Boys Don't Cry ~ I Wanna Be A Cowboy

Jaya ~ If You Leave Me Now

Napoleon XIV ~ They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Haaa!

Sheriff ~ When I'm With You

Looking Glass ~ Brandy

Henhouse Five Plus Two ~ In The Mood

Snow ~ Informer

T'Pau ~ Heart And Soul

Doop ~ Doop

The Mixtures ~ Pushbike Song

L'Trimm ~ Cars That Go Boom

Joe Dolce ~ Shaddap You Face

The Electric Indian ~ Keem O Sabe

Living In A Box ~ Living In A Box

Zoom ~ Saturday Saturday Night

Michael Nesmith ~ Joanne

Alicia ~ Baby Talk

Skee Lo ~ I Wish

Morris Albert ~ Feelings

Lucas ~ Lucas With The Lid Off

Apache Indian ~ Boom Shack A Lak

Chill Deal Boys ~ I'm Single

Frank Mills ~ Music Box Dancer

Mellow Man Ace ~ Mentirosa

C.W. McCall ~ Convoy

Charles & Eddie ~ Would I Lie To You

Rick Dees ~ Disco Duck

Psuedo Echo ~ Funkytown

Brighter Side Of Darkness ~ Love Jones

Murray Head ~ One Night In Bangkok

B Rock & The Bizz ~ My Baby Daddy

Doctor & The Medics ~ Spirit In The Sky

Timbuk 3 ~ Future's So Bright

Red Flag ~ Russian Radio

King Harvest ~ Dancin' In The Moonlight

Strangely enough, I just listened to Deon Estus' "Heaven Help Me" with that lovely yet

achingly forlorn horn outro (I think it's notation is 5-5-5(octave)-3 over a maj7th).

The one one-hit-wonder I never get tired of...

No artist is a "one hit wonder"

Unless you are an accountant or a c.e.o for a label then that term is what's irrelevant, not the artist.

Seldom do you find an artist that releases 1 song.

Your ignorance to thier art does not make them irrelevant.

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[Edited 9/26/15 6:24am]

hausofmoi7 said:

Seldom do you find an artist that releases 1 song.

Releasing songs and having a hit are 2 different things, so your comment makes no sense. Most acts who release music have no hits.

NorthC said:

T'Pau had a bigger hit than Heart and Soul with China In Your Hand

Maybe in your country, but not in the US.

MickyDolenz said:

hausofmoi7 said:

Seldom do you find an artist that releases 1 song.

Releasing songs and having a hit are 2 different things, so your comment makes no sense. Most acts who release music have no hits.

As a listener/fan a hit is not relevant.

As I said that's only relevant to the accountants and shareholders.

Unless you have stocks in universal music group I dont see point.

I guess this day ("one hit wonder day") was created in a board room somewhere?- I dont get it.

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[Edited 9/26/15 10:10am]

hausofmoi7 said:

MickyDolenz said:

Releasing songs and having a hit are 2 different things, so your comment makes no sense. Most acts who release music have no hits.

As a listener/fan a hit is not relevant.

As I said that's only relevant to the accountants and shareholders.

Unless you have stocks in univeral music group I dont see point.

I guess this day ("one hit wonder day") was created in a board room somewhere?- I dont get it.

It's relevant to me because I used to follow the charts. It's relevant to a lot of other people because there's books about one hit wonders. If it's not to you, why comment in this thread?

MickyDolenz said:

hausofmoi7 said:

As a listener/fan a hit is not relevant.

As I said that's only relevant to the accountants and shareholders.

Unless you have stocks in univeral music group I dont see point.

I guess this day ("one hit wonder day") was created in a board room somewhere?- I dont get it.

It's relevant to me because I used to follow the charts. It's relevant to a lot of other people because there's books about one hit wonders. If it's not to you, why comment in this thread?

Because I thought the notion of "one hit wonder" was a quizzacious way to view an artists creativity, output ect.
(shout out VSauce!)

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[Edited 9/26/15 8:56am]

"Ring My Bell" by Anita Ward (1979)

hausofmoi7 said:

Because I thought the notion of "one hit wonder" was a quizzacious way to view an artists creativity, output ect.
(shout out VSauce!)

It's not that serious. If hits didn't matter to people, then there wouldn't be Greatest Hits and #1s albums. The Eagles biggest selling album is a hits album. For some acts, the hits or Best Of album is the only one in print.

hausofmoi7 said:

No artist is a "one hit wonder"

Unless you are an accountant or a c.e.o for a label then that term is what's irrelevant, not the artist.

Seldom do you find an artist that releases 1 song.

Your ignorance to thier art does not make them irrelevant.

You're being contrarian here for shits and giggles as your argument doesn't hold. A "one hit
wonder" is an apt term used to describe a recording artist whose claim to fame rests in having
only one song in their career, however long it endured, that managed to make a serious im-
pression on the Billboard charts.

"Seldom do you find an artist that releases 1 song" does not speak to what is being discussed
here as we are not concerned with recording artists who released only one song and that one
song happened to be a hit. It sounds like you misunderstand the term "one hit wonder" or, like
I said, are just being a contrarian for the sake of being one.

duccichucka said:

duccichucka said:

hausofmoi7 said:

My point was how does that impact your listening pleasure? I understand the term one hit wonder, I would like to know of what value and significance does this demeaning and artistically hindering label provide anyone outside of shareholders and record labels? . [Edited 9/26/15 11:09am]

Why do people memorize sports statistics and buy baseball cards or go to Comic Con and Trekkie conventions? Why do people follow the movie box office or read Forbes to see how much money people make? Because they can. Just because you are not interested, does not mean others are not and should not be. I read Billboard because I wanted to and was interested as I listened to the radio. There's acts where I like their hits that I heard on the radio but not interested in listening to their other stuff. There's radio programs about the charts. Casey Casem used to have a TV show called America's Top 10 and Solid Gold had a chart too. There's a Time Life channel that sells CD sets of hits from different decades. The term "oldies but goodies" was mainly about old chart hits. I guess a non Top 40 listener would be less interested in what is a hit or not. On this site people start threads all the time about albums flopping or how many hits someone has like Janet Jackson & Mariah Carey, so apparently many folks are interested. People don't talk about the music of some obscure act flopping, because they weren't popular in the first place.

hausofmoi7 said:

hausofmoi7 said:

"One hit wonder" sounds like a bitter term a record label exec made up that amounts to "good for nothing", but for who? Only the corporation/shareholders. The term negates the artists whole body of work and career. It may not even reflect their most culturally significant or impacting work and most likely not their best. Its a damaging term. .

MickyDolenz said:

controversy99 said:

The only way your argument makes sense, "a hit is not relevant," is if you lives completely isolated world without friends, family, co-workers, other people at the club, etc. Most music has a social purpose, often dance or fun. When lots of people know a song, it makes it easier for us to enjoy it together.

Yep. Usually, the old songs that are used in commercials and movies/TV shows are old hits (or is at least well known if not a big hit). I've heard Let's Get It On by Marvin Gaye in several commercials. Rebirth Of Slick by Digable Planets was in a Tide commercial. Bad To The Bone by George Thorogood has been used many times in different media. Hits are used in the video game Grand Theft Auto. The songs that tend to get remade most often are hits. When PBS show concerts by doo wop and disco groups, they're performing thier big hits and many people going to concerts by well known acts are generally going to hear their hits, often performed the same way it is on record. Some don't like it when they change the arrangement. Did people go to a Michael Jackson concert to hear him perform Euphoria? No, they want to hear Billie Jean.

hausofmoi7 said:

I know you didn't coin the term or place the value on it or meant this thread in that way.

No your comments are downers, not the thread, as I listed some of the one hit wonder songs I liked and knew the acts had one big hit. You took a fun thread and brought it down. The OP asked people to post their favorite one hit songs, which you didn't do and went off topic. Maybe you should have started another thread for that.

Remind me of the worst songs ever. Thanks.

MickyDolenz said: