What are some and where are they now?

what happened to Olivia Newton John? not that it was about the muzik or anything :hidin:

what else?

Pretty much most of the bands from the mid to late 80's were one hit wonders. Off the top of my head I can remember:

Survivor
Men at Work
Tone Loc
The Bangles
Dexy's Midnight Runners
Quiet Riot
Bananarama
Men Without Hats

The Knack
Billy Squier
The Vapors
Bow Wow Wow
Crash Test Dummies
4 Non Blondes
The Spin Doctors
Spacehog
Presidents of the United States of America
The Refreshments

Hootie and the blowfish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXcQGsoDkDk

80's One Hitters


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFfPOJ9qcDQ

This was the ultimate hookup song of the 80's, all you had to do was grab the closest girl and start dancing with her....



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bpOBAwrFVw

How could you not love this one, a little Page,& Rodgers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Aq5cqjUFOo

Another good one


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my4lhkxLRjg

A fun song and an Awsome video :happy::happy:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVJmwYKy7eM

Hootie and the blowfish.

Bingo. Hotter than hell, then fell right off the face of the earth.

They had more than 1 hit single and more than 1 hit album. Cracked Rear View still one of the best albums of the 90's.......I love it!:btu:

Midnight Oil.:huh:

Reasons why the 80's were terrible

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P6I4pT_tVA

It was a bad hair Decade...:hihi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUjIA3Rt7gk

See....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbQl14tJIWM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW0YLWWf2b8

SCIENCE!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IlHgbOWj4o

The girl in this video is absolutely smokin though.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhvqVqLAdLI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNdEu9s5qUU

okay, maybe two, or three hits.....then retire on residuals from songs he wrote

....and How could we possibly forget....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp-is6S_b_g

and the best cover of the same song...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A7tLVIsuNw

what happened to Mazzy Star?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysu-o4oCVSA

they faded away I guess

how about Alanis Morrisette while we're at it?

I am convinced there are countless one hit wonders

THE classic one-hit wonder, from the 70s--Norman Greenbaum and "Spirit in the Sky" ;)

There was also The Looking Glass with "Venus", and whoever it was that did "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)".

:as: Lee Michaels- "Do Ya Know What I Mean?" Saw him with play it with just a drummer and a Hammond in the early 70's at the Loew's State Theater in Prov. Still hear it almost every day on Cool 102:pop::cheers:

How about Matthew Wilder? Can anyone name the hit song he had in the late 80's?

I've got my 20th HS reunion tomorrow night and they're supposed to be playing music that was popular while we were in HS. I should have a bunch of good one hit wonders on Saturday if I can remember anything.

ACE!!!!! 'How Long......... " not long!!!!!!

STRAY CATS. , Bonnie Tyler[was like fingernails on a blackboard]:scream:

Corey Hart....Sunglasses at Night!

although I wouldn't exactly call this a hit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5LX16zia2k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjnvSQuv-H4

I take back what I said about the 80's.....The 70's sucked pretty bad too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBn2ux5vRHk

:hihi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbog0CxPWsE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El6iQ2_dvlc

Stop me now....before i hurt somebody.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUyTZlJnRns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNpwH3WbpSs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0lKmznjgfQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A81fwLNklSM

Stop me now....before i hurt somebody.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUyTZlJnRns

Oh, the Silver Platters. I forgot all about them. So much promise. I heard they broke up because three of the band members were having an affair and it didn't sit well with the other three. I also heard that their manager, some guy named Oliver was swindling them out of all their money.

Heck, there aren't many today that are nothing BUT "one-hit wonders", though they seem more like "no hit wonders".
Of course when you saturate the market with one particular genre of music (rap and currently the "Disney graduating class") you get too much sh*te and not enough shine-ola.
Unless you can produce (or in current conditions RE-produce) more than one hit album, you're just a flash-in-the-pan.
Do you think that given enough time and so-called talent, that the rap industry will eventually run out of catchy rap-artist names?
No, they are NOT singers. Hell, I could recite the ingredients off of a box of Cheerios and call it rap.

Looking Glass with their one and only hit "Brandi". Great song; horrible band.

Don't know why....but i liked this song....maybe because its just totally rediculous

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdpllAHo0ng

THE classic one-hit wonder, from the 70s--Norman Greenbaum and "Spirit in the Sky" ;)

There was also The Looking Glass with "Venus", and whoever it was that did "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)".

Looking Glass with their one and only hit "Brandi". Great song; horrible band.

Ooops, had that one backwards. So who was it that did "(I'm Your) Venus"? The goddess on the mountaintop that was burning like a silver flame :yak6:

I wanna say Shocking Blue did venus....then bananarama remade it

take off hoser. Not one hit wonders but has beens April Wine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l38CIbuOPHw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DkJUOsxkko&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JllMFZ8FkKk


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tfSqjc_WRY

These guys were decent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4o--q6xuvs&feature=related

Love this band and this song. Seen them in concert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVC5gw9pZ1A

Seen both of them live...Saw Uriah Heep w/ Def Leppard....the Abominog tour for them.

Saw Foghat w/ Blue Oyster Cult at the Garden with the Whitford/St. Holmes band (Brad Whitfords band when dey was feuding).....good stuff

These guys were awesome too. I stole this album from my uncle's collection when I was a kid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3A6-1BNHio&feature=related

another good tune, very Duane sounding guitar work here. John Cipollina.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO8v7csjnRY

Another great one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ygH6prkcIs&feature=related

Something nobody expected :D

1993.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I-dwO-Qu0E

one hit..and one hat... wonder..



Karl I still listen to Devo on my ipod ,, They have a great version of "Working in a Coal Mine" another good one ,, "You got me Jerkin Back and Forth" ... "Through being Cool" .. pretty unique sound really ... Tough to get taken seriously with a flower pot on your head .