite 1 hit wonder song/band?

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What is your favorite 1 hit wonder song/band?
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That's a very good question. I like "Nothing compares to u" by Sinead O'Connor, and "Just a friend" by Biz Markie. I couldn't name another song that either of these singers released.
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Dexy's Midnight Runners, Modern English, and ChumbaWumba (who were only one hit wonders in THIS country).
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Not my favorite, but I can't remember who did "Mexican Radio"
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I can name a ton of them, but off the top of my head, Billy Thorpe's "Children of the Sun."

Billy was a megastar in his native Australia, but "Children" was his only acclaim on this side of the Pacific pond.
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Something About You---Level 42.....I'm a metal fan, but there is something about that song that I like.
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Brandy by Looking Glass. That song has incredible vocals & feeling. Everytime I hear it I wanna sing along to the chorus. It never gets old.
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Autograph-Turn Up the Radio. I think that's the only song that made it for them. :twisted: :twisted:
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Don Hughes wrote:Not my favorite, but I can't remember who did "Mexican Radio"
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Don Hughes wrote:Not my favorite, but I can't remember who did "Mexican Radio"
Wall of Voodoo originally did it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCEexG9xjw&ob=av2e

Celtic Front did a cover version of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIrI50wSAYs
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f.sciarrillo wrote: Celtic Frost did a cover version of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIrI50wSAYs
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I'm wokring with some people on producing a syndicated radio program that we hope will be ready in the spring that featues lots of one hit (and two hit) wonder acts. Here are a few great one hit wonder songs.

Chase - Get It On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6FDxD0h ... re=related

Puzzle - Hey Medusa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZSVHJTodtk

Elephant's Memory - Mongoose
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muKgdPwBcPw

Evil Woman (Don’t Play Your Games With Me)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZp9j1gU3Qc

The Balloon Farm - A Question Of Temperature
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jJASPxh5s4
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Monkey Bars - Coney Hatch
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beach baby by first class
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Some of the one's we do...

Vehicle - Ides of March
Smoke From a Distant Fire -Sanford Towsend

We don't do this one but Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
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moxham123 wrote: Chase - Get It On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6FDxD0h ... re=related
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Norman Greenbaum---"Spirit in the Sky"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umQCgaZnO0o
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floodcitybrass wrote:Some of the one's we do...

Vehicle - Ides of March
Smoke From a Distant Fire -Sanford Towsend

We don't do this one but Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
Ides Of March actually had a several hits. Jim Peterik of Ides Of March was also in Survivor, who had a lot of hits including "Burning Heart" (#2), "The Search Is Over" (#4), "High on You" (#8) and "I Can't Hold Back" (#13) and many others.
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"One Fine Morning" by Lighthouse in 1971.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvVN_KRriTM
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"Prime Mover" - Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction
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"Ride Captain Ride" by Blues Image
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Go West - King of Wishful Thinking

Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
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Life is a rock (but the radio rolled me)

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Here is one of my all time favorite one hit wonders. Check out the violin with wah-wah pedal solo.

Seatrain - 13 Questions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdkZSXQ3aZg
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Tomorrow by Silverchair
Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja- Lost Prophets
You Call My Name- Ra
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