Best One-Hit Wonders

[YNCS]

Tie Me Kangaroo Down by Rolf Harris

 

[nonconformist]

Tie Me Kangaroo Down by Rolf Harris

Nah, he bettered himself with "Two Little Boys" and "Sunrise".

 

[Vietcong]

that suse q or stacy q.. i forgot her name but that was a cool 80s song


ooo and barbie girl

"im a barbie girl, in a barbie world. life in plastic, its fantastic"

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Huey Lewis and the News? You gotta be kiddin'--there was a time in the '80s when you couldn't get away from them, they had hit after hit...

Rico Suave

Oh I was young then...didn't exist for the first half of it.

You oldie

 

[Tatran]

What about "Snappi, der Kleine Krokodil"?

Did they also made an English version of it?
That song harassed the Dutch charts for several weeks
with a German and a Dutch version being no.1 and no. 2.

 

[nonconformist]

Did they also made an English version of it?
That song harassed the Dutch charts for several weeks
with a German and a Dutch version being no.1 and no. 2.

Nope, but after hearing some Hermanns complain, I checked it out

 

[VoodooAce]

Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) was the original one-hit wonder with Pachelbel's Canon.

Ah, ha! This is a good one!

Somebody mentioned Huey Lewis and the News....first,

Second, as someone else mentioned, they had 'hit' after 'hit' for far too long back in the day :suicide:

Rappers' Delight was a good one.

And the Ramones had two or three, here.

Guess it does depend on your interpretation of 'a hit'.

 

[fe3333au]

Rolf Harris, in the early 1990's, complete with Wobble Board, resurged his career with his version of Led Zeppelin's classic "Stairways to Heaven" ... I'm pretty sure this would have made it off shore from Oz

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What about Jonah Lewis - "You'll always find me in the kitchen at parties"

 

[shortguy]

Deep Blue Something, "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

 

[Left]

"Don't worry be happy" - Bobby McFerrin (1988)

Bobby McFerrin has won 10 Grammies and is somewhat of a jazz institution.

 

[fe3333au]

Men without Hats - Safety Dance

 

[Jawz II]

hmmmmm, hmmmmm, hmmmm, hmmmm

with crash test dummies

 

[Doc Tsiolkovski]

(about Schnappi)

That song harassed the Dutch charts for several weeks
with a German and a Dutch version being no.1 and no. 2.

Are you drowning in Jamba! ads as well? Sounds like the ongoing cultural invasion is about as brutal, but more successful than the last one some decades ago ...
What about the Crazy Frog?
We're surprisingly resistent against that stuff here by now; sure, they're advertized, and d/led to the cell phones of a lost generation which will never recover from the braintoxic waste, but you are not molested with it anywhere on normal radio or TV.

 

[E-Raser]

I would name Vader Abraham with his famous 'Schlümpfe' song! (smurf)

A pure headshot :suicide:

 

[fe3333au]

I'm sure every country has those hideous 'sport' songs where session musicians and second rate, has been comedians ... re-lyric a tune with patriotic references to a national team or sporting event ...

In Australia ... Up There Cazali (Oz Rules Football) and the annual cricket anthums recycled from the original "Come on Ozzie Come On" ... stand above the rest ...

A sure sign of friendship on the rocks if this is gifted to you ...

 

[Cilpot]

'74-75' by 'the Connells' (I think)

Brimful of Asha

 

[Harbringer]

Smoke on the water(i think it was by deep purple).

 

[E-Raser]

Smoke on the water(i think it was by deep purple).

hmmm- one-hit-wonder-Deep Purple- hmmm? At last they had a few didn't they?

 

[Zardnaar]

Deep Purple weren't one hit wonders and had several albums.

 

[Harbringer]

I just looked them up and realized they had a lot of hits i didnt know were made by them, okk how bout......uh Led Zeppelin...no wait, ummm AC/DC?no..no..no..